King Khan and Sean Spits have a new album together as Louder Than Death. Catl is also back with their new album Bide My Time Until I Die. We introduce Habibi from Brooklyn, Sunny Slopes from Carrboro, NC, Black Rainbows from Italy and Blind Owls from Corpus Christi, TX. Mike St Jude And The Valentines are live in Cleveland. Today’s episode is dedicated to the memory of Glenn Branca, one of the greatest contemporary composers, who grew out of the New York underground rock scene as a part of Theoretical Girls, but made his mark on the avant-garde neo-classical scene. He Passed away from throat cancer on Mat 13 this year.
Yellow Payges – Our Time Is Running Out;
Blind Owls – I Know;
Louder Than Death – New Stains;
The Spits – Come With Me;
King Khan Experience – Knock Me Off My Feet;
Lemonheads – Green Fuz;
Habibi – Green Fuz;
Sunny Slopes – 10,000;
Mike St Jude And The Valentines (Live in CLE);
Theoretical Girls – Lovin In The Red (Second Version);
Glenn Branca – Lesson No. 1;
The Replacements – Hitchin’ a Ride (Live at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ, 2;4;86);
The Celibate Rifles – Sometimes (I Wouldn’t Live Here If You Payed Me);
Zerodent – I Live A Lie;
catl – Grind It Down;
catl – Drive;
Black Rainbows – 13th Step of the Pyramid.
Today we present the new record for catl, a blues rock duo from Toronto, Canada. Another representative of the same genre, but a bit more traditional, are Backsliders from Australia. They have a new album out there called Dark Side. Jack Bruce of Cream is back also with a new record. Jon Spencer with his new single rounds out our very long blues segment today. Sonic Chicken 4 from Perpignan are also back with the new record called Shake Appeal. The leader of Tragically Hip, Gord Downie joined forces with The Sadies to make a new record. All of that stuff today in The Little Lighthouse!
Today we say goodbye to one of the truly greatest bass players in rock’n’roll, legendary Donald Duck Dunn of the Booker T And The MG’s. He passed away on May 13, 2012 in his sleep after a gig with his old band mate Steve Cropper. We also have a new band in the show called Catl from Toronto. Jim Diamond produced their brand new album called Soon This Will All Be Gone. Gabriel Fulvimar hails from Cleveland. He has an interesting band called Gap Dream and we check that out today. The dB’s are back together with a full original line-up and we check out a new tune from the new lp called Falling Off the Sky. Guided By Voices have yet another new lp as well.