In today’s garage rock hour, we discover new names for us. Heavy Mother from Bloomington IN, Shanda and The Howlers from Las Vegas, Mullens from Dallas TX, JJ & The Real Jerks frin LA, NoMen from Kilmarnock VA and Gagarins from Spain. And we encounter new music from old favorites such as John Wesley Coleman Mr. Airplane Man, Straight Arrows from Sydney and Last Quokka from Perth, Australia.
Luke And The Apostles – Been Burnt
Heavy Mother – I Know There’s No Answer
Last Quokka – Disconnected
The Liquorice Experiment – How Many Lies
Strange Attractor – I Always Get What I Want
Shanda & The Howlers – Want You Anyway
The Mullens – What You Deserve
Fruit Tones – Back In The Night (Again)
Heartbeeps – Trembling
The NoMen – Battle Snake
The Gagarins – Red Basement
Poison Boys – Steamroller
CTMF – Love Comes in Spurts
JJ & The Real Jerks – Downward Outward
John Wesley Coleman – Top Of The World
Neverland Ranch Davidians – Rat Patrol
Paint Fumes – Callin’ Out
Straight Arrows – Walkin Thru My Mind
Mr. Airplane Man – Believe
Cheater Slicks – Fear
Optic Nerve – What’s She Trying to Do
Tee Vee Repairman – Out Of Order
We start of rocking hard. Mojo Magazine came up with the third instalment of their Heavy Nuggets and it sounds heavier than ever. Then we have a new name from Sweden – a hard rocking band Blues Pills fronted by Elin Larsson. Twin Peaks hail from Chicago and have a new album Wild Onion. Then we have a nice pair from Hozac – two singles and two new bands, 999999999 from the US and Southern Comfort from Australia, lead by Harriet Hudson and Angie Bermuda (also in Straight Arrows). One of the strongest albums this year so far is a duet by Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove, entitle simply A Fistful of Desert Blues. They recorded a bunch of punky blues songs and it’s really strong. Then we have Richard Thompson with a new acoustic solo record in which he revisits his classics. But probably the coolest little bit today comes out in our Live in CLE segment. Today we have a brand new band from Cleveland called Monday Sound and it’s put together by Tom Fallon (New Salem Witch Hunters) and Brent Ferguson (Living Stereo). They covered no less than two Jackie DeShannon songs on their first gig ever and my recorder was handy…
As if we didn’t have a lot of Australians in our last show, we open up with yet another band from Down Under. Straight Arrows have a great new record called Rising. That land never seems to have a shortage of great sounds. Back in America, Ty Segall has a new, very heave single and Bob Mould is in good spirit with a loud new record called Beauty and Ruin. Jenny Scheinman is also back with a new record called The Littlest Prisoner. And a special treat this time is The Chamber Strings. A band lead by Kevin Junior, who is a Cleveland native, but now lives in Chicago. He reformed the band with an all-Cleveland lineup and they had a great show in Cleveland opening for The Sadies. We check out an exclusive track recorded live that night.
Today we take a roundtrip from Tucson and back via many different places. We start off with Rainer and Das Combo. His legendary first album Barefoot Rock was reissued together with a bonus cd. Also, recall that earlier this year also Ptacek’s old tape Mush Mind Blues also saw the light of day in form of a bandcamp download. The we go to Las Vegas where we check out the new blues rock band called The Lucky Cheats. Than we land all the way down under where we check out the new band called The Straight Arrows form Sydney and a duet of two ladies Super Wild Horses from Melbourne. Both bands were released on the new volume of the comilation record New Centre of The Universe. Then we fly to Europe. Sweden’s Plastic Pals had a wonderful album this year called A Turn of The Tide and we finally get to hear it in this show too. Then we go to Chicago. Phil Agnotti played the entire Zombies Odessey and Oracle, only months after Ben Mason did a similar thing earlier this year. And then, via Chicago, where I recorded his new song, we go back to Tucson and Rainer’s old friend, Howe Gelb from Giant Sand.