Roger Nichols’ “Can I Go” is embarrassingly far from his best work, and “She’s Just Laughin’ at Me” by the Addrisi Brothers ain’t a rag-ass patch on The Association’s “Forever My Love.” A-level production and limp borrowed tunes crushed the life out of the original LP, which dropped early in 1968 at the height of the sunshine pop trend and promptly bombed.

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Jenny O recently joined the Manimal Vinyl family, releasing her new album Home on the West Coast friendly imprint. We wanted to know what tunes she’s been digging and Ms. O said she spent 2010 listening mostly to 1970s music. So we asked her for a “best of” the most prominent year in her record [...]

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Williams plays a brand of pop music that is hard to categorize—his melodies are the crux of the songs, but the subtle augmented instrumentation and the soaring guitars are what sets him apart from contemporaries. The pop comparisons to Nilsson and Clifford Ward can definitely be heard in Williams’ songwriting and it excites me that Los Angeles has someone that is playing a modern twist on these kinds of tunes on a regular basis.

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