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Flashlite #37

Heartless BastardsThe main new album that we feature in today’s show is the new Heartless Bastards cd The Mountain. We also have a (relatively) new Memphis band Jump Back Jake with their second album Brooklyn Hustle Memphis Muscle. There’s also a block with brand new 45s for Sonic Chicken 4, Obits and Nobunny. We also announce our picks for the best short form and the best reissue/compilation of 2008. Not surprisingly, I chose the most frequently played ep this year Mona Lisa Overdrive’s debut The Up-Tight Sessions and The Replacements reissues. The rest of the playlist looks something like this:

You Am I – Dilettantes;
Holly Golightly – Till I Get;
Obits – Put It In Writing;
Sonic Chicken 4 – Toe Man;
Nobunny – Motorhead With Me!;
Motorhead – Leaving Here;
Leaf Hound – Freelance Fiend;
Service Industry – Not in My Section;
Mona Lisa Overdrive – Now That You’re Gone;
The Replacements – Birthday Gal;
Lucinda Williams – Tears Of Joy;
Heartless Bastards – Early In The Morning;
Jump Back Jake – Don’t Wanna Go;
Variety Show – In My Car;
Satin Gum – I Got A DUI Babe;
Smudge – It’s Over;
Treepeople – Mistake;
Boye – Ti (She);
Zafir Hadzimanov – Opomena.

Also, for this update, please note that I added a new bonus! From now on, (almost) every Thursday you will get a chance to download another podcast called Bad Music For Bad People created by Aleksandar Delibasic. Look in our download section to the right for the tied up lady in nylons…

Flashlite #26

Orstralia Today’s episode concentrates on (more or less) new Australian rock’n’roll scene. We introduce a new band called Empty State and we wonder if Empty State and Mona Lisa Overdrive are stems for a brand new, exciting rock scene in the land of kangaroos?! We also check out new albums for the well established Aussies The Drones and You Am I plus a new recording off of Paul Kelly’s A-Z project. Then we crash land into the good old US of A and we check out the new Rodney Crowell’s album Sex and Gasoline.

Mission of Burma – Falling;
David Bowie – Andy Warhol;
David Bromberg – Holdup;
The Beatles – Savoy Truffle;
The Stems – Just Ain’t Engouh;
Mona Lisa Overdrive – No Way Out;
Empty State – Sunday;
Paul Kelly – I Wasted Time;
You Am I – Rosedale;
You Am I – Givin’ Up And Getting Fat;
The Drones – Nail It Down;
Todd Rundgren – Determination;
Little Feat – Easy To Slip;
The Figures – Easy To Slip;
T Bone Burnett – Talk Talk Talk;
Rodney Crowell – Truth Decay;
Jeff Beck Group – I Can’t Give Back the Love I Feel for You.

Flashliste #9

Riff RandellsSo, I went record shoping to the My Mind’s Eye record store in Cleveland and I bought two 45s pretty much randomly, one by Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson, and the other one by James and Lucky Peterson. They turned out pretty cool, so we get to check those two out in the newest Flashlite edition of the Little Lighthouse. We also get to hear brand new tunes for J Mascis band Witch and The Riff Randells. Also, we’re catching up with some rarities that we missed while the show was closed in 2006: Chick Graning demo Ded Bleaux and Kathy McCarty’s phenomenal record Another Day In The Sun.

The Dave Pike Set – Mathar;
Witch – Eye;
The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray;
Mona Lisa Overdrive – Poor Little Scene Girl;
Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson – Soulshake;

The Rolling Stones – Heart Of Stone;
The Rubes – Prescious Stones;
Chick Graning w/ Skinwalkers – Ded Bleaux;
Kathy McCarty – One Chord;
The Nits – I’m A Fly;
Nick Lowe – I Don’t Want The Night to End;
Riff Randells – Fun At The Beach;
Riff Randells – Parker Place;
John Mayall – Room To Move;
James and Lucky Peterson – All On Account Of You;
Robert Forster – Did she overtake you.

Mona Lisa Overdrive – The Up-Tight Sessions

As the google search indicates, Australian four Luke, David, Jess and Alex are among several bands that named their band Mona Lisa Overdrive after William Gibson’s novel. In todays alienating world, many readers seem to find a shelter in cyber-reality and super-powers of Matrix that in Gibson’s novels has god-like powers. So you’d expect some futuro-escapist crap from these guys… Contrary, Mona Lisa Overdrive echoes White Light White Heat era Velvet Underground and lists pretty much an alphabet of rock’n’roll on their myspace page.
The Up-tight Sessions, their impromptu EP is available over there for a free download and it contains five intense tunes to rattle your cold rock’n’roll bones. Finding a truly good band on myspace is like looking for a needle in a haystack so stumbling upon the Mona Lisa Overdrive is a real fortune.