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Flashlite #595

Bob Dylan

Today at the lighthouse we have nothing but the heavyweight legends of rock’n’roll, all mostly with the new material. We start off with Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Bob has a new record and Neil released unpublished recordings from 1975. We also have two ex members of Green on Red with new records for each of them: Chris Cacavas and Chuck Prophet. Their buddy from the same scene, Russ Tolman, who used to be in True West also has a new single out. Their buddy from the same town, Howe Gelb, has a piano solo record and we check it out. Our good friend from Louisiana, a legendary songwriter in his own right, Damien Youth has a new band Belladonna Lovers and we check it out in this episode of the show. We close the show with the new projects from the Trotsky Icepick camp. They are extraordinarily active these days: Vitus Matare and John Rosewall have a new album as Petrified Max and John Talley Jones is with Strikeslip.

Chris Cacavas – Truth;
Neil Young – Vacancy;
Bob Dylan – Goodbye Jimmy Reed;
Bob Dylan – Standing in the Doorway;
Giant Sand – Warm Storm;
Howe Gelb – Steadfast;
Russ Tolman – The Trees Are In Love With You;
True West – You;
Green On Red – We Shall Overcome;
Chris Cacavas – We Can Dream;
Chuck Prophet – Womankind;
The Stone Roses – Sally Cinnamon;
Damien Youth – Susie Cinnamon;
Belladonna Lovers – Frankenstein Head;
Petrified Max – Snowshoe;
Strikeslip – Stuporstar;
Trotsky Icepick – Imaging Neptune.

The Best of 2019 Pt 3; Flashlite #570

2019pt3

Part three of our list of best albums in 2019! Today we review some albums which did not make it to our top 30, which may probably just be the lack of my own attention. But before that, I’ve noticed that a whole bunch of good albums were shorter than 30 minutes this year, which is an interesting phenomenon. Albums were too long when we switched formats from LP to CD, but with less than 30 minutes, they seem to be a little too short. Back in the day, those would be classified as Mini LPs. So, today we also check the list of best Mini Albums, all of which were pretty hot last year. At the top of that list is Gyasi.

Best Albums in 2019
01 Danny and the Doorknobs - Jukebox in the LA River
02 The Dates - Ask Again Later
03 Luther Russell - Medium Cool
04 Outrageous Cherry - Meet You In The Shadows
05 Terry And Louie - A Thousand Guitars
06 Leyla McCalla - The Capitalist Blues
07 The See No Evils - Out Of The Shadows
08 Rosalie Cunningham - Rosalie Cunningham
09 Criminal Hygiene - Run It Again
10 Sad Planets - Akron Ohio
11 The Schizophonics - People in the Sky
12 Altin Gun - Gece
13 Guadalupe Plata - Three Demons
14 Those Pretty Wrongs - Zed for Zulu
15 Eugene Chadbourne & Sunwatchers - 3 Characters
16 Wolfmanhattan Project - Blue Gene Stew
17 Mikal Cronin - Seeker
18 The Flesh Eaters - I Used to Be Pretty
19 Jonathan Richman - SA
20 Lisa Prank - Perfect Love Song
21 Bad Moves - Tell No One
22 Morlocs - Manic Candid Episode
23 Eamon McGrath - Guts
24 Redd Kross - Beyond the Door
25 Ty Segall - Deforming Lobes
26 Melomen - Disappear
27 Mattiel - Satis Factory
28 Meat Puppets - Dusty Notes
29 Motorpsycho - The Crucible
30 The Yawpers - Human Question

Best Mini Albums in 2019
01 Gyasi - Androgyne
02 Jordan Jones
03 Porcupine - What You've Heard Isn't Real
04 Zerodent - Landscapes of Merriment
05 UV-TV - Happy
06 Pharlee
07 Ezra Furman - Twelve nudes
08 Tony Molina - Songs From San Mateo County

Tony Molina – Not The Way To Be
Ezra Furman – Evening Prayer
Pharlee – Ethereal Woman
UV-TV – World
Zerodent – Repatriated
Porcupine – Tell Me
Jordan Jones – Oh My Heaven
Gyasi – Colorful
Pat Todd and the Rankoutsiders – The Future Callin’
Jack Oblivian – Scarla
Ex Hex – Another Dimension
Trixie Whitley – May Cannan
Filthy Friends – Emerald Valley
Giant Sand – The Chill Outside
Datura4 – Cat on A Roof
ESC Life – Born To Be Mild
Wreckless Eric – Creepy People In The Middle of the Night

Flashlite #547

Team Dresch

Today we have a new single from Needles//Pins from Vancouver in Canada, new albums for Galileo 7. On the songwriter’s front, Tony Molina and Andy Gabbard have their beautifully personal new albums. Giant Sand continue re-recording their opus, so now they are announcing a new version of their second album The Ballads of Thin Line Men. In Belgrade, we have a new jam band called Nas and from Portland OR, we have a new singersongwriter Kyle Craft. We pay a tribute to a poet Maja Perfiljeva who left an important mark on the Yugoslav pop scene and who passed away recently at the age of 79. Live in CLE segment brings a recording of the charismatic Pharlee.

Giant Sand – A Hard Man To Get To Know (original version);
Needles//Pins – Heaven’s on the Hillside;
Kyle Craft – 2 Ugly 4 NY;
Pat Todd and the Rankoutsiders – Somewhere Down The Line;
Steve Gunn – Ancient Juliet;
The Galileo 7 – There is Only Now;
Tony Molina – Can’t Find My Way;
Tony Molina – Here We Go Again;
Pharlee (Live in CLE);
Andy Gabbard – Floating;
Indexi – Da sam ja netko;
Shadows – I Can’t Forget;
Pankrti – Totalna revolucija;
Nas – Druga stvar;
Giant Sand – A Hard Man To Get To Know.

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 #489

TexxcocoToday we have a new tune from Eamon McGrath. Giant Sand also came back with a re-recording of one of their oldest tunes Tumble and Tear. Eli Paperboy Reed teamed up with High and Mighty Brass Band on a new album. We also introduce Texxcoco from the picturesque Las Palmas, Garage in July from Grabovec in Croatia and Greed Island from Dover, NH. We make dedications to Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac and Jon Hiseman from Colloseum. Both of them passed away recently.

Night Beats – Obviously 5 Believers;
Giant Sand – Tumble and Tear;
Eamon McGrath – Never Enough;
The Choir – Boris’ Lament;
Jack-O & The Tennessee Tearjerkers – Walk Of Shame;
The Numbers – Government Boy;
Texxcoco – Thank You for Being a Whore;
Eli Paperboy Reed – Well, Alright Now;
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages – Sunshine Don’t Make the Sun;
Alice Bag (Live in CLE);
Garage In July – Za Iggyja;
Greed Island – Lunchbox;
Turisti – Zajedno sanjamo;
Zerodent – I Live A Lie;
Ford Madox Ford – I’m Haunted;
Faux Killas – The Truth;
Fleetwood Mac – Coming Your Way;
Colloseum – I Can’t Live Without You.

Flashlite #357

Patsy Gelb of Patsy's RatsWe bring you some cool new stuff. Daughter of Howe Gelb and Paula Jean Brown (of the original Giant Sand line up), has a great band called Patsy’s Rats. Impulsive Hearts from Chicago are also fronted by a lady: Danielle Sines. Miriam Linna of Norton Records has made another new album this year Down Today. We also introduce Green Hornet from Netherlands and Sloming Moops from Zagreb, Croatia. Also from there, Thee Melomen have a new single. Peter Buck of REM is back with a nice solo record. An interesting tribute came out recently in Tucson AZ for Rainer Ptacek.

Mott The Hoople – Backsliding Fearlessly;
Green Hornet – Let It Go;
Dead Ghosts – Good Love (Is Not Free);
Miriam – So You Say You Lost Your Baby;
Miriam – I Keep Falling In Love;
Impulsive Hearts – MDB;
Rickie Lee Jones – Hunted (Live in CLE);
Peter Buck – I Hate My Life and the Way I Live;
Billy Sedlmayr – Here I Am;
Rainer – Here I Am;
Giant Sand – House in Order;
Patsy’s Rats – Rock & Roll Friend;
Thee Melomen – Chinatown;
Sloming Moops – JF Killer;
Television – See No Evil;
Jesse Winchester – She Makes It Easy Now;
Los Lobos – When We Were Free.

Flashlite #329

Red AuntsToday we star of with Dany Laj and The Looks from Canada (Montreal and Toronto) and their new album Word On The Street. We continue with a 90s punks from California, an all-female line up, Red Aunts who recently have a nice double LP compilation album Come Up For A Close Look. Xaxaxa from Skopje, Macedonia, are lead by Vasko Atanososki who we also know from Bernay’s Propaganda. The Splits are three girls and one guy from Finland. Howe Gelb and his Giant Sand are back with one of their best albums in a rich career entitled Heartbreak Pass. They are now an international collective, more than a band – with 11 musicians (and one baby) on the record cover. Jackie DeShannon’s music from 1973 that was meant to be her second album for Atlantic record recently came out on a disc entitled All The Love – The lost Atlantic Recordings. It was recorded with Tom Dowd as a producer, but never came out in an integral version until now. We also have a new young band from Cleveland Daylight is the Dream and finish things off today with Movie Star Junkies – from Italy.

George Harrison – Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long;
Dany Laj and the Looks – I Know You Want Out;
Red Aunts – Detroit Valentine;
Redd Kross – Self Respect;
Bernay’s Propaganda – VIP In Paradise;
Xaxaxa – Siromasni i bogati;
The Splits – Rotten Me;
AAAA The Memphis Legs – Been Kinda Lost;
Oblivians – Final Stretch;
Bobby Blue Bland – Two Steps From The Blues;
Giant Sand – Hurtin Habit;
Jackie DeShannon – Easy Evil;
T Bone Walker – Blues For Marili (Blues Alphabet);
Tav Falco – Memphis Rumble;
Kim Fowley’s Psychedelic Dogs – 15 Years Ago;
Daylight is the Dream – Live in CLE;
Movie Star Junkies – Plain Gold Ring.

Flashlite #253

Today we take a roundtrip from Tucson and back via many different places. We start off with Rainer and Das Combo. His legendary first album Barefoot Rock was reissued together with a bonus cd. Also, recall that earlier this year also Ptacek’s old tape Mush Mind Blues also saw the light of day in form of a bandcamp download. The we go to Las Vegas where we check out the new blues rock band called The Lucky Cheats. Than we land all the way down under where we check out the new band called The Straight Arrows form Sydney and a duet of two ladies Super Wild Horses from Melbourne. Both bands were released on the new volume of the comilation record New Centre of The Universe. Then we fly to Europe. Sweden’s Plastic Pals had a wonderful album this year called A Turn of The Tide and we finally get to hear it in this show too. Then we go to Chicago. Phil Agnotti played the entire Zombies Odessey and Oracle, only months after Ben Mason did a similar thing earlier this year. And then, via Chicago, where I recorded his new song, we go back to Tucson and Rainer’s old friend, Howe Gelb from Giant Sand.

Howe Gelb – Spiraled;
Rainer And Das Combo – Around And Around;
Rainer And Das Combo – What Have I Done To You;
Rainer And Das Combo – O My Worried Spirits;
The Lucky Cheats – Black Days;
The Fuzz – Another Way;
Knickerbockers – Lies;
The Straight Arrows – Lies;
The Straight Arrows – Running Wild (Demo);
Super Wild Horses – Some Things I Can’t Do Without You;
Silos – She Lives Up The Street;
The Plastic Pals – A turn of the tide;
Phil Agnotti – Care of Cell 44;
Zombies – A Rose for Emily;
Ben Mason – Maybe After He’s Gone;
Howe Gelb – Windblown Waltz;
Howe Gelb – (new song);
Howe Gelb – Left of Center.

Flashlite #239

Motel MirrorsA ton of new things today. A lot of it comes from advanced downloads that artists made to promote their upcoming records, so search, stream and download. Amy LaVere and John Paul Keith have a new duet together called Motel Mirrors. Howe Gelb has a new tune that he recorded together with Will Oldham. City of Cool from Australia also have a new tune and so does Eamon McGrath. His new song Exile is meant to announce a three part series of eps that will eventually comprise his future LP. R. Stevie Moore has a new hilarious song as a support for Pussy Riot and he has a reissue of his 1978 record called Delicate Tensions. Alejandro and Javier Escovedo together with Jon Dee Graham reunited into True Believers and prepared a newly recorded song as an advance for their future new record. Talking about reissues, The Replacements are back together and I saw that over in Toronto. They sounded great and we have three songs bootlegged at the reunion show today. Two new exciting records are also out Bras by Bad Sports and Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere by Terry Malts. And Dirtbombs! Two new records, one with brand new records done in bubblegum rock style and the other – a compilation of B sides and singles.

The Replacemetns – Achin’ To Be;
The Replacements – Takin’ A Ride;
Modernettes – Rebel Kind;
True Believers – Rebel Kind;
True Believers – Gipsy Son;
Bad Sports – Would You Wait For Me Too;
Bad Sports – Nothing In This World;
Terry Matls – I Was Not There;
Terry Malts – No Good for You;
Amy LaVere – Killing Him;
Motel Mirrors – Meet Me On The Corner;
Howe Gelb – Vortexas;
R. Stevie Moore – Schoolgirl;
R. Stevie Moore – Free Pussy Riot;
The Dirtbombs – Hot Sour Salty Sweet;
The Dirtbombs – Candyass;
City of Cool – Controlled;
Eamon McGrath – Exile;
The Replacements – IOU.

Flashlite #221

Miss ChainToday we present new albums by Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, which is one of his budget home recordings. Yet it sounds wonderfully intimate and we warmly recommend it. Thee Oh Sees experiment with some new styles for them on their new record store day release Moon Sick EP. New bands today are Miss Chain and The Broken Heels from Italy and Tijuana Panthers from California. I’m on a Mick Taylor kick, so we hear two of his amazing guitar solos today. Another great guitar legend who gets a spotlight in this show is Duane Allman. There’s a new 7CD set anthology dedicated to his work and career. And in the end, we are saying goodbye to one the greatest voices in music ever, George Jones who passed away last week at 81.

Michael Tarbox – When The Fire’s Out;
John Mayall – Vacation;
Miss Chain And The Broken Heels – The Dawn is Me;
Diemonds – We Gotta Get The Fuck Outta Here (Live in CLE);
Meat Puppets – Time and Money;
Tijuana Panthers – Tony’s Song;
Thee Oh Sees – Candy Clock;
Ethan Johns – Red Rooster Blue;
Faces – Debris;
Carla Olson and Mick Taylor – Winter;
Carla Olson – Keep Searchin’ (With Peter Case);
The Allman Joys – Shapes of Things;
Otis Rush – Me;
George Jones – Out Of Control;
George Jones & B.B. King – Patches;
Howe Gelb – Lost Love.