Category Archives: Obituaries

Flashlite #592

Sylvia Rose Novak

Today we start off with the new single from Bully. Sofia Bolt from LA has a new single out as well. Also, legendary California punk rocker Alice Bag has a new record and we check it our. Becky Black and Maya Miller of Vancouver, better known as The Pack AD are also back with new music. Eileen Rose’s new album is recorded in Muscle Shoals and so is the new Nicole Atkins album. We introduce a new artist for us, Sylvia Rose Novak who really has an astonishing new album. Tami Neilson over in Canada has a new retro inspired record. Today’s show is dedicated to Betty Wright who passed away on May 10th this year.

Betty Wright – Girls can’t do what the Guys do;
Bully – Turn to Hate;
Alice Bag – Sister Dynamite;
X – Water and Wine;
Mary May – A Lot;
The Pack AD – Soul Warden;
Tami Neilson – Any Fool with a Heart;
Big Hogg – Thanks For The Roses;
Ashley McBryde – Martha Divine;
Eileen Rose – Get Up;
Sylvia Rose Novak – Bad Luck;
Beth Bombara – Upside Down;
Aubrey Sellers – One Town’s Trash;
Whitney Rose – I’d Rather Be Alone;
Sofia Bolt – Fixture Picture;
Nicole Atkins – A Road To Nowhere;
Piramid Scheme – Modern World;
Betty Wright – Secretary.

Flashlite #591

Phil May of Pretty Things

Don Howland (ex Bassholes and Gibson Brothers) is back with a spectacular new project and album A Burning Bus. We also check out the new music from Mark Lanegan (who also has a book out), Faux Killas, A Place to Bury Strangers and Magnetic Fields. On a new tribute to the Cramps, we discover a Southern California band Retox. From Spain, we have a new name Pablo Solo. Today’s show is dedicated to Phil May, the frontman of Pretty Things who passed away on May 15th, following complications from hip surgery.

Pretty Things – Walking Through My Dreams;
Night Beats – Bad Love;
A Burning Bus – Faith Healer;
Bassholes – Bowling Ball;
The Cramps – Garbageman;
Retox – Garbageman;
Pablo Solo – Gus, you Dog;
Serge Gainsbourg – En Melody;
Mark Lanegan Band – Hit The City (Live in CLE);
Mark Lanegan – Ballad of A Dying Rover;
A Place To Bury Strangers – Hit The Ground;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Like A Comet;
Swans – (She’s A) Universal Emptiness;
Magnetic Fields – Love Gone Wrong;
Faux Killas – Pick You Up;
Ty Segall – 5 Feet Tall;
Pretty Things – Old Man Going.

Flashlite #588

Little Richard

Today’s program is dedicated to Little Richard, Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk and Dave Greenfield from Stranglers, legendary rockers who we lost in a very short period of time. But the show must go on, and despite the losses, we gain with some exciting new releases. Our friends over at Blue Arrow Records have a brand new release with Stutter Steps from Pittsburgh. We also feature two singer songwriters for the first time at the show. First, Tommie Vaughn, the leader of Wall of Tom band and author of the Frankie Spencer trilogy. Second, Phranc’s guitarist Pie Smith is here with his new singer-songwriting project called simply Pie. We also check out the Vancouver’s own Dead Ghost and our Italian friends Cheap Wine from their most recent album Faces.

Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck;
Dead Ghosts – Blackout;
Cheap Wine – The Great Puppet Show;
Datura4 – Give;
Little Richard – Keep A Knockin;
Little Richard – Jenny Jenny;
Stutter Steps – Reeling;
Stutter Steps – Weak Restraint;
Suzanne Vega – Frank and Eva;
Piramid Scheme – Seen This Before;
Wall of Tom – Tornado;
Pie – Stand in the Sun;
Braden Bodensteiner – Where the River Meets the Soul;
Kraftwerk – Das Model;
The Stranglers – Golden Brown;
The Stranglers – No More Heroes.

Flashlite #585

Cable Ties

A little darker show today! From Australia, we have recent releases from Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Cable Ties. Stateside, we hear new music from Ezra Furman, Aunt Cynthia’s Cabin. Ty Segall also made a new EP with Harry Nilsson covers. Over in Europe (or is it Asia?!) Hayvalnar Alemi from Turkey come to us with a new, brilliantly titled album Psychedlia in Times of Turbulence. From Canada comes Band Whose Name Is A Symbol and from UK we listen to a lovely new track from The James Hunter Six. We also pay a tribute to Hall Willner who passed away recently.

Minky Starshine – 1000 Umbrellas;
Cable Ties – Hope;
Band Whose Name Is A Symbol -  From Dusseldorf To Cologne;
Entropija – Dan;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Modern Man;
Hayvanlar Alemi – KuÅŸkonmaz MMXVII;
Habibi – The World Ain’t Round, It’s Square;
The Savages – The World Ain’t Round, It’s Square;
Aunt Cynthia’s Cabin – Kennel and the Dog;
Ty Segall – Early in the Morning;
Pedaljets – Loved a Stone;
Lou Reed – September Song;
NRBQ – Whistle While You Work (Snow White);
Ezra Furman – Can I Sleep In Your Brain;
The James Hunter Six – Who’s Fooling Who.

Flashlite #584

Piramid Scheme

Today we have a shiny power pop episode. We check out the new music from the rock’n’roll erudite Chris Church, new single from The DT’s and a new album from Impulsive Hearts. We also introduce Piramid Scheme from Washington DC, Jack Cades from England, Rookie from Chicago and Braden Bodensteiner from Rochester, NY. We also pay respect to Allan Merrill of the Arrows who passed away recently in New York.

Game Theory – Forget All About It (Home Recording);
Chris Church – Kiss It Goodnight;
The Jack Cades – Sometimes It Rains;
The Resonars – Days Fade Away;
Cocktails – Hospital Bed;
Rookie – Miss United States;
Braden Bodensteiner – Keeping Score;
Mellow Drunk – If Only I Could Change;
Ichabod – Carol Eat Eyes;
Piramid Scheme – Beg or Borrow;
Impulsive Hearts – boxing day;
Le serpentine – Zadeta od interneta;
Guided By Voices – Always Gone;
The DT’S – Send Me A Postcard;
Alan Merrill – Tranquility;
Arrows – I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll;
Gumbo – We Don’t Care.

Flashlite #583

Outtacontroller

We have a pretty rocking show today. We start off with the new music by Outtacontroller from Nova Scotia, Canada and Mean Jeans from Portland OR. We introduce new bands for us, Wax Machine from UK, Shrinkwrap Killers from Oakland, California and Germ House from Rhode Island. We also play a recent cover of Can song Vitamin C as performed by Nicole Atkins. Today’s show is dedicated to Tres Warren of Psychic Ills who passed away on March 22 at the age of 41 and Gabi Delgado of Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft who passed away on the same day at the age of 61.

Sad Planets – Refugee;
Outtacontroller – Too Soon;
Mean Jeans – Party Line;
Honey Radar – The Golden String;
Bipolaroid – Fake Pretend;
Wax Machine – Truth;
Germ House – Bedroom Walls;
Drugi Nacin – Crnogorsko kolo;
Hawkwind – Master of the Universe;
Shrinkwrap Killers – Stolen Electronics to Shove up Your Ass;
Nicole Atkins – Vitamin C;
Can – Vitamin c;
Helicon – The Sun Also Rises;
Psychic Ills – Mind Daze;
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft – Tanz Mit Mir;
DC9 – Psy Power.

Flashlite #582

Lilly Hiatt

Today we start with Stuart Turner and his Flat Earth Society, all the way from the musically rich Medway area in UK. Pedaljets come from Kansas City, Danny McDonald from Melbourne and The Berries from Seattle, WA. Those our new introductions this week and Berries have a killer new LP. We are also listening to new albums from Andy Gabbard and Lilly Hiatt. Plastic Pals from Sweden are back with their new single. Check out the recent recording of Yawpers live in Cleveland. This show is dedicated to Yugoslavian singer Zdenka Vučković who passed away on March 8 this year.

Bob Dylan – This Wheel’s On Fire;
Stuart Turner And The Flat Earth Society – Kisses Are Keys;
Pedaljets – Down Town;
Trotsky Icepick – I Haunted Myself;
Stan McMahon – Have You Heard The Word_;
The Berries – Passing Scene;
The Plastic Pals – Plastic Pal;
Gretchen’s Wheel – The Last Balloon;
The Yawpers – (Live in CLE);
Danny McDonald – Commuter’s Lament;
Andy Gabbard – Fight To Live;
Andy Gabbard – This Wheel’s On Fire;
Julian Cope – That Ain’t No Way to Make a Million;
Aubrey Sellers – Troublemaker;
Lilly Hiatt – P-Town;
Zdenka Vučković – You don’t have to say you love me;
Byrds – This Wheel’s On Fire.

Flashlite #579

David Roback

Today we introduce the new singles from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and The Forty Nineteens. Julian Cope has a new album too. The Third Mind is a new supergroup with Dave Alvin of Blasters, Michael Jerome of Toadies and Victor Krummenacher and David Immerglück of Camper Van Beethoven. They have a new album of new covers of some classic psychedelic tunes. Similar concept, but with less known participants has been released in Chicago by Plastic Crimewave Syndicate. We also introduce a new artist for us, a singer songwriter from France, Theo Charaf. Today we also have two tributes, one to David Roback, legendary leader of Mazzy Star, Opal, Rainy Day and The Rain Parade who passed away recently. Another tribute is to Zoran Modli, legendary Yugoslav radio DJ who vigorously promoted unsigned bands throughout the 80s.

Natural Child – (Might As Well) Put The Pin On;
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars in Space;
The Forty Nineteens – Tell Me;
Konjak – Ona i ja (Konjak);
La Strada – Zelje;
Julian Cope – A Victory Dance;
Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light;
The 13th Floor Elevators – Reverberation;
The Third Mind – Reverberation;
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate – Ejection;
Robert Clavert – Ejection;
Opal – Magick Power;
Rainy Day – Soon Be Home;
Rain Parade – I Look Around;
Theo Charaf – Going Down.

Flashlite #571

Ruby The Hatchet

Welcome to the first regular show in 2020. We’re loaded with the new stuff. We have the new single for Ruby The Hatchet. These hard rocking Philly folks released a cover of Uriah Heep and also visited Cleveland, so we have them in our Live in Cleveland segment. On the power pop side of things, we hear the new single from Mo Troper over in Portland and one of the relatively new tracks from his fellow Oregonian Stan McMahon. Covering my old haunts, we introduce Triggers and Slips from Salt Lake City and Bipolaroid from Louisiana. Although, the latter band will confuse you, they sound like they’re from UK circa ’67. We also have recent tunes from Impulsive Hearts over in Chicago and Madd (or are they The Viles now?!) from California. One of the bands that fell through the cracks last year, Coke Dares from Bloomington IN resurfaces today. We close the show with two tributes to the heroes that we lost in the battle of life. Dave Riley of Big Black and Roy Loney of Flamin’ Groovies.

Brett Smiley – Highty Tighty;
Stan McMahon – Faith In You;
Mo Troper – Jas From Australia;
The Whiffs – Now I Know;
The Exclusives – Sinking Gondola;
Starcrawler – Love’s Gone Again;
Triggers & Slips – Blue Smoke;
Bipolariod – 5D Printing;
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine (Stereo);
Spirit – It Shall Be;
Earth and Fire – Lost Forever;
The Coke Dares – Don’t Pretend You’re Alone;
Ruby The Hatchet – Easy Livin’;
Ruby The Hatchet (Live in CLE);
Uriah Heep – Easy Livin’;
Impulsive Hearts – Alien;
Madd – Cemetery Plans;
Big Black – Passing Complexion;
Flamin’ Groovies – Slow Death;
Flamin’ Groovies – Have You Seen My Baby;
McGuinness Flint – Who You Got To Love.

Flashlite #562

Lisa Prank

Hex Dispensers from Austin TX are back with the new album and so are the Parlor Snakes from Paris and New York City. Red Mass from Montreal are also back with some new tunes and so is Tall Juan from Queens. We introduce Lisa Prank from Seattle, Charlie Parr from Duluth and Mordecai Smyth from Reading, UK. Remember Satin Gum from Pittsburgh? They had a record last year that fell through the cracks, and we catch it today. Redd Kross is in our Live in Cleveland segment and we pay a special tribute to Little Feat’s Paul Barrere who passed away on October 26 this year.

Lemonheads – Postcard;
Hex Dispensers – Obit;
Tall Juan – Wake up daddy;
Tall Juan – It’s True;
Redd Kross (Live in CLE);
Parlor Snakes – Serpent;
Red Mass – Take a chance;
South Filthy – L.A. County Jail;
Jack Oblivian – Good Time Bad Girl;
Lisa Prank – Next Girl;
Charlie Parr – Twenty-five Forty-one;
Grant Hart – Twenty Five Forty One;
Satin Gum – Call You;
Satin Gum – Bats;
Mordecai Smyth – Paint It Black;
Rolling Stones – Paint It Black;
Little Feat – Time Loves A Hero;
Little Feat – Down On The Farm.