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
Today we begin by rocking out to the new tunes from Barrence Whitfield and Low Cut Connie. There’s a new band Stereo Burlesque featuring Frank Vazzano (of Cobra Verde) and Dave Cintron (both of Downside Special). Jay Gonzalez joined forces with Pete Smith in a new band called Gonzalez Smith. Mitski is also back with another new album. We introduce new names too: Stars Like Ours and Hi-End from Boston, Radio Field from Dusseldorf, Germany and Lunar Laugh from Oklahoma. At the end of the show, we pay a tribute to Gethway brothers from Monstrous. Alex passed away recently and Ken back in 2010.
The Optic Nerve – Sunshine Girl
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages – Hey Miss Glynis
Low Cut Connie – Big Boy
Swampmeat Family Band – Right Here
Purling Hiss -Yer All In My Dreams
Stars Like Ours – What’s Going Wrong
Stereo Burlesque – Speed Away
Cobra Verde – Haunted Heavens
Chinese Herbal Medicine – Grief
The Radio Field – The Version
Lunar Laugh- Born Weird
Mordecai Smyth – Out In The Stars
Danny The K – Cigarettes & Silhouettes
The Hi-End – Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Gonzalez Smith – She’s My Girl
Babaganouj – Shiny Shiny Shiny
Chris Church – bomb (by Flat Earth)
Mitski – Buffalo Replaced
Monstrous – Until The Words Are
Lemon Twigs – Every Day Is The Worst Day Of My Life
Today we check out the new tunes by Buddy and Julie Miller (from Nashville) and Beth Bombara (from St. Louis). Flashcubes play a cover of Motors. Tony Molina and Jennifer Sbragia have a band together called The Softies. We introduce a poet and musician Kara Jackson from Chicago, Vapour Trails from Bristol UK and John Wayne Supermarket from France. Dan Kopko from Boston has a band called Danny The K and we check it out. We also have tributes to Johnny Rowan, also known as Blackie Onassis, drummer of Urge Overkill who passed away recently at 57 and a tribute to Tony McPhee, the frontman of Groundhogs, who passed away on June 6th.
Urge Overkill – Bottle Of Fur
Danny The K – Roller Derby Girl
Buddy & Julie Miller – In The Throes
Terry Anderson – No One Knows It
The Flashcubes – Forget About You
The Softies – Don’t Come Back
Beth Bombara – Give Me a Reason
Kara Jackson – Dickhead Blues
Sunny War – New Day
Rod Stewart – You’re In My Heart
The Vapour Trails – On A Beautiful Day
John Wayne Supermarket – Plage de Vieux Fort
Urge Overkill – Henhough The Greatest Story Ever Told
Groundhogs – Strange Town
Groundhogs – Cherry Red
Today we open with a new single for a Melbourne band The Prize. Then we go to Sweden where we check out the new name for us, Finnjavlar. Then we dive into a Blue Arrow Records block with tunes for their new releases by Stutter Steps and The Wind-Ups. Legendary California bands Trotsky Icepick and Rain Parade are back with new tunes. And so is Chris Stamey, legendary founder of The dBs. Natural Child from Nashville are back with a new album. We have a special treat for Guided By Voices fans. They have a new album out and their former member Tobin Sprout has a record of previously unreleased tunes. We hear these two tunes as if they came out together on an album, together with signature low fi and tape dropouts characteristic for the early GBV albums. We close the show with a tribute to Robbie Robertson who passed away on August 9th at the age of 80.
Jackie De Shannon – I Got My Reason
The Prize – First Sight
Finnjavlar – Life For You
The Whiffs – Satellites
Stutter Steps – Lift
The Wind-Ups – Jonathan Says
Trotsky Icepick – Windowpane
Trotsky Icepick – Before My Madness Caves In
Rain Parade – Bring You Back
Rain Parade – What’s She Done To Your Mind
The dB’s – If & When
Chris Stamey – Back in New York
Guided By Voices – Romeo Surgeon
Tobin Sprout – Bad Scenes
Natural Chold – Playin’ In The Band
Natural Child – Little Magic
The Band – The Weight
The Band – Look Out Cleveland
The Band – Time To Kill
The Band – Chest Fever
Today we have a focus on new music that either came from Louisiana or it’s inspired by Louisiana. Lew Winston Band over in Montreal has some recent tunes that we haven’t played in our previous review of Louisiana music. Legendary Ivan Neville Leyla McCalla is collaborating with Michot’s Melody Makers from Lafayette on a warmly intimate new album of songs. Quintron is back under a moniker Bobby M.G. John Qui Saute from France and Eddie 9V from Atlanta have music inspired by Louisiana. We check out two New Orleans brass bands too: Hot 8 Brass Band and Wit’s End Brass Band. We pay a tribute to Huey Piano Smith who passed away at the age of 89 in Baton Rouge.
Le Winston Band – Laisse mon coeur tranquille
Le Winston Band – Retomber en enfance
Michot’s Melody Makers with Leyla McCalla – Latibonit
Michot’s Melody Makers – Reveil Michot
Eddie 9V – Yella Alligator
John Qui Saute – To the Rodeo
Lost Bayou Ramblers – My Generation
Feufollet – Les jours sont longs
Bobby M.G. and the Qreeps – Mardi Gras Creep
Geraint watkins – Heaven
Black John The Conqueror
Ivan Neville – Greatest Place On Earth
Huey Piano Smith – Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
Huey Piano Smith – Don’t You Know Yockomo
Huey Piano Smith – Little Liza Jane
Hot 8 Brass Band – Sexual Healing
Wit’s End Brass Band – La Nena
Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Do It Fluid
Nice show today with new music from California’s Crocodiles, Londoners Embrooks, Sunfruits of Australia, Les Lullies from Frnace and Turkish band from Netherlands Altin Gun. We introduce Moonlight Benjamin from Toulouse France, originally Haitian. We also welcome legendary Iggy Pop, Julie Christensen and Jody Stephens with new tunes. Jody is with Luther Russell in the third installment of Those Pretty Wrongs. At the tail end of the show we pay a tribute to David Lindley, who started his career in sixties with Kaleidoscope and continued contributing to important solo records, most notable Warren Zevon’s.
Zlatni akordi – My Generation
Crocodiles – Degeneration
The Embrooks – In The Sky
Babaganouj – Stay Up For Me
Sunfruits – End Of The World
Those Pretty Wrongs – Scream
Popular Creeps – Wait & See
Iggy Pop – Strung Out Johnny
Les Lullies – Dernier Soir
Robert Forster – Always
Eamon McGrath – Fireworks
Julie Christensen – How He Lost Her
Moonlight Benjamin – Taye banda
Moonlight Benjamin – Salwe
Altin Gun – Kalk Gidelim
Kaleidoscope – Pulsating Dream
Warren Zevon – Detox Mansion
Warren Zevon – Something Bad Happened To A Clown
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
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
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