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Flashlite #675

2021

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.

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).

Flashlite #666

Bat Fangs

Today we sample excellent new music from The Reflectors, Bat Fangs and Two Cow Garage. Sonny Vincent is also back with new album. Also, we check out new EP from Step-Panther and new LP from The On and Ons, both bands coming from Sydney Australia. Brinsley Schwartz has a new solo album. We introduce Brower from New York City.

Baby Shakes – Lets Go, JetGlo;
The Reflectors – Fade Away;
Sonny Vincent – Stick;
Descendents – Mohicans;
Lisa Prank – Cross My Fingers;
Chris Church – No Letting Go;
Gyasi – Wilde Childe;
Brower – 69th Road;
Brower – Let The Blue Light In;
Bat Fangs – Queen Of My World;
Daniel Romano – Baby If We Stick It Out;
Faz Waltz – Right On;
Brett Smiley – Highty Tighty;
Step-Panther – Let It Run;
Two Cow Garage – Kapitalism Kills;
The Brothers Steve – Better Get Ready;
The Resonars – Good With Us;
The On and Ons – Hideaway;
Brinsley Schwartz – Storm in the Hills;
Brinsley Schwartz – Funk Angel;
The Reverberations – Dreamcatcher.

Flashlite #648

Sanja from Nomos 751

Please tell us why we are here… Today we have fine new tunes from The Reflectors in LA, Nick Frater, Dean Owens and mylittlebrother from UK, Brad Marino from New Hampshire. Then there are new singles from our Canadian heroes, King Khan and Eamon McGrath. But the most exciting new single today is coming from Greece. Nomos 751 covered Yugoslav all-female band (and a personal favorite) Boye!

Disciplina Kicme – Planeta dosade;
The Reflectors – All Made Up;
Nick Frater – California Waits;
Cool Ghouls – To You I’m Bound;
Radio Days – When I’m With You;
Dean Owens – She Was a Raven;
Brad Marino – What Do You Know;
Chris Church – Fall;
Wilding – I Will Recover;
King Khan Unlimited – Play Safe;
King Khan – The Simple Truths;
mylittlebrother – Howl;
Cocktails – Part of the Problem;
Lelee – Generacija XYZ;
Vlasta Popic – Mastanje;
Boye – Moracu se boriti;
Nomos 751 – Moracu se boriti;
Eamon McGrath – April;
Rosali – Pour Over Ice;
The Last – Snake In The Grass.

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

Best of 2020

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 Orchestra  - 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

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.

Flashlite #597

Steve Priest of Sweet

Good pop music today. We introduce new music from Nite Sobs, from Austin TX, On and Ons from Sydney AU, Reflectors from LA, Reverberations from Portland OR, Honeywagen from Kansas City, MO, Robbing Banks from Utrecht, NL, John Dowler from Melbourne AU and Andy Bopp from Baltimore, Maryland. The show is dedicated to the memory of Steve Priest, the bassist of Sweet, who passed away on June 4th this year.

Sweet – Action;
Nite Sobs – Mixed Signals;
The On and Ons – Change Of Heart;
The Resonars – All These Hats;
Any Trouble – Yesterday’s Love;
The Reflectors – Champagne;
The Reverberations – Palm Reader;
Lawson and Four More – Halfway Down The Stairs;
Hot Dogs – Take The Time To Let Me Know;
True Believers – Sleep Enough To Dream;
Honeywagen – Running Out Of Time;
Robbing Banks – Not The One;
The Whiffs – Please Come Home;
Dirty Looks – 12 O’ Clock;
John Dowler’s Vanity Project – Time To Leave;
Andy Bopp – I Am a Jetfighter;
Cargoe – Time;
The Ar-Kaics – She Does Those Things To Me;
Sweet – Blockbuster;
Sweet – Fox On The Run.