Mod

The phrase ‘Mod’ is not a particularly useful one musically, it is however a word that best describes the youth movement and ensuing sub-culture of the mid-60’s, whereby young teenagers would don designer suits and dresses to escape working class stereotypes regarding fashion whilst listening to raw and raucous garage rock, with strong R&B / Northern Soul influences (in contrast to the stronger Blues influences of their Rocker contemporaries). Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: The High Numbers

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Saturday 27 July 2013
Paul WellerConcert Saturday 27 July 2013	Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York, United States 40.71942 -73.961678	1 going Add shout
Sunday 28 July 2013
Paul WellerConcert Sunday 28 July 2013	Royale Boston Boston, United States 42.349685 -71.065332	1 going Add shout
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Paul WellerConcert Wednesday 31 July 2013	Union Transfer Philadelphia, United States 39.961616 -75.155352	1 going Add shout

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penquinharp

r u a mod or a rocker????? I'm a Mocker [im a mrocker]

August 2012
nachobemol

classy

August 2012
sarassad

No, it isn't any paradox to like both hippies and mods. Mods predated hippies. When the mod culture faded in the latter part of the 1960s, some mods who were into psychedelia and folky sounds eventually became hippies. Those mods who were more working class and who stuck to Jamaican sounds shaved their heads and evolved into skinheads. Think about Small Faces: their first album was pure mod R'n'B but their last album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was full of colourful flower power psychedelia. (2)

April 2012
wayney56

it was originally about jazz,soul jazz, the late 50's modernists and now just listen to acid jazz and deep funk soul to find the r&b roots of mod...groovy!

March 2012
Ariues

i often wonder why r&b is the one genre of music never developed by the british but much of it is called mod i guess apparently. ive just overlooked it cuz when i heared the term 'mod' not knowing what it meant i didnt associate it with r&b. now i do.

December 2011
metawirt

Exactly, promisedeyes!

November 2011
promisedeyes

Screw you guys, mod IS particularly useful: to find great music with

November 2011
Luuttuaja

No, it isn't any paradox to like both hippies and mods. Mods predated hippies. When the mod culture faded in the latter part of the 1960s, some mods who were into psychedelia and folky sounds eventually became hippies. Those mods who were more working class and who stuck to Jamaican sounds shaved their heads and evolved into skinheads. Think about Small Faces: their first album was pure mod R'n'B but their last album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was full of colourful flower power psychedelia.

October 2011