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Flashlite #675

2021

Last year we started our year-end review of best albums that we heard in the past year. This week we head positions 14 to 1. For the number one this year I chose Californian band Cool Ghouls. After several delightful garage rock records, last year they took a huge leap and made a fantastic genre spanning record that shows good taste, measure and expert knowledge of rock’n’roll history. One song will remind you of Beach Boys, other on Todd Rundgren, another one of Byrds, Love, Leonard Cohen… approach seems deliberate and result is stunning album. In a post-post-post modern post-capitalist world an this album looks like a conveyor belt in which best moments of the past roll by one by one, perfectly strung together until the final product comes out. They do their recycling shamelessly and proudly. It’s paradoxically original. It’s an art form. And we love it here.

Our list for 2021 looks like this…


30 The Most - Of What We Have
29 Mike Edison and Guadalupe Plata - The Devil Can't Do You No Harm
28 Chris Church - Game Dirt
27 Kid Khan Unlimited - Opiate Them Asses
26 Daniel Romano - Kissing The Foe
25 Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Strength Of Spring
24 Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion
23 Yola - Stand For Myself
22 The Exbats - Now Where Were We
21 Shaye Zadravec - Now and Then
20 David Gahan and The Soulsavers - Imposter
19 Danny Kroha - Detroit Blues
18 Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons
17 Salebarbes - Gin à l'eau salée
16 Red Devil Ryders - Pour Me Another One
15 Big Hogg - Pageant of Beasts
14 Endless Boogie - Admonitions
13 Bevis Frond - Little Eden
12 Lelee - Cuka, bije, pumpa
11 Astute Palate
10 Divine Horsemen - Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix
09 Kid Congo - Swing From The Sean DeLear
08 Rosali - No Meduim
07 Petrified Max - Year Gone By
06 Dinosaur JR - Sweep Into Space
05 Richard Rose - Radiation Breeze
04 A Little More Time With Reigning Sound
03 Bat Fangs - Queen of My World
02 The Reflectors - Faster Action
01 Cool Ghouls - At George's Zoo

And playlist for today is:

Endless Boogie – Bad Call;
The Bevis Frond – Cherry Gardens;
Lelee – Pozeluvam;
Astute Palate – Loose Wings;
Divine Horsemen – Mind Fever;
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds – (Are You) Ready, Freddy;
Rosali – Mouth;
Petrified Max – Blue Skies Always;
Dinosaur JR – And Me;
Richard Rose – Evil Twin;
Reigning Sound – You Ain’t Me;
Bat Fangs – Never Coming Down;
The Reflectors – Carry On;
Cool Gouhls (Closing Meddley).

Flashlite #637

Gyasi

Today we begin with the new single from Gyasi. Then we check out the new supergruop with ex members of The Inbreds, Sloan and The Super Friendz: Tuns. Cool Ghouls have a fantastic new record At George’s Zoo. Israel Nash Gripka is back with the new record and so is Daniel Romano (yes again!). Sculpture Club from Salt Lake City announces new album and we have a new tune from Vlatko Stefanovski (former boss of the legendary Yugo rock act Leb i Sol). Speaking of Leb i sol, their late period drummer and a beloved character from the Yugo rock scene, Dragoljub Djuricic passed away and we pay respect to him at the tail end of the show.

King Khan Unlimited – Crime Don’t Pay;
Gyasi – Feed Your Face;
Tuns – Double Down;
Pushups – So Let Down;
Dale Crover – Shark Like Overbite;
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds – Sean Delear;
Cool Ghouls – Brown Bag;
Cool Ghouls – The Way I Made You Cry;
Israel Nash – Dividing Lines;
Nazz – Hello It’s Me;
Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me;
Daniel Romano’s Oufit – Union Sundown;
Daniel Romano – The Divine Reveal;
Sculpture Club – Just One More;
Petrified Max – Contracupid;
Vlatko Stefanovski – Garaza;
Leb i Sol – Kalabalak;
Yu Grupa – NeÅ¡to si mi umorna i bleda.

Flashlite #626

Mira Furlan

Nothing but nicely written music today. We start off with a shiny new song from Dinosaur JR, possibly the shiniest one J wrote since Take A Run At The Sun. Alice Cooper recorded a tribute to Detroit and we check out a cover of an Outrageous Cherry song. Rat Columns and Cool Ghouls are back with new singles. A band we used to know under various names (Fruit Sandal and Akibas) is back with a new name: Melody And The Jones. Petrified Max, after a superb album from last year has a new single (it’s a new band for Vitus Mataré and John Rosewall of Trotsky Icepick fame). We introduce a band from Istria in Croatia, Finta De Mona, that specializes into covers from old songs from that region. Trevor Beld Jimenez is a new performer from Southern California. We pay a tribute to two Yugoslavian legends who passed away recently. Mira Furlan and Misa Aleksic of Riblja Corba.

Buldozer – Garcon De Yugoslavie;
Dinosaur JR – I Ran Away;
Alice Cooper – Our Love Will Change The World;
Outrageous Cherry – Our Love Will Change the World;
Trevor Beld Jimenez – Moment;
Rat Columns – No Stranger To Life;
Akibas – Can we be friends;
Melody And The Jones – Sun Lions;
Petrified Max – The Lucky Couple;
The Last – Jungle Book;
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – The Jungle Book;
Cool Ghouls – Helpless Circumstance;
Finta De Mona – Macak z Voloskega;
Bonaca – Macak z Voloskega;
Riblja Corba – Ostacu slobodan;
Mira Furlan i Orkestar Davora Slaminga – Depresivni djecak;
Trotsky Icepick – The Jungle Book;
Red Lights – Jungle Book;
Mira Furlan i Buldozer – Garcon De Yugoslavie.

Flashlite #399

Miranda Lee RichardsWe start off with Cool Ghouls out of San Francisco and their new album Animal Races. Then we introduce a new name, American Sharks from Austin TX and their heavy sound. Singer songwriters Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lee Richards are here with their new tunes. And we also introduce a one man band from France, King Automatic. Scarcity of Tanks have a new album too! Sad news come from Lafayette, Louisiana where legendary zydeco accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco passed away at the age of 68.

Thee Oh Sees – Plastic Plant;
Cool Ghouls – Brown Bag;
American Sharks – Demon with Glass Sword;
Erotic Biljan And His Heretics – No Ma’am;
BT’s – When It Feels So Right;
Faz Waltz – Groovin’ Alright;
Chris Stapleton – Outlaw State of Mind;
King Automatic – Des barbelés sur la prairie;
Buckwheat Zydeco – Hot Tamale Baby;
Buckwheat Zydeco – Beast of Burden;
Scarcity Of Tanks – Casket;
Lovesores – When the Lights Go Out;
Lydia Loveless – I Don’t Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes) (Live in CLE);
Hank Williams – I Don’t Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes);
Meet Your Death – I Don’t Care If Tomorrow Never Comes;
The Reverberations – Mess Up Your Mind;
Miss Destiny – Double Headed Snake;
Miranda Lee Richards – Colours so Fine.

Flashlite #328

BB KingToday we say goodbye to BB King, a blues giant who passed away this week. But we also have some time for new names. We check out Cool Ghouls from San Francisco and Dirty Fences from New York City. We also check out the new record for Graham Parker and The Rumour.

FOOD – Leaf In The Wind;
Warm Soda – Can’t Erase This Feeling;
Cool Ghouls – The Mile;
Cool Ghouls – Queen Sophie;
Mikal Cronin – Control;
The Replacements – Takin A Ride;
Red Arms -Takin’ A Ride;
Dirty Fences – Just Can’t Wait;
Natural Child – Live in CLE;
Danny Kroha – John Henry;
BB King – Ain’t That Just Like A Woman (Blues Alphabet);
Jeff Beck – Sweet Little Angel;
Box Tops – Rock Me Baby;
Graham Parker And The Rumour – Last Bookstore in Town;
Graham Parker and The Rumour – Flying Into London.