The Mod Generation has added a photo to the pool: The 2 Men From Linz Mod Weekend on the Rhine, Germany - 2013

Linz Mod Weekend 2013

Mod Male: You probably thought I gave this blog up, but the reality is that I've been way too busy with a miserable, overbearing task: moving. Seriously. My wife and I just finished moving and the largest lesson I've learned from this whole thing …

Mod Life: Overrated

Souvenir Stand - Wherever You Go. Name You Price.

Souvenir Stand - Wherever You Go. Name You Pric...

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The fantastic Souvenir Stand are back with a new single, this time it is sitting amongst the stylings of The Ronettes and The Crystals and just as they did of their first EP, they take you right back to the height of…

Snap Galleries : The sixties: Photographs by Roger Kasparian

Snap Galleries : The sixties: Photographs by Ro...

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French photographer working his magic in the mid sixties, with an archive covering British, US and French artists, including Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, The Who, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise…

Modernist Society: On Monday 27 May 2013, John Wilson returns with a new series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's …

Wilko Johnson talks to John Wilson about ‘Down By The Jetty’, the debut album of Dr Feelgood on Radi

Ray Manzarek: The Key to the Doors - PopMatters

Ray Manzarek: The Key to the Doors - PopMatters...

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Ray Manzarek: The Key to the Doors PopMatters Whether it's the Sunset Boulevard funk of “Soul Kitchen”, the Brechtian whimsy of “Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)”, or the eyes-half-shut oblivion…

The 2 Men from Linz Mod Weekend on the Rhine, Germany - May 2013. Music from The Salon Band - Sweet Motion Cast: The Mod Generation Tags: Linz, Rhine, Mods and Soul

Linz Mod Weekend

Voices Of East Anglia: We don’t really do obituaries here at VoEA as many others do it so much better than we ever could. However when we see a side to someone that others seem to have missed we like to flag it up and bring it to the attention of …

Behind Closed Doors – Ray Manzarek

Modernist Society: Sat – Nov 30, 2013 - University Great Hall, Cardiff Sun – Dec 01, 2013 - O2 Academy, Oxford Mon – Dec 02, 2013 - O2 Academy, Bournemouth Thu – Dec 12, 2013 - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London Fri – Dec 13, 2013 - O2 …

Ocean Colour Scene announce ‘The Marchin’ Already’ tour 2013

Modernist Society: The Strypes new single, ‘Hometown Girls’, can be downloaded NOW on iTunes. The EP features two live tracks, ‘CC Rider’ and ‘Stormy Monday’, recorded at King Tuts in Glasgow. You can also now preorder the 7” vinyl single for …

The Strypes new single, 'Hometown Girls', available now!!!

Voices Of East Anglia: From the 1920s through to the present day Gebrauchsgraphik (literally meaning ‘use graphic’ – it’s now called Novum) was a hugely influential Berlin based commercial art magazine. It was published in both German and English …

Gebrauschsgraphik – Groovy German Art Magazine

Modernist Society: The Karla Milton Collective, who have the excellent ‘Jack is Back’ single out on Heavy Soul Records right now, have announced that they are playing at The MET Studio at Stafford Gatehouse on Saturday 6th July 2013. The …

The Karla Milton Collective announce Stafford Gatehouse show on Saturday 6th July

Monkey Picks: Following Total Destruction To Your Mind (1970) and Rat On! (1971), two more reissues from Alive Records bring the spotlight back on the inimitable Swamp Dogg. Gag a Maggott (that extra ‘t’ is annoying) was Swamp’s fourth album and …

GAG A MAGGOTT by SWAMP DOGG and IN BETWEEN TEARS by IRMA THOMAS (1973)

Anorak Thing: JOHNNY KIDD AND THE PIRATES-Send For That Girl/The Fool U.K. HMV POP 1559 1966 Johnny Kidd will forever be remembered for perhaps the first classic British rock n' roll record, 1960's "Shakin' All Over". But by 1966 …

Farewell To The Kidd: Johnny Kidd's Posthumous U.K. 45

Lambretta gloves

Lambretta gloves | the Mod Generation weekly

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While researching (I use the term loosely) my helmets post, I came across these rather nice tan gloves on the Heritage Helmets site. Now, I don't always agree with slapping a Lambretta logo on stuf...

Nick Waterhouse And Brooks’ New Retro Category

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Following hard upon the debut of Red Fleece is today’s Brooks mailer, which plugs a new, possibly temporary, product category called “Retro Style.” The category consists of standard Brooks…

The History of Lambretta on Moving Picktures

The History of Lambretta on Moving Picktures | ...

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I do not own or have the right to any of the videio or music used in this film

Japanese Adverts From The Swinging Sixties

Japanese Adverts From The Swinging Sixties | th...

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Here we take a look at some more cool Japanese Adverts from the swinging sixties. We’ve picked out a few ads that have caught our attention on our travels around the internet and as our Japanese reading skills are…

Oh So '60s | Mo Saique Shoes

Oh So '60s | Mo Saique Shoes | the Mod Generati...

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The world and it's social structures were changing rapidly and the style of dress reflected that. After a decade where all dresses were long(ish) and all waists were cinched, the 60s came alot and transformed silhouettes for ...

Music and Thatcherism

Music and Thatcherism. | the Mod Generation weekly

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The problem with the critics of Thatcher is that they always pick on the wrong things to criticise. Do we really want our children to leave school and get a job working underground?