We first make a stop at San Francisco where we catch up with Charles Moothart and Ty Segall, both well known to the regular inhabitants of The Little Lighthouse. Tommy Stinson put forces together with Chip Rogers and released an album as Cowboys in the Campfire. Also in California, we check out the new name for us, Decibels. Over in Texas, we introduce Nite Sobs and Emily Wolfe. In Salt Lake City, we introduce an upcoming young multi instrumentalist and singer songwriter Makki Jones. Internationally, we hear new music from The Empire Strikes and Zac from Italy. Fran Aschroft has new songs, and back in the original New Wave and Punk days, Fran was in The Monos!
The Lemon Twigs – My Golden Years
Charles Moothart – Roll
Ty Segall – My Best Friend
Ty Segall – I’m Free
Fuzz – Nothing People
Nite Sobs – Do You Wanna Be in Love
The Decibels – Enough
Red Mass – A Boy and His Robot
Outtacontroller – Gimme Nothin’
The Empire Strikes – Take it easy
Fran Ashcroft – Longhaired Git
The Monos! – Teenage confessions
Lemonheads – Seven Out
Zac – Summer Dreamers
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire – Karma’s Bitch
Bash And Pop – Friday Night Is Killing Me
The Replacements – Awake Tonight
Emily Wolfe – Silencer
Makki Jones – A New World
The Beatles – I Need You
Today we check out the newest on the singer-songwriter scene. We check back with Dori Freeman from Virginia, Margo Cilker from Washington state and Kerri Powers from Connecticut. Country music legend Suzy Bogguss is back with the new record. We introduce Lauren Watkins and Jessi Colter from Nashville, Hannah White from UK and Jaimie Wyatt from Los Angeles.
Graciehorse – Hollow Head
Lauren Watkins – Fine County Line
Hannah White – The Aftershow
Lydia Loveless – Toothache
Sara Petite – Forbidden Fruit
Jessi Colter – With or Without You
Jaime Wyatt – Back To The Country
Whitney Rose – Can’t Remember Happiness
Laura Cantrell – When The Roses Bloom Again
Dori Freeman – Gonna Be A Good Time
Margo Cilker – Lowland Trail
Meghan Maike – Chase The Wind
Brennen Leigh – Carole With An E
Kerri Powers – Morning Glory, Midnight Blue
Suzy Bogguss – It’s Too Late
Lindsay Lou – Rules
Elizabeth Moen – Where’s My Bike
A nice show today featuring new music from Dream Machine’s Doris Melton, collaboration between Red Mass and Chantal Ambridge, yet another new album by Guided By Voices, new single by Sylvia Rose Novak and a return to the scene by Barbara Manning. We also introduce Girl With a Hawk (from Boston), Journals Kept (also from Massachusetts) and four ladies in a new band called Hedrons. LA band Momma collaborates with Narrow Head from Texas on a new split single, covering each other’s songs.
Jaimie Branch – Burning Grey
Girl With A Hawk – The Romantic
Doris Melton – Plutonium Bomb
Diners – Someday I’ll Go Surfing
Peach and Lee – It’s Up to You
Narrow Head – Medicine
Momma – Sunday
The Exbats – The Happy Castaway
The Lunar Laugh – Stranger Than Oz
Red Mass – ADDICTED ft Chantal Ambridge
Guided By Voices – For The Home
Uni Boys – I’m Alright
Jon Dee Graham – There’s a Ghost On the Train
The Hedrons – Turn the Video Off
The Journals Kept – Nothing In This World
Lilli Lewis – Happy Enough
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Fire In The Western World
Sylvia Rose Novak – Broad Strokes
Barbara Manning – I’m Running
Shake Some – Not Even You
Garage rock review today with a return by Australia’s Zerodent, return by Louisiana’s Dash Rip Rock, collaboration between Radio Birdman’s Deniz Tek and Angry Samoan’s Jeff Dahl and a new album by Brooklyn’s Dion Lunadon. From the garage rock capital of the world, Detroit, we check out new music from Tyvek and Sugar Tradition. Plus, introducing R.M.F.C. from Australia, KÜken from Hamburg, Bone Idl from Chepstow and Fret Rattles from Minneapolis.
The Amber Lights – Debbie by the christmas tree
KÜken – Black Air
Zerodent – Panic Bolt
Zerodent – Not Good For Me
Capsula – En El Infierno
Bone Idl – Goodwill
Dion Lunadon – Secrets
Dion Lunadon – It’s the Truth
Deniz Tek – Ballad of Chief Joseph
Deniz Tek & Jeff Dahl – Hate
Dash Rip Rock – True Drunk Love
Dash Rip Rock – Big Daddy Like Whiskey
Tyvek – Wayne County Roads
Tyvek – Trash & Junk
R.M.F.C. – Spectrum
CLASS – Behind the Ball
The Spells – En Vogue
Sugar Tradition – Fragile
Fret Rattles – Degeneration Ride
Outtacontroller – Less Is More
Taxi Girls – After Effect
Vains – Clean Slate
Today we check out the latest single from Ghost Funk Orchestra, new album (and project) by Hedvig Mollestad, new albums by The Third Mind, David Craven and Jon S Williams. We introduce King Tree and Earth Mothers from California, Black Delta Movement from the UK and Mondo Drag. In Levitation Sessions series, we check out Goat.
The Reverberations – Oscillation
Goat – Fill My Mouth
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Brownout
Japanese Television – Tabadaboum
King Tree & Earth Mothers – King Tree and The Earth Mothers – Be Free
Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns – Go At Your Peril
Mondo Drag – Passages
David Craven & Jon S Williams – Bike_
David Craven and Jon S Williams – Festival
The Black Delta Movement – The Landgrab
The Third Mind – In My Own Dream
The Third Sound – We’ll Be Together
Last week we reviewed part one of our list of best albums in 2023. This week it’s time to complete the top 30 list. 2023 was marked be great power pop records by Babaganouj, Diners, Exbats, Whiffs. Uni Boys top the list with an extremely catchy offering in that same genre. Sunny War had a killer roots rock album. I dig the repetitive quasi karut rock of Verstärker. Noisy offerings from BBQT, Starcrawler, The Tubs and Purling Hiss are good to tune out harsh realities of life. Jaimie Branch album surprised with a great combination of fun and experiment. It’s sad that she’s no longer with us. And let’s not forget Ukleti Dukat with their psychedelic pastorals of the Pannonian plains.
Babaganouj – She Wears Velvet
The Exbats – Himbo
The Whiffs – Romeo
Verstärker – Hinter dem Spiegel
The Tubs – Duped
Starcrawler – True
Diners – The Power
BBQT – Crashin’
Sunny War – Baby Bitch
Purling Hiss – Something In My Basement
Jaimie Branch – Baba Louie
Ukleti Dukat – Ukazanje na Obli
Ukleti Dukat – Ram za nekoliko poza Odlazak
Uni Boys – Intentions
Uni Boys – Say You’ll Make It Real
Uni Boys – I Want It Too
Best albums in 2023
1 Uni Boys - Buy This Now
2 Ukleti dukat - Odavno s druma
3 Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))
4 Purling Hiss - Drag On Girard
5 Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel
6 BBQT - Dangerous Dame
7 Diners - Domino
8 Starcrawler - She Said
9 The Tubs - Dead Meat
10 Verstarker - Jenseits
11 The Whiffs - Scratch N' Sniff
12 The Exbats - Song Machine
13 Babaganouj - Jumbo Pets
14 Natural Child - Be M'Guest
15 Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?
16 John Mayall - The Sun Is Shining Down
17 Ghost Woman - Anne If
18 Motorpsycho - Yay!
19 The Machine - Wave Cannon
20 Elli De Mon - Pagan Blues
21 Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
22 Those Pretty Wrongs - Holiday Camp
23 Connections - Cool Change
24 Laissez Fairs - Singing In Your Head
25 Divine Horsemen - Bitter End Of A Sweet Night
26 Chinese Herbal Medicine - Bomb!
27 Alien Nosejob - The Derivative Sounds Of...Or...A Dog Always Returns To Its Vomit
28 Osees - Intercepted Message
29 The Murlocs - Calm Ya Farm
30 Bark - Loud
It’s that time of the year when we look back on a year and pick the best albums we liked to go back to at this show. The list shouldn’t be taken too seriously. It’s not easy to make a list like this, there is a lot of albums to hear, not enough time and let’s face it, old music is better than the new one. But here we are, let’s dig into positions from 30 to 14. And log in next week for top 13.
Bark – Rock Club
The Murlocs – Superstitious Insight
Osees – Intercepted Message
Alien Nosejob – Second Chance
Chinese Herbal Medicine – Greed
Divine Horsemen – It’s Still Nowhere
The Laissez Fairs – A Wildforce
Connections – Raisin
Those Pretty Wrongs – Always The Rainbow
Lemon Twigs – Ghost Run Free
Elli de Mon – I Can See You
Machine – 04 – Ride On Crash Kick
Motorpsycho – Loch Meaninglessness and the Mull of Dull
Ghost Woman – 3 Weeks Straight
John Mayall – The Sun Is Shining Down
Kara Jackson – Pawnshop
Natural Child – Swanee
Blues and roots rock special today with new music from Ghalia Volt from Belgium, Matt walker from Australia, Spoon from Texas, Ida Mae and Rob Clarke from UK, Jason Ricci from New Orleans. Plus, Robert Filney and Gabe Carter appear on Dan Auerbach’s contemporary blues rock compilation. Plus, legendary Bobby Rush is back on tour and with the new album too.
Buddy and Julie Miller – I Been Around
Ghalia Volt – Every Cloud
Matt Walker – All By Myself
King Khan – Hot Dog For Melvin
Spoon – She’s Fine, She’s Mine
Bobby Rush – Running In And Out
Fred Davis – Wine Hop
Gabe Carter – Buffalo Road
Robert Finley – Miss Kitty
GA-20 – Jolene
Ida Mae – American Cars
Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind – 5-10-15
Joe Simon – Drowning In the Sea of Love
Rob Clarke – She’s A Mean
Mark Lanegan with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Go Tell The Mountain
Little Sister – Stanga
International hard rock line up today with new music from Graveyard (Sweden), King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Australia), Black Rainbows (Italy), Population II (Canada), Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and The Wytches (UK) and Kind from Boston, USA. Let’s rock!
Flight – Luvin’ Huggin’ and More
Graveyard – Twice
Pigface – Point Blank
La Chinga – Motorboogie
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Gila Monster
Black Rainbows – Apocalypse March
Alex Gethway – Second Nature
Population II – To Kebec
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Ultimate Hammer
Art of Dysfunction – Sunset Rider
The Wytches – Zep Step
Kind – Burn Scar
The Todd – Mystify Me
Mother Bear with Allysen Callery – Consuming Rites
Today we start off with an incredibly new catchy tune from Uni Boys (from LA). Then we introduce Grogans from Australia. Then two new tunes from Dead Brothers (from Switzerland) and Exbats. Bablers from Finland have a new single, Pablo Solo has a new EP. We also check out a new collaboration between Fleshtones and Lower East Side Rockers entitled Full Time Men. Robin Trower joined forces with Sari Schorr for a new album Joyful Sky. We introduce Freez from Italy and close things up with a block dedicated to Tim Lee who has a new album with his latest band called Bark.
Finnjävlar – Maple Pecan Pie
Uni Boys – Let’s Watch A Movie
The Grogans – Overheat
Chris Church – One More Chance To Get Over You
The Dead Brothers – Diamond Mind
The Exbats – To All The Mothers That I’d Like To Forgive
Class – Laughing into the Night
The Bablers – Thinking Of You
Robin Trower and Sari Schorr – The Distance
The Paramounts – Don’t Ya Like My Love
Pablo Solo – Tears
Full Time Men – TOT (Toilet of Time)
Hard-Ons – Hard-Ons – In Falls Everything
Freez – Icebreaker
Bark – Work in Progress
Bark – Nothing To Complain About
Tim Lee – What Time Will Tell
Windbreakers – Again
Absolute Grey – No Man’s Land
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