Today is a trippy, international, summertime show. We start off with Black Rainbows from Rome and introduce Jack Grelle from Missouri. In Copenhagen, we check out Sonic Dawn and from France we check out Servo. Spanish ladies Melenas are also new to us. Also singing in Spanish, we have the New Yorker Tall Juan with his new music. On this side of the Earth, we hear Secret Fun Club and
Hexa (both from San Diego and both fronted by Carrie Gillespie Feller) and Z-Boys from Newport, RI.
Billy Cobham – Stratus;
Black Rainbows – Master Rocket Power Blast;
Jack Grelle – Space and Time;
Natural Child – Time Is Money;
The Sonic Dawn – Join the Dead;
The Z-Boys – Stratus;
Hexa – Walking Wounded;
Secret Fun Club with Carrie Gillespie Feller – I Was A Teenage Werewolf;
Servo – Room 3;
Paraf – odlazak;
Luna – Amazon
Belgrado – Wiatr;
Melenas – Ciencia Ficcin;
Tall Juan – Rocio;
The Beat – French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud).
We of with two new interesting records form two ladies. Hayley Thompson-King kicks off with a surprising mixture of americana and europeana, and Lilly Hiatt who steadily provides great sounding records. Tall Juan is a new name from Queens, New York City, and in some ways, it does pay a tribute to the original pride of Queens, The Ramones. Lost Baloons come from Wisconsin and they had an excellent show in Cleveland, so we hear them in our live segment and we also check out their new album. Smog Veil record label mailed me a big box of records, and sifting through them, I picked The Prisoners and The Robert Besnick Band for this show. And, as an exclusive preview, we hear a brand new track from Cheese Borger and his Cleveland Steamers. Today’s show is dedicated to Holger Czukay of Can and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, to guys that indebted rock’n’roll in great, although very different ways. They died within two days from one another in early September.
