The new name in today’s show is Peter and The Pets, a band from Antwerp in Belgium, a band clearly influenced by all the coolest 80s underground, which us at the Lighthouse hold so dearly to our hearts. Another name is The War on Drugs from Philadelphia. They are an interesting version of post modernist approach to rock, but with heavy influences in 60s rock. So, creativity and modernity with a careful eye on the past. We appreciate that rare approach here at the Little Lighthouse. Nils, the KLSU Funkpreacher is back with his band of ten years, Funkdienst. New Orleans keyboardist Quintron is also back with a new album called Too Thirsty For Love. From my brief visit to Zagreb, I bring you the newly mastered recordings by Kamo Sutra, who are about to package them up into a brand new CD. Elvis Costello also had a very good album earlier this week, which took us some time to present. But it’s a really good one. It’s entitled Momofuku, after the Japanese inventor of instant soups! And that’s all for today, folks!
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames – Last Night;
Elvis Costello – American Gangster Time;
Quintron – Waterfall;
The Heretics – Soul Rebel Party;
Diplomats of Solid Sound – Plenty Nasty;
Funkdienst – Tough Talk;
Peter And The Pets – Don’t Think;
Van Morrison – It’s all Over now Baby Blue;
The New Salem Witch Hunters – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue;
The War on Drugs – Arms Like Boulders;
Kamo Sutra – Osmijeh daj;
The Descendents – Ride The Wild;
The Replacements – Tossin’ N’ Turnin’;
James Luther Dickinson – Nature Boy;
Lonesome Brothers – Seated At The Devil’s Table.
After two shows when we reviewed some of the older “material”, in this show we have a chance to hear some of the hottest new releases of the current moment. Â Gentleman Jesse from Atlanta, GA and Judge Bone from Finland rock the (Light)house hard for the first time. Brimstone Howl, exciting new band from Nebraska (of all places) has a new album called We Come And Peace. They’ve been around for awhile, but we have them at this show for the first time (mark the calendars!). Eagles of Death Metal have a brand new album called Heart On and while it’s not surpassing the previous one, it’s still very exciting. Lucinda Williams has a new record called Little Honey and it’s probably the most electrified LP she ever recorded. And Little Lighthouse appreciates electricity more than anything else. On the other hand, Holly Golightly has gone acoustic on her new album with The Brokeoffs and that’s cool with us too. And, last but not the least – The Replacements put out the final four of their re-issues, fully equipped with cool bonus track, three of which we sample today.
Eagles of Death Metal – Whorehoppin (Shit, Goddamn);
Eagles Of Death Metal – How Can A Man With So Many Friends Feel So Alone;
Gentleman Jesse and His Men – The Rest of My Days;
Endless Boogie – Gimme The Awesome;
Brimstone Howl – Damned to Judge;
Brimstone Howl – Easy to Dream;
The Greenhornes and Holly Golightly – There Is an End;
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs – Slow Road;
Lucinda Williams – Little Rock Star;
Hedwig And The Angry Inch – Midnight Radio;
Cobra Verde – Home In The Highrise;
The Replacements – Nowhere Is My Home;
The Replacements – Photo;
The Replacements – Ought To Get Love;
Judge Bone – 15.000 Heads;
Mona Lisa Overdrive – Never Fallen;
The Drones – The Minotaur.
In the past several months, three great soul musicians left this ugly world. We say goodbye to Levi Stubbs, Isaac Hayes and Norman Whitfield. Levi Stubbs was an unforgettable baritone in The Four Tops. Desperate drama of The Four Tops classics Reach Out, Standing In The Shadows Of Love would be impossible without his strong interpretation. The Four Tops formula of success was created when Stubbs forces his natural baritone into higher ranges, creating a sense of urgency and drama. The best example is perhaps Bernadette, which is now considered one of the artistic heights of the entire Motown catalog. Another Motown giant, Norman Whitfield also left us earlier this fall. He is best known for his work with The Temptations. In his hands, Temptations achieved psychedelic artistic heights when Whitfield penned amazing hit Papa Was A Rolling Stone. But Whitfield’s best known song is perhaps I Heard It Through The Grapevine, a classic he wrote originally for Gladys Knight, but Marvin Gaye’s version is the one that you’d probably think of first. Isaac Hayes, the black Moses from Memphis started as a songwriter in the sixties. He wrote such soul staples as Soul Man and Hold On, I’m Coming for Sam and Dave. In the late sixties, Hayes launched an acclaimed interpretative career, recording lps such as Hot Buttered Soul and earning an Oscar for his soundtrack for Shaft. Rock’n’roll will be forever in debt to this golden trio!
The Four Tops – Baby I Need Your Loving;
Sam & Dave – Soul Man;
Edwin Starr – War;
The Four Tops – Bernadette;
The Four Tops – Reach Out (I’ll Be There);
Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard It Through The Grapevine;
Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine;
The Slits – I Heard It Through the Grapevine;
Isaac Hayes – Theme From Shaft;
Isaac Hayes – By the Time I Get to Phoenix;
The Four Tops – Standing in the Shadows of Love;
The Rolling Stones – Ain’t Too Proud To Beg;
Temptations – Ain’t to Proud to Beg;
Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Comin’;
Sam & Dave – You Don’t Know Like I Know;
The Undisputed Truth – Smiling Faces Sometimes;
The Four Tops – 7-Rooms of Gloom;
The Four Tops – Walk Away Renee.
This one is an insane episode! I was fiddling around with my turntable and I wanted to play a show entirely consisted of my old 45s. While I was making the show – the motor on the turntable died! You can actually hear that moment in the show! Then, I finished the show with a fixed turntable sometime later, but you get to hear it right away. I guess, the only real premier in this show is the 7″ I dug out in Cleveland of an old new wave experimental outfit called the Modern Art Studio. But I went through horrors making this show watching my turntable die and that’s what makes this one interesting – I guess!
Pekinska Patka – Buba Rumba;
The Boys – Weekend;Til Tuesday – Voices Carry;
Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes;
The A-Lines – One Day;
Continental Drifters – Meet On The Ledge;
The Box Tops – Soul Deep;
Mike Therieau – Midnight Apr #9 Blues;
Sonic Chicken Four – Don’t Let Me Down;
The Who – Dogs Pt 2;
Sonic Love Affair – Reverberation;
The Wildbunch – Gay Bar;
Blackbird – Big Train;
The Limes – Rock’n’Roll Heart;
Modern Art Studio – Photogreys;
Tad – Jinx;
The Run For Cover Lovers – Sixteen;
Sarlo Akrobata – Mali covek;
The Vendettas – Can’t Stop;
Swag – Every Little Truth;
Studeni Studeni – Gledaj kako ljubav umire;
Gupa 220 – Grad;
Gulliver’s People – On A Day Like This.
Today’s episode concentrates on (more or less) new Australian rock’n’roll scene. We introduce a new band called Empty State and we wonder if Empty State and Mona Lisa Overdrive are stems for a brand new, exciting rock scene in the land of kangaroos?! We also check out new albums for the well established Aussies The Drones and You Am I plus a new recording off of Paul Kelly’s A-Z project. Then we crash land into the good old US of A and we check out the new Rodney Crowell’s album Sex and Gasoline.
Mission of Burma – Falling;
David Bowie – Andy Warhol;
David Bromberg – Holdup;
The Beatles – Savoy Truffle;
The Stems – Just Ain’t Engouh;
Mona Lisa Overdrive – No Way Out;
Empty State – Sunday;
Paul Kelly – I Wasted Time;
You Am I – Rosedale;
You Am I – Givin’ Up And Getting Fat;
The Drones – Nail It Down;
Todd Rundgren – Determination;
Little Feat – Easy To Slip;
The Figures – Easy To Slip;
T Bone Burnett – Talk Talk Talk;
Rodney Crowell – Truth Decay;
Jeff Beck Group – I Can’t Give Back the Love I Feel for You.
Today’s episode is filled with new music. Hard working musician from Massachusetts, Ray Mason, sent us the new Lonesome Brothers CD called The Last CD along with two of his older releases that we have missed. We check all that out in this show. The Heretics from Oslo in Norway also send us their new ep – five furious garage rock tracks. Cobra Verde form Cleveland also have a brand new album out. It was recorded nearly two years ago, but it’s finally out. It’s called Haven’t Slept All Year and it’s a candidate for the hottest release this year. New Jersey rockers The Successful Failures are here at the Little Lighthouse for the first time and we showcase them with their title song and one other song from their latest album called Ripe For Burning. Philadelphia band Love City also debuts at the show with an upcoming 7″ called Regretting. From Boise Idaho, we get to hear a new band called The Very Most and their Beach Boys influenced pop. We close the show with the spankin’ brand new album for the Georgia Satellites singer Dan Baird who has a new band called the Homemade Sin. And woah – that’s was a pretty long list for one show, huh?
The Reigning Sound – Uptight Tonight;
Cobra Verde – Riot in the Foodcourt;
The Heretics – Dipper Boy;
The Successful Failures – Successful Failures;
The Succesful Failures – All I Can Take;
Love City – Regretting;
Gun Club – Carry Home;
Pierced Arrows – Frankenstein;
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Free;
The Very Most – Good Fight Fighting;
Endless Boogie – Coming Down The Stairs;
Paul Westerberg – Knockin On Mine;
Lonesome Brothers – Fins On A Cadillac;
Ray Mason Band – I’m Not That Kind Of Guy;
Ray Mason – I’m Not That Kind of Guy;
The Woods – Battleship Chains;
Georgia Satellites – Battleship Chains;
Dan Baird & Homemade Sin – Damn Thing To Be Done;
Steely Dan – Reelin’ In The Years;
Stitches – Tip The Wink.
Here we are in another episode of The Little Lighthouse. We open up with a brand new song for legendary Husker Du drummer Grant Hart, which he posted to his myspace page. It’s great to see him back and perhaps this means that the new album is also in plans. New York’s traditionalists Endless Boogie, named after a Johnny Lee Hooker classic LP, debut at today’s show. The Moondoggies from Seattle WA also debut. Both bands are proof that rock’n’roll is here to stay. A cool compilation record came out this year – it’s called Thank You Friends and it chronicles the Memphis recording studio and label Ardent through a series of amazing and rare tracks. So, we check that out too in today’s show.
Grant Hart – Anything;
Grant Hart – School Buses Are For Children;
Paul Westerberg – You’re My Girl;
Paul Westerberg – Everyone’s Stupid;
Paul Westerberg – What Do You Want;
Paul Westerberg – Never Coming Back;
David Bowie – Hang Onto Yourself;
Disciplina kicme – Ti znaÅ¡ da tvoja soba ima cetiri ugla;
John Lee Hooker – Endless Boogie, Parts 27 And 28;
Endless Boogie – Smoking Figs In The Yard;
The Moondoggies – ‘ol Blackbird;
Bassholes – Blackbird;
Don Nix – Miss Eleana;
Sid Selvidge – Miss Eleana;
Brinsley Schwartz – Ballad of a Has-been Beauty Queen;
Gaby Novak – Nisam nikada trazila nista vise od ljubavi;
Mary Wells – Bye Bye Baby.
So, here we are again after a long hot summer break. Radio SC was down over the summer and now that they re-consolidated, The Little Lighthouse is back too. Today’s show is dedicated to Mickey Waller who died on April 29 2008, which we failed to acknowledge in our earlier shows. Waller was a drummer for Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck Group on their best albums. His distinct drumming style on those records helped define the true meaning of rock’n’roll – what ever that may be! Paul Westerberg surprised us this summer with an exceptional lp called 49:00… of your time life. The lp is as strange as the title. It’s just one mp3 track (almost) 49 minutes long, it came out in a year of Paul’s 49th birthday, it was available for sale for 49 hours, the price was 49 cents and it’s a mash-up of countless songs and snippets which sometimes even overlap each-other. A madhouse in one word. In this show we single out three minutes that sound “normal”. Giant Sand also has a new album called Provisions. Their boss, Howe Gelb, produced a new album for Kate Maki On  High who debuts in Little Lighthouse today. This is all really good stuff and we sample it all within the following playlist:
Alejandro Escovedo – Always A Friend;
Hen Gates And His House Rockers – Begin The Rock;
Paul Westerberg – Kentucky Riser;
The Replacements – Sixteen Blue;
Kate Maki – Forever Blue;
Kate Maki – Message Forgot;
Giant Sand – Without A Word;
Giant Sand – Down on Town (Love’s No Answer);
Sam Phillips – Little Plastic Life;
Sandy Denny – Crazy Lady Blues (BBC version);
Sandy Denny – Crazy Lady Blues;
Anna Egge – Crazy Lady Blues;
Mink DeVille – Jolene;
Mr Airplane Man – Not Living at All;
The Moaners – Stranger in China;
Jeff Beck – Shapes Of Things;
Rod Stewart – Cut Across Shorty;
Flee-Rekkers – Sunday Date.
Radio SC will not broadcast during the Summer break. We will be back on September 4th! Have a nice Summer and stay tuned when we return.
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).
The new name in today’s show is Peter and The Pets, a band from Antwerp in Belgium, a band clearly influenced by all the coolest 80s underground, which us at the Lighthouse hold so dearly to our hearts. Another name is The War on Drugs from Philadelphia. They are an interesting version of post modernist approach to rock, but with heavy influences in 60s rock. So, creativity and modernity with a careful eye on the past. We appreciate that rare approach here at the Little Lighthouse. Nils, the KLSU Funkpreacher is back with his band of ten years, Funkdienst. New Orleans keyboardist Quintron is also back with a new album called Too Thirsty For Love. From my brief visit to Zagreb, I bring you the newly mastered recordings by Kamo Sutra, who are about to package them up into a brand new CD. Elvis Costello also had a very good album earlier this week, which took us some time to present. But it’s a really good one. It’s entitled Momofuku, after the Japanese inventor of instant soups! And that’s all for today, folks!
After two shows when we reviewed some of the older “material”, in this show we have a chance to hear some of the hottest new releases of the current moment. Â Gentleman Jesse from Atlanta, GA and Judge Bone from Finland rock the (Light)house hard for the first time. Brimstone Howl, exciting new band from Nebraska (of all places) has a new album called We Come And Peace. They’ve been around for awhile, but we have them at this show for the first time (mark the calendars!). Eagles of Death Metal have a brand new album called Heart On and while it’s not surpassing the previous one, it’s still very exciting. Lucinda Williams has a new record called Little Honey and it’s probably the most electrified LP she ever recorded. And Little Lighthouse appreciates electricity more than anything else. On the other hand, Holly Golightly has gone acoustic on her new album with The Brokeoffs and that’s cool with us too. And, last but not the least – The Replacements put out the final four of their re-issues, fully equipped with cool bonus track, three of which we sample today.
In the past several months, three great soul musicians left this ugly world. We say goodbye to Levi Stubbs, Isaac Hayes and Norman Whitfield. Levi Stubbs was an unforgettable baritone in The Four Tops. Desperate drama of The Four Tops classics Reach Out, Standing In The Shadows Of Love would be impossible without his strong interpretation. The Four Tops formula of success was created when Stubbs forces his natural baritone into higher ranges, creating a sense of urgency and drama. The best example is perhaps Bernadette, which is now considered one of the artistic heights of the entire Motown catalog. Another Motown giant, Norman Whitfield also left us earlier this fall. He is best known for his work with The Temptations. In his hands, Temptations achieved psychedelic artistic heights when Whitfield penned amazing hit Papa Was A Rolling Stone. But Whitfield’s best known song is perhaps I Heard It Through The Grapevine, a classic he wrote originally for Gladys Knight, but Marvin Gaye’s version is the one that you’d probably think of first. Isaac Hayes, the black Moses from Memphis started as a songwriter in the sixties. He wrote such soul staples as Soul Man and Hold On, I’m Coming for Sam and Dave. In the late sixties, Hayes launched an acclaimed interpretative career, recording lps such as Hot Buttered Soul and earning an Oscar for his soundtrack for Shaft. Rock’n’roll will be forever in debt to this golden trio!
This one is an insane episode! I was fiddling around with my turntable and I wanted to play a show entirely consisted of my old 45s. While I was making the show – the motor on the turntable died! You can actually hear that moment in the show! Then, I finished the show with a fixed turntable sometime later, but you get to hear it right away. I guess, the only real premier in this show is the 7″ I dug out in Cleveland of an old new wave experimental outfit called the Modern Art Studio. But I went through horrors making this show watching my turntable die and that’s what makes this one interesting – I guess!
Today’s episode concentrates on (more or less) new Australian rock’n’roll scene. We introduce a new band called Empty State and we wonder if Empty State and Mona Lisa Overdrive are stems for a brand new, exciting rock scene in the land of kangaroos?! We also check out new albums for the well established Aussies The Drones and You Am I plus a new recording off of Paul Kelly’s A-Z project. Then we crash land into the good old US of A and we check out the new Rodney Crowell’s album Sex and Gasoline.
Today’s episode is filled with new music. Hard working musician from Massachusetts, 
Here we are in another episode of The Little Lighthouse. We open up with a brand new song for legendary Husker Du drummer Grant Hart, which he posted to his myspace page. It’s great to see him back and perhaps this means that the new album is also in plans. New York’s traditionalists Endless Boogie, named after a Johnny Lee Hooker classic LP, debut at today’s show. The Moondoggies from Seattle WA also debut. Both bands are proof that rock’n’roll is here to stay. A cool compilation record came out this year – it’s called Thank You Friends and it chronicles the Memphis recording studio and label Ardent through a series of amazing and rare tracks. So, we check that out too in today’s show.
So, here we are again after a long hot summer break. Radio SC was down over the summer and now that they re-consolidated, The Little Lighthouse is back too. Today’s show is dedicated to Mickey Waller who died on April 29 2008, which we failed to acknowledge in our earlier shows. Waller was a drummer for Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck Group on their best albums. His distinct drumming style on those records helped define the true meaning of rock’n’roll – what ever that may be! Paul Westerberg surprised us this summer with an exceptional lp called 49:00… of your