Power pop review today! Mike Polizze out of Philadelphia is back with Purling Hiss. REM drummer Billy Berry has a new band out there Bad Ends in Athens, GA. Another veteran name from the south, Superchunk have a new single. Our recent favorites, Whiffs from Kansas City have another album out. Nude Party from New York and Well Wishers from San Francisco are back with new records. King Tuff also has a new album and Librarians With Hickeys have a new single. We introduce Vancouver singer songwriter CC Voltage and California band Decibels.
Mark Crozer – I Feel Heavy
Purling Hiss – Baby
The Decibels – Enough
The Decibels – Wrong Way Right
Popular Creeps – Wait & See
Trotsky Icepick – I Got a Line on You
Bad Ends – All Your Friends Are Dying
King Tuff – Portrait Of God
The Speedways – A Drop In The Ocean
The Rubs – Waste of Time
Superchunk – Making a Break
The Whiffs – Shot Thru
The Whiffs – Forget Your Name
Outtacontroller – Time To Crash
Tony Molina – All I’ve Known
The Well Wishers – Heroes
The Nude Party – Hey Monet
Connections – Steppin’ Out
Beatnik Termites – Strawberry Girl
Librarians With Hickeys – Can’t Wait ‘Till Summer
CC Voltage – Bummer Party
Brad Marino – False Alarm
Today we check in with Swans. Pink Mexico from Queens, NY also have new tunes. San Mikulec from Croatia has a new project called Senkyo. Jon S Williams has a new tune as well. Introducing Ambassador Hazy from Cold Springs, NY, Arbor Labor Union from Atlanta, GA, and another one from New York: Skull Practitioners.
Ghost Woman – Street Meet
Ambassador Hazy – The Door Between
Pink Mexico – Dungeonhead
Pink Mexico – Rake
Arbor Labor Union – Forevergreen
Senkyo – Sipaj Meelo
Jon S Williams – Self Esteem
Swans – Paradise Is Mine
Rully Djohan – Bubuj Bulan
Skull Practitioners – Fire Drill
Heavy Blanket – String Along
Blues and roots rock update today! Fantastic new album from Sunny War, debuting today at the show. Also introducing, Fantastic Negrito from around Boston, Jack Harlon and The Dead Crows from Australia. Also new for us, Leather Catsuit is a project by the New Jersey DJ Kim Olin. La Ratte come from the Netherlands and they are also new to us. More familiar, we have new tunes by Hipbone Slim, Daddy Long Legs and Dommengang. We also have a tribute to Jim Stewart, the founder of Stax Records and Barret Strong, first star of the Motown label. They both passed away recently.
Hambone Willie Newbern – Roll and Tumble Blues
Leather Catsuit – Piece Of The Pie
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Roll & Tumble (Hambone Willie Newbern)
Dommengang – Earth Blues
Dommengang – Society Blues
Daddy Long Legs – Street Sermon
All Them Witches – L’hotel Serein
Duke Garwood – Maharaja Blues
Fantastic Negrito – Locked Down
Sunny War – Test Dummy
Deniz Tek – Speak of Ice
La Ratte – Ain’t My Business
Hipbone Slim and the Kneejerks – Bo Legged Woman
Geraint Watkins – Nobody
Carla and Rufus Thomas – ‘Cause I Love You
Barret Strong – Money (That’s What I Want)
Duwayne Burnside – Meet Me In The City
Today we have new tunes from Death Valley Girls over in LA, Babaganuj from Australia and a new single from Chris Church in North Carolina. We also introduce new bands for us, Slender Tongue from Berlin Germany, Golden Gaytimes from Maitland AU and two Chicago bands: Glyders and Cirkle. On the singer songwriter side we have Cian Nugent from Ireland and Dean Owens from Scotland.
Honeybus – Story
Slander Tongue – Monochrome
The Golden Gaytimes – The Golden Gaytimes – Hot As Buggery
The Speedways – Tell Me I’m Wrong
Death Valley Girls – What Are the Odds
Babaganouj – What Planet Do You Come From_
Robyn Hitchcock – The Sir Tommy Shovell
Buffalo Killers – So Close In Your Mind
Glyders – Golden Hour
Cirkle – Tell Me That Your MIne
Tommy Hoehn – She Might Look My Way
Van Duren – New Year’s Eve
Chris Church – Going ‘Til We Go
Cian Nugent – High Up Airplane
Kim Simpson – Song for Sam (single)
Tom Waits – Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Naïm Amor and John Convertino – Jelly Roll Tango
Dean Owens – She Was a Raven
The True Lovers – Obsession
Ty Segall & Emmett Kelly – Saturday Pt. 2
Loud and heavy rocking episode today with new music from J Mascis’ Heavy Blanket and San Francisco band Older Sun. Lydia Lunch is here with a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. We introduce two bands from Melbourne AU: Cable Ties and Civic. Also, new for us are Märvel from Sweden and Blue Heron from Albuquerque, NM. Towards the end of the show, we pay a tribute to Van Conner, bass player of Screaming Trees who passed away on January 17th this year. He was only 55.
Sisteria – Om-Yes
Civic – Born in the Heat
MÄRVEL – All For The Glory
Stack Waddy – Rosalyn
Heavy Blanket – Crushed
Older Sun – Misty Mountains
The Deviants – Broken Biscuits
Blue Heron – Push the Sky
Lydia Lunch – War Pigs
The Mark Of Cain – Visions Of Love
Predatür – Take A Walk
Cable Ties – Perfect Client
Screaming Trees – Julie Paradise
Solomon Grundy – My Mind
Minutemen’s “Double Nickels On The Dime”, Husker Du’s “Zen Arcade”, Meat Puppets second album… all these records came out within two months in 1984 and today are considered greatest albums of the underground rock movement in the 80s. Another thing they have in common is that they were engineered and produced by SPOT. His portfolio, mainly for SST is nothing short of stunning. He is also responsible for fun etchings in the runout grooves of SST records. Sadly, he passed away on March 4th this year after a stroke. Today’s show is entirely dedicated to his work.
Husker Du – Eight Miles High
Black Flag – Rise Above
Minutemen – One Reporter’s Opinion
Minutemen – This Ain’t No Picnic
Minutemen – History Lesson Part 2
Husker Du – Somewhere
Husker Du – Pink Turns To Blue
Husker Du – Newest Industry
Meat Puppets – Lost
Meat Puppets – Lake of Fire
Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun
Meat Puppets – Maiden’s Milk
Descendents – Hope
Descendents – Bikeage
Minutemen – The Maze
Minutemen – Definitions
Minutemen – Sickles and Hammers
Husker Du – It’s Not Funny Anymore
Minutemen – 99
Husker Du – If I Told You
Husker Du – Celebrated Summer
DC3 – 98 Malvern St
Rhythm Pigs – Fire
Happy Family – We Love You We Don’t Love You
Tailgators – Pick Up The Deck
Mike Watt (with SPOT) – Hearbeat
Today we open with the new bad from France, Shake Some. Also from France, we have the new one from Les Lullies. John Henry Timmis IV is a reclusive artist and author who passed away in 2002, but I haven’t been aware of him until now, when a collection of his basement tapes surfaced recently under the moniker of J.T.IV. We stay in Chicago and check out the new one from Poison Boys. Over in Dayton, we check in with Guided By Voices who released yet another album in the past year (I lost the count). Also in Dayton, Andrew Gabbard has a new single and also, a new record with his native band Buffalo Killers. It’s a compilation of rare and unreleased recording he did with his brother Zach. Robert Forster of Go-Betweens is back with the new record. Monnone Alone is also here with new music. We introduce Gwil Owen from Nashville. and Nothing but best pop music today in honor of Burt Bacharach, who passed away on February 8th this year.
Dionne Warwick – Walk On By
Shake Some – Don’t Tell Me More
Poison Boys – Set You Free
Poison Boys – Don’t You Turn on Me
Connections – Month 2 Month
Guided By Voices – Ballroom Etiquette
Andrew Gabbard – Glum And Empty
Buffalo Killers – Good Feeling
The Go-Betweens – Don’t Let Him Come Back
Robert Forster – Did she Overtake You
Robert Forster – She’s A Fighter
J.T.IV – A Fix Of Rock N Roll
Maple Mars – Anchors Aweigh
Popular Creeps – Split Decision
Gwil Owen (February 2023) – GhostTown
Les Lullies – Dernier Soir
Eamon McGrath – Teenager
Monnone Alone – Ways to Wear My Hair
Tom Jones – Promise Her Anything
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach – God Give Me Strength
Today we check out new jams by Mythic Sunship from Denmark and Dead Meadow from Washington DC. Arizonians Naïm Amor and John Convertino collaborate on very interesting instrumentals. Introducing this week, Odd Men Out and Korb from London UK, Elkhorn from New York, Marcel Borrack from Melbourne Australia and Third Sound from Berlin.
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Blood Moon;
Odd Men Out – Summer;
Mythic Sunship – Tempest;
Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner, Mike Watt – Everywhen We Go (Slight Return);
Naïm Amor and John Convertino – Black Foot Shuffle;
Elkhorn – Wilderness;
David Craven & Jon S Williams – Mountain;
Korb – Android;
Marcel Borrack – Marcel Borrack – Stop Trippin’;
Daliborovo Granje – Mehana;
Dead Meadow – Valmont’s Pad;
The Third Sound – Ghosts of Memphis;
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Ice V.
Today we check American singer-songwriters with the most interesting new releases. Margo Price and Sharon Van Etten collaborate on a new tune. Dawn Landes and Rizo are also collaborating. Annie Keating is back with the new tune and so it Amy Ray. Elizabeth Moen comes from Chicago, Angie Olsen from Ashville, Carter Sampson from Oklahoma, Dawn Riding from California, Abbie Gardner from New Jersey and Bailey Bigger from Memphis. They all have new releases.
Leyla McCalla – Vini We;
Margo Price and Sharon Van Etten – Radio;
Elizabeth Moen – Where’s My Bike;
Freya Josephine Hollick – Nobody’s No Better; Than No One;
Angie Olsen – All the Good Times
Carter Sampson – Gold;
The HawtThrons – On the Way;
Rizo & Dawn Landes – War on Women;
Annie Keating – I’ve Got You;
Dime Box Band – What Went Wrong;
Linda Hoover – 4 + 20;
Amy Ray – From This Room;
Dawn Riding – All the Time;
Fiver – Working Class Coinage;
Erika Lewis – If You Were Mine;
Bailey Bigger – Let’s Call It Love;
Abbie Gardner – See You Again;
Gina Sicilia – One Last Tender Moment.
Roots rock today. We check out new music from Walter Parks, who used to play with Richie Havens in the past. Another new tune comes from The Cold Stares, over in Indiana. Also introducing we have Herman Hitson from Atlanta and Dayna Kurtz from New Orleans. Her project is called Lulu and The Broadsides. Directly from Canada, we introduce Meghan Parnell and Bywater Call. Mark Lanegan’s collaborator Duke Garwood has a new album and so does Brant Bjork. We close the show with one new tune from All Them Witches.
Willie Walker – A Lucky Loser;
Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly – Wade In The Water;
The Cold Stares – The Joy;
Little Albert – Blues Asteroid;
Hambone Skinny – Gin Joint Jukin’;
Herman Hitson – Let The Gods Sing;
Bywater Call – Left Behind;
Annie Keating – Boxes;
Dayna Kurtz – That’s a Pretty Good Love;
Duke Garwood – Return to Splendour;
Slink Moss Explosion – Magic of the Stone;
The Murlocs – Wickr Man;
Brant Bjork – Who Do You Love;
All Them Witches – Blacksnake Blues.
Podcast made in Cleveland, Ohio. Syndicated by Prvi Prvi na Skali in Kragujevac, Serbia. Sponsored by Blue Arrow Records and Baby Next.
