This episode, The Little Lighthouse is a love letter to the city where I live now. Cleveland. For those who are out of town, Cleveland is currently leading a tough battle to save their beloved college radio station WCSB from the jaws of public media conglomerate Ideastream who colluded with Cleveland State University in a police action after which students were denied access to programming and their vast physical and digital library/archive. For my listeners outside of Cleveland, please hear in this episode true sounds of Cleveland. Among the music from the past, I also included fresh releases from the local bands. The quality of the stuff these people had put out is astonishing. These bands are all doing it DIY without publicists. Please help them out. Spread the word of this hostile takeover in your town. Preserve your local radio, support your local musicians. Be vibrant and not a stale repeater. Folks I bring you fresh, strong and defiant Cleveland from 2025: Forming Division, Non-Bruises, Red Devil Ryders, Stereo Burlesque, Xanny Stars, Lavender Jets, Suitor and Bill Fox. And some great stuff from the past.
Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer
Forming Division – Bring Them Down
Non Bruises – How to Feel Alright
Pere Ubu – The Fabulous Sequel
The Girls – The Elephant Man
Red Devil Ryders – Escape From New York
Stereo Burlesque – The Shady Grove Boys
Death of Samantha – Harlequin Tragedy
Cobra Verde – Montenegro
Xanny Stars – Mega Convenient
Lavender Jets – Spaulding Street
The New Salem Witch Hunters – Kiskis
The Choir – I’d Rather You Leave Me
Suitor – Prize Horse
Bill Fox – Got Her On My Mind
The Mice – Not Proud of the USA
Peter Laughner – Sylvia Plath
The Safeties – Evidence
Today we have a well tempered new episode with Chelsea Curve from Boston, Greg Pope from Nashville, Hobsons Bay Coast Guard from Melbourne AU, Autumn Defense from Chicago, Street Eaters from California. Our good friend in San Francisco Leigh Gregory has a new album coming up so we check it out. Ezra Furman is back with a new single. And finally, Cleveland’s own Matthew Wascovich is ending this year with a few phenomenal singles, rounding up fantastic series that he started earlier this year with Flowers Destroy project. We check two of those new bands: Rational Cut with his friends from San Pedro CA and Repossession Time with his friends from 21 Vek in Skopje Macedonia.
The Plastic Pals – Flames of Fate
The Chelsea Curve – Rally ‘Round
Greg Pope – Fallen Star
Greg Pope – Blue Skies Above
The Galileo 7 – Crooked Smile
Hobsons Bay Coast Guard – Gust Gust
The Autumn Defense – Hearts Arrive
Mellow Drunk – From My Window
Leigh Gregory – All My Days
Leigh Gregory – Morning Rain
Ezra Furman – One Hand Free
The Sadies – Starting All Over Again
John Doe and Dave Alvin – Little Honey
John Doe and The Sadies – Night Life
Street Eaters – Cuts
Rational Cut – She Walks Alone
Repossession Time – Bury Our History
Flowers Destroy – Hawks Listen
Flowers Destroy – Contradictions
Oog Bogo – Before
International psych update today with new music from Palooka 5 and Brian Pills from UK, Kombynat Robotron from Germany, Atom Juice from Poland, ORB from Melbourne AU, Color Green from LA. We also check out Noman Potter’s work out of Austin who collaborated with Population II form Canada and Yoo Doo Right. Friends of this show, Davit Crave3n and Jon S Williams who we used to know as City of Cool are back with a new album Soup. Helicon made new music using lesser known solo tracks from the legendary Rolling Stone Brian Jones. We check it out today!
Eloy – Daybreak
Palooka 5 – Born In Berlin
Kombynat Robotron – Morast
Electric Citizen – Other Planets
Population II, Yoo Doo Right, Nolan Potter – La Perla
Nolan Potter – Commander of the Clowns
Japanese Television – Tabadaboum
Atom Juice – Hercules
O.R.B – End Times
Daiistar – Star Starter
Helicon & Brian Jones – Train Station Scene, Sitar
Color Green – Ball And Key
Goat – Golden Dawn
Brian Pills – Waste A Day
David Craven and Jon S Williams – Watching the clock – Copy
Hedvig Mollestad – Golden Griffin
There are some new bands bringing back that forgotten old sound of shoegaze into the modern times. So, while we check out some tunes important for the history of the genre back in its heyday, we also check out two new representatives Ex-Void from London and Hotline TNT from Brooklyn. In the americana realm, we check out new tunes form Mike Polizze and Neko Case. We introduce Mayflies USA from Chapel Hill, Journals Kept from Massachusetts, Neo-Magics from Sydney AU and Dogmatics from Boston. We make a tribute to Terry Reid, a singer with amazing voice from the seventies who passed away at the age of 75 on August 4, this year.
Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
The Journals Kept – Late At Night
Teenage Fanclub – Star Sign
My Bloody Valentine – Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)
Ex-Void – In Love Again
Hotline TNT – If Time Flies
Ride – Like A Daydream
Jesus & Mary Chain – Some Candy Talking
Al Matcott – Wouldn’t Expect To See You Here
The Dogmatics – I Can’t Get Over You
Outtacontroller – At Night
Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
Mike Polizze – Everybody I Know
Neko Case – Wreck
The Chelsea Curve – 7000 Hours
Terry Reid – Rich Kid Blues
Terry Reid – Seed of Memory
Terry Reid – Brave Awakening
Hard rock update today with Volcanics out in Perth AU, Messa from Padova, Italy, Pigs Pigs Pigs (etc) from UK, Curve from Minneapolis, Devils from Naples, Italy, Datura from New Zealand and the legendary Melvins.
Mammoth – Mammoth
The Dogs – Class Of ’70
The Volcanics – Going Into The Sun
Little Albert – Magic Carpet Ride
Messa – At Races
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – The Wyrm
Melvins – Working The Ditch
Melvins – Victory of the Pyramids
Curve – For The Guilty
Shotgun Sawyer – Master Nasty
The Devils – Lonely For You Baby
Datura – Sunshine in Purple
Strychnine – Jack The Ripper
I’m sure digesting reality today will be easier with the new episode. We have a few bands from 1-800 Mikey from Sydney Australia, 2nd Grade from Philadelphia, Luther Russell from Seattle (who we know from collaborating with Big Star’s Jody Stephen), Bird Streets from Brooklyn, Momma from LA and Remo Drive from Minnesota. We also have several killer returns, Paul Kelly is back, Dax Riggs and Peter Perrett of The Only Ones fame.
The Mice – Not Proud of the USA
1-800 Mikey – W.F.H
2nd Grade – Uncontrollably Cool
2nd Grade – Hung Up
Luther Russell – Talking to Myself
Luther Russell – Sing This Song
Paul Kelly – Taught By Experts
Paul Kelly – Look So Fine, Feel So Low
The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet
Peter Perrett – I Wanna Go with Dignity
Bird Streets – Fallout
Best Bets – When You Walk Out
Rowdy – Fine Mystery
Pelazo – ‘Any kind of love’
Momma – Ohio All The Time
Momma – Speeding 72
Dax Riggs – Let Me Be Your Cigarette
Dax Riggs – Deciever
Remo Drive – Makin’ Muzak
The Windbreakers – Young Republicans
Today, a tribute to several amazing Yugo rock musicians who passed away in the last few months: Vlado Pravdic, Robert Nemecek, Bora Djordjevic, Sladjana Milosevic and Nada Knezevic.
Nada Knezevic – Bicu tamo
Bijelo Dugme – Da mi je znao koji joj je vrag
Bijelo Dugme – Ne gledaj me tako i ne ljubi me vise
Bijelo Dugme – Ove cu noci naci blues
Pop Masina – Zemlja svetolsti
Pop Masina – Trazim put
Pop Masina – Vreme za nas
Rok Masina – Bilo mi je bolje
Riblja Corba – Ostacu slobodan
Riblja Corba – Vidis da sam gadan kad sam tebe gladan
Riblja Corba – Dobro jutro
Riblja Corba – Rekla je
Ljudi – Recept za ljubav
Sladjana Milosevic – Gorim od zelje da ubijem noc
Sladjana Milosevic – Fantasticno putovanje
Nada Knezevic – Kraj
Nada Knezevic – Sada divno je sve
Neo-psych review today with the latest tunes by The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol from Chicago, Karkara from Toulouse in France, Frankie and the Witch Fingers from Los Angeles, California, The Telescopes from UK, Eggy from Melbourne, Australia, Sanam from Beirut, Lebanon and a collaboration between Fernando Perdomo and Matt Tecu. Johnny Casino from Spain does a killer cover of the Byrds classic Eight Miles High.
Dusseldorf – La Dusseldorf
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Dusseldorf Boogie
Karkara – The Chase
Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Empire
Johnny Casino – Eight Miles High
The Telescopes – (In The) Hidden Fields
Eggy – Open Field
Sanam – Bell
Fernando Perdomo + Matt Tecu – Tiny Spies
Today we dig into new and modern tunes from Autobahns and Rouge Germany, Writhing Squares from Philadelphia, Bloodstains from California and Sculpture Club from Dallas. Eugénie Alquezar leads Parlor Snakes from Paris, France. We also check out Nice Biscuit from Australia with Billie Star and Grace Cuell. Dehd from Chicago is fronted by Emily Kempf. Pond is associated to Tame Impala and we check their new music today as well. We close the show today with a small tribute to James Chance – legendary New York City musician and overall artist who passed away on June 18th this year at the age of 71.
Suitor – Communion
Autobahns – Loss Of The Rights
Rouge – Sunday Afternoon
Automatic – On the Edge
Writhing Squares – Eternity
Sculpture Club – If I Was A Ghost
A Place To Bury Strangers – I Can Never Be As Great As You
Parlor Snakes – Eyes On The Machine
Bloodstains – Public Hanging
Vaguess – Reason
Nice Biscuit – Rain (Single Edit)
DEHD – Dog Days
Howe Gelb – Me And My Rocket
Pond – (I’m) Stung
Contortions – Dish It Out
Contortions – I Don’t Want To Be Happy
James Chance and The Blacks – Contort Youself
Teenage Jesuse and the Jerks – Orphans
John Mayall was one of the musicians I had a deepest respect for. He had a career that spanned 60 years and he was always relevant. He had a nose and ear for talent and the list of names that passed through his Bluesbreakers is nothing short of impressive. From his blues laments, through concept albums about his youth and life, fantastic live albums, incredible Memphis and New Orleans albums all the way to his last album which found it’s way to our year end list, John never released a dud. And he worked virtually until his last year. John Mayall leaves a deep void behind. John Mayall not only left a mark on rock’n’roll and blues. He is a thread in this fabric without which it just wouldn’t hold together the same way. This is an hour long tribute to Mayall and it contains music only from the first 10 years of his career. Other 50 years were sparser with releases, but always strong. Checking out what’s new with Mayall was always exciting and now all we can do is admire his legacy.
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Rubber Duck
John Mayall – When I’m Gone
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – I’m Your Witch Doctor
John Mayall – Burn Out Yout Blind Eyes
John Mayall – Mr James
John Mayall – Doreen
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Little Girl
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – It’s Over
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – The Death of JB Lenoir
John Mayall – Don’t Kick Me
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Bare Wires Suite Pt 1
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Vacation
John Mayall – Room To Move
John Mayall – Don’t Pick A Flower
John Mayall – Took The Car
John Mayall – Travelling
John Mayall – Back From Korea
John Mayall – Mess Around
John Mayall – Worried Mind
Podcast made in Cleveland, Ohio. Syndicated by Prvi Prvi na Skali in Kragujevac, Serbia. Sponsored by Blue Arrow Records and Baby Next.
