With a dark, distorted sound, Grave Flowers Bongo Band blends the scuzzy psychedelia of the late 60s with the raw power of the scene that birthed the first punks, right before washing it in the ...

Los Angeles group Grave Flowers Bongo Band mix flowery psychedelia, proto-metal and proto-punk for a groovy, heavy sound that hearkens back to 1969. The band are gearing up to released their second ...

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“Sample This” would make a hell of an article. In fact, it did. In 2006, Will Hermes told the story of the story of the oft-forgotten, oft-sampled Incredible Bongo Band in the New York Times. His ...

Michael Viner, the record producer whose 1973 recording of “Apache” by the Incredible Bongo Band is the cornerstone of hip-hop, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 8th, from cancer. He was 65.

This is a column about renowned samples, and let's face it: none are more notorious, or have a stranger origin, than the Incredible Bongo Band's version of Jerry Lordan's "Apache." Five years ago, Dan ...

Michael Viner, a high-rolling music business executive in the '70s, needed some soundtrack music for a couple of projects and thus put together the Incredible Bongo Band. And incredible it was, and ...