Various Artists Land of 1000 Dances: The Rampart Records Complete Singles Collection Minky Significant tracks and their release dates on these 79 tracks tell the tale of East L.A. soul and R&B along with Rampart’s rise and fall as well as any analysis. The imprint’s… ►

Even on his phone while stuck in traffic on his way to the record label office, Michael Rault is more concise, funny, self-effacing, and informative than most rockcrits can manage in 1.5 lifetimes. We join him here as the pace really begins to pick up … Michael Rault plays Fri., June 29, at the Bootleg Theater. This interview by Ron Garmon. ►

This fellow’s been around seemingly forever and this two-disc CD retrospective serves as less a career summation than a thorough, even fussily made case for his peculiar genius. ►

Every song sounds as if it was culled from a stack of psychedelic rock platters from the era’s 1966-69 heyday. Not clever pastiches in the manner of Neil Innes or note-perfect tributes like a half a dozen notable LPs of the Paisley Underground movement, either—what the Bums wheel out is closer to the Actual THC-soaked Nastyass Thing, minimally retooled for a less optimistic era with stronger drugs. ►

Social protest, gospel, roots rock and Jesus-hippie sentiments are scrambled together with all the sluggish pacing of a Billy Jack movie. Fans of “authenticity” will dig this hugely but many others will file it among the curios of this wonderfully strange era. ►