A few fresh international neo-new-wave tunes today. We start off with Sweet Reaper from Ventura, CA, then hear Hot Face and Dry Cleaning from UK, Golden Hours and DBR in Germany, American Lips from Montreal, Belgrado from Poland/Spain. The colors of the US flag are defended by Lifequard from Chicago. We also check out a new project for Justin Warfield and we close things off with Sclupture Club who I kept thinking were from Salt Lake City, but now I see they’re from Dallas TX. They may have relocated? Maybe it’s just my sleepy brain. Who knows. A slightly altered version of this show will air on Saturday as a part of the renewed XCSB.
Belgrado – Progress
Sweet Reaper – Sacrifice
Hot Face – Cruel Tutelage
Mark Lanegan Band – Stitch It Up
Golden Hours – The Letter
American Lips – Cardboard Trash
Bass Drum of Death – Find It
Belgrado – Bezsenno??
Dry Cleaning – Cruise Ship Designer
Rehash Neu Klang – Kriegslust
Warfield – All The Fun (Kiss, Kiss, Kiss)
DBR – Routine Issues
Linnea’s Garden – No Vision
Lifeguard – Ultra Violence
Sculpture Club – The Every Boy
The Go-Betweens – I Need Two Heads
Suitor – Factory
Hot Chicks – Protective
New music took us strange places this time. I recently came across a band from Barcelona, Spain, by the name of Belgrado, with a Polish singer that takes up the visual identity of Yugoslavian Zenitism movement and sounds like they are from Rijeka, cca 1983. Then, we also check out a Welsh band that named themselves after my old hometown, Vukovar. Back in that old part of the world, we also get new music from Nina Romić and PunÄke. The rest of the show also brings the new albums from Calexico, as well as a new collaboration between Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. We also introduce some new names for us. Big Eyes lead by Kate Eldridge come from New York City and the singer-songwriter Shawna Russel hails from Oklahoma.
