Flashlite #590

Beth Bombara

Low Cut Connie used to be a band of two primary songwriters: Adam Weiner and Dan Finnemore. Dan is now with Swampmeat Family Band and Adam continues with Low Cut Connie. It’s a wonderful coincidence that we have new songs by both bands in today’s show. Legendary punks X from Los Angeles are also back with the original line up on a new record Alphabetland. Original line up means Billy Zoom on guitar. They revisit a song they did on an album without Billy on the new record and we check that out. Back then, Tony Gilkyson was with the band on guitar. And Tony’s sister Eliza has a new record too. David Bromberg revisits his 1972 song Diamond Lil in his brand new record. Glenn Danzig is here with a cover album dedicated to Elvis Prisley. Beth Bombara is back with the new record and Whitney Rose is a new singer songwriter that we introduce in this episode. Also introducing are Fred and Rose from Argentina, who named themselves after a historical couple who committed crimes. Suicide Swans are also a new band for us, they come from Toowoomba in Australia.

Robert Forster – Songwriters on the Run;
Beth Bombara – Evergreen;
Whitney Rose – In a Rut;
Ashley McBryde – Hang In There Girl;
Fiver – It Is What It Is (Radio Edit);
Low Cut Connie – Look What They Did;
Swampmeat Family Band – If You Want Me To;
The Flesh Eaters – Cyrano De Berger’s Back;
X – Cyrano De Berger’s Back;
Eliza Gilkyson – Peace in our Hearts;
Glenn Danzig and the Power and Fury Orchestra – You & Me (Less Than Zero);
Elvis Prisley – When It Rains, It Really Pours;
Glenn Danzig – When It Rains It Really Pours;
David Bromberg – Diamond Lil;
Ida Mae – My Girl Is A Heartbreak;
Fred & Rose – My Baby Got Balls;
Suicide Swans – Someone’s Chrome;
Yawpers – Live in CLE;
Bele Vrane – Eskalacija.

Flashlite #589

Little Richard

Today we bring you sweet tunes from various parts of the world. From France, we introduce Spa Massage and Normcore. Over on the same continent, in Sweden, we bring you ramshackle rockers Beat City Tubeworks. In UK, we have Mark Crozer who used to be with The Shouts and a new tune from Hightown Pirates. On the other side of the world, we have veterans from Australia, Little Murders. Homestead, Rocket Bureau are from Madison, WI and Ty Segall is also here with a new demo record. We also introduce Key Out, although I have no clue where they are coming from.

R. Stevie Moore – The Long And Winding Road;
Rocket Bureau – Love Songs In The Night;
Beat City Tubeworks – Succubus;
The BT’s – Demoness;
Chris Church – Dumb It Up;
Little Murders – Hyena;
Mark Crozer – Burn On Thru Me;
Paul Collins – Glittering Gold;
En Attendant Ana – This Could Be;
Spa Massage – San Francisco;
Paul Orvell – Speak Of The Devil;
Trotsky Icepick – My Mission in Life;
Ty Segall – Sue Thumb;
Hightown Pirates – This One’s for You.;
Yes – Every Little Thing;
Normcore – The Long And Winding Road (Beatles Cover);
Key Out – Chorus;
Vukovar – The New World Order;
Laibach – The Long and Winding Road.

Flashlite #588

Little Richard

Today’s program is dedicated to Little Richard, Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk and Dave Greenfield from Stranglers, legendary rockers who we lost in a very short period of time. But the show must go on, and despite the losses, we gain with some exciting new releases. Our friends over at Blue Arrow Records have a brand new release with Stutter Steps from Pittsburgh. We also feature two singer songwriters for the first time at the show. First, Tommie Vaughn, the leader of Wall of Tom band and author of the Frankie Spencer trilogy. Second, Phranc’s guitarist Pie Smith is here with his new singer-songwriting project called simply Pie. We also check out the Vancouver’s own Dead Ghost and our Italian friends Cheap Wine from their most recent album Faces.

Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck;
Dead Ghosts – Blackout;
Cheap Wine – The Great Puppet Show;
Datura4 – Give;
Little Richard – Keep A Knockin;
Little Richard – Jenny Jenny;
Stutter Steps – Reeling;
Stutter Steps – Weak Restraint;
Suzanne Vega – Frank and Eva;
Piramid Scheme – Seen This Before;
Wall of Tom – Tornado;
Pie – Stand in the Sun;
Braden Bodensteiner – Where the River Meets the Soul;
Kraftwerk – Das Model;
The Stranglers – Golden Brown;
The Stranglers – No More Heroes.

Flashlite #587

Hollow Ship

We have a heavier, psych show today. We start with Slift from Toulouse France and Local H from Chicago. Then we go to Australia and hear the new music from the supergroup Datura4. Green/Blue is a new name for us, but I know very little about them. Their new album doesn’t even have a title. Hollow Ship are a psych band from Sweden. King Khan has put out some soundtrack music and Predrag Delibasic teamed up with Jurij Novoselic into a new project by the name of Alex Robokapov, although, Jurij used that last name during his stint in Disciplina Kicme. And, as the main feature today, Dream Syndicate have a new album out called The Universe Inside and we hear one of the longer songs on it, Apropos Nothing.

Disciplina Kicme – Buka u Modi;
Slift – Citadel on a Satellite;
Local H – Winter Western;
Monstrous – Humble Headbanger;
Datura4 – You Ain’t No Friend Of Mine;
Datura4 – West Coast Highway Cosmic;
Green Blue – Return;
Ty Segall – Handglams;
Hollow Ship – We Came Too Late;
The Dream Syndicate – Apropos Of Nothing;
The Dream Syndicate – The Side I’ll Never Show;
King Khan – Sexploration in Pink;
Alex Robokapov – Fragile;
Happy Hobo – Bass Heavy.