It’s that time of the year when we look back on a year and pick the best albums we liked to go back to at this show. The list shouldn’t be taken too seriously. It’s not easy to make a list like this, there is a lot of albums to hear, not enough time and let’s face it, old music is better than the new one. But here we are, let’s dig into positions from 30 to 14. And log in next week for top 13.
Bark – Rock Club
The Murlocs – Superstitious Insight
Osees – Intercepted Message
Alien Nosejob – Second Chance
Chinese Herbal Medicine – Greed
Divine Horsemen – It’s Still Nowhere
The Laissez Fairs – A Wildforce
Connections – Raisin
Those Pretty Wrongs – Always The Rainbow
Lemon Twigs – Ghost Run Free
Elli de Mon – I Can See You
Machine – 04 – Ride On Crash Kick
Motorpsycho – Loch Meaninglessness and the Mull of Dull
Ghost Woman – 3 Weeks Straight
John Mayall – The Sun Is Shining Down
Kara Jackson – Pawnshop
Natural Child – Swanee
Blues and roots rock special today with new music from Ghalia Volt from Belgium, Matt walker from Australia, Spoon from Texas, Ida Mae and Rob Clarke from UK, Jason Ricci from New Orleans. Plus, Robert Filney and Gabe Carter appear on Dan Auerbach’s contemporary blues rock compilation. Plus, legendary Bobby Rush is back on tour and with the new album too.
Buddy and Julie Miller – I Been Around
Ghalia Volt – Every Cloud
Matt Walker – All By Myself
King Khan – Hot Dog For Melvin
Spoon – She’s Fine, She’s Mine
Bobby Rush – Running In And Out
Fred Davis – Wine Hop
Gabe Carter – Buffalo Road
Robert Finley – Miss Kitty
GA-20 – Jolene
Ida Mae – American Cars
Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind – 5-10-15
Joe Simon – Drowning In the Sea of Love
Rob Clarke – She’s A Mean
Mark Lanegan with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Go Tell The Mountain
Little Sister – Stanga
International hard rock line up today with new music from Graveyard (Sweden), King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Australia), Black Rainbows (Italy), Population II (Canada), Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and The Wytches (UK) and Kind from Boston, USA. Let’s rock!
Flight – Luvin’ Huggin’ and More
Graveyard – Twice
Pigface – Point Blank
La Chinga – Motorboogie
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Gila Monster
Black Rainbows – Apocalypse March
Alex Gethway – Second Nature
Population II – To Kebec
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Ultimate Hammer
Art of Dysfunction – Sunset Rider
The Wytches – Zep Step
Kind – Burn Scar
The Todd – Mystify Me
Mother Bear with Allysen Callery – Consuming Rites
Today we start off with an incredibly new catchy tune from Uni Boys (from LA). Then we introduce Grogans from Australia. Then two new tunes from Dead Brothers (from Switzerland) and Exbats. Bablers from Finland have a new single, Pablo Solo has a new EP. We also check out a new collaboration between Fleshtones and Lower East Side Rockers entitled Full Time Men. Robin Trower joined forces with Sari Schorr for a new album Joyful Sky. We introduce Freez from Italy and close things up with a block dedicated to Tim Lee who has a new album with his latest band called Bark.
Finnjävlar – Maple Pecan Pie
Uni Boys – Let’s Watch A Movie
The Grogans – Overheat
Chris Church – One More Chance To Get Over You
The Dead Brothers – Diamond Mind
The Exbats – To All The Mothers That I’d Like To Forgive
Class – Laughing into the Night
The Bablers – Thinking Of You
Robin Trower and Sari Schorr – The Distance
The Paramounts – Don’t Ya Like My Love
Pablo Solo – Tears
Full Time Men – TOT (Toilet of Time)
Hard-Ons – Hard-Ons – In Falls Everything
Freez – Icebreaker
Bark – Work in Progress
Bark – Nothing To Complain About
Tim Lee – What Time Will Tell
Windbreakers – Again
Absolute Grey – No Man’s Land
Mo Troper has a great year. After producing a great album for Diners, he is now here with his own full length. He dedicated it to Jon Brion. Colin Cutler from North Carolina dedicated his album to Flannery O’Connor. Every song is a reflection on one of her characters. Sheer Mag from Philadelphia has a new single. Jake Roberts (ex Ausmuteants, Hierophants) is back with another Alien Nosejob project. Power pop power is represented by Nick Frater from UK, Marc Bailey from Iowa and Thomas Walsh from Ireland. King Louie Bankston nowadays performs as a one man band. Jaimie Branch was a New York trumpet player who had a series of Fly or Die albums. The latest one came out this year, unfortunately posthumously. Lastly, we have a tune from Ivar and Tommy go to Hollywood and I don’t know anything about them.
Finch – Nothing Like the Sun
Colin Cutler – A New Tattoo
Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites
Sheer Mag – Blood from a Stone
Alien Nosejob – RnR Rubbish Bin
Alien Nosejob – I’m Lost
Ivar & Tommy go to Hollywood – I Poke Bears
Librarians With Hickeys – Ghost Singer
Nick Frater – The Town of Opportunities Suite
Mo Troper – Citgo Sign
Diners – From My Pillow
Marc Bailey – Kite Strings & Fight Scenes
Thomas Walsh – All This Hurt
Swampmeat Family Band – Do it All
King Louie Bankston – Gone Too Far
Jaimie Branch – Take Over The World
Leyla McCalla & Hurray for the Riff Raff – Zanj
Two shows ago we had new music from the sixties bands. Today we have new music from the eighties bands! Boston was one of the big music centers at the end of the 80s with Lemonheads and Blake Babies. Two bands shared members too. They are all back! Lemonheads have a new single and it’s their first original song in many years. It’s Evan Dando’s tribute to Dan Lardner of QTY who passed away in June this year. John P. Strohm drummed in Lemonheads and in Blake Babies. Now he’s back with a brand new solo record as a singer songwriter. Juliana Hatfield made a tribute to Jeff Lynn and ELO. Fuzztones are back with a strange album of what sounds like remixes of other bands. Divine Horsemen have a second album together after Chris D and Julie Christensen reunited. Peter Case of The Nerves and Plimsouls has a new album and so does Jon Dee Graham of Austin’s Skunks. Ska legends Madness are also back. All that in today’s show.
Association – Windy
The Fuzztones – Windy with The Association
Divine Horsemen – Dirty Like An Angel
Divine Horsemen – Devil’s River
The Plimsouls – Zero Hour
Peter Case – Downtown Nowhere’s Blues
Jon Dee Graham – Where It All Went Wrong
The Skunks – Cheap Girl
QTY – Living Things
The Lemonheads – Fear Of Living
John P. Strohm – Troubleland
The Lemonheads – Clang Bang Clang
Blake Babies – Swill And The Cocaine Sluts
Juliana Hatfield – Bluebird Is Dead
Madness – Beginners 101
Madness – Mad Not Mad
Electric Light Orchestra – Bluebird is dead
The Fuzztones – We’re Pretty Quick
Our new episode features new music from Mike Watt, Mike Baggetta and Stephen Hodges – MSSV, Leigh Gregory and Alicja-Pop. We also introduce a constellation of international artists: Decartes a Kant from Mexico, Hey Colossus from UK, Meat Shirt from France, Shiny Darkly from Denmark and New Vogue from Canada. Little Lighthouse shines all over this sad planet!
Outtacontroller – Gotta Get Out
New Vogue – On Your Way Out
MSSV – Human Reaction
MSSV – Old Crow
The Church – These Coming Days
Shiny Darkly – Letter
Leigh Gregory – 99 to 111
DAIISTAR – Star Starter
Electric Six – Hot Numbers On The Telephone
Meat Shirt – Burning Bilderberg
Hey Colossus – I Could Almost Care
Osees – Die Laughing
Alicja-Pop – Yellow Moon
Alicja-Pop – Not Gonna Be Dumb
Descartes a Kant – Graceless
Body Maintenance – Ends
New music from Beatles, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Roger Waters, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop, Chip Taylor and Zombies isn’t bad. But also isn’t good. Is it relevant? Is it more than just a reminiscent to old time? And is old time hiding a secret that can’t ever be recovered? New music from veterans is bringing more questions than answers. It would be a pity to ignore it. But it’s also not easy to be too serious about it.
The Beatles – Yer Blues
The Beatles – Now and Then
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
Roger Waters – The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg
Rolling Stones – Bite My Head Off
Rolling Stones – Midnight Rambler
Iggy Pop – Morning Show
Iggy Pop – Cold Metal
Zombies – Hung Up On A Dream
Zombies – The Sun Will Rise Again
Van Morrison – Beyond Words
Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches
Chip Taylor – Lost Pictures
Evie Sands – Any Way That You Want Me
Willie Nelson – The Chokin’ Kind
Willie Nelson – Funny How Time Slips Away
Ardent – Dance in the Smoke
Today we have a nice show with new music from Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders, Aurogramm from Vancouver, Dot Dash from Washington DC, Kurt Baker from Portland, Maine, Dolph Chaney from Chicago, IL, Mason Lowe from Seattle WA, Blake Mills from Santa Monica and Rhinehearts from Pert, AU. We also check out new music from Teenage Fanclub. Folks behind Jeffrey Lee Pierce Project continue to adapt Jeffrey’s posthumous legacy and today we listen to the new version his famous song Yellow Eyes which contains Jeffrey’s vocal and instrumentation by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
The Fourmyula – Otaki
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders – All We Have To Show
Autogramm – WannaBe
Black Hawk – Little Suzie Looker
Dot Dash – Forever Far Out
Kurt Baker – Go Getter
Lola Lola – Magic Sand
Dolph Chaney – Nice
Mason Lowe – Hanging Around
Iggy Pop – China Girl (The Idiot Alternative Mix)
Blake Mills – Skeleton Is Walking
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Yellow Eyes
The Gun Club – Yellow Eyes
Rinehearts – Call Me Up
Teenage Fanclub – Back To The Light
Teenage Fanclub – I Don’t Want Control of You
Today we check out the newest on singer songwriting scene. Lydia Loveless, Laura Cantrell, Sara Petite, Whitney Rose and Jenny Don’t. We also check out new works from Lindsay Lou from Nashville, Graciehorse from Los Angeles, Canadian singer songwriter Meghan Maike and Elizabeth Moen of Chicago.
Lydia Loveless – Learn To Say No
Sara Petite – God Save the Queen
Lydia Loveless – Poor Boy
Julie and Buddy Miller – The Painkillers Ain’t Workin’
Lindsay Lou – Shame
Brennen Leigh – I’m Still Looking For You
Rosali – If Not For Now
Whitney Rose – Barb Wire Blossom
Graciehorse – By The Light of His White Stetson
Bella White – Numbers
Laura Cantrell – Just Like A Rose
Meghan Maike – Meghan Maike – Redbird
Annie Keating – Keeping Time
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Still As The Night
Elizabeth Moen – That Summer Feeling
BMX Bandits and Dan Penn – That Summer Feeling
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