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California Dreaming: Different Drum
The Stone Poneys had broken up several times. The Stone Poneys had started out as a folk group, focussing equally on their three members; Linda Ronstadt on vocals, and guitarist/vocalists Bobby Kimmel...
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California Dreaming: Daddy’s Song
The Monkees were at a crossroads in their career. The second series of their TV show had been just as popular as the first, but as with the records, they’d wanted more control, and so by the last...
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California Dreaming: You And I
Davy Jones invented grunge. Even before Peter Tork left the Monkees in late 1968, the writing was on the wall for the band. The hits were drying up, the TV show was gone, and most of the band members...
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The Monkees at Hammersmith
So along with being ill and trying (and largely failing) to finish up California Dreaming (though that will be done Real Soon Now — it really is just a matter of pulling stuff together, and it’s a...
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What We Know About The New Monkees Album
2016 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Monkees’ first single, and of their TV show, and so a whole set of events have been planned by Rhino Records, the owners of the Monkees’ trademarks and...
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What We Currently Know About The New Monkees Album
Four days ago, my friends at Naked Persimmon posted a long list of everything we know about the Monkees’ plans for this year — their tour, album, and Blu-Rays. However, even since then, we’ve had new...
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The Monkees: She Makes Me Laugh
So we have the first Monkees single in twenty-nine years, written by Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. I just wrote this on Tumblr and it’s long enough...
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Good Times!
We are here, and we’re going to have a good time, like we’ve been before… supposedly. The Monkees’ new album, Good Times, comes out next week, but if you’re in Canada, or know how to use a VPN, it’s...
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Micky Dolenz at the Cavern
Most British cities are palimpsests. Turn the corner from a row of 1960s council houses, and you’re equally likely to run into a thirty-story glass skyscraper or a medieval cathedral. And those cities...
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Infinite Tuesday
Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Michael Nesmith My rating: 4 of 5 stars (This will be crossposted to my blog and Goodreads — apologies to those who read my blog via the Goodreads feed and...
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