Welcome to episode 300, ever since we started podcasting from Cleveland! Thanks for sticking around for all these hours of music. We have a new exceptionally interesting and complex record by the New Jersey band Nude Beach, simply entitled 77 and written entirely by their front-man Chuck Betz. Australian band with a strange name King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard are back with a new record. Our old Cleveland friend Derek Deprator has a new EP out, entitled In Motion. We also introduce some new bands, Gino and The Goons hail from Florida and Bloodhouds from Los Angeles.
Bobby Charles – Long Face;
Gino and the Goons – Who Cares;
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – Empty/Hot Water;
Bill Fox – Love Ain’t No Feeling;
Nude Beach – I Found You;
The Bloodhounds – The Wolf;
Otis Rush – Right Place, Wrong Time (Blues Alphabet);
Reigning Sound – I’m So Thankful (Live in CLE);
Derek Deprator Band – Sweet Debacle;
The Trashed Romeos – My Way Of Thinking;
Randy and the Radiants – My Way Of Thinking;
Wedding Present – Pleasant Valley Sunday.
Unfortunately, we say goodbye to two great people who influenced rock’n’roll greatly. Alvin Lee from Ten Years After left us on March 6th and George Shadow Morton, producer of the Shangri-Las left us on February 14th. But, we also have a survival story. You probably already heard that Slim Dunlap, the guitar player of The Replacements suffered a stroke last year and he survived it. Although the recovery is slow and expensive, he is holding tight. His old bandmates decided to have a small reunion and make an EP which would directly help Dunlap with the recovery costs. The limited edition EP auction did very well and and now it is scheduled for the regular release as a download and a sound carrier. We hear one of the songs from this record today. We also have one new name today for us, her name is Fredda and she’s from France, but with ties in Tucson AZ. She will be a part of Vacilando 68 promotional campaign this year at SXSW. Another new name is The Go from Detroit. They nurture the retro 60s sound. Guadalupe Plata are also back with the new record and Derek Deprator is also back with a very nice instrumental tune. Probably the most exciting new thing today is King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard with their western conceptual record called Eyes Like The Sky, narrated by Broderick Smith of The Dingoes.
We have a ton of really good new stuff this week, some of it came in just recently and other stuff came in this summer while we were gone. Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet continue their Under The Covers series with a two cd set filled with their versions of their favorite songs from the 70s. Tony Kinman, legendary member of Dils and Rank And File joined forces with his friend Pope Johnson and formed recently a wonderfully playful new band called Los Trendy. Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan are back again with the new album called Broken. Blues duet The Moaners have a new demo called Little Man. Cleveland’s own blues man Derek DePrator is also back with a new record and a new cassette tape with exciting self-titled collection of instrumentals. Finally, loud power pop outfit Satin Gum from Pittsburgh, who had an excellent ep earlier this year, are now here with a full lp, and it’s sounds sweet!