Cool overview of neo-psychedelic tunes and bands. We have new music from Ty Segall, Rat Columns of Perth, AU and The Intelligence from California. Ghost Woman is also here with the new music and now it’s a duet with Evan Uschenko and Ille van Dessel. We introduce The Brooms from Portugal with a cover of Hawkwind, Sloppy Heads from NY and a band from Brazil White Canyon and The Fifth Dimension (has nothing to do with the legendary vocal group of the same name). Verstärker comes from Kentucky but they sound like they came from 1970s Germany.
Tomorrow – Real Life Permanent Dream
White Canyon & The 5th Dimension – Howling Pines
Sloppy Heads – New Speedway Boogie
Pink Mexico – Hot Air
Ty Segall – Void
Verstärker – Ankunft
Rat Columns – Someone Else’s Dream
Rat Columns – Cerulean Blue
Ghost Woman – Alright Alright
Ghost Woman – 3 Weeks Straight
The BROOMS! – Motorhead
The Intelligence – Now, Squirm!
Kooper, Bloomfield, Stills – You Don’t Love Me
Nice tunes today from Tony Molina, Dan Finnermore’s Swampmeat Family Band (ex Low Cut Connie) and King Tuff. Two hipsters from Animal Collective and Spacemen 3 had a cool little project recently called Reset in which they make collages of various well known songs into something entirely new. We check that out. We also hear from the legends. Andy Partridge from XTC has a new Swindon based project called The 3 Club Men and Graham Parker has a new album too. We introduce JJ McCann Transmission from Australia, Justin And The Cosmics from Nashville, David M. Western (also from Australia) and The Half Cubes.
The Flaming Sideburns – Invisible Hands
JJ McCann Transmission – Forces at Work
Justin and The Cosmics – Super Blue (Real Bad Sad)
The Special Pillow – That’s the Way It’s Got to Be
The Toms – Someone I Never Knew
King Tuff – Rock River
Panda Bear and Sonic Boom – Gettin’ to the Point
Diners – Working On My Dreams
Eamon McGrath – Man of Steel
David M Western – I’ll Never Forgive You
Graham Parker – Graham Parker & The Goldtops – It Mattered To Me
Graham Parker – Soul on Ice
Todd Rundgren – It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
Swampmeat Family Band – Black Dogs at Bay
Tony Molina – Devil Song
Tony Molina – Bullshit Riff
Tony Molina – Breakin’ Up
The Half Cubes – The Half-Cubes featuring Moe Berg – She’s So Young
The 3 Clubmen – Racecar
XTC – Don’t Lose Your Temper
XTC – Then She Appeared
Today we check out new music from John Dwyer and his Osees, extraordinary guitar player from New York Naeemah Maddox, Sculpture Club from Salt Lake City, Well Wishers from Salt Lake City, Bully from Nashville, Flat Worms from LA. We introduce Viva La Fette from Ghent, Belgium, Democrash from Lisbon, Portugal, Daiistar from Austin, TX and Al Matcott from Melbourne AU.
Osees – Beat Quest
Osees – Stunner
Naeemah Z. Maddox – The Boy
Naeemah Z. Maddox – Fun with Fun
The Hazmats – Wondered
Sculpture Club – Cursed or Hexed
The Well Wishers – The Optimist
100 Flowers – Bunkers
Hüsker Dü – Pink Turns To Blue
Al Matcott – Summer’s Coming
Bully – All I Do
Bully – Guess There
Superchunk – Sunny Brixton
Flat Worms – Time Warp in Exile
DAIISTAR – Star Starter
Moonwalks – Minding Light
Nik Turner – Silver Machine
Democrash – Silver Machine
Viva La Fete – Christine
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Christine
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
Psych review today. We check out the new tunes by The Black Delta Movement over in UK. Also in UK, we have Dead Sea Apes. In Australia, we check out Brown Spirits. On the US side of things, we have Sun Astros, Mammatus and Helen Kelter Skelter. Marc Ribot is also back with his Ceramic Dog. Norwegian masters Motorpsycho are also back with a new record and it sounds a bit lighter than the what we normally used from them.
Ribbons of Euphoria – Invisible Prison
The Black Delta Movement – Always Home
Ceramic Dog – Connection
Korb – Ritual For The Gods
Sun Astros – She’s Gotta Man
Dead Sea Apes – Truther
Dead Flowers – Altered State Circus
Helen Kelter Skelter – Sceptre
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty
Goat – Goatman
Brown Spirits – Dead End Exits
Motorpsycho – Patterns
Motorpsycho – The Dowser
Today we dive into the recent garage rock scene. We check out Vains with a US and Canadian combined line up, Canadian ladies Taxi Girls, Far Out from Brisbane, Generador from Spain, Frankie and The Witch Fingers LA, Fuzillis from London, Spills Denver CO and Baron Four from UK. Mings from Eindhoven, Netherlands are back with the new single. It’s super cool to hear supergroup The Master Plan with members from Dictators, Fleshtones and Waxing Poetics.
Cheater Slicks – Pipsqueek
Vains – Petroleum King
Taxi Girls – Good Grace
JJ & The Real Jerks – Rat Beach
Cable Ties – Time for You
The Master Plan – I Wanna Feel Something
The Far Outs – Bad News For You
The Missing Links – Wild About You
King Khan – John B’s Lament
Generador – Voy Cuesta Abajo
Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Mild Davis
The Golden Gaytimes – The Golden Gaytimes Theme
CLASS – Grid Stress
The Fuzillis – Tacoma
The Spells – I Don’t Want a Legacy
Heartbeeps – Never Stop
Neverland Ranch Davidians – Rat Patrol
The Mings – Lies
The Baron Four – What Can I Do
Paint Fumes – My Dreams
Tee Vee Repairman – Drownin’
Today we check out the latest tunes from whatever was left of Yugoslavia. We start with Norveska Suma from Novi Sad and Detroit Groove Gang (they claim they are from Croatia, Michigan). Over in Ljubljana, we check out Misli and Lelee. Damjan Manevski is behind both bands. Severa Gjurin, also from Ljubljana had a nice single last winter, so we check it out now in the middle of summer. Croatia always had small towns with interesting bands. That tradition continues and in this episode we check out M.O.R.T. from Sinj and Skotni Vrag from Virovitica. Serbia also has small towns, and Marko Artukovic comes from Sabac. Tidal Pull has a new single and so does the veterans Rebel Star.
Izae – Poluprozirna
Detroit Groove Gang – Little Barry
Norveska suma – Sumrak
Stijene – Tri svijeta
Misli – Pravo uvo
LELEE – Nestaješ
Ned O’Millick Cooperative – Za Dzonija
M.O.R.T. – Svijet se sužava
Skotni Vrag – Skotni Vrag
Vozdra – Vozdra Coek
Tidal Pull – Glas 42
Severa Gjurin – Kamin
Peter Meze in Janc Galc – Zatocisce
Rebel Star – Mesec
Marko Artukovic – Ponekad se setim
Muzej Sarvan – Muzicari loseg kova
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
Today we start with a new song from our old friends in Philadelphia, Dead Milkmen. Then we go to Vancouver, CA and check out Tough Age. On the other side of the planet, in Australia, we bring you the new tunes from Cablet Ties, Body Maintenance, Flyying Colours and Display Homes. On the old continent, we check out Bee Bee Sea from Italy and Melanas from Spain. For a good measure, we add two new names from the US to the playlist: Upland Band and Godcaster.
Matthew Melton – Under Glass
The Dead Milkmen – Hens Teeth And Goofa Dust
Tough Age – In a Garden
Public Interest – Slow Burn
Flying Colors – Do You Feel the Same
Bee Bee Sea – Time & Time
The Tubs – Wretched Lie
Display Homes – CCTV
Melenas – Bang
Gentilesky – On And On
The Upland Band – Ohfivetwosixfive
Godcaster – Didactic Flashing Antidote
Guardian Singles – Pit Viper
Cable Ties – Time for You
Body Maintenance – Silver Yarns
Belgrado – Na Szlak
Swans – Los Angeles City of Death
Podcasting from Cleveland, Ohio. Broadcasting on Radio Kragujevac, every Sunday from 4-5pm (Central European Time). Streaming on Rock XS every Thursday at Midnight (Eastern European Time).
