Today’s show is dedicated to Ronnie Spector and Rachel Nagy, two incredible singers that we lost recently. But before we get into our tributes to Ronnie and Rachel, we check out some new releases. Annie Keating from New York has a new album. Le Butcherettes and Death Valley Girls have a split single and we hear both sides. Gyasi from Nashville has a new single and Aoife O’Donovan from New York is a new name for us, and she released a new album and added an extra cover album consisting of songs from Springsteen’s Nebraska.
Mattiel – Freedom Feels;
Annie Keating – Boxes;
GYASI – Godhead;
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons – Bloodsucking Whore;
Sweet Knives – No More Reasons;
Patsy’s Rats – Burnin’ Honey;
Gabriella Cohen – Frangelico Dreams;
Aoife O’Donovan – Lucky Star;
Aoife O’Donovan – State Trooper;
Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper;
Le Butcherettes – The Universe;
Death Valley Girls – When I’m Free;
The Exbats – Hey New Zealand;
The Courettes – I Can Hardly Wait;
Detrot Cobras – He DId It;
Detroit Cobras – Bad Girl;
Detroit Cobras – Ain’t it a Shame;
Ronnie Spector And The E Street Band – Say Goodbye To Hollywood;
The Ronettes – Baby, I Love You;
The Ronettes – Be My Baby.
First ‘regular’ show this year! We present the hottest in garage rock from recent weeks. The most exciting novelty is West Coat collaboration between Mike Watt and Cutthroat Brothers. They have released two new records recently. Another supergroup is Teeth of England from Memphis with Dave Sinclair behind the concept, Jack Oblivian behind the drums and Jason Rice from Faux Killas playing guitar. Strange Colours also has a new record and it’s a Toronto band lead by Andrew Moszynski who used to be with Deadly Snakes. Over in Australia we hear Power Supply from Melbourne. Over in Europe we check out Komodor from France and Roman Aul and Rosarys from Germany, who did a new record collaborating with the legendary Detroit producer Jim Diamond. From Switzerland, we check out the new tune by The Jackets. We finish the show with a little tribute to Bill Conway who used to play drums in Treat Her Right and Morphine. Conway passed away on December 19 last year.
True Sons Of Thunder – Bad Trip Pt. 1;
Strange Colours – The Setting Sun;
Cutthroat Brothers and Mike Watt – Been Away;
Cutthroat Brothers And Mike Watt – Out of Control;
Robbing Banks – Wasted;
Jack Oblivian – Milkshake Baby;
Teeth of England – Flying Zero;
Power Supply – The Land of the Fire.m4a’
Flaming Sideburns – Lighthouse Keeper;
Exploding Eyes – Fear;
Komodor – Give Up;
Roman and the Rosarys – Gypsy Woman;
Wilding – I’ll Keep Holding On;
Poison Boys – Little Speedway Girl;
Schizophonics – People in the Sky;
Sweet Knives – House;
The Jackets – What About You;
Morphine – Eleven O’Clock;
Treat Her Right – Everglades;
True Sons Of Thunder – Bad Trip Pt. 2.
Last show of 2021! We check out new singles for Jenny Don’t and The Spurs, Eamon McGrath, The Strange (with Chris Eckman) and John Paul Keith. We also check out James McMurtry from Austin TX, Pilgrim from Tulsa, OK, Suicide Swans from Australia, all with new albums. And of course, the legendary Neil Young is also here with a track from his new record. We say goodbye to Michael Nesmith, a Monkee and a great songwriter who passed away this year, 10 days before his birthday.
Shannon McNally – You Show Me Yours And I’ll Show You Mine
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Three Or Four Nights
Eamon McGrath – Cannonball
Sierra Ferrell – In Dreams
James McMurtry – Decent Man
Pilgrim – Katie
Rosali – Whisper
Suicide Swans – Below Zero
The Strange – Not Now Not Ever
Chapel Hart – You Can Have Him Jolene
Chuck Prophet – One Last Dance
Jim Lauderdale – Sister Horizon
Neil Young – Song of the Seasons
Dori Freeman – Walk Away
John Paul Keith – If We Make It Through December
Michael Nesmith – Some of Shelly’s Blues
Monkees – What Am I Doing Hanging ‘Round
Today we check out new music from Susanna Hoffs (who used to be in Bangles). She made a cover record. Successful Failures from Trenton, NJ and Loose Koozies from Detroit are back with new tunes. Italian powerpoppers Radio Days have a new single. We introduce Grand Splendid from Montreal in Canada and Warmbabies from Nice in France. We close the show with two obits related to visual art characters important to rock music. Photographer Mick Rock passed away on November 18th and painter Kosta Bunusevac passed away on September 8th.
Disciplina Kicme – Zub;
The Successful Failures – Naval Victories;
The Warmbabies – Girls Don’t Like It;
The Bevis Frond – Find The Mole;
Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale;
Rainy Day – I’ll Be Your Mirror;
Susanna Hoffs – Femme Fatale;
Grand Splendid – Magic;
UV-TV – Distant Lullaby;
The Exbats – Practice On Me;
The On and Ons – Vanishing Act;
Radio Days – 1998;
Loose Koozies – The Butterfly;
Sad Planets – Want You To Want You;
Step-Panther – Bike Lock;
Sonny Vincent – The Rain is Black Again;
Rebel Star – Sunce;
Disciplina Kicme – Dozivljaji Zelenog Zuba;
Iggy and The Stooges – Search and Destroy;
Lou Reed – Vicious.
Today we check in with Guided By Voices who have a third new album within a year. Family band The Exbats are back with their strongest effort yet. Habibi has a new single. In France, we check out Warmbabies. On the power pop side of things, Nick Frater is back with a new record. On the edgier side of things, Poison Boys from Chicago who have a new album. Also in Chicago we check out a cool Prince cover from Local H. We pay respect to fallen heroes. Don Everly of The Everly Brothers passed away on August 22 this year. Also, Yu Grupa loses their third drummer within a year. Raša Djelmaš passed away on October 28th this year.
The Murlocs – Misinterpreted;
Poison Boys – Don’t You Turn on Me;
Guided By Voices – High in the Rain;
The Bevis Frond – Everyone Rise;
Ride – Twisterella;
The Warmbabies – Last Days Of Summer;
Nick Frater – Buggin’ Out;
Chris Church – Bell the Cat;
The Brothers Steve – Electro-Love;
Daniel Romano – Don’t Turn Around Janet;
Hindu Love Gods – Raspberry Beret;
Local H – When Doves Cry;
Habibi – Call Our Own;
Bat Fangs – Talk Tough;
The Exbats – Coolsville USA;
Pablo Solo – Open Up Summertime;
Yu Grupa – Laz;
Everly Brothers – I Used To Love You;
Everly Brothers – I Wonder If I Care as Much.
Today, music from Yugoslavia or whatever was left from it. No special reason other than some interesting new tunes from over there and recent obituaries. From Macedonia, we check out 21 Vek, their new single. Rebel Star operates in Serbia and Hungary and now collaborates with Zagreb’s Zvonka Obajdin. Also in Zagreb, Croatia, Nina Romi? is back with the new single. Koikoi is a new name for us, a four piece from Belgrade Serbia. Then we zig zag back to Zagreb and check out Confidential & The Secret Four. Then we end up all the way North in Slovenia and introduce Matthias von Stumberger und seine Jugend. We pay tributes to fallen Yugo rock representatives, Marina Tucakovi? who was a lyricist for many popular songs, singer songwriter and TV presenter Minja Subota. Also musicians Sanja Ili? and Zafir Hažimanov.
Idoli – Pomoc pomoc;
21 Vek – Sama vidi si;
Rebel Star – Pocetak i kraj;
Elvis J. Kurtovic i Meteori – Djevojka bez cinela;
Metak – Panika;
Jadranka Stojakovic – Obicna tema;
Nina Romic – Pismo;
Koikoi – Misisipi;
Korni grupa – Neko spava pored mene;
Crveni Koralji – Tema mladih ljubavnika;
Confidential & The Secret Four – Black Is The Color;
Matthias von Stumberger und seine Jugend – Five year plan;
Lelee – Generacija XYZ;
Boye – Skocila sam s kreveta;
Sarlo Akrobata – Samo ponekad;
Sons – Gajle;
Yu Grupa – Opasno;
Zana – Nastavnice;
Delial – Sejem Želja;
Minja Subota – Homo Homini;
Bisera Veletanlic – Tuzno popodne;
Zlatko Manojlovic – Tvoja pesma.
Today we introduce a young singer songwriter from South London Jade Bird. Rivaling her disarming youth, we also check out the newest from Colleen Green hailing from San Diego CA. Also in California, Lisa Mychols has a new song. Nick Piunti from Detroit has a new single. Crocodiles had a series of digital eps during the pandemic, and now it’s all on a disc. Tough Age from Canada has a playful new single. Also in Canada, Underwater Sunshine recorded a series of basement recordings in 1996-97 and now it’s all released finally. At the end of the show, we pay tribute to Steve Martin Caro and Tom Finn, former Left Banke members who both passed away a year ago.
Colleen Green – Good Good Things;
Jade Bird – Open Up The Heavens;
Lisa Mychols – Dreaming with You;
Lisa Mychols – Make Believe;
The Galileo 7 – I’m Still Here;
Crocodiles – If You Were A Priest
Nick Piunti – One of the Boyz;
Nick Piunti – No Return;
Snooze in Motion – Riverside;
The Last – Weekend Girl;
Alvilda – Kylie;
Colleen Green – I Wanna Be a Dog;
Tough Age – Giuseppe Pizzeria;
Tough Age – Warm Hair;
Autogramm – Anxiety;
Underwater Sunshine – Shine;
Left Banke – She May Call You Up Tonight;
Left Banke – I Haven’t Got The Nerve;
Monnone Alone – Feel it Disappearing.
Modern scene is overflown with excellent new releases in country rock and ladies are taking the lead big time. Today we check out newest music from Samantha Fish, Dori Freeman, Marianne Dissard and we introduce Emily Duff, Leah Blevins, Hannah Juanita and Hello Darlins. In the end, we pay a tribute to the originator of the musical genre covered today… To Nanci Griffith who passed away on August 13th at the age of 68. The rest of the show also features recent music from exciting new country rock female artists.
Nobody’s Child – Kansas;
Emily Duff – Gimme Back My Love;
Samantha Fish – Twisted Ambition;
Rosali – Pour Over Ice;
Yola – Whatever You Want;
Shemekia Copeland – She Don’t Wear Pink;
Leah Blevins – Afraid;
Hannah Juanita – Call Yourself My Man;
Shannon McNally – Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line;
BettySoo – Ain’t Living Long Like This;
Dori Freeman – The Storm;
Marianne Dissard & Raphael Mann – If I Needed You;
Kelly McFarling – Follow Me Down;
Martha Fields – In My Garden;
The Hello Darlins – Catch That Train;
Nanci Griffith – Outbound Plane;
Nanci Griffith – Ford Econoline;
Kelly Willis – They’re Blind;
Shaye Zadravec – Skyway.
Charlie Watts was a steady backbone of the greatest rock’n’roll band in the entire history of the world. This is a little tribute to him. It consists of a playlist that several Internet sources quote as his best performances with The Rolling Stones. I also mixed in some of the rare things that perhaps better illustrate Charlie’s personal tastes outside of the band as well. Charlie Watts wasn’t just influential. He was inimitable.
The Rolling Stones – Start Me Up;
The Rolling Stones – Get off of my Cloud;
The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar;
The Rolling Stones – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking;
The Rolling Stones – Gimme shelter;
Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project – Art Blakey;
The End – Shades of Orange;
The Rolling Stones – Neighbors;
The Rolling Stones – Beast of Burden;
The Rolling Stones – Tumbling Dice;
Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman – Edward’s Thrump Up;
Rocket 88 – St Louis Blues;
The Charlie Watts Orchestra – Stomping at the Savoy;
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black;
The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women;
The Rolling Stones – Stray cat Blues;
Deluxe Blues Band – The Stumble;
The Blues Band – Bad Penny Blues;
The Rolling Stones – I Can’t Get No Satisfaction;
The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man;
The Rolling Stones – Undercover Of The Night;
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil;
The Rolling Stones – Little Queenie;
The Rolling Stones – Miss You.
Today we kick off with Hickoids and their new song. A Place to Bury Strangers is back with the new EP and Jackson Browne has a new tune, which is all about getting a new heart in Cleveland. We introduce new awesome quartet from Paris France, four classy ladies by the name of Alvilda. We check out new music from Monnone Alone from Melbourne and Andy Bopp from Baltimore. We say goodbye to Chuck E. Weiss and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top who passed away recently.
Petrified Max – Year Gone By;
Hickoids – Almost Nearly Nancy;
Alvilda – Negatif;
KRGA – Countryslide;
Guided By Voices – The Batman Sees The Ball;
Monnone Alone – Pepper Jar;
Andy Bopp – The Beginning;
The Murlocs – Eating At You;
Wilding – Swipe Right;
Outtacontroller – Too Soon;
Radio Days – I Got a Love;
A Place to Bury Strangers – Playing the Part;
Chuck E. Weiss – Novade Nada;
Rickie Lee Jones – Chuck E.’s in Love;
Jackson Browne – My Cleveland Heart;
ZZ Top – Backdoor Medley;
ZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide.
Podcast made in Cleveland, Ohio. Syndicated by Prvi Prvi na Skali in Kragujevac, Serbia. Sponsored by Blue Arrow Records and Baby Next.
