Today we start off with the new music from Pat Todd and his Rankoutsiders. They have a new single out. We also introduce the new band Bat Fangs for Betsy Wright, who was in Ex Hex and Laura King, who was in Moaners. We also introduce Number Ones from London UK and Gary Ritchie from Austin TX, both in the realm of power pop. Daniel Romano is back with three new albums, two are solo, Human Touch and Neverless and one is with his Ancient Shapes, Silent Rave. Kramer joined forces with Bill Frisell for the new installment of tributes to the songs that came out of The Brill Building in New York City.
Left Banke – Pedestal;
Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders – Failture Is My Name;
Bat Fangs – Boy of Summer;
Chris Church – Bell The Cat;
Mo Tropper – Freebin;
Number Ones – Lie To Me;
Gary Ritchie – Hear From You;
Lowest of The Low – Immortal;
Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys – Stunned;
First Base – This Guitar of Mine;
The Mergers – Pie in The Sky;
Daniel Romano – Anyone’s Arms;
Ancient Shapes – Violence In The Mouth Of Age;
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – I’m Sleepin’ In;
The Bonnevilles – Panakromatik;
Ty Segall And The Freedom Band – My Lady’s On Fire;
Love – My Little Red Book;
Kramer – My Little Red Book;
I Am The Polish Army – David Bowie.
Lots of new stuff this time. Let’s begin first with the familiar names. We have two new songs for the two main members of The dB’s. Chris Stamey has a new album and Peter Holsapple submitted a track to the Bobby Sutliff benefit. Two friends from the old UK rock’n’roll scene, Van Morrison and Georgie Fame each recently had new records, so we check that out. Mark Lanegan also appeared on a tribute, this one was for Tim Hardin. Legendary controversial music producer and musician from New York City, Kramer, covered a whole bunch of Brill Building era songs. Of the newbies, we have Brian Lisik from Canton OH, Hot Nun from San Francisco. Veronica Falls from England have a very aggressive advertising campaign for their new record Waiting For Something To Happen, but it’s still a very nice record and we get to hear a song from it.