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Flashlite #700

Brennan Leigh

Today’s trippy episode starts with with dreams. Dream Syndicate is here with the new album. Then Matthew and Doris Melton are Living The Dream again with Dream Machine. Shivas are back with another new single. Our good friends from Australia City of Cool are back with brand new record, but for the firs time, they perform under their given names, David Craven & Jon S Williams and the band name seems to be retired. Big Hogg from Glasgow have a new trippy single as well. Kikagaku Moyo is a five piece from Japan and we feature them for the firs time. Tommy and The Ohs is a project for Thomas Oliverio and Pretty Lightning is the new band from Germany.

Endless Boogie – Jim Tully;
The Dream Syndicate – Every Time You Come Around;
Dream Machine – Dreamin it Over;
Dream Machine – Back To You;
Fernando Perdomo – Dream State;
Mr. Airplane Man – Worry;
Kikagaku Moyo – Cardboard Pile;
The Shivas – Doom Revolver;
Action & Tension & Space – Tellus;
Tommy And The Ohs – California Holiday;
Pretty Lightning – Gewgaw For Beginners;
Marc Ribott’s Cheramic Dog – They Met in the Middle;
Big Hogg – Willow’s Song;
Big Hogg – Caxton Wood;
David Craven & Jon S Williams – Reunion;
Endless Boogie – Jim Tully (coda).

Flashlite #598

Hedvig Mollestad

Join us in another globe-trotting musical ride. We stop in Boston to hear the new hard-rockers, Banshee. Then we go to Brooklyn and LA, and hear the new collaboration between Dion Lunadon and Kate Clover. Also from LA, we introduce Levitation Room. In New York City we have also Sufis, who sing about Cleveland. Doris Melton from Dream Machine has a new solo single. Lithics come from Oregon and we hear them for the first time. Over in Europe, we check out the new tunes from September Girls (Ireland), Entracte Twist (France) and Hedvig Mollestad (Norway). Australians, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are back with the new LP record.

Steve King – Satan is Her Name;
Dion Lunadon & Kate Clover – When Will I Hold You Again;
Banshee – Savage Man;
Germ House – Keep It on Your Good Side;
The Sonic Dawn – Young Love Old Hate;
Levitation Room – Dream (within a Dream);
Doris Melton – Turn a Blind Eye;
Hexa – The Trees;
Lithics – Hands;
September Girls – Shut Up;
A Burning Bus – Come on In;
Hedvig Mollestad – A Stone’s Throw;
Entracte Twist – Aquaboulevard;
Petrified Max – The Bat Whispers;
Helicon – Bardo Thodol;
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – She’s There;
Sufis – Cleveland;
The Magnetic Fields – Come, Life, Shaker Life.

Flashlite #517

2018 pt1Every year around this time we look back. This year is again. We begin the new 2019 with a retrospective of best albums in last year. Next week I will present the lest top 12 albums last year. This week we focus on positions 25-12.

Kevin Gordon – Drunkest Man in Town;
Painted Doll – Painted Doll;
Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys – Work Again;
Ty Segall – I’m a Man;
Tav Falco – Strange Libertango;
Ruby Boots – Believe in Heaven;
David Nance – When I Saw You Last Night;
Anna Von Hausswolff – The Mysterious Vanishing Of Electra;
Giant Sand – Down On Town (Love’s No Answer);
Dommengang – Daves Boogie;
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The Hammer;
Earthless – End To End;
Mia Dyson – Nothing;
Dream Machine – Breaking the Circle.

Flashlite #509

Dream MachineThe highlight of today’s show is interview with Doris and Matthew Melton of Dream Machine. I decided to inspect their interesting histories. You can find out where they come from, how they got together, what got them to switch from love songs to more abstract themes, what equipment they use to make records and what in the world it all has to do with Yugoslav 70s rock. But that’s the second part of the show. The firs part introduces new music from Sick Thoughts, Bad Sports and Platinum Boys. From Greece, we hear the new tunes of their legendary band The Last Drive. Ty Segall, the most productive rock musician ever just finished yet another album this year and it’s one of those cover albums. Today we check out his cover of Dils’ Class War.

Thin White Rope – Hunter’s Moon;
Sick Thoughts – Black Leather Glove;
Bad Sports – Don’t Deserve Love;
Mission of Burma – Class War;
Dils – Class War;
Ty Segall – Class War;
The Last Drive – The Wave;
The Last Drive – Gone Gone Gone;
Andy G and The Roller Kings – Bad Indian;
Bare Wires – Psychic Wind;
Warm Soda – Tell Me Your Story;
Dream Machine – Lose My Place In Time;
Maja De Rado i Porodicna manufaktura crnog hleba – Nesto;
S vremena na vreme – Cudno drvo
Dream Machine – Run of The Mill;
Platinum Boys – We Don’t Dance (Anymore).

Flashlite #466 – The Best Albums in 2017 (Part Two)

Best of 2017We continue our list of best albums in 2017, this time with top 14 albums. This year was full of albums that will surely stay and I will definitely keep coming back to these many times in my life. Chris Church has came up with with a power pop album that can stand next to all the classics from that disarming genre that only seems effortless on the surface. Big Hogg offered us their extremely playful version of modern day prog rock. If you think Alien Lanes are a classic record, you should definitely look into Stevens and their album Good. Similar albums with great melodies, low fi and clever segues were always in the top of my albums in the past years. Matthew Melton and his wife Doris started a new project Dream Machine and The Illusion definitely made a mark, even politically (although unwittingly). Hayley Thompson-King and her concept record about the biblical woman is truly a deep album that goes from country over garage rock and ends up in opera. Tin Foil are newcomers from Detroit with an addictive set of songs on their album without a title. Pink Tiles return with a record that definitely puts them on a map of serious bands with fun content. David Nance comes from Omaha and has created an album sounds so well crafted, as if he was putting albums for a really long time. Americans on I’ll Be Yours reach depths and territories that were only visited by House of Freaks in the past. Emmett Kelly and his Cairo Gang continue with a series of truly timeless albums with Untouchable. Harlan T. Bobo’s new album came out only a month ago, and there was not enough time to come back to it many times, but it definitely made me rearrange my playlist and put him up on the high third place. It might be his strongest yet. On the top we have Sweet Apple and Bash & Pop. There’s a lot in common to these albums. Both are genre defying and disarmingly playful works of rock’s veteran warriors who know exactly where the sources of this music is. It was a good year for rock.

01 Bash & Pop - Anything Could Happen
02 Sweet Apple - Sing The Night In Sorrow
03 Harlan T. Bobo - Hector, A History of Violence
04 The Cairo Gang - Untouchable
05 The Americans - I'll Be Yours
06 David Nance - Negative Boogie
07 The Pink Tiles - #1 Fan
08 The Stevens - Good
09 Dream Machine - The Illusion
10 Hayley Thompson-King - Psychotic Melancholia
11 Tin Foil
12 Tall Juan - Olden Goldies
13 Big Hogg - Gargoyles
14 Chris Church - Limitations of Source Tape

Chris Church – Fall Into Me;
Big Hogg – Gold and Silver;
Tall Juan – Cuida Coaches
Tin Foil – Shapes of Savannah;
Hayley Thompson-King – Teratoma;
Dream Machine – Diamond In The Rough;
The Stevens – Grandstands;
The Pink Tiles – Writer’s Block;
David Nance – Ambulance;
The Americans – Stowaway;
The Cairo Gang – Real Enough To Believe;
Harlan T. Bobo – Storied;
Sweet Apple – You Don’t Belong To Me;
Bash & Pop – Breathing Room;
Bash & Pop – Anybody Else;
Bash & Pop – Never Wanted To Know;
Sweet Apple – Everybody’s Leaving.

Flashlite #462

Dream MachineWhat a year for Matthew Melton. He put out four albums, one with Warm Soda, two with Dream Machine and one new solo. His lovely Yugoslavian wife Doris got unjustly accused for fascism, Castle Face them both out of their label and then they relocated from Austin to Netherlands. And one of those Dream Machine albums is also new. We check that out in today’s show and wish them better luck with the new label. We also have new music from The Golden Boys (also from Austin) and Steelism. We also introduce The Hooten Hallers. But the biggest new album this week is the brand new one from Harlan T. Bobo. It’s called Hector, The History of Violence, and it’s perfect. At the end of this episode, we say goodbye to Johnny Hallyday who passed away last week after a long battle with colon cancer.

Bash & Pop – Saturday;
The Hooten Hallers – Garlic Dream;
The Golden Boys – Dear Work;
The Golden Boys – We Are Young;
Tall Juan – Another Juan;
Harlan T. Bobo – Drank;
Harlan T. Bobo – Nadien;
Steelism – Eno Nothing;
David Nance – A Cruel Kind of Love;
Chris Bell – I Don’t Know;
Matthew Melton – Afraid Of Myself (Without You);
Dream Machine – Lost in the Thrill;
Warm Soda – To Be with Ramona;
Shocking Blue – Hot Sand;
Tin Foil – Can’t Stay Here;
Bully – Hate And Control;
Johnny Hallyday – Mal (Hush);
Johnny Hallyday – A Tout Casser.