Don Howland (ex Bassholes and Gibson Brothers) is back with a spectacular new project and album A Burning Bus. We also check out the new music from Mark Lanegan (who also has a book out), Faux Killas, A Place to Bury Strangers and Magnetic Fields. On a new tribute to the Cramps, we discover a Southern California band Retox. From Spain, we have a new name Pablo Solo. Today’s show is dedicated to Phil May, the frontman of Pretty Things who passed away on May 15th, following complications from hip surgery.
Pretty Things – Walking Through My Dreams;
Night Beats – Bad Love;
A Burning Bus – Faith Healer;
Bassholes – Bowling Ball;
The Cramps – Garbageman;
Retox – Garbageman;
Pablo Solo – Gus, you Dog;
Serge Gainsbourg – En Melody;
Mark Lanegan Band – Hit The City (Live in CLE);
Mark Lanegan – Ballad of A Dying Rover;
A Place To Bury Strangers – Hit The Ground;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Like A Comet;
Swans – (She’s A) Universal Emptiness;
Magnetic Fields – Love Gone Wrong;
Faux Killas – Pick You Up;
Ty Segall – 5 Feet Tall;
Pretty Things – Old Man Going.
Today we introduce the new power pop band Hawk, which features David Hawkins along with Ken Stringfellow and Gary Louris from Posies. Nick Lowe is back with an new EP and also Wilko Johnson, legendary Dr. Feelgood guitarist is back with the new record. We check out the new music from La Luz over in Seattle and we catch up with the recent music from Dot Dash, from Washington DC. Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore are in our live in Cleveland segment. We pay tributes to two drummers Knick Knox from the Cramps and D.J. Fontana, from Elvis’ band. Both of them passed away recently.
Secret star of this episode is Neil Young. Two of his songs recently saw inspiring covers. Kent State murders are having a 45 year anniversary this year. Neil wrote a song about the event and this year, Cleveland band Obnox recorded a cover. A totally different sounding Colleen Rennison’s new album is named after a Neil Young song See The Sky About To Rain from On The Beach. King Khan is very active these days. After his album with Gris Gris, he reunited with Mark Sultan in a new duet Bad News Boys. We also have Miriam Linna, once a member of Cramps and nowadays boss of Norton Records. She’s back into the “business” as a performer and has a solo album Nobody’s Baby. Howlin’ Rain led by Ethan Miller also has a new album Mansion Songs.
We have a lot of new stuff this time. Let’s start off with the new albums for the bands that we know very well already. Chuck Prophet (ex Green On Red) has a brand new album Temple Beautiful lovingly dedicated to his home town of San Francisco. Heartless Bastards from Cincinnati are also here with a new record. It’s simply called Arrow. Besides his new album One Thought Revealed, Bill Fox also has a cassette tape out with some rare recordings that he made over the years. It’s called Before I Went To Harvard. Tav Falco reissued his legenrady Behind The Magnolia Curtain and The Cramps put together a compilation of their earliest singles. New names this time are all over the map. We have The Riffbrokers, a roots rock/power pop band from Seattle, The Dark Rags from the hometown of rockxs.com, Athens Greece, Blackbox Revalation from Brussels, Belgium, Calibro 35 from Milan, Italy and Janey and The Ravemen from London, England.
Today’s show is dedicated to three rockers that died in the last few days: Lux Interior of The Cramps, Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield and John Martyn. John Martyn was a singer songwriter that emerged from the British scene of the late 60s. Good friend of this radio show,