Focus of today’s show is the new XTC tribute album Garden of Earthly Delights, out now on Futureman Records. We check out contributions by Chris Church and King Radio. Another interesting tribute is the one for John Wicks. Carla Olson contributes. We also hear new music from ANC4 (from Sweden), Jeremy (from Michigan), Resonars (from Tucson AZ) and Kneeling in Piss (from Columbus OH).
Greg Dulli – The Tide;
ANC4 – When We Were There;
Jeremy – Pop Overflow;
Fotomaker – Come Back;
he Krayolas – Aw Tonight;
Reigning Sound (Live in CLE);
XTC – Stupidly happy;
Chris Church – Stupidly Happy;
King Radio – Mayor of Simpleton;
XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton;
The Kinks – Victoria;
The Resonars – The Man Who Does Nothing;
Kneeling In Piss – song about being unemployed;
The Rockers – Don’t Leave Me Tonight;
The Bad Beats – Tip of My Tongue;
Tommy Hoehn – She Might Look My Way;
Van Duren – Make A Scene;
Carla Olson – (The Sordid Tale of) Elvis Strange
Today 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.
Devastating week for rock’n’roll… This time we have four obituaries to cover. Scott Miller was one of the most creative college rock musicians from the 80s. He was the leader of Game Theory, which had a series of very interesting albums back in the day and that was often played on college radio stations across the US. Then we have Storm Thorgerson, the leading artist in the Hipgnosis art collective who designed many of the iconic album covers throughout the 70s. Lead singer of the Australian band Divinyls, Chrissy Amphlett also died a few days ago at the age of 53. And the most recent news is that Richie Havens, who had a memorable live appearance at the original Woodstock, also passed away. Beside tributes to these artists, we also feature the new single for Turf War, new albums for Carla Olson and Todd Rundgren and a new band Bazooka from Greece.