We begin today with some new bands for us. Mexican Knives come from Detroit and A Place to Bury Strangers come from Brooklyn. A Place… lead by Oliver Ackermann is not a new band, but their recent EP is a tribute to Dead Moon, and it’s impossible to ignore. Boston legends Big Dipper, a band that had some very nice albums in the late 80s, reunited last year and today we check out their new alvum Big Dipper Crashes on the Platinum Planet. After a new album last year, dB’s are back with the new ep Revolution of the Ming. And finally, a rare 1983 cassette tape The Mush Mind Blues by the legendary dobro player from Tucson, Rainer Ptacek and his Combo, came out as an Internet download and his first album Barefoot Rock is scheduled for vinyl reissue this summer.
Carnival Season – Obsessive Season;
Mexican Knives – Down To Hell;
A Place to Bury Strangers – Graveyard;
Dead Moon – Graveyard;
Guided By Voices – He Rises! Our Union Bellboy;
Big Dipper – Robert Pollard;
Big Dipper – Lunar Module;
Paul Kelly and the Messengers – Forty Miles to Saturday Night;
Paul and Dan Kelly – Forty Miles to Saturday Night (Live in CLE);
The dB’s – Revolution of the Mind;
Chris Stamey – You n Me n XTC;
XTC – The Tissue Tigers;
Oblivians – Desperation;
Rainer – Deadly Sins;
Howe Gelb – Forever and a Day;
Minutemen – Have You Ever Seen the Rain;
John Fogerty and Alan Jackson – Have You Ever Seen the Rain.
Today we examine what’s rock’n’roll and what’s not and what we like about it and what not… at least in first two songs, as Outrageous Cherry paraphrase Stones in one of the standout tracks on the new album Universal Malcontents. We also check out the new album for The Obits called I Blame You. We know the Obits from the 45 that they had earlier this year. We also have new album for Neko Case called Middle Cyclone. Neko’s songwriting is really in shape on this one, it’s a truly exciting new record. Dan Auerbach, the most famous rock’n’roll Ohioan today also has a new record entitled Keep It Hid. Another, less famous Ohioan, but well known to the regular listeners of this show, Derek Deprator has a new band called Ravenscroft and we check them out as the new demos are crawling out of the studio. And at last, we finish out with two new Homestead reissues – Big Dipper and Volcano Suns.