Flashlite #242

LividsToday we start off with some recent collaborations of Robert Plant with younger bands. Then we move on to the new Resentments album who regrouped after their founder Stephen Burton passed away four years ago. Garage soul singer Barrence Whitfield reunited with his Savages and put out the new record called Dig Thy Savage Soul. Canadian rockers The Sadies also have a new album, and it sounds a lot like Meat Puppets, which we fully support. Tommy Keene has an album of covers and Eamon McGrath threw out another new mp3 to public. Finally, we have a great pleasure to introduce Livids – the new band for Eric Davidson from New Bomb Turks.

Today we have two obituaries, one for Bill Bartell, better known as Pat Fear from the satirical punk band White Flag and the other for Jackie Lomax, one of the Apple recording artists back in the early 70s.

Julian Cope – Greatest And Perfection;
North Mississippi Allstars – JR;
Lil’ Band O’ Gold – I’m Walking;
The Resentments – What Love Can Do;
The Resentments – Space Between;
Shannon McNally – Small Town Talk;
Barrence Whitfield and Tom Russell – Chocolate Cigarettes;
Barrence Whitfield and The Savages – The Corner Man;
The Dirtbombs – Sunshine Girl;
Meat Puppets – One More Drop;
The Sadies – The First 5 Minutes;
Philip Rambow – Don’t Come (Cryin’ To Me);
Eamon McGrath – Bitter Ends;
Tommy Keene – Have You Seen My Baby;
Flamin’ Groovies – Have You Seen My Baby;
Livids – New Values;
Livids – Live in CLE;
White Flag – Forever Changes;
Jackie Lomax – Sour Milk Sea.

Flashlite #241

Burnt OnesThose who like Heroin by Velvet Underground will find this episode interesting. We have two tunes that sound like it and two versions of the very song. Burnt Ones from San Francisco have a cover of this song and we also check out some of their original new stuff. New Thurston Moore’s band Chelsea Light Moving has a song that sounds like Heroin and Michael Tarbox has a similar tune on his latest album. We check out the new garage rock tunes from King Louie and his Missing Monuments and Obits. Southern music is represented by Hickoids and Left Lane Cruiser who have an excellent new record Rock Them Back To Hell.

Michael Tarbox – Night Train To Chelsea;
Missing Monuments – Super Hero;
Obits – Taste the Diff;
Obits – Pine On;
Bad Sports – Washed Up;
Mikal Cronin – Get Along (Live in CLE);
Hickodis – Mo’hair;
Left Lane Cruiser – Paralyze Ya;
Endless Boogie – General Admission;
Burnt Ones – Fountain of Youth;
Burnt Ones – Heroin;
Velvet Underground – Heroin;
Chelsea Light Moving – Heavymental.

Flashlite #240

HickoidsSome sweet new americana today, or maybe it’s better to call it roots rock, since americana is really a worn out term these days. Neko Case has a new record, as well as her bandmate from the Blacky Ranchette project, Richard Buckner. Mark Lanegan is back as well with a new record consisting entirely of covers aptly called Imitations. Let’s not forget the cow punk legends Hickoids from Austin who recently gave us two new records, one a cover record called Kicking It With The Twits and also Hairy Charin’ Ape Suit that contains new songs. Finally Dickinson brothers have a new record with the North Mississippi Allstars, called World Boogi Is Coming, which were one of the last words of their father Jim before he died. The record contains a new version of Brownsville with Sid Selvidge who recently passed away and who many years ago sang this tune also with Jim in Mud Boy and The Neutrons.

Bee Gees – In My Own Time;
Hickoids – Say So Long;
Hickoids – Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadow;
The Rolling Stones – Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing In The Shadow ;
Model Prisoners – Bad Attitude;
Sonny Vincent – Bad Attitude (Live in CLE);
The Wanton Bishops – Bad Liver and a Broken Heart;
North Mississippi Allstars – Goin’ to Brownsville;
Mud Boy And The Neutrons – Brownsville;
The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko;
Games – (Baby) Put Down That Gun;
Neko Case – Man;
Richard Buckner – Foundation;
Richard Buckner – Hoping Wishers Never Lose;
The Connection – Nothing About Me;
King Khan and The Shrines – Luckiest Man;
Mark Lanegan – Deepest Shade.

Flashlite #239

Motel MirrorsA ton of new things today. A lot of it comes from advanced downloads that artists made to promote their upcoming records, so search, stream and download. Amy LaVere and John Paul Keith have a new duet together called Motel Mirrors. Howe Gelb has a new tune that he recorded together with Will Oldham. City of Cool from Australia also have a new tune and so does Eamon McGrath. His new song Exile is meant to announce a three part series of eps that will eventually comprise his future LP. R. Stevie Moore has a new hilarious song as a support for Pussy Riot and he has a reissue of his 1978 record called Delicate Tensions. Alejandro and Javier Escovedo together with Jon Dee Graham reunited into True Believers and prepared a newly recorded song as an advance for their future new record. Talking about reissues, The Replacements are back together and I saw that over in Toronto. They sounded great and we have three songs bootlegged at the reunion show today. Two new exciting records are also out Bras by Bad Sports and Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere by Terry Malts. And Dirtbombs! Two new records, one with brand new records done in bubblegum rock style and the other – a compilation of B sides and singles.

The Replacemetns – Achin’ To Be;
The Replacements – Takin’ A Ride;
Modernettes – Rebel Kind;
True Believers – Rebel Kind;
True Believers – Gipsy Son;
Bad Sports – Would You Wait For Me Too;
Bad Sports – Nothing In This World;
Terry Matls – I Was Not There;
Terry Malts – No Good for You;
Amy LaVere – Killing Him;
Motel Mirrors – Meet Me On The Corner;
Howe Gelb – Vortexas;
R. Stevie Moore – Schoolgirl;
R. Stevie Moore – Free Pussy Riot;
The Dirtbombs – Hot Sour Salty Sweet;
The Dirtbombs – Candyass;
City of Cool – Controlled;
Eamon McGrath – Exile;
The Replacements – IOU.