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Playlist, The Best of 2022

Flashlite #724

January 5, 2023 admin

We continue our list of best albums in 2022 and reveal the best albums. All top five records are extremely catchy and favor hooks to pretention. Gyasi gets an LP vinyl release for the first time on Bomp label, known for its catchiness through out the history of rock’n’roll. Vitus Mataré and John Rosewall continue with Petrified Max project and keep cranking high quality music from year to year. Joey Rubbish of Chicago’s Rubs leaves no filler on his hook laden album Dust. Alicja Trout gets together with Sweet Knives and delivers a jewel of an album with a good mix of guitars, bubblegum and synthesizers. But the most complete album this year is in my opinion brought to us by the New Zealand outfit Best Bets. On An Unhistoric Night is a fun record without much pretention, but a fantastic flow that would likely make it a classic in years to come. The rest of the list is pretty great as well and features 3rd Secret, Aoife O’Donovan, Harlan T. Bobo, Jack Broadbent, The Americans, Ghost Woman, Tony Molina, Gentleman Jesse and multiple entries by David Nance. Check it out!

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Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything;
Tony Molina – The Last Time;
David Nance and Simon Joyner – Clingy And Thick;
David Nance – Yesterday Don’t Matter;
Ghost Woman – Along;
The Americans – Sore Bones;
Jack Broadbent – Ride;
Harlan T Bobo – Free;
Aoife O’Donovan – Phoenix;
3rd Secret – Diamond in the Cold;
Gyasi – Feed Your Face;
Petrified Max – Long Way Around;
The Rubs – Dana;
The Rubs – I Don’t Wanna Wait;
Sweet Knives – Oh Danny;
Sweet Knives – On A Grey Day;
Best Bets – The Point;
Best Bets – Whataworld.

01 Best Bets - On An Unhistoric Night 02 Sweet Knives - Spritzereta 03 The Rubs - Dust 04 Petrified Max - Everything's Beautiful Now 05 Gyasi - Pronounced Jah-See 06 3rd Secret 07 Aoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy 08 Harlan T Bobo - Porch Songs 09 Jack Broadbent - Ride 10 The American - Stand True 11 Ghost Woman 12a David Nance - Wet Candles 12b David Nance Pearl Lovejoy Boyd James Schroeder - Ash Wednesday 13 Tony Molina - In the Fade 14 Gentleman Jesse - Lose Everything 15 Julie Christensen - 11 from Kevin 16 Sylvia Rose Novak - A Miss A Masterpiece 17 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava 18 Murlocs - Rapscallion 19 2nd Grade - Easy Listening 20 Breanna Barbara - Nothin' But Time 21 Sisteria - Dark Matter 22 David Craven & Jon S Williams - Urban Trio 23 So Gung Ho 24 Schizophonics - Hoof It 25 Tav Falco - Club Car Zodiac 26 The Missed - Activation 27 Momma - Household Name 28 Black Lizard - Heads 29 Berries - High Flying Man 30 A Place to Bury Strangers - See Through You

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Flashlite #699

July 7, 2022 admin

Today we start with the new tune from LA band Berries. We check out a couple of more California artists. Tony Molina, for instance, who just announced his new album. Petrified Max, with LA punk legends Vitus Mataré and John Rosewall is back with their third album Everything’s Beautiful Now which sounds flawless. La Luz from Seattle have two new releases, a new single and a new instrumental album. From Australia, we check out L.A. Mood. Over in Helsinki, Finland, we check out Black Lizard. In Boston, we introduce The Gypsy Moths and in Chicago, we introduce Dedh.

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The Berries – Heavy Rain;
The Berries – Prime;
Black Lizard – Trouble Ahead;
Trotsky Icepick – Love Song With Migraine;
Petrified Max – Three Times Gone;
Petrified Max – Formerly Mr. Softy;
L.A. Mood – Catch the Sun;
Replacements – Unsatisfied;
So Gung Ho – Unresolved;
Best Bets – Whataworld;
Tony Molina – The Last Time;
The Gypsy Moths – The Continuing Story Of Arthur Duffy;
The Junior League – Library Bar;
Chris Cacavas – On My Back;
Guided By Voices – Alex Bell;
Dehd – Bad Love;
La Luz – San Fernando Shadow Blues;
La Luz – Spider House;
Evie Sands – Don’t Look Back, Don’t Look Down.

Playlist, The Best of 2021

Flashlite #675

January 12, 2022 admin Leave a comment

Last year we started our year-end review of best albums that we heard in the past year. This week we head positions 14 to 1. For the number one this year I chose Californian band Cool Ghouls. After several delightful garage rock records, last year they took a huge leap and made a fantastic genre spanning record that shows good taste, measure and expert knowledge of rock’n’roll history. One song will remind you of Beach Boys, other on Todd Rundgren, another one of Byrds, Love, Leonard Cohen… approach seems deliberate and result is stunning album. In a post-post-post modern post-capitalist world an this album looks like a conveyor belt in which best moments of the past roll by one by one, perfectly strung together until the final product comes out. They do their recycling shamelessly and proudly. It’s paradoxically original. It’s an art form. And we love it here.

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Our list for 2021 looks like this…

30 The Most - Of What We Have 29 Mike Edison and Guadalupe Plata - The Devil Can't Do You No Harm 28 Chris Church - Game Dirt 27 Kid Khan Unlimited - Opiate Them Asses 26 Daniel Romano - Kissing The Foe 25 Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Strength Of Spring 24 Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion 23 Yola - Stand For Myself 22 The Exbats - Now Where Were We 21 Shaye Zadravec - Now and Then 20 David Gahan and The Soulsavers - Imposter 19 Danny Kroha - Detroit Blues 18 Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons 17 Salebarbes - Gin à l'eau salée 16 Red Devil Ryders - Pour Me Another One 15 Big Hogg - Pageant of Beasts 14 Endless Boogie - Admonitions 13 Bevis Frond - Little Eden 12 Lelee - Cuka, bije, pumpa 11 Astute Palate 10 Divine Horsemen - Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix 09 Kid Congo - Swing From The Sean DeLear 08 Rosali - No Meduim 07 Petrified Max - Year Gone By 06 Dinosaur JR - Sweep Into Space 05 Richard Rose - Radiation Breeze 04 A Little More Time With Reigning Sound 03 Bat Fangs - Queen of My World 02 The Reflectors - Faster Action 01 Cool Ghouls - At George's Zoo

And playlist for today is:

Endless Boogie – Bad Call;
The Bevis Frond – Cherry Gardens;
Lelee – Pozeluvam;
Astute Palate – Loose Wings;
Divine Horsemen – Mind Fever;
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds – (Are You) Ready, Freddy;
Rosali – Mouth;
Petrified Max – Blue Skies Always;
Dinosaur JR – And Me;
Richard Rose – Evil Twin;
Reigning Sound – You Ain’t Me;
Bat Fangs – Never Coming Down;
The Reflectors – Carry On;
Cool Gouhls (Closing Meddley).

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Flashlite #663

October 21, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Today, we start with the new single for Petrified Max who are very productive in recent months. UV-TV is also running steady with one mini alum per year and today we introduce the latest one. Nick Saloman and Bevis Frond are back again with their new album and so is Thalia Zedek who we know from the days when she was in Come. Out good friend Clara Engel has a new album and Mattiel is back with new single. In our final block, we introduce James McMurty from Austin TX and Brothers Steve, a band from LA.

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Crocodiles – Be My Lover;
Petrified Max – My Dancing Trees;
UV-TV – Overcast Forever;
UV-TV – Wildflower;
Dinosaur Jr – Walking To You;
The Bevis Frond – That’s Why You Need Us;
The Bevis Frond – Do Without Me;
Thalia Zedek Band – Binoculars;
Come – Dead Molly;
Colleen Green – Posi Vibes;
Josienne Clarke – Deep Cut;
Ronstadt & Harris – Sweet spot;
Clara Engel – Pomegranate Seeds;
Mattiel – Those Words;
Mattiel – Til The Moment Of Death;
Alvilda – Demain;
James McMurtry – Operation Never Mind;
The Brothers Steve – Griffith Obervatory;
The Magnetic Fields – The Day the Politicians Died;
KRGA – Sancerre Nights.

Obituaries, Playlist

Flashlite #626

February 4, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Nothing but nicely written music today. We start off with a shiny new song from Dinosaur JR, possibly the shiniest one J wrote since Take A Run At The Sun. Alice Cooper recorded a tribute to Detroit and we check out a cover of an Outrageous Cherry song. Rat Columns and Cool Ghouls are back with new singles. A band we used to know under various names (Fruit Sandal and Akibas) is back with a new name: Melody And The Jones. Petrified Max, after a superb album from last year has a new single (it’s a new band for Vitus MatarÃ© and John Rosewall of Trotsky Icepick fame). We introduce a band from Istria in Croatia, Finta De Mona, that specializes into covers from old songs from that region. Trevor Beld Jimenez is a new performer from Southern California. We pay a tribute to two Yugoslavian legends who passed away recently. Mira Furlan and Misa Aleksic of Riblja Corba.

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Buldozer – Garcon De Yugoslavie;
Dinosaur JR – I Ran Away;
Alice Cooper – Our Love Will Change The World;
Outrageous Cherry – Our Love Will Change the World;
Trevor Beld Jimenez – Moment;
Rat Columns – No Stranger To Life;
Akibas – Can we be friends;
Melody And The Jones – Sun Lions;
Petrified Max – The Lucky Couple;
The Last – Jungle Book;
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – The Jungle Book;
Cool Ghouls – Helpless Circumstance;
Finta De Mona – Macak z Voloskega;
Bonaca – Macak z Voloskega;
Riblja Corba – Ostacu slobodan;
Mira Furlan i Orkestar Davora Slaminga – Depresivni djecak;
Trotsky Icepick – The Jungle Book;
Red Lights – Jungle Book;
Mira Furlan i Buldozer – Garcon De Yugoslavie.

Playlist, The Best of 2020

The Best of 2020 (Part 2): Flashlite #622

January 7, 2021 admin Leave a comment

Today we continue the list of my favorite albums in 2020. The complete top 30 list is below!

1. A Burning Bus 2. Sylvia Rose Novak - Bad Luck 3. The Whiffs - Another Whiff 4. Petrified Max - Charlie Drove North 5. Cocktails - Catastrophic Entertainment 6. David Nance - Staunch Honey 7. 2nd Grade - Hit To Hit 8. The Reflectors - First Impression 9. Low Cut Connie - Private Lives 10. Swampmeat Family Band - Muck 11. Ghost Funk OrchestraÂ - Song For Paul 12. Trotsky Icepick - I Haunted Myself 13. Little Albert - Swamp King 14. Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks 15. Aubrie Sellers - Far From Home 16. Bipolariod - Paint it Blacker 17. Honey Radar - Ruby Puff Of Dust 18. The Berries - Berryland 19. Natural Child - California Hotel 20. Saba Lou - Novum Ovum 21. Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice 22. Fred and Rose - Estado Alpha 23. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways 24. Sonic Dawn - Enter the Mirage 25. Levitation Room - Headspace 26. The Third Mind 27. All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal 28. x - Alphabetland 29. Fuzz - III 30. Datura4 - West Coast Highway Cosmic

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Aubrie Sellers – Troublemaker;
Emma Swift – Queen Jane Approximately;
Little Albert – Swamp King;
Trotsky Icepick – Oxygen The Destroyer;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Modern Scene;
Swampmeat Family Band – Over Your Head;
Low Cut Connie – Let It All Hang Out Tonite;
The Reflectors – U Should Be My Girl;
2nd Grade – Boys in Heat;
David Nance – My Love, The Dark and I;
Cocktails – Oversaturated;
Petrified Max – Length of Rope;
The Whiffs – Please Come Home;
Sylvia Rose Novak – Flowers For The Fortunate;
A Burning Bus – Watch You Go;
A Burning Bus – Burnt Bridges;
A Burning Bus – I’m Coming Down;
A Burning Bus – Faith healer.

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Flashlite #595

July 2, 2020 admin Leave a comment

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 andÂ John Rosewall have a new album as Petrified Max and John Talley Jones is withÂ 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.

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