Fine power pop and catchy tunes today with King Khan, Death Valley Girls and a fine band from Columbus called Connections that we love for a few years now. Whiffs who had a fantastic record two years ago, now are back with the new single. Arts & Leisure from Sacramento are also back with the new album. Dot Dash from Washington is also back with the new album after a great one we heard in 2018. Breanna Barbara is out with her new record. Babaganouj from Australia are also back with the new record. Introducing today Uni Boys from LA. We close our show today with a new song from Dr. Feelgood and also say goodbye to their legendary Wilko Johnson, their former guitarist who passed away on 21 November this year.
Best Bets – Big Time;
Uni Boys – On Your Lovin’ Mind;
The Whiffs – Tired of Romance;
The Whiffs – Seventeen;
Arts & Leisure – Hello;
Arts & Leisure – Pretty;
Breanna Barbara – Diamond Light;
Connections – Very Nice, Very Slow;
Connections – In Space;
King Khan & The Shrines – Children of the World;
Petrified Max – Cool Sliver Moon;
Steve Rosenbaum – Turn Out The Light;
Babaganouj – What Planet Do You Come From;
Death Valley Girls – What Are the Odds;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Your Man’s No Good;
Dot Dash – Walls Closing In;
Dot Dash – Tense & Nervous;
Dr. Feelgood – Damn Right I Do!;
Dr. Feelgood – She Does It Right;
Dr. Feelgood – I Don’t Mind.
Remember when a couple of weeks ago we announced Danny and The Doorknobs phenomenal comeback album? That band is perhaps much better known in the rock’n’roll history books as Trotsky Icepick. Only two months after the return with Juebox in LA River, Trotsky Icepick is back with an album with the moniker they are much better known for and we check it out in today’s show. Another astonishing comeback is the new single for the queercore royalties Team Dresch. Much like Trotsky Icepick, City of Cool from Australia also have a new album in a very short term. King Khan also has a new album out. Connections, a band from Columbus who had an album of the year in 2016 also had a recent new album called Foreign Affairs and we check that out today. Mark Lanegan is about to put out his new record, but as we wait for it, we hear his new tune with the guitarist of Lamb of God, Mark Morton. Cleveland Steamers have a new politically charged single and Snooze in Motion, over in Zagreb have a new fake live album called Red Wednesday.
The Dirty Mac – Yer Blues;
The King Khan Experience – Le Responsable;
Connections – Good Cop;
Connections – Oh Lisa;
Jonathan Richman – And Do No Other Thing;
The Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso;
Phranc – Gerthurde Stein;
Team Dresch – Uncle Phranc;
Team Dresch – Your Hands My Pockets;
Trotsky Icepick – Oxygen the Destroyer;
Danny and the Doorknobs – Painting Smiles on a Dead Man;
Juliana Hatfield – Everybody Loves Me But You (Live in CLE);
Mark Morton with Mark Lanegan – Axis;
City of Cool – Heart full;
City of Cool – Finite;
Solvej Schou – America;
Cleveland Steamers – MAGA;
Snooze in Motion – I’ll Walk You Home;
The Embrooks – Human Living Vampire.
Last we presented positions 35-14 of what I think were the best albums in 2016. Today we continue with that business and we present Top 13 best albums this year. It doesn’t mean that these any worse than the ones we will put in top 13, it’s just a matter of personal taste. This year was not an easy one, but it brought us some records that will stay with us for many years I think. The top part of the list is reserved some some incredible comebacks (Sylvia Juncosa, Dinosaur Jr, Jody Stephens), new comers (Honeymoon Disease, Honey, Blaak Heat, Connections). But the album that marked year from me, is Julie Christensen’s new project Stone Cupid. She sang better than ever, on a record that is rocking, grungy and rootsy at the same time. A killer span of genres that can only be brought by one of the Divine Horsemen. Dive into my selection of the top 13 records and hopefully you will find something for yourself. See you next year!
BEST OF 2016 AT THE LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE
1 Stone Cupid - The Cardinal
2 Connections - Midnight Run
3 Those Pretty Wrongs
4 Blaak Heat - Shifting Mirrors
5 Lilly Hiatt - Royal Blue
6 Lydia Loveless - Real
7 Bad Luck Jonathan
8 Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
9 Honeymoon Disease - The Transcendence
10 Disciplin A Kitchme - Opet
11 Jack Oblivian and The Sheiks - The Lone Ranger Of Love
12 Sylvia Juncosa - Wanna Gotta
13 Honey - Love is Hard
14 Meet Your Death
15 Jonathan Richman - Ishkode Ishkode
16 Dan Stuart - Marlowe's Revenge
17 Zig Zags - Running Out of Red
18 Apache - Alcatraz
19 Faux Killas - Time In Between
20 Erotic Biljan And His Heretics - The Devil Stole My Record
21 Seger Liberation Army - Innervenus Eyes
22 Javier Escovedo - Kicked Out Of Eden
23 The I Don't Cares - Wild Stab
24 Scarcity Of Tanks - Ringleader Lies
25 Flesh Panthers - Willows Weep
26 Faz Waltz - Callin loud
27 Purling Hiss - High Bias
28 Radkey - Delicious Rock Noise
29 DON'T - Fever Dreams
30 Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate
31 Ray Mason - The Shy Requester
32 Thee Melomen - Chinatown
33 Bernays Propaganda - Politika
34 Datura 4 - Hairy Mountain
35 Medicine Boy - Kinda Like Electricity
Honey – White Noise;
Sylvia Juncosa – Gamblin’ Fool;
Jack Oblivian And The Sheiks – Fast Friends;
Disciplin A Kitchme – Biti imun na ovaj nemar;
Honeymoon Disease – Rock ‘N’ Roll Shock;
Dinosaur JR. – Tiny;
Bad Luck Jonathan – Bonehead;
Lydia Loveless – Midwestern Guys;
Lilly Hiatt – Get This Right;
Blaak Heat – Sword Of Hakim;
Those Pretty Wrongs – Thrown Away;
Connections – Raise Awareness;
Connections – Kate;
Connections – Gross Lake;
Stone Cupid – Gasoline;
Stone Cupid – The Cardinal;
Stone Cupid – Anthem.
Today we introduce two new bands fro Portland OR: The Reverberations and Lovesores. We also introduce Cotton Mather from Austin TX and Sam Vicari From Chicago. But the most exciting introduction this week is Connections from Columbus who put out a wonderful new album called Midnight Run. Descendents are back with the new record Hypercaffium Spazzinate. Finally we pay the last respect to legendary founder of Blue Oyster Cult founder Sandy Pearlman who passed away recently at the age of 76.
Jesse Sublett – Mary Ann Won’t Marry Me;
Cotton Mather – The Book of Too Late Changes;
Connections – Weapons;
Pat Todd – Tell Me Now;
Juliana Hatfield – Ordinary Guy;
The I Don’t Cares – Love Out Loud;
Descendents – Pep Talk;
Descendents – Smile;
Lovesores – Rock and Roll Animal;
Hedwig and The Angry Inch – Exquisite Corpse;
Janes Addiction – Being Caught Stealing (Live in CLE);
The Clash – Stay Free;
Blue Oyster Cult – Astronomy;
Dream Syndicate – Merrittville;
The Byrds – I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better;
The Reverberations – Outtasite;
Sam Vicari – What Is Your Kind.
Great news today! From this show on, we are underwritten by one of the best record shops in the world, Blue Arrow Records. Visit their location on the historic Waterloo Rd in Collinwood, Cleveland, it’s a great place to be. But let’s go back to the music. We bring a wild variety of tunes today from Chuck Berry and George Jones to wild garage rock of today. We have some new live records on the program, Lucero and White Fence both came up with some recently. White Fence also has a studio record out, which he calls For the Recently Found Innocent. Also a bunch of new names: The Pink Tiles from Melbourne, Faux Killas from Memphis, Dino’s Boys from Atlanta and Connections from Columbus. We finish things off with Waylon Jennings’ son Shooter Jennings who made a tribute to George Jones. He is singing in an effective duet with Katy Cole, who we should keep an eye on. She has a band over in Nashville called Last Daze.
Screaming Trees – Tomorrow Changes;
The Move – Do Ya;
The Pink Tiles – State Of The Nation;
Chris Cacavas And Edward Abbiati – Against the Wall;
Morphine – You Speak My Language;
Faux Killas – Eye on The Eye;
Dino’s Boys – Catapult;
Chuck Berry – Broken Arrow;
Ty Segall – Manipulator;
White Fence – Like That;
White Fence – Pink Gorilla;
Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox – Light of Day (Live in CLE);
Lucero – That Much Further West;
Connections – You Won’t Forget It;
Mud Boy And The Neutrons – Brownsville;
Furry Lewis – I’m Going To Brownsville (Blues Alphabet);
George Jones – If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will);
Shooter Jennings and Katy Cole – If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me.
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Last we presented positions 35-14 of what I think were the best albums in 2016. Today we continue with that business and we present Top 13 best albums this year. It doesn’t mean that these any worse than the ones we will put in top 13, it’s just a matter of personal taste. This year was not an easy one, but it brought us some records that will stay with us for many years I think. The top part of the list is reserved some some incredible comebacks (Sylvia Juncosa, Dinosaur Jr, Jody Stephens), new comers (Honeymoon Disease, Honey, Blaak Heat, Connections). But the album that marked year from me, is Julie Christensen’s new project Stone Cupid. She sang better than ever, on a record that is rocking, grungy and rootsy at the same time. A killer span of genres that can only be brought by one of the Divine Horsemen. Dive into my selection of the top 13 records and hopefully you will find something for yourself. See you next year!
Today we introduce two new bands fro Portland OR: The Reverberations and Lovesores. We also introduce Cotton Mather from Austin TX and Sam Vicari From Chicago. But the most exciting introduction this week is Connections from Columbus who put out a wonderful new album called Midnight Run. Descendents are back with the new record Hypercaffium Spazzinate. Finally we pay the last respect to legendary founder of Blue Oyster Cult founder Sandy Pearlman who passed away recently at the age of 76.
Great news today! From this show on, we are underwritten by one of the best record shops in the world,