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.
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
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.
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
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!
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
New music from Beatles, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Roger Waters, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, Chip Taylor and Zombies isn’t bad. But also isn’t good. Is it relevant? Is it more than just a reminiscent to old time? And is old time hiding a secret that can’t ever be recovered? New music from veterans is bringing more questions than answers. It would be a pity to ignore it. But it’s also not easy to be too serious about it.
The Beatles – Yer Blues
The Beatles – Now and Then
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
Roger Waters – The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg
Rolling Stones – Bite My Head Off
Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler
Iggy Pop – Morning Show
Iggy Pop – Cold Metal
Zombies – Hung Up On A Dream
Zombies – The Sun Will Rise Again
Van Morrison – Beyond Words
Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches
Chip Taylor – Lost Pictures
Evie Sands – Any Way That You Want Me
Willie Nelson – The Chokin’ Kind
Willie Nelson – Funny How Time Slips Away
Ardent – Dance in the Smoke
Today we have a nice show with new music from Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders, Aurogramm from Vancouver, Dot Dash from Washington DC, Kurt Baker from Portland, Maine, Dolph Chaney from Chicago, IL, Mason Lowe from Seattle WA, Blake Mills from Santa Monica and Rhinehearts from Pert, AU. We also check out new music from Teenage Fanclub. Folks behind Jeffrey Lee Pierce Project continue to adapt Jeffrey’s posthumous legacy and today we listen to the new version his famous song Yellow Eyes which contains Jeffrey’s vocal and instrumentation by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
The Fourmyula – Otaki
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders – All We Have To Show
Autogramm – WannaBe
Black Hawk – Little Suzie Looker
Dot Dash – Forever Far Out
Kurt Baker – Go Getter
Lola Lola – Magic Sand
Dolph Chaney – Nice
Mason Lowe – Hanging Around
Iggy Pop – China Girl (The Idiot Alternative Mix)
Blake Mills – Skeleton Is Walking
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Yellow Eyes
The Gun Club – Yellow Eyes
Rinehearts – Call Me Up
Teenage Fanclub – Back To The Light
Teenage Fanclub – I Don’t Want Control of You
Today we check out the newest on singer songwriting scene. Lydia Loveless, Laura Cantrell, Sara Petite, Whitney Rose and Jenny Don’t. We also check out new works from Lindsay Lou from Nashville, Graciehorse from Los Angeles, Canadian singer songwriter Meghan Maike and Elizabeth Moen of Chicago.
Lydia Loveless – Learn To Say No
Sara Petite – God Save the Queen
Lydia Loveless – Poor Boy
Julie and Buddy Miller – The Painkillers Ain’t Workin’
Lindsay Lou – Shame
Brennen Leigh – I’m Still Looking For You
Rosali – If Not For Now
Whitney Rose – Barb Wire Blossom
Graciehorse – By The Light of His White Stetson
Bella White – Numbers
Laura Cantrell – Just Like A Rose
Meghan Maike – Meghan Maike – Redbird
Annie Keating – Keeping Time
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Still As The Night
Elizabeth Moen – That Summer Feeling
BMX Bandits and Dan Penn – That Summer Feeling
Today we begin by rocking out to the new tunes from Barrence Whitfield and Low Cut Connie. There’s a new band Stereo Burlesque featuring Frank Vazzano (of Cobra Verde) and Dave Cintron (both of Downside Special). Jay Gonzalez joined forces with Pete Smith in a new band called Gonzalez Smith. Mitski is also back with another new album. We introduce new names too: Stars Like Ours and Hi-End from Boston, Radio Field from Dusseldorf, Germany and Lunar Laugh from Oklahoma. At the end of the show, we pay a tribute to Gethway brothers from Monstrous. Alex passed away recently and Ken back in 2010.
The Optic Nerve – Sunshine Girl
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages – Hey Miss Glynis
Low Cut Connie – Big Boy
Swampmeat Family Band – Right Here
Purling Hiss -Yer All In My Dreams
Stars Like Ours – What’s Going Wrong
Stereo Burlesque – Speed Away
Cobra Verde – Haunted Heavens
Chinese Herbal Medicine – Grief
The Radio Field – The Version
Lunar Laugh- Born Weird
Mordecai Smyth – Out In The Stars
Danny The K – Cigarettes & Silhouettes
The Hi-End – Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Gonzalez Smith – She’s My Girl
Babaganouj – Shiny Shiny Shiny
Chris Church – bomb (by Flat Earth)
Mitski – Buffalo Replaced
Monstrous – Until The Words Are
Lemon Twigs – Every Day Is The Worst Day Of My Life
When Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah founded Our Native Daughters in 2019, it was a revelation. Three of those amazing performers are shaking things up again in the music world with interesting new music. Their close collaborator Luther Dickinson also has a new album and we have a large block dedicated to all of them. We also check out new blues scene from Italy, especially new music fom Fabrizio Poggi and Messa. Don Howland, Annie Keating, Betty Lavette and Tracy Nelson are also back with new music.
Robert Johnson – Hellhound On My Trail
Annie Keating – Lovesick Blues
Fabrizio Poggi – Boogie For John Lee Hooker
Elli de Mon – Star
Messa – Hellhound On My Trail (Originally by Robert Johnson)
Don Howland – Poor Me
Gibson Bros – Caught In A Dream
Bettye Lavette – Plan B
Tracy Nelson – I Did My Part (Feat. Marcia Ball & Irma Thomas)
Valerie June – Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home [Joe South]
Allison Russell – Eve Was Black
Rhiannon Giddens – Wrong Kind of Right
Amythyst Kiah – Hangover Blues
Leyla McCalla – Crown
Luther Dickinson with Sharde Thomas and Sharisse Norman – Are You Sure
Sharde Thomas – Island Breeze
Hard rocking show today with some cool returns. Queens of the Stone Age and Electric Six are back with new albums. Folk music singer song-writer Allysen Callery has joined forces with the German hard rockers Mother Bear for a few tunes and we check out one of these. We also introduce a stellar international line up of new introductions to the Little Lighthouse: Moon Coven from Sweden, Dopelord from Warsaw in Poland, Art of Dysfunction from Perth in Australia, La Chinga from Vancouver in Canada and Fire Down Below from Ghent in Belgium.
Dozer – Dust for Blood
Electric Six – Panic! Panic!
Moon Coven – Wicked Words In Gold They Wrote
Hard-Ons – In Falls Everything
Dopelord – Night of the Witch
Art of Dysfunction – Black Magic Love
Marc Ribot, Ceramic Dog – Ceramic Dog, Marc Ribot – Soldiers in the Army of Love
La Chinga – Light it Up
Queens Of The Stone Age – Obscenery
Phil Lynott’s Grand Slam – Nineteen (Demo)
Allysen Callery & Mother Bear – Mother Bear – Beautiful Teeth (Allysen Callery Cover)
Fire Down Below – Cocaine Hippo
Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Burn Me Down
Cool overview of neo-psychedelic tunes and bands. We have new music from Ty Segall, Rat Columns of Perth, AU and The Intelligence from California. Ghost Woman is also here with the new music and now it’s a duet with Evan Uschenko and Ille van Dessel. We introduce The Brooms from Portugal with a cover of Hawkwind, Sloppy Heads from NY and a band from Brazil White Canyon and The Fifth Dimension (has nothing to do with the legendary vocal group of the same name). Verstärker comes from Kentucky but they sound like they came from 1970s Germany.
Tomorrow – Real Life Permanent Dream
White Canyon & The 5th Dimension – Howling Pines
Sloppy Heads – New Speedway Boogie
Pink Mexico – Hot Air
Ty Segall – Void
Verstärker – Ankunft
Rat Columns – Someone Else’s Dream
Rat Columns – Cerulean Blue
Ghost Woman – Alright Alright
Ghost Woman – 3 Weeks Straight
The BROOMS! – Motorhead
The Intelligence – Now, Squirm!
Kooper, Bloomfield, Stills – You Don’t Love Me
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