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Flashlite #425

Samantha FishToday we start off with the recently reunited Australian 80s band Ratcat. Then we check out Sweet Apple covering April Wine, just as they are preparing the new album Sing The Night in Sorrow, which is due this Summer (but you know how those things always get delayed…). NE-HI are a new band from Chicago and Samantha Fish is hailing from Kansas City with her cigar box guitar. Arbouretum are back with the new record and so is Rodney Crowell. Emmett Kelly of The Cairo Gang is back with the new record, as a result of collaboration with Ty Segall. Jaye Jayle is a new name for us from Louisville, KY!

The Strungs – Blue Horizon;
Ratcat – Hell On Hot Bread;
Sweet Apple – Just Between You And Me;
BT’s – Animals In Motion;
NE-HI – Don’t Wanna Know You;
Samantha Fish – He Did It;
Detroit Cobras – He Did It;
The Ronettes – He Did It;
Leyla McCalla Trio – Blue Runner (Live in CLE);
Arbouretum – Renouncer;
Arbouretum – Dirt Trails;
Jaye Jayle – The Beast Keeps Cool;
Dinosaur JR – Good To Know;
Fatal Flyin Guillotines – Stallions;
Ty Segall – Break a guitar;
The Cairo Gang – Be What You Are;
The Cairo Gang – In the Heart of Her Heart;
Rodney Crowell – Storm Warning.

Flashlite #254

Matthew Sweet and Susanna HoffsToday we have a relatively random playlist consisting of some of the most interesting cover songs in the past year or so. The only truly new record this time is Under The Covers Vol 3 by Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs. This time they covered the 80s and we hear their version of the XTC song Towers of London. We also check out Replacements and Arbouretum, each with a Gordon Lightfoot tune, Dan Sarka covers The Records and Steve Wynn covers Townes Van Zandt. We recorded Dax Riggs in Kent with a cover of a Billie Holiday tune and we also check out Carla Olson and Juice Newton belt out a Foster and Lloyd tune and The Walkabouts in Boss’ shoes.

Gordon Lightfoot – I’m Not Sayin’;
The Replacements – I’m Not Sayin’;
Arbouretum – Carefree Highway;
Chris Stamey – If Memory Serves;
Matthew Sweet And Susanna Hoffs – Towers of London;
XTC – Towers of London;
The Records – Starry Eyes;
Dan Sarka and the Sometimes Why – Starry Eyes;
Steve Earle – Lungs;
Townes Van Zandt – Lungs;
Steve Wynn – Lungs;
Dax Riggs – Gloomy Sunday (Live in Kent);
Carla Olson – You Can Come Crying to Me (With Juice Newton);
Walkabouts – Grand Theft Auto/State Trooper.

Flashlite #248

The Cry!We start of today with and awesome hit single Discotheque by the new band here at the Little Lighthouse called The Cry! from Portland OR. It’s a part of a split single with The Connection who we know well by now. Then we check out The Len Price 3, who finally put out a follow up on their great LP called Pictures back in 2010. The new record is called Nobody Knows and they come from traditionally active Medway scene in England. Arbouretum from Baltimore, MD are back with the new ep, which entirely consists of the Gordon Lightfoot tunes and it represents the peak of the renewed interest about him on the modern scene. Ty Segall is putting out records so frequently, I can’t even count them anymore. But the new one is with his new band called Fuzz and it’s a heavy record done in the manner of the 70s hard rock, where he joined forces with the guitarist Charlie Moothart. Finally we have Dead Milkmen today. They put out four 7″ singles, totaling 12 new songs (almost like an LP!) recently. We check out one of the tunes which they performed together with Philadelphia singer Audrey Crash and we also check out a part of their recent show in Cleveland. They were supposed to play at the Cleveland Public Theater, but the power went down. So they took the show over to WCSB.

The Trashed Romeos with Jim Dickinson – Where Dreamers Never Go;
Games – Different Times;
The Cry! – Discotheque;
Bay City Rollers – Rock’n’roll Love Letter;
Nick Lowe – Rollers Show;
The Len Price 3 – Nobody Knows;
The Len Price 3 – Keep Your Eye On Me;
Wild Billy Childish and The Spartan Dreggs – Eli The Baker;
The Krayolas – Gordon Lightfoot;
Arbouretum – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald;
Ty Segall – The Keepers;
Fuzz – One;
Purson – Mavericks and Mystics;
Dead Milkmen and Audrey Crash- Little Rebel Mine (ROME cover);
Dead Milkmen – Dean’s Dream (Live in CLE).

Flashlite #208

Irena ŽilićToday’s spotlight is on the neo-acoustic music scene in former Yugoslavia. There was a huge folk movement also known over there as akusticari in the early to mid seventies. It seems as that scene is being revived. We already presented Belgrade’s On Tour some time ago, and today we have two more new names. Irena Žilić is a young singer songwriter from Zagreb with her modern and fresh take on western folk music. Nina Romić, also from Zagreb, is on the other hand more rooted in the local folklore. In this episode, she covers a song written originally by Satan Panonski – a hard blood shock punk from the eighties who was both influential and controversial at the same time. Nina’s cover is a part of a larger tribute called Oči u magli. We also have a new album by our old friends from Rijeka My Buddy Moose. Their style is more on the roots rock side. Their new album Shine Shine Shine is produced by Chris Eckman from The Walkabouts, who also lives in that neck of the woods these days – Ljubljana. The Walkabouts have a live album called Berlin and we check that out as well in this show. Elsewhere form Europe, Amsterdam, we have an instrumental outfit called Bevel Emboss who create a wonderful tapestry of guitar sounds on their new album called Celluloid. Back to America – we have Arbouretum from Baltimore for the first time and super-group Sweet Apple have a new single out there which announces their album due this Spring around the Record Store Day. Mark Lanegan is a guest vocalist!

Uncle Tupelo – Gun;
Arbouretum – The Promise;
Arbouretum – Wicked Messenger;
Faces – Wicked Messenger;
Jack Fords – Shake Some Action (Live in CLE);
My Buddy Moose – Girl;
The Walkabouts – Jack Candy;
On Tour – November Hits Hard;
Irena Žilić – Whatever Feels Right;
Nina Romić – Dječakova pjesma;
Bevel Emboss – Straighten A Dash;
Indexi – Nikada;
Low Cut Connie – You’ve Got Everything;
Ben Deily and Will Anderson – Sorry Too;
Stan McMahon – What’s Wrong;
Sweet Apple Feat. Mark Lanegan – Wish You Could Stay (A Little Longer).