The Amplifier Heads joined forces with Barrence Whitfield on their new single. Daniel Romano has a new album with his Outfit. Dream Machine over in Utah have a new single. Kill Devil Hills from Perth, AU have a new album. Reflectors are back with another super catchy tune. Roots rock duet Courettes from Denmark continue their productive sequence of hits. We even have a bit of a supergroup today. Members of Spongetones, Spygenius plus Chris Church and Dolph Chaney collaborate in The Electromagnates. John Larson has a new song with his Silver Fields. Our friends from the first episodes Special Pillow have a new album over in New Jersey. Hurray For The Riff Raff are also finally debuting in our show after being unjustly ignored for years. All and more today in the Lighthouse.
Fugs – Morning Morning
The Amplifier Heads with Barrence Whitfield – They Came To Rock
Daniel Romano – You can steal my kiss
Daniel Romano’s Outfit – Jokerman
Steely Dan – Barrytown
The Special Pillow – A Certain Level of Uncertainty
Hurray For The Riff Raff – Hawkmoon
Rose Garden – Look What You’ve Done
Spencer Davis Group – Every Little Thing
John Larson and The Silver Fields – Don’t Look Too Fast
The Electromagnates – Airwave Hello
J Mascis – Set Me Down
Big Trouble House – Hundreds of Refugees
The Courettes – Shake!
The Reflectors – All The Way Down
Dolph Chaney – Californiagain
Fendahlene – When the Hit Began
The Kill Devil Hills – Prescribed Burns
Dream Machine – Find Me Again
Doris Melton – Red Flowers
We check out some interesting stuff this week. Mark Corzer has a good recent EP with The Rels. Chris Church puts out new music regularly, and we check out his recent single. Gabriella Cohen from Melbourne has a new single and Hazmats as well. We introduce John Wayne Supermarket from France and Blues Emergency from Toronto. Blue Broderick and Diners are back with super fresh new music produced by Mo Troper and it’s catchy as hell. Chinese Herbal Medicine has a new album. Legendary San Francisco band that had really cool music in the 70s is back together and we check out their new song.
Outacontroller – True Story
Mark Crozer & The Rels – Wasted Dreamer
Earth Quake – Out on The Floor
Gary Phillips – Let Her Dance (sung by Gary Phillips of Earthquake)
Neon Leon – Moving In the Right Direction
Chris Church – One More Chance To Get Over You
Chinese Herbal Medicine – Discordant
Babaganouj – Dumb For You
Cirkle – Nothing In Your Eyes
Gabriella Cohen – Dream Woman
Diners – The Power
Broken Sound – Sweet Lorraine and Sleazy Dean
Duke Robillard – Oh Babe
The Bevis Frond – Dragons
The Hazmats – Skewed View
Lemon Twigs – What You Were Doing
John Wayne Supermarket – Plage de Vieux Fort
The Blues Emergency – A Love Revolution
Les Lullies – Ze?ro Ambition
Today we have new tunes from Death Valley Girls over in LA, Babaganuj from Australia and a new single from Chris Church in North Carolina. We also introduce new bands for us, Slender Tongue from Berlin Germany, Golden Gaytimes from Maitland AU and two Chicago bands: Glyders and Cirkle. On the singer songwriter side we have Cian Nugent from Ireland and Dean Owens from Scotland.
Honeybus – Story
Slander Tongue – Monochrome
The Golden Gaytimes – The Golden Gaytimes – Hot As Buggery
The Speedways – Tell Me I’m Wrong
Death Valley Girls – What Are the Odds
Babaganouj – What Planet Do You Come From_
Robyn Hitchcock – The Sir Tommy Shovell
Buffalo Killers – So Close In Your Mind
Glyders – Golden Hour
Cirkle – Tell Me That Your MIne
Tommy Hoehn – She Might Look My Way
Van Duren – New Year’s Eve
Chris Church – Going ‘Til We Go
Cian Nugent – High Up Airplane
Kim Simpson – Song for Sam (single)
Tom Waits – Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Naïm Amor and John Convertino – Jelly Roll Tango
Dean Owens – She Was a Raven
The True Lovers – Obsession
Ty Segall & Emmett Kelly – Saturday Pt. 2
Today we have a couple of new introductions. Green/Blue come from Minnesotta MN, and they offer us a sweet new album called Offering. Also with a new album, we introduce Junior League straight from Covington LA. Good Looking Son have an ep and they come from Cincinnati OH. Outtacontroller from Canada is back with the new single, John Wesley Coleman III is back with the new album and so is Marc Ribot and his Ceramic Dog. Chris Church teams up with Big Stir Records to reissue his album from 10 years ago and we love it here at the Lighthouse.
Minutemen – The Red And The Black;
Green/Blue – Talking To Myself;
Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Cookin’;
Reigning Sound – Make It Up;
The Spliffs – I Know A Girl;
The Junior League – The Sunshine Saves Everyone;
Good Looking Son – Mr. Wonderful;
The Resonars – Own Up;
The Reflectors – Where Have You Been;
Outtacontroller – Parts Unknown;
Chris Church – Bad Summer;
Chris Church – You Are the Thunder;
Komodor – Nasty Habits;
Blue Oyster Cult – The Red & The Black;
Transistors – Reception to Porter;
John Wesley Coleman – Outerspacey Tracey;
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – Wanna.
We start today with new music from Palmyra Delran and continue with new stuff from Chris Church. Continuing the theme of nice songwriting, we check out the new tune from Andy Gabbard. Then we check out music from another Andy, Andy Lewis who we know from his recent collaborations with Judy Dyble. Fernando Perdomo continues his weekly new releases with another new album. Armories is a new name for us, they participate on the recent tribute to 20 20. Than we go to the remains of Yugoslavia and we hear the new Steve Wynn cover from Zvonka Obajdin and Svemir . Also, we hear a brand new tune from Dino Santaleza and Pridjevi. Staying on the same ground, but covering different times, we pay a tribute to Branko MaruÅ¡ić ÄŒutura and ÄorÄ‘e BalaÅ¡ević, both of them passed away within a day from each other recently.
Dinosaur JR – Hide Another Round;
Palmyra Delran and the Doppel Gang – Who’s Been Sleeping Here;
Chris Church – Know;
Chris Church – Coulda Fooled Me;
Andy Gabbard – DDS;
Andy Gabbard – Instant Trancer;
Andy Lewis – Pipeline;
Plastic Penny – Baby You’re Not To Blame;
Chad and Jill – The Cruel War;
Fernando Perdomo – Class of 98;
The Armoires – The Night I Heard a Scream;
20 20 – The Night I Heard a Scream;
Petrified Max – Get the Guitar;
Dream Syndicate – Whatever You Please;
Svemir – Whatever you please;
Pridjevi – Scarab;
Pridjevi – Pozuri polako;
Yu Grupa – Noć je moja;
Rani Mraz – Mnogo mi znaÄi to;
ÄorÄ‘e BalaÅ¡ević – Lunjo.
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.
Focus of today’s show is the new XTC tribute album Garden of Earthly Delights, out now on Futureman Records. We check out contributions by Chris Church and King Radio. Another interesting tribute is the one for John Wicks. Carla Olson contributes. We also hear new music from ANC4 (from Sweden), Jeremy (from Michigan), Resonars (from Tucson AZ) and Kneeling in Piss (from Columbus OH).
Greg Dulli – The Tide;
ANC4 – When We Were There;
Jeremy – Pop Overflow;
Fotomaker – Come Back;
he Krayolas – Aw Tonight;
Reigning Sound (Live in CLE);
XTC – Stupidly happy;
Chris Church – Stupidly Happy;
King Radio – Mayor of Simpleton;
XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton;
The Kinks – Victoria;
The Resonars – The Man Who Does Nothing;
Kneeling In Piss – song about being unemployed;
The Rockers – Don’t Leave Me Tonight;
The Bad Beats – Tip of My Tongue;
Tommy Hoehn – She Might Look My Way;
Van Duren – Make A Scene;
Carla Olson – (The Sordid Tale of) Elvis Strange
We continue our list of best albums in 2017, this time with top 14 albums. This year was full of albums that will surely stay and I will definitely keep coming back to these many times in my life. Chris Church has came up with with a power pop album that can stand next to all the classics from that disarming genre that only seems effortless on the surface. Big Hogg offered us their extremely playful version of modern day prog rock. If you think Alien Lanes are a classic record, you should definitely look into Stevens and their album Good. Similar albums with great melodies, low fi and clever segues were always in the top of my albums in the past years. Matthew Melton and his wife Doris started a new project Dream Machine and The Illusion definitely made a mark, even politically (although unwittingly). Hayley Thompson-King and her concept record about the biblical woman is truly a deep album that goes from country over garage rock and ends up in opera. Tin Foil are newcomers from Detroit with an addictive set of songs on their album without a title. Pink Tiles return with a record that definitely puts them on a map of serious bands with fun content. David Nance comes from Omaha and has created an album sounds so well crafted, as if he was putting albums for a really long time. Americans on I’ll Be Yours reach depths and territories that were only visited by House of Freaks in the past. Emmett Kelly and his Cairo Gang continue with a series of truly timeless albums with Untouchable. Harlan T. Bobo’s new album came out only a month ago, and there was not enough time to come back to it many times, but it definitely made me rearrange my playlist and put him up on the high third place. It might be his strongest yet. On the top we have Sweet Apple and Bash & Pop. There’s a lot in common to these albums. Both are genre defying and disarmingly playful works of rock’s veteran warriors who know exactly where the sources of this music is. It was a good year for rock.
01 Bash & Pop - Anything Could Happen
02 Sweet Apple - Sing The Night In Sorrow
03 Harlan T. Bobo - Hector, A History of Violence
04 The Cairo Gang - Untouchable
05 The Americans - I'll Be Yours
06 David Nance - Negative Boogie
07 The Pink Tiles - #1 Fan
08 The Stevens - Good
09 Dream Machine - The Illusion
10 Hayley Thompson-King - Psychotic Melancholia
11 Tin Foil
12 Tall Juan - Olden Goldies
13 Big Hogg - Gargoyles
14 Chris Church - Limitations of Source Tape
Chris Church – Fall Into Me;
Big Hogg – Gold and Silver;
Tall Juan – Cuida Coaches
Tin Foil – Shapes of Savannah;
Hayley Thompson-King – Teratoma;
Dream Machine – Diamond In The Rough;
The Stevens – Grandstands;
The Pink Tiles – Writer’s Block;
David Nance – Ambulance;
The Americans – Stowaway;
The Cairo Gang – Real Enough To Believe;
Harlan T. Bobo – Storied;
Sweet Apple – You Don’t Belong To Me;
Bash & Pop – Breathing Room;
Bash & Pop – Anybody Else;
Bash & Pop – Never Wanted To Know;
Sweet Apple – Everybody’s Leaving.
Today we introduce the new hope of Burger Records, Mattiel Brown, from Atlanta Georgia and Cojones from Zagreb, Croatia. Two new exciting power pop records came out in Canada, it’s by Chris Church and it’s called Limitations of Source Tape and in Portland OR, by Mo Troper, entitled Exposure and Response. We also welcome back Stereo Soul Future from Boston with their new single. Also, First Base are back with the new record. But the most exciting new thing this week is the new EP by Terry Chambers and Colin Moulding of XTC. Their new duet is called TC&I. This episode is dedicated to Bora OslovÄan, bass player of PekinÅ¡ka Patka who passed away recently in the age 57.
My Buddy Moose – My Wilderness Years;
PekinÅ¡ka Patka – Biti ružan pametan i mlad;
PekinÅ¡ka Patka – Bela Å¡ljiva;
XTC – Buzzcity Talking;
XTC – Runaways Ball And Chain;
TC&I – Kenny;
Mo Troper – Clear Frames;
Steve Wynn – Younger;
Moving Targets – Away From Me;
Chris Church – Understudy Blues;
First Base – Crybaby;
First Base – You Can Come Over;
Mungo Jerry – Milk Cow Blues;
Cojones – Providence;
Mattiel – Not Today;
Ruby The Hatchet – Gemini;
Motorpsycho – The Maypole;
Stereo Soul Future – Remember Alaska.
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