Nice tunes today from Tony Molina, Dan Finnermore’s Swampmeat Family Band (ex Low Cut Connie) and King Tuff. Two hipsters from Animal Collective and Spacemen 3 had a cool little project recently called Reset in which they make collages of various well known songs into something entirely new. We check that out. We also hear from the legends. Andy Partridge from XTC has a new Swindon based project called The 3 Club Men and Graham Parker has a new album too. We introduce JJ McCann Transmission from Australia, Justin And The Cosmics from Nashville, David M. Western (also from Australia) and The Half Cubes.
The Flaming Sideburns – Invisible Hands
JJ McCann Transmission – Forces at Work
Justin and The Cosmics – Super Blue (Real Bad Sad)
The Special Pillow – That’s the Way It’s Got to Be
The Toms – Someone I Never Knew
King Tuff – Rock River
Panda Bear and Sonic Boom – Gettin’ to the Point
Diners – Working On My Dreams
Eamon McGrath – Man of Steel
David M Western – I’ll Never Forgive You
Graham Parker – Graham Parker & The Goldtops – It Mattered To Me
Graham Parker – Soul on Ice
Todd Rundgren – It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
Swampmeat Family Band – Black Dogs at Bay
Tony Molina – Devil Song
Tony Molina – Bullshit Riff
Tony Molina – Breakin’ Up
The Half Cubes – The Half-Cubes featuring Moe Berg – She’s So Young
The 3 Clubmen – Racecar
XTC – Don’t Lose Your Temper
XTC – Then She Appeared
We continue our countdown to the best albums in 2018 and in this episode we announce two albums which share the title of the best one at The Little Lighthouse in the past year. I Am The Polish Army debut album My Old Man struck us with its great enthusiasm, musicianship, songwriting and playful performance. Harlan T. Bobo finally put out his record The History of Violence out on Goner, which just might be his greatest yet. Chip Kinman, along with the help of his son on guitar and his brother behind the knobs created a post-modern patchwork of an album with an astonishing amount of historical and rock references under the Ford Madox Ford moniker. Two ladies, Bat Fangs brought us a quick and powerful rock’n’roll album with hits going steady. Tony Molina on his Kill The Light is even more brief, but the brevity just makes you play the album over and over again. Bad Sports brought an excellent barrage of love punk rock tunes worthy of the greatest examples in the past. Patsy Gelb and her Rats compiled all those perfect singles from their inception on a single record, seriously contending Singles Going Steady as one of the strongest compilation records in the history of rock music. Schizophonics with their amps turned to the max gave us an album that floats like a perfect MC5 tribute. Mama Rosin teamed up with Mick Collins on a collection of cajun and zydeco chants. Ty Segall is as active as ever, but his main release this year entitled Freedom’s Goblin is one of the deepest he recorded yet. Krist Novoselic is back with Giants In The Trees. And that’s our top 10 this year! Looking back at that top 10, this was a really good year and we can only wish 2019 can be at least as good as this one.
Today we check out the new tunes form Ben Vaughn. Kevin Gordon is back with a great new album Tilt And Shine and we also check him out in our Live in Cleveland segment. We introduce Tony Molina, out from California, with his new short masterpiece album Kill The Light. Vasko Atanasoski is back with a new project 21 Vek. Billie and The Kids, lead by Ana KlabuÄar come from Croatia. BBQT is lead by Gabbie Bam Bam out in Austin TX. Fan Fiction come from Cleveland.