Kevn Kinney used to be in the band called Drivin ‘N’ Cryin, but now he has a solo careers quite in the past decade. His new album A Good Country Mile is a collaboration with Anton Fier. Terry Adams is not the only remaining original or classic line up member of NRBQ, but the record is still very nice and worth checking out. Legendary Bill Fox from Cleveland has a new record out called One Thought Revealed. We also have reissues for Reatards and Eddy Current Suppression Ring today. New band for today is Slow Animal from New Jersey. This show is dedicated to Etta James.

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Etta James - Something’s Got A Hold On Me;
Slow Animal - Sitting Here;
Pow Wows - Seance;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Get Up Morning;
The Reatards - Give It to Me;
The Del-Lords - Double Life;
Drivin ‘N’ Cryin - Saddle on the Side of the Road;
Kevn Kinney - Challenge;
The Frictions - Last Resort;
Spampinato Brothers - Let Him Think On That;
NRBQ - Keep This Love Goin’;
Teddy Morgan And The Pistolas - Run Down Shacks;
Kathleen Edwards - Empty Threat;
The Love Me Nots - Let’s Get Wrecked;
Bill Fox - I’m Not Over Loving You;
Bill Fox - Round The World.

The Nuns was one of the first punk bands from the San Francisco rock scene. One of the punk pioneers from that era was Jennifer Anderson, better known as Jennifer Miro. This beautiful woman sadly died alone in New York last December and it took several weeks for the news to spread around. She was 54. Today’s show goes to her. We also have one new band today, Happy Thoughts from Indiana. The instrumental band Smrts from Australia have a new record out called Smrts Have Friends and Visit Them At Night, which will be an vinyl only release available in February. Wooden Wand also has a new record called Brairwood, which he recorded with a combo of several experienced musicians from Birmingham, AL. Evan Dando’s hotel room recordings from 1993 are out as a new Lemonheads release called Hotel Sessions.

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The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar;
King Louie’s Missing Monuments - Hot Class;
The Happy Thoughts - Indiana Girls;
Cute Lepers - Foxy Society;
The Barreracudas - Baby Jessica;
The Nuns - Wild;
Alejandro Escovedo - Nuns Song;
Glass Eye - Glass Eye;
Scott Reynolds - Blitzkrieg Bop;
Smudge - Superhero;
Lemonheads - Superhero;
Leb i Sol - Devetka;
Republika 903 - So maki sum se rodil;
Smrts - Born with Torments;
The Moaners - Cowboy Bob (Ballad of Peggy Jo Tallas);
Alex Chilton - All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain;
Wooden Wand and The Brairwood Virgins - Winter in Kentucky;
Jimmie Dale Gilmore and the Wronglers - In The Pines.

Rock’n'rollers don’t spare themselfes. Their lives are intense. They pack a lot of action in their lifetime and often leave young. These people inspire us and entertain us. We learn from them too. The past year saw the passing of many great ones: New Orleans vocalist Benny Spellman, original bass player of The Shadows Jet Harris, rock’n'roll promoter from Cleveland Steve Popovic, the saxophonist from the E Street Clarence Clemons, Gerry Stuck-in-the-middle Rafferty, Rundgren’s keyboardist Moogy Klingman, the songwriter Jerry Leiber, Polly up-yours Styrene, the original guitar master Hubert Sumlin, his disciple Gary Moore, drumming wizard Keef Hartley, singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey, John Walker brother and the jazz giant from Zagreb Bosko Petrovic… we remember all of them today with a show dedicated to those that left us last year. And 2012 didn’t start the right way either. She already took Tom Ardolino from NRBQ and one of my favorite writers ever Josef Skvorecky. We will remember them with deepest respect.

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NRBQ - It Feels Good;
NRBQ - That’s Alright;
Hana Zagorova And Flamingo - Svatej kluk;
Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette);
The Shadows - Wonderful Land;
Ronnie Spector - Say Goodbye To Holliwood;
Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze Out;
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street;
Todd Rundgren - Dust In The Wind;
Freddie Bell & The Bellboys - Hound Dog;
X-Ray Spex - I Can’t Do Anything;
Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin;
Gil Scott-Heron - When You Are Who You Are;
Gary Moore - Boogie My Way Back Home;
Keef Hartley - Leave It ‘Til The Morning;
Bill Morrissey - Small Town On The River;
Walker Brothers - Saddest Night In The World;
BP Convention - Keka Kolo.

The third part of our “Best of 2011″ series brings you the best short forms in the past year in the first half of the show. I mean by that eps, singles, mini albums and so on. The second half of the show is all about reissues and albums that were issued last year, but were recorded much earlier. The absolute stand out in that batch last year was in my mind one of the last recordings (if not the last recording) of Rainer Ptacek mere weeks before his death back in 1997. Best short forms and reissues are otherwise lined up in a random free-form order. I did not attempt to chart them.

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Michelle Shocked - Streetcorner Ambassador;
Bäddat För Trubbel - Inte Bocka Och Buga;
Personal & The Pizzas - I Want You;
Ty Segall - Salamanda Palaganda;
Wolf People - Silbury Sands;
Reigning Sound - Not Far Away;
Fleshtones - Remember The Ramones;
Cody Chesnutt - Come Back Like Spring;
Damien Youth - Satelites At Seven;
The Beach Boys - Surf’s Up;
Screaming Trees - Anita Grey;
The Normals - Don’t Pick Me;
Lou Reed - Caroline Says;
The Rolling Stones - Imagination;
Bobby Charles - Small Town Talk;
Rainer with Joey Burns and John Convertino - Now I Know Better;
Rainer with Joey Burns and John Convertino - (Tasted Better Going Down) Valerie;
Mikal Cronin - Is It Alright.

It’s the end of 2011 and it’s time to assess the damage. It’s the part two of the Top 30 albums of 2011 at the Little Lighthouse. It was a lean year when it comes to really big earth shattering albums, but it was also a year with a lot of good records. The champion for this year is Mikal Cronin and his debut record. The rest of the list goes something like this…


01 Mikal Cronin
02 Cute Lepers - Adventure Time
03 Susie Hug - Tucson Moonshine
04 True Sons of Thunder - Spoonful of Seedy Dudes
05 Hayvanlar Alemi - Guarana Superpower
06 King Louie's Missing Monuments - Painted White
07 Jack Oblivian - Rat City
08 Disciplina Kicme - Uf!
09 One Hundred Dollars - Songs of Man
10 Happy Birthday
11 Mr. Ron Jetson - The Return of The Sleeping Policemen
12 Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler The Dream
13 John Paul Keith - The Man That Time Forgot
14 Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis
15 The Barrarecudas - Nocturnal Missions
16 North Mississippi Allstars - Keys To The Kingdom
16 Mama Rosin with Hipbone Slim and the Kneetremblers - Louisiana Sun
17 Sonny And The Sunsets - Hit After Hit
18 Bubblegum Lemonade - Sophomore Release
19 Lucinda Williams - Blessed
20 Black Keys - El Camino
21 Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - Dost
22 Tim Lee 3 - Raucous Americanus
23 Dead Rock West - Bright Morning Stars
24 Israel Nash Gripka - Barn Doors And Concrete Floors
25 Bo Keys - Got To Get Back
26 The Frictions - Halogen Sky
27 Danny & the Champions of the World - Hearts and Arrows
28 John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
29 The Walkabouts - Travels in Dustland
30 Wild Flag


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The Barreracudas - Baby Baby Baby;
Booker T. Jones - Representing Memphis (Featuring Matt Berninger & Sharon Jones);
John Paul Keith - Never Could Say No;
Thee Oh Sees - Crushed Grass;
Mr Ron Jetson - Magnificient Joe;
Happy Birthday - Subliminal Message;
One Hundred Dollars - Ties That Bind;
Disciplina Kicme - Sta je to sto drzi dabas tvoju paznju;
Jack Oblivian - Kidnapper;
King Louie’s Missing Monuments - Girl of the Nite;
Hayvanlar Alemi - Hayalgucu Sporkulubu;
True Sons of Thunder - Crawlin;
Susie Hug - Flinch;
Cute Lepers - Head Over Heels;
Mikal Cronin - Get Along;
Mikal Cronin - The Way Things Go.

PMS Issue three, edited by Dubravka Juraga and Snezana Zabic, brings you four Chicago poets, Nicolas Garcia, Tasha Marren, Luis Urrea, and Paul Martinez Pompa, and music by local bands Island, Tiny Manatee, The Embraceables, The Pralines, Hannah Frank Trio, The Injured Parties, as well as New York’s own Rebel Diaz (transplants from Chicago).

For poets and musicians out there: send us your poems and songs dealing with the state of things in the US and worldwide. We plan to pack at least one of our upcoming issues with political material. Speak up in your poems and songs and send them to chicagopms@gmail.com.

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1 Nick Garcia “Blue Island Bums”
2 Rebel Diaz “99%”
3 Pompa “Carbon Copy”
4 Island “Corporate Welfare”
5 Tasha Marren “April” “Ptarmigan” “Replica”
6 The Pralines “Raphael”
7 Nick Garcia “Daley’s Indios”
8 Tiny Manatee “Immigrant Law”
9 Paul Martinez Pompa “Bullet”
10 The Embraceables “Wanna Copy”
11 Tasha Marren “Mother Cycle”
12 Hannah Frank Trio “Pitch Black Eyes”
13 Luis Urrea “Valley of the Palms”
14 The Injured Parties “American Comfort”

It’s the end of 2011 and it’s time to assess the damage. I prepared the list of 30 best new albums in this year, also a separate list of best short forms (singles, eps, downloads…) and reissues. We will cover this in our next three shows. We begin today with the best albums, positions from 30 to 16. Top 15 will be presented in our next show. So, start today and find out which one is the best album next week.

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Wild Flag - Electric Band;
The Walkabouts - My Diviner;
John Hiatt - Damn This Town;
Danny & the Champions of the World - Heart & Arrow;
The Frictions - Cut And Run;
The Bo-Keys - Catch This Teardrop (feat. Percy Wiggins);
Isreal Nash Gripka - Four Winds;
Dead Rock West - Tell the Angles;
Tim Lee 3 - Long Way Home;
Jerusalem and The Starbaskets - Chocolate Covered Every Berry;
The Black Keys - Run Right Back;
Lucinda Williams - Blessed;
Bubblegum Lemonade - We Could Send Emails;
Sonny and the Sunsets - Home and Exile;
Mama Rosin together with Hipbone Slim and the Kneetremblers - Louisiana Sun;
North Mississippi Allstars - This A’Way.

Folks, one of the weirdest episodes ever here at the Little Lighthouse… There is a whole bunch of reissues these days with live music. So, we started off with the new live reissues of Lou Reed, Rolling Stones and Giant Sand. Twilight Singers have a new live album out, so we check out that as well. Our good friend Damien Youth reissued his studio album Sunfield on vinyl. It’s a lovely double LP. And then we played the new band for Chris Eckman from Walkabouts, called The Frictions, which he put together over in Ljubljana where he lives these days. They played a cover of Suicide, so “naturally”, the rest of the songs were about suicide as an act, not as a band. So, very happy ending today… Check it out, but don’t do it.

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Kursaal Flyers - Friday On My Mind;
Lou Reed - Vicious;
The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband;
The Rolling Stones - Happy;
Giant Sand - Lester Lampshade;
Damien Youth - Thorough The Eyes of Molly;
Hic et Nunc - Got My Mojo Working;
The Walkabouts - Thin of the Air;
The Frictions - Ghost Rider;
Suicide - Ghost Rider;
Buldozer - Najpogodnije mjesto;
Dax Riggs - Living is Suicide;
The Replacements - The Ledge;
David Bowie - Rock’n'roll Suicide;
Wednesday Week - Suicide.

Today’s show goes out to the two blues musicians which we lost within one single week (not in the same day as I said in the show). First Keef Hartley went away, English drummer who has worked in the late 60s with several different bands, most notably his own Keef Hartley band. Then Hubert Sumlin, the legendary Chicago blues pioneer left as well. It’s sad to see them go, so we remember their work in today’s show.

Besides these tributes, we also have new albums for John Hiatt, Black Keys and The Love Me Nots. Pow Wows from New York City and Black Bananas from the Los Angeles scene are for the first time at the Little Lighthouse.

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Byrds - She Don’t Care About Time;
John Hiatt - Detroit Made;
Pow Wows - Do The Splash;
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - First Cigarette in the Rain;
John Paul Keith - Somebody Ought To Write A Song About You;
The V-Roys - Sooner or Later;
Amy LaVere - You Can’t Keep Me;
Bobby Charles - Keep Cookin’ Mama;
Black Bananas and Kurt Vile - Before They Make Me Run;
The Rolling Stones - Before They Make Me Run
Keef Hartley Band - Leavin’ Trunk;
Hubert Sumlin - My Guitar and Me;
The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines;
The Shazam - Rollercoaster;
The Mark Lanegan Band - The Gravedigger’s Song;
The Love Me Nots - The Girl Lights Up.

Today’s show is dedicated to the 80s new wave scene from Georgia and the South of the USA. Everything is peculiar in the South, so is the new wave scene. The direct inspiration for today’s show is the LP called Jericho Go, a compilation record that was put together jointly by The DB Records in the US and the Stiff Records in UK. Now, it can only be found in rare used records bins in these two countries, and it’s probably not an easy task. Still, it’s an obscure, but a cherished item in my record collection. This show brings every single song from that LP and the rest of the time is filled with some other related tunes either by other Southern new wave bands or related acts from a different era. I hope you will enjoy the second installment of the Vinyl Junkyard.

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Zeitgeist - Blue Eyes;
Guadalcanal Diary - Ghost on The Road;
Guadalcanal Diary - Carying The Torch;
Love Tractor - Neon Lights;
The Buzz of Delight - In Summer;
Matthew Sweet - Superdeformed;
Oh Ok - Choukoutien;
Pylon - Percaution;
REM - Crazy;
Kevin Dunn - 20000 Years In Singh Singh;
The Windbreakers - Nation of Two;
Tim Lee 3 - Bullets in the Barn;
Bobby Sutliff - Time Machine;
The Swimming Pool Q’s - Overheated;
Fetchin Bones - So Brilliant.