Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time has an unforgiving habit of burying most bands. If that’s true, then it’s a minor miracle we’re still talking about a little ...
OK, so early last year a good friend of mine takes me out to breakfast after which he drops me off at my one-room apartment. As I start to slide down from his truck, he reaches into his console and ...
San Francisco’s retro minded Flamin’ Groovies released a trinity of albums in quick succession for the Sire label in the mid-late 70s. The final two of these (Now from 1978, and 1979’s Jumpin’ in the ...
Beginning last night with a ragged version of 1973’s “Let Me Rock” was a statement. This return was about reclaiming – or reworking – a story that ought to have resulted in The Flamin’ Groovies ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Roy Loney, the fiery lead singer who fronted legendary San Francisco proto-punk garage rockers The Flamin' Groovies before splitting off for a solo career, has died at age 73 ...
Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...
San Francisco rockers the Flamin' Groovies epitomize the status of “cult legends”: Few know their music, but most who do will champion it intensely. Unfortunately, the Groovies have always been 10 ...
To say Cyril Jordan and his band the Flamin’ Groovies have had to wait for their just due as rock legends is an understatement of monumental proportions. Born and bred in San Francisco, the Groovies ...
Anchored by the songwriting partnership of wildman lead singer Roy Loney and guitarist Cyril Jordan, the band embraced a mix of '50s rock and roll (frequently covering songs by the likes of Little ...
Roy Loney, the original lead singer for the influential garage rock group Flamin’ Groovies, has died at the age of 73. News of Loney’s death was initially announced by punk rock photographer Roberta ...
'Shake Some Action' 50th anniversary tour. "The Flamin' Groovies may be the greatest rock and roll band to ever come out of San Francisco." Rolling Stone Magazine Flamin' Groovies announce a handful ...