Today we start of with the new music from Guided By Voices and their former band mate Tobin Spout. Then we hear new music from Jenny Don’t, this time with her band The Spurs. Kelli Halliburton from The Pierced Arrows is also there. Jake Xerxes Fussell hails from Columbus, GA and he covered an awesome Jimmy Lee Williams song in a manner similar to Ed Crawford tribute to Elizabeth Cotten long time ago on a fIREHOSE record. Paul Kelly is back with the newest record and we also introduce Rahill Jamalifard and her band Roya. Jason Look of Part Time Lover is live in CLE with a Gene Clark song.
Tom Trocolli’s Dog – Suicide;
Tobin Sprout – A Walk Across the Human Bridge;
Guided By Voices – The Birthday Democrats;
The Windbreakers – Young Republicans;
Swa – Sex Doctor;
fIREHOSE – In Memory of Elizabeth Cotton;
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing On a Sweet Potato Vine;
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Ghost of His Love;
Don’t – You Keep Cutting Through;
Hard Stuff – Jay Time;
Miriam Linna – So You Say You Lost Your Baby;
Gene Clark – So You Say You Lost Your Baby;
Jason Look – So You Say You Lost Your Baby (Live in CLE);
Paul Kelly – Finally Something Good;
My Buddy Moose – Letters From The Past;
Dream Machine – Buried Alive;
Daniel Romano – Roya;
Roya – Mailman;
Scarcity Of Tanks – Asylum Agents.
Today we introduce Dead Ghosts from Vancouver and Hierophants from Australia. Also from Australia, their rock’n’roll stars You Am I are back with the new record called Porridge and Hotsauce. Fred and Toody Cole from Dead Moon visited Cleveland, and we check it out. Calibro 35 from Italy, are here today with the new record as well. Ned O’Millick of Tito’s Boys from Pula, Croatia has a new solo project featuring Mike Watt on bass. Sadly, we send farewell to one the most amazing figures in New Orleans music, Allen Toussaint. He passed away on November 9th suffering from a heart-attack after his gig in Madrid.
Second album for Pierced Arrows, a band that rose out of the ashes of Dead Moon, is a new lesson in horror rock. Once again, in gorgeous monophonic sound, they explore torture, alienation and death. Song Paranoia is an album within an album, with layers of sounds and a thumping bass riff that winds down in a spiral of fear. Nobody does this more convincingly than Fred and Toody. But they also leave room this time for some simpler, almost romantic moment in song Ain’t Life Strange and This Time Around which both feature Toody on vocals.
Today we feature Fred Cole, legendary Oregon rocker who’s been around since the Nuggets days. Of course, his best known band is Dead Moon, but he was also in The Lollipop Shoppe, Zipper and The Rats. His newest band is the great Pierced Arrows, which I was lucky enough to see live on a stormy winter night last weekend here in Cleveland. Pierced Arrows have a brand new second album out called Descending Shadows. We also introduce the German band Locas In Love obviously named after the Love and Rockets comic book episodes involving Maggie and Hopey. They appeared on the new Walkabouts tribute called Got No Chains. The Hotrats are the two dudes from Supergrass, one of the most annoying nineties English bands. Still, Hotrats are not that bad at all and we hear their interesting treatment of Beastie Boys original You Gotta Fight…. Things turn around! Home Sweet Home is another project by Luther Dickinson and it again, it’s done in the spirit of Luther’s father Jim. Also, we hear a new mp3 by Abby Travis recorded specially for the new Dave Markey’s movie The Reinactors.
First 30 minutes of today’s show is very loud and the the other half of the show we mellow down easy with some folksy type of rock… at least if you consider young savage Westerberg strumming his acoustic guitar mellow. We do. So, yes that second block begins with his “protest” song Bad Worker that’s one of the “extras” on the newly re-re-released expanded versions of first four Replacement records. We check them out pretty carefully in today’s episode. The we had also the new Billy Bragg’s double CD which he calls Mr Love and Justice. Steve Wynn recoded an album in Ljubljana, so we check that out as well. In the first half, we have the new band for the former Dead Moon members Fred and Tony. They call it Pierced Arrows. We also check out new records for Wedding Present and The Ettes. Also, I got a chance to shake hands with legendary Tommy Ramone who played a show with his bluegrass duet Uncle Monk in Cleveland. So, the show ends with one of the songs that I recorded on my voice recorder that night. So, yeah – a lot of new stuff today. Dig in.