Flashlite #777

RMFC

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.

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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

Flashlite #776

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

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.

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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

Flashlite #775 – Best of 2023

2023

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.

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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

Flashlite #774 – Best of 2023

2023

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.

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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

Flashlite #773

Ghalia Volt

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.

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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

Flashlite #772

Jaimie Branch

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!

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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

Flashlite #771

Jaimie Branch

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.

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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

Flashlite #770

Jaimie Branch

Mo Troper has a great year. After producing a great album for Diners, he is now here with his own full length. He dedicated it to Jon Brion. Colin Cutler from North Carolina dedicated his album to Flannery O’Connor. Every song is a reflection on one of her characters. Sheer Mag from Philadelphia has a new single. Jake Roberts (ex Ausmuteants, Hierophants) is back with another Alien Nosejob project. Power pop power is represented by Nick Frater from UK, Marc Bailey from Iowa and Thomas Walsh from Ireland. King Louie Bankston nowadays performs as a one man band. Jaimie Branch was a New York trumpet player who had a series of Fly or Die albums. The latest one came out this year, unfortunately posthumously. Lastly, we have a tune from Ivar and Tommy go to Hollywood and I don’t know anything about them.

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Finch – Nothing Like the Sun
Colin Cutler – A New Tattoo
Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites
Sheer Mag – Blood from a Stone
Alien Nosejob – RnR Rubbish Bin
Alien Nosejob – I’m Lost
Ivar & Tommy go to Hollywood – I Poke Bears
Librarians With Hickeys – Ghost Singer
Nick Frater – The Town of Opportunities Suite
Mo Troper – Citgo Sign
Diners – From My Pillow
Marc Bailey – Kite Strings & Fight Scenes
Thomas Walsh – All This Hurt
Swampmeat Family Band – Do it All
King Louie Bankston – Gone Too Far
Jaimie Branch – Take Over The World
Leyla McCalla & Hurray for the Riff Raff – Zanj

Flashlite #769

Juliana Hatfield

Two shows ago we had new music from the sixties bands. Today we have new music from the eighties bands! Boston was one of the big music centers at the end of the 80s with Lemonheads and Blake Babies. Two bands shared members too. They are all back! Lemonheads have a new single and it’s their first original song in many years. It’s Evan Dando’s tribute to Dan Lardner of QTY who passed away in June this year. John P. Strohm drummed in Lemonheads and in Blake Babies. Now he’s back with a brand new solo record as a singer songwriter. Juliana Hatfield made a tribute to Jeff Lynn and ELO. Fuzztones are back with a strange album of what sounds like remixes of other bands. Divine Horsemen have a second album together after Chris D and Julie Christensen reunited. Peter Case of The Nerves and Plimsouls has a new album and so does Jon Dee Graham of Austin’s Skunks. Ska legends Madness are also back. All that in today’s show.

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Association – Windy
The Fuzztones – Windy with The Association
Divine Horsemen – Dirty Like An Angel
Divine Horsemen – Devil’s River
The Plimsouls – Zero Hour
Peter Case – Downtown Nowhere’s Blues
Jon Dee Graham – Where It All Went Wrong
The Skunks – Cheap Girl
QTY – Living Things
The Lemonheads – Fear Of Living
John P. Strohm – Troubleland
The Lemonheads – Clang Bang Clang
Blake Babies – Swill And The Cocaine Sluts
Juliana Hatfield – Bluebird Is Dead
Madness – Beginners 101
Madness – Mad Not Mad
Electric Light Orchestra – Bluebird is dead
The Fuzztones – We’re Pretty Quick

Flashlite #768

Apple

Our new episode features new music from Mike Watt, Mike Baggetta and Stephen Hodges – MSSV, Leigh Gregory and Alicja-Pop. We also introduce a constellation of international artists: Decartes a Kant from Mexico, Hey Colossus from UK, Meat Shirt from France, Shiny Darkly from Denmark and New Vogue from Canada. Little Lighthouse shines all over this sad planet!

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Outtacontroller – Gotta Get Out
New Vogue – On Your Way Out
MSSV – Human Reaction
MSSV – Old Crow
The Church – These Coming Days
Shiny Darkly – Letter
Leigh Gregory – 99 to 111
DAIISTAR – Star Starter
Electric Six – Hot Numbers On The Telephone
Meat Shirt – Burning Bilderberg
Hey Colossus – I Could Almost Care
Osees – Die Laughing
Alicja-Pop – Yellow Moon
Alicja-Pop – Not Gonna Be Dumb
Descartes a Kant – Graceless
Body Maintenance – Ends

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