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DJ Set At The Blue Arrow Records Yesterday

Once again, I arranged a DJ set at The Blue Arrow Records, my favorite records store in Cleveland. Many thanks for Pete and Debbie who run this store with an amazing enthusiasm. Thanks also those who stopped by. See you again over there soon I hope! This is the entire playlist from that set.

  Pierced Arrows – Paranoia;
Divine Horsemen – Voodoo Idol;
The Replacements – Cruella Deville;
Bob Mould – Stop Your Crying;
Dream Syndicate – Let It Rain;
The Mercy Seat – Let The Curch Roll On;
Think As Incas – Palestine One Mile;
Sweet Apple – I Wish You Coould Stay A Little Longer;
Veronica Falls – Teenage;
Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For The Man;
Sonic Youth – Within You Without You;
The Dukes Of Stratosphear – Little Lighthouse;
R. Stevie Moore – Compatibility Leaves;
Tyla Gang – Suicide Jockey;
Long Ryders – I Want You Bad;
Tom Robinson Band – 2 4 6 8 Motorway;
Green on Red – Hair of the Dog;
Dr Feelgood – Riot in cell block no.9;
Tim Lee 3 – Devil’s Rope;
Any Trouble – Playing Bogart;
Zeitgeist – Blue Eyes;
Nick Lowe – Cruel To Be Kind;
Redd Kross – Winter Blues;
Sweet – Fox On The Run;
Utopia – Where Does The World Go To Hide;
Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo;
Mega City Four – Words That Say;
Prefab Sprout – Elegance;
The Rolling Stones – Time Waits For No None;
Grupa 220 – Grad.

Flashlite #206

Clara EngelCrowdfunding is a cool new way to help musicians make their albums ahead of time, get some special releases in return and maybe even influence the content in some ways. I mean, without your help, the stuff wouldn’t even be out. Today we introduce two artist that took the road of crowdfunding. Clara Engel is from Toronto and she’s a singer songwriter. She previously published in UK and Italy, but not in North America. She started a website on kapipal where you can help her put together her record. Our old friend from The Windbreakers and Gone Fishin’, Tim Lee with his new band Tim Lee 3 is also crowfunding the upcoming album Devil’s Rope. He has an account on indiegogo. Also, he organized a tribute album to his old pal from the Windbreakers Bobby Sutliff and called it Skrang!. We check out one song that he prepared for this occasion today. Sutliff had a bad car accident and needs help to cover the health care costs. We also introduce two new bands, Velociraptor from Australia and The Strypes from Ireland. Strypes are very young and people talked a lot about them last year. Cleveland bands Pere Ubu and Scarcity of Tanks have new albums and Cobra Verde is in our segment live from CLE. Also, we pay a small tribute to Wilko Johnson from Dr. Feelgood who has been diagnosed with the terminal pancreatic cancer.

Damien Youth – Dandelion Girl;
Velociraptor – I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night);
Velociraptor – Sleeping With The Fishes;
The Rolling Stones – Route 66;
The Strypes – Route 66;
Nat King Cole – Route 66;
The Windbreakers – Black & White;
Tim Lee 3 – I Thought You Knew;
Clara Engel – Song to the Sea Witch (Disembody My Voice);
Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot;
Pere Ubu – Waiting for Mary;
Pere Ubu – Free White;
Scarcity of Tanks – Quigley Dictum;
Cobra Verde – Temptation (Live in CLE);
Moloch – I Can Think The Same of You;
Don Nix – Olena;
Harlan T. Bobo – Crazy With Loneliness;
Dr. Feelgood – One Weekend;
Digger And The Pussycats – Nice to Your Body.

Flashlite #203 – The Best Short Forms and Archives in 2012

Eamon McGrathLast week we introduced the list of 20 best LPs that we liked to listen to here at The Little Lighthouse. This week, we move on to the list of five best reissues and archival recordings that came out in or around 2012. The title goes to Tav Falco and a gorgeous reissue of Beyond the Magnolia Curtain with also included Blow Your Top EP and four pages of early history of the band. The whole list looks like this:

01 Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – Beyond the Magnolia Curtain
02 Epic Soundtracks – Wide Smile An Anthology
03 Sandy Denny – The Notes and The Words: A Collection Of Demos & Rarities
04 Nova Mob – The Last Days of Pompeii
05 Dan Penn – The Fame Recordings

Then we move on to the list of the best short forms in the last year. This includes singles, eps, short dowloads etc… The title goes to one of the hardest working bands today, Natural Child for their 45 Mother Nature’s Daughter, which also came out as in a strange new audio format – a tobacco paper roll! The complete list of top 10 looks like this:

01 Natural Child – Mother Nature’s Daughter
02 King Tuff – Wild Desire
03 Drivin ‘n’ Cryin – Songs from the Laundromat
04 Eric Burdon And The Greenhornes EP
05 Dirtbombs and Dan Sartain Terrible Two / Kelley Stoltz
06 Cozy – Cola Shock Kids
07 King Louie’s Missing Monuments
08 Bad Sports – Red Overlay
09 Grant Hart – So Far From Heaven
10 Daniel Kroha – The Folk-Blues Stylings Of Daniel Kroha

Listen to the show carefully, I will be giving some instructions on how to win download codes as a small token of appreciation from me to you – our listeners!

Chuck Prophet – Limit To It;
Dan Penn – Power of Love;
Nova Mob – The Last Days of Pompeii/Benediction;
Sandy Denny – After Halloween;
Epic Soundtracks – You Better Run;
Tav Falco – Bertha Lou;
Daniel Kroha – Run Little Children;
Grant Hart – Morning Star;
Bad Sports – Stuff;
King Louie’s Missing Monuments – Another Girl;
Cozy – Cola Shock Kids;
The Dirtbombs – Politicians In My Eyes;
Eric Burdon And The Greenhornes – Out of My Mind;
Drivin ‘n’ Cryin – Dirty;
King Tuff – Wild Desire;
Natural Child – Mother Nature’s Daughter;
Natural Child – Bodyswitchers Part II.

Flashlite #201

Shivering TimbersWe start off today with the new single for Sweet Apple. It’s a cover of Alice Cooper’s Elected. Then we check out the new band from Los Angeles, Blackfeet Braves. Los Straitjackets follow with their instrumental version of Nirvana’s Teen Spirit. Then we introduce new band from Australia, The Laurels. Shivering Timbers from Akron are in our Live in Cleveland segment. We also check out the new record for legendary Graham Parker. Some new reissues/archives are out as well. Jacke Deshannon’s final installment of her 60’s singles and Dan Penn’s soulful demos.

If you have time and you’re in Cleveland, stop by the Blue Arrow Records this Saturday where I’ll be playing a DJ set from 4 to 6pm. As usual, visitors will get some CDs with previous shows and a few lucky ones will also get (legal) download codes of some recent albums. There will be no Christmas tunes in the set-list! The rest is a surprise. Stick around, at 6pm there’ll be the Lake Erie comic book release party at the same location.

Paul Kelly – I’m On Your Side;
Sweet Apple – Elected;
Blackfeet Braves – Mystic Rabbit;
Los Straitjackets – Smells Like Teen Spirit;
Los Straitjackets with Sarah Borges – Wild Romance;
The Hi-Risers – Wild Romance;
Roky Erickson – You’re Gonna Miss Me;
The Laurels – You’re Gonna Miss Me;
The Laurels – Run For Cover;
Shivering Timbers – Wayfaring Stranger;
Jackie DeShannon – It’s So Nice;
Dan Penn – Come On Over;
Kriz crvene fuxe – Johnny;
Graham Parker And The Rumour – Three Chords Good;
Graham Parker And The Rumour – Fool’s Gold;
Kursaal Flyers – TV Dinners;
Died Pretty – Final Twist;
Matt Piucci And Tim Lee Gone Fishin’ – Something Happened.

Flashlite #184

Bob MouldToday’s show is dedicated to all meteor observers in the occasion of the annual Perseid meteor shower that happened last weekend. We have a large block of songs about meteors, falling stars… We also have a new single for Bob Mould which represents his return to the his synthless past. Thee Oh Sees also have a new album, which is quite conventional in form. Whispering Pines is a new band also from Cali that we check out today. They are inspired by The Band. Another premier at the Little Lighthouse is the Cincinnati band Buffalo Killers.

I will be dee-jaying at the Blue Arrow Records on Saturday from 5pm-7pm. If you are in Cleveland, come and check this truly wonderful record store!

Rickie Lee Jones – Deep Space;
Drivin’n’Cryin – Baloney;
Ty Segall Band – That’s The Bag I’m In;
Fred Neil – That’s The Bag I’m In;
Eamon McGrath – Saskatoon, SK;
Bob Mould – Sacrifice Let There Be Peace;
Bob Mould – The Descent;
Mojomatics – Rain is Digging My Grave;
Thee Oh Sees – Flood’s New Light;
Whispering Pines – One More Second Chance;
fIREHOSE – If’n;
Opal – A Falling Star;
Gene Clark – Shooting Star;
Zabranjeno Pusenje – Meteor;
Ritch Hopkins – Shooting Star;
Buffalo Killers – Get It;
Buffalo Killers – Leave The Sun Behind.

Flashlite #161

Davy JonesInteresting premier in this show is the New Multitudes album, which marks this year as a 100 years from when Woody Guthrie was born. It’s another project where the Guthrie’s estate hands out his old unseen lyrics to modern day artists to write new tunes to the old words. First project like that was back in 1998 when Jeff Tweedy and Billy Bragg joined forces on Mermaid Avenue. It’s interesting that the Guthrie’s estate approached old Tweedy’s friend from the Uncle Tupelo days, Jay Farrar. He then also approached Will Johnson from Centro-matic, Yim Yames from My Morning Jacket and Anders Parker from Varnalinen to help him out in the completion. The whole thing turned out very well, Farrar’s singing wasn’t this good in ages and tunes fit the lyrics like a glove. Starting with this show, we will begin with a new segment, Live in Cleveland, which will feature live recordings from various bands on their Cleveland shows. We start with a new song for the Cleveland roots rock band Jack Fords, the band which also premiers at the Little Lighthouse today. Whitehorse is a duet from Canada that consists of singer-songwriters Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland and we feature them for the first time at todays show. Their self titled album is full of well crafted songs. Today we have John Wesley Coleman again, this time with a new solo album Last Donkey Show. Chrome Cranks are back with the new album Ain’t No Likes In Blood. And sadly, today’s show is dedicated to Davy Jones, one of the Monkees, who passed away on February 29 this year after a sudden hear attack.

Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Vanish in Our Sleep;
The Monkees – Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow);
The Monkees – Star Collector;
Whitehorse – Broken;
Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Will Johnson and Andreas Parker – V.D. City;
Billy Bragg and Wilco – California Stars;
Green On Red – This I know;
Jack Fords – Covers Blown;
Jack Fords – Turn It Up Louder;
Smrts – Balga Promenade;
Endless Boogie – Pack Your Bags;
John Wesley Coleman – Misery Again;
Gibson Bros – Lone Wild Bird;
The Chrome Cranks – Way-Out Lover;
The Chrome Cranks – Living Dead.

Flashlite #143

SmileSo, Beach Boys finished Smile… I don’t know exactly what to think of it. This album probably never even had a clear vision, and it’s unclear how you can complete it with chaotic pieces that the Boys recorded back in the day. Still, the concept behind it is so intriguing that it will hunt the rock’n’roll forever. It hunts me too. In this show, a portion of the playlist is delivered in Smile format, with a lot of cutting and pasting. Check it out from 14:28 to 28:16 in part 1. The rest of the show brings you new tunes from King Khan and Electric Six. We also have new names Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Barrarecudas, and The Excitements. Giant Sand has a reissue of Chore of Enchantment and there’s a tribute out there for Ian Dury.

Another great news is that we’re now syndicating in Kragujevac again! The oldest and furthest reaching radio station over there, Radio Kragujevac on 94.7 MHz picked our show for their program and the scheduled times are Sundays from 4 to 5 pm and on Tuesday from 2 to 3 pm their time (CET). We’re glad to be back on air over there.

Mark Sultan – Calloused Hands;
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets – Walkin across your grave;
King Khan – Fa Fa Fa (Love Song);
The Leaving Trains – Ten Generations;
Slovenly – She Was Bananas;
Todd Rundgren – Baby Let’s Swing;
The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up;
Mikal Cronin – Apathy;
Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby – Do You Remember That;
Wreckless Eric with the Blockheads – Clevor Trever;
The Barreracudas – Come On Come On;
Cheap Trick – Come On Come On;
Giant Sand – Shiver;
Giant Sand – Dilemna;
The Excitements – I Do The Jerk;
Wildbunch – Electric Six – Danger High Voltage;
Electric Six – Hello I See You.

Flashlite #140

Pieta BrownLadies night today! First 40 minutes is nothing but ladies… Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss from Sleater Kinney have a fresh, new band called Wild Flag. Self title album is out on Merge. Singer songwriters Pieta Brown and Ana Egge are also here with interesting albums. Egge’s new record is called Bad Blood and it’s apparently based around the mental problems that run in her family. The Walkabouts are also back after six years with the new record which they call Travels In The Dustland. Chris Eckman lives in Slovenia these days and he organized a very interesting tribute to Bob Dylan together with a group of local musicians. We represent this album today with Severa Gjurin and her version of Not Dark Yet from Bob’s later period. The show closes with two boys from across the pond. The new name for us is Danny George Wilson and his band The Champions of The World. Springsteen fans should pay attention. Laz McCluskey from Bubblegum Lemonade is working on the new record and testing the pulse of the audience by sharing some early demos. We check out one of those demos today.

And a bad news for last. Unfortunately, the way I understand, The Little Lighthouse will not be a part of the new Radio Centar 987 schedule in Kragujevac, but we’re still standing strong with Rock XS in Athens. If you are a program director of some radio station that would like to syndicate this podcast, you are very welcome to contact me about the terms.

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Senka Veletanlić – Ponoćno sunce;
Wild Flag – Romance;
Pieta Brown – Blue Rider;
Pieta Brown – Other Way Around;
The Sundays – Here’s Where The Story Ends;
Severa Gjurin – Not Dark Yet;
The Walkabouts – Thin of the Air;
The Walkabouts – The Light Will Stay On;
Sandy Denny – Wretched Wilbur;
Ana Egge – Bad Blood;
Danny and The Champions of the World – Soul in the City;
Danny And The Champions of the World – Bluebird;
Sid Selvidge – Don’t Make Promises (You Can’t Keep);
The New Pornographers – Letter From an Occupant;
Bubblegum Lemonade – Have You Seen Faith;
Mikal Cronin – Again and Again.

Flashlite #138

Rainer PtacekAnd… we’re back from our usual Summer break. The break was long, but without huge shakes in musical world. Also, not too many great records happened in the past two months while we were gone. My favorite record this summer is definitely Rainer Ptacek session with Calexico members that came out now, but it was recorded way back in 1997, mere months before Rainer passed away. The cd is called Roll Back The Years, and I really wish I could. We lost a lot when Rainer left 14 years ago. From Austin, we have new records for The Krayolas and John Wesley Coleman. From Memphis, we have new records for Jack Oblivian and Bo-Keys. We also have new Brian Wilson, whose new record is centered around Disney movies.

In other news, we say goodbye to Zagreb’s Radio SC. The “flashlite” edition of The Little Lighthouse, that is, Internet edition recorded in my room, as opposed to being live in real radio studio, started back in 2008 on their initiative. I am thankful for bringing me back out into the public, but last spring I got a note from them that their funds got shortened and that the radio ceased to exist. All the best to their crew in future endeavors. In the mean time, we keep rocking the (un)free world on this website, and also in Kragujevac on Radio Centar and Athens on Rock XS.

Wolf People – Time;
The Krayolas – Catherine;
The Krayolas – Gonna Walk Down;
Tyla Gang – Styrofoam;
Housecoat Project – Styrofoam (San Francisco CA 1987);
John Wesley Coleman III – Werewolf Soup;
Jack Oblivian – Dark Eyes;
Rainer and Das Combo – Drop Down Mama;
Rainer with Joey Burns and John Convertino – Roll Back the Years;
Tommy Stinson – One Man Mutiny;
Bash and Pop – Friday Night (Is Killing Me);
The Beatles – Why Don’t We Do It In The Road;
Lowell Fulson – Why Don’t We Do It In The Road;
The Bo-Keys – I’m Going Home (feat. Charlie Musselwhite);
Brian Wilson – Kiss the Girl (From the Little Mermaid);
R. Stevie Moore with Dave Gregory – Dates;
Chris McKenna – Maximum Love Vibes;
Poni-Tails – Born Too Late.

Flashlite #133

Johnny AceIt’s my father’s birthday and I am in my home town. My dad collects music just like I do and I learned a lot from him. So, two of us decided to make a show together. He picked all songs in today’s show. He’s an expert in early rock’n’roll and today’s selection are songs that represent an early history of this musical genre. People typically think that rock’n’roll was created with the first records of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Bill Halley in 1954 or so. However, rock’n’roll evolved very slowly and the term is mentioned as early as 1934! This hour is dedicated to these forefathers (and mothers) of the music that we all like so much. So, dwell into this history and wish my dad Ivica a happy birthday!

Boswell Sisters – Rock and Roll;
Jackie Brenston – Rocket 88;
John Lee Hooker – Talking Boogie;
Chubby Checker – The Hucklebuck;
Little Richard – Get Rich Quick;
H Bomb Ferguson – Rock H-Bomb Rock;
Amos Milburn – Chicken Shack Boogie;
Joe Brown And His Kool Kats – The Bull Dog Blues;
Tommy Brown – Atlanta Boogie;
Piano Red – Shake Rattle and Roll;
Paul Hucklebuck Williams (featuring Danny Cobb) – Rocking Chair Blues;
Louis Jordan – Caledonia;
Freddie Mitchell – Rockin’ And Jumpin’;
Chris Powell And The Five Blue Flames – That’s Right;
Doles Dickens – We’re Gonna Rock This Morning;
Cecil Gant – Rock Little Baby;
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Rock Daniel;
Billie Holiday – Let’s Do It;
Big Jay McNeely – There Is Something On Your Mind;
Johnny Ace – Pledging My Love;
Dave Alvin – Johnny Ace Is Dead.