We check out some interesting stuff this week. Mark Corzer has a good recent EP with The Rels. Chris Church puts out new music regularly, and we check out his recent single. Gabriella Cohen from Melbourne has a new single and Hazmats as well. We introduce John Wayne Supermarket from France and Blues Emergency from Toronto. Blue Broderick and Diners are back with super fresh new music produced by Mo Troper and it’s catchy as hell. Chinese Herbal Medicine has a new album. Legendary San Francisco band that had really cool music in the 70s is back together and we check out their new song.
Outacontroller – True Story
Mark Crozer & The Rels – Wasted Dreamer
Earth Quake – Out on The Floor
Gary Phillips – Let Her Dance (sung by Gary Phillips of Earthquake)
Neon Leon – Moving In the Right Direction
Chris Church – One More Chance To Get Over You
Chinese Herbal Medicine – Discordant
Babaganouj – Dumb For You
Cirkle – Nothing In Your Eyes
Gabriella Cohen – Dream Woman
Diners – The Power
Broken Sound – Sweet Lorraine and Sleazy Dean
Duke Robillard – Oh Babe
The Bevis Frond – Dragons
The Hazmats – Skewed View
Lemon Twigs – What You Were Doing
John Wayne Supermarket – Plage de Vieux Fort
The Blues Emergency – A Love Revolution
Les Lullies – Ze?ro Ambition
Loud show today. We open with veterans, Local H from Chicago who have a new album. Then we have another veteran band, albeit with quite a different line up than when they started, Hard-Ons from Sydney. Clutch is band with the new record and so is Big Brave, over in Montreal. Blue Heron from Albuquerque has a new single and Macarrones from Spain have a new album. We introduce Golden Grass from New York and Dozer from Sweden. We close with one of the most exciting albums recently, Wave Cannon by the Dutch band The Machine.
Miller Anderson – Nothing in This World
Local H – No Fun
Hard-Ons – Hard-Ons – Sling Shot
Older Sun – Raised By Wolves
Clutch – Slaughter Beach
Big Brave – Carvers, Farriers and Knaves
Pink Mexico – Junkie Smile
Blue Heron – Superposition
Macarrones – Seguimos
BBQT – The Boulevard
Golden Grass – 100 Arrows
Watts – The Black Heart Of Rock N Roll
Silberbart – Chub Chub Cherry
Dozer – Ex-Human, Now Beast
The Machine – Wave Cannon
Brainticket – Black Sand
In today’s garage rock hour, we discover new names for us. Heavy Mother from Bloomington IN, Shanda and The Howlers from Las Vegas, Mullens from Dallas TX, JJ & The Real Jerks frin LA, NoMen from Kilmarnock VA and Gagarins from Spain. And we encounter new music from old favorites such as John Wesley Coleman Mr. Airplane Man, Straight Arrows from Sydney and Last Quokka from Perth, Australia.
Luke And The Apostles – Been Burnt
Heavy Mother – I Know There’s No Answer
Last Quokka – Disconnected
The Liquorice Experiment – How Many Lies
Strange Attractor – I Always Get What I Want
Shanda & The Howlers – Want You Anyway
The Mullens – What You Deserve
Fruit Tones – Back In The Night (Again)
Heartbeeps – Trembling
The NoMen – Battle Snake
The Gagarins – Red Basement
Poison Boys – Steamroller
CTMF – Love Comes in Spurts
JJ & The Real Jerks – Downward Outward
John Wesley Coleman – Top Of The World
Neverland Ranch Davidians – Rat Patrol
Paint Fumes – Callin’ Out
Straight Arrows – Walkin Thru My Mind
Mr. Airplane Man – Believe
Cheater Slicks – Fear
Optic Nerve – What’s She Trying to Do
Tee Vee Repairman – Out Of Order
Today we have an international parade of great new tunes. We start our trip in Spain with Capsula and their new single. The next stop is Gabbie Torres and BBQT in Baltimore. Then we go to UK and check out the latest collaboration between Mordecai Smyth and Icarus Peel. Tony Molina and Sarah Rose Janko join forces as The Lost Days. Courettes over in Denmark take a Johnny Thunder’s vocal track and breathe a new life into it. In Australia, we check out Sticker Club, the new project for a long time Evan Dando collaborator Nic Dalton. Another Australian name in today’s show is Ramalamas. New York’s Braden Bodensteiner is introduced for the first time at the Little Lighthouse and so is Zac from Rome, Italy. And finally, we end up in Toronto Canada and close the show with a new tune from Clara Engel.
Capsula – Dali´s Face
Capsula – Sombra
BBQT – Dangerous Dame
Connections – Unsolved Mysteries
Guided By Voices – Seedling
Good Looking Son – Lord Demon’s Delight
Mordecai Smyth – Out In The Stars
The Lost Days – Coward Exposed
Tony Molina – Hard to Know
The Whiffs – Verlaine
Johnny Thunders and Courettes – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory (The Courettes Mix)
The Sticker Club – Being Around
The Lemonheads – Being Around
The Liquorice Experiment – Novice Pretender
Braden Bodensteiner – 440
ZAC – The World Is Standing Still
Cheater Slicks – Reaching Through
The Golden Gaytimes – Running Away
The Ramalamas – The Ramalamas – Funtastique
Clara Engel – The Snake in the Mirror
Kim Simpson – Mystery
Today the latest in rhythm, blues and roots rock. Samantha Fish joined forces with Jesse Dayton for a new album. Layla McCalla has put out a new tune. Automatic City is back with the new record. Pere Ubu has blues tune. We also have UK duet Mandelbrot Shakes, Early James from Alabama, Checkerboard Lounge from Melbourne and Trudy Lynn from Texas for the first time at the show. At the end of the show, we pay a tribute to the amazing, one and only Tina Turner.
Michael Tarbox – Ain’t No Grave
The Mandelbrot Shakes – Losing My Way
Early James – Harder To Blame
Sunny War – Swear To Gawd (Feat. David Rawlings & Chris Pierce)
Status Quo – Is It Really Me
Samantha Fish, Jesse Dayton – Down In The Mud
Checkerboard Lounge – Rollercoaster
Duke Robillard – What That Means to Me
Tav Falco Panther Burns – Master Of Chaos
Pere Ubu – Worried Man Blues
Automatic City – No Dice
Elli de Mon – Ticking
The Cold Stares – Come For Me
Trudy Lynn – Down In Memphis
Leyla McCalla – Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
GA-20 – Double Gettin’
The Silversound – Shaker
Tina and Ike Turner – I Idolize You
Tina and Ike Turner – Baby (What You Want Me To Do)
Tina and Ike Turner – Honky Tonk Women
Today we check out the new tunes from Golden Hours (Berlin Germany), Black Delta Movement (London UK), Helicon (Glasgow UK), Texas hopefuls Night Beats, Japanese noisemakers with the long name Acid Mothers Temple and The Melding Paraiso UFO, Edena Gardens from Denmark and another UK veteran Icarus Peel (formerly in Honey Pot). Also new, from Vegas, The Laissez Fairs. In the last block of today’s show, we pay a tribute to Pete Brown, a UK poet who wrote lyrics for Cream.
Jackie DeShannon – Sunshine of Your Love
Golden Hours – Run Man Run
The Black Delta Movemnt – Fourth Pass Over The Graveyard
Helicon – Too Much Is Not Enough
Helicon – Flume
Night Beats – Hot Ghee
The Laissez Fairs – Sensation
The Laissez Fairs – Upon The Wall
Acid Mothers Temple And The Melting Paraiso UFO – Cometary Orbital Drive
Dommengang – Myth Time
Edena Gardens – Dreich
Icarus Peel – Loki Laughs Last
Cream – White Room
Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
David Craven and Jon S Williams – Nipaluna
Quite a few interesting releases today: Damned are back pretty much in classic line up with the new record. Ian Hunter is also back with first part of the new album. Juliana Hatfield has a new single (sharing sides with Emma Swift). Dynamic duo of brothers Lemon Twigs are back as well. Murlocs have a steady release of annual albums, and the new one just came out. Also from Australia and just as active, The On and Ons are back as well. Our recent favorite Gyasi has a new EP. Reverberations and Country Westerners are also some of the novelties we have today. Ohio is represented by Keith Harman and his project Good Looking Son.
13th Floor Elevators – Baby Blue
The Reverberations – Fly My Kite
Gyasi – Baby Blue
Gyasi – You Don’t Love Me Like You Used To
Damned – I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
Damned – Bad Weather Girl
Ian Hunter – This Is What I’m Here For
Mott The Hoople – Black Scorpio
Juliana Hatfield – I See You
Juliana Hatfield – Lotta Love
Lemon Twigs – Ghost Run Free
Lemon Twigs – Queen of my School
The Murlocs – Growing Pains
The Murlocs – Superstitious Insights
The On and Ons – Games People Play
The On and Ons – She’s Leaving
Shake Some – Slow Down
Country Westerns – Speaking Ill Of The Blues
Good Looking Son – Long Form Girlfriend
Good Looking Son – She’s so Nice
New singing and songwriting today. We welcome back two ladies that we know well: Iris Dement, Eileen Jewell and Esther Rose. We introduce Amie Miriello and Vanessa Olivarez, together in Boys Club For Girls. Kate Redgate is from Boston, Brit Taylor is from Boise, ID, Elles Bailey is from Bristol UK, Helen Cronin is from Texas – all new names for us. Also two Canadian ladies: Bella White and Bria. Bria has started an interesting series of cover eps, and so today we hear her preform a John Cale classic.
Beth Bombara – I Only Cry When I’m Alone
Boys Club For Girls – Liar’s Land
Kate Redgate – Fools, Drunks & Liars
10000 Maniacs – Don’t Go Back To Rockville
Brit Taylor – For a Night
Eilen Jewell – Sea Of Tears
Carter Sampson – Fingers To The Bone
Elles Bailey – The Game
Esther Rose – Chet Baker
Joyce Street – That Man of Mine
Helen Cronin – Yesterday’s Heavy
Bella White – Break My Heart
Abbie Gardner – Once the Teardrops Start to Fall
Walkabouts – Buffalo Ballet
Bria – Buffalo Ballet
Iris Dement – Goin’ Down to Sing in Texas
Iris Dement – No Time To Cry
International dark wave festival today. We start with a Turkish/Sardinian band Gentilesky. Then we move on to Berlin, Germany, where we check out Splizz. Jumping then over to London where we have The Tubs. Guardian Singles from New Zealand have a new album and so does the legendary Australian band Church. In Canada we have Home Front. Italian band A Culture of Killing is also a stop on our journey. The US is represented with Moonwalks and Public Interest. Spanish band with Polish lyrics and Yugoslav sound, Belgrado is back with their new album.
Civic – Taken By Force
Gentilesky – City of Boredom
Splizz – Bored
Meat Puppets – Quit It
Felt – Ivory Past
The Tubs – Two Person Love
Guardian Singles – Chad and Stacey
Husker Du – New Day Rising
Husker Du – I’m Not Interested
Crocodiles – Dead Beat
Home Front – Real Eyes
Belgrado – Boixar
Belgrado – Pk
Exit Group – Stuck Like A Brick
Public Interest – Undone
A Culture of Killing – Yamuna
Eamon McGrath – Hours
Moonwalks – UFO Factory
The Church – Antarctica
The Church – Two Places At Once
Today we review the best new roots rock music. We begin with the Canadian guitar virtuoso Matt Andersen. Then we check out Michael and Tanya Trotter, duet that makes The War And Treaty. Over in Australia, we have Silversound. From Vicenza in Italy, we have Elli de Mon, back with the new record. From Boston, we hear the live sounds of GA-20. Chicago entertainers Joe Nosek and Oscar Wilson lead The Cash Box King and their new record is truly entertaining. Veteran blues musician Leo Welch represents sounds from rural Mississippi. Legendary musicians Rickie Lee Jones, Taj Mahal and Van Morrison represent their own new takes of some classic traditional and standard tunes.
Brian Owens – Man In Black
Matt Andersen – Let It Slide
The War and Treaty – Lover’s Game
The War and Treaty – Healing Tide
The Silversound – Rider
Elli de Mon – I Can See You
Elli de Mon – Vampire Blues
GA-20 – I Cry For You
The Cash Box Kings – Oscar’s Motel
Bob Corritore with Oscar Wilson- Tenessee Woman
Loe Welch – Praise His Name
Taj Mahal – Summer Time
Taj Mahal – Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day
Rickie Lee Jones – There Will Never Be Another You
Van Morrison – Green Rocky Road
Van Morrison – Gypsy Queen
Podcasting from Cleveland, Ohio. Broadcasting on Radio Kragujevac, every Sunday from 4-5pm (Central European Time). Streaming on Rock XS every Thursday at Midnight (Eastern European Time).