Fun power pop show today with new music from London’s The Tubs, New York’s 1-800-Band, Medway’s Galileo 7, Melbourne’s Monnone Alone and LA’s Nelson Bragg. John Larson from Providence, RI sends us his new single We introduce Jetstream Pony from Brighton UK, The Unknowns from Australia and Crossword Smiles from Detroit.
The Tubs – Round the Bend
The Tubs – Freak Mode
Jetstream Pony – Sit And Wonder
Guided By Voices – Independent Animal
Nick Frater – One Minute
Crossword Smiles – Falling All Over Myself
1-800-Band – Like Asada
1-800-Band – Do It Again
Silver Synthetic – Choose A Life
The Bablers – You Are The One For Me
The Galileo 7 – Look Away
Jim Nothing – First Bite
Eyelids – Gardening At Night (Live)
The Unknowns – Thunder In My Head
John Larson and The Silver Fields – Turnaround, Girl
Chris Church – I Don’t Wanna Be There
Kelley Stoltz – My Regime
Murat Akturk – Heavy Drinking
Monnone Alone – River of Sighs
Nelson Bragg – We’re Gonna Laugh About It
The Mice – Resurrection Day
We begin the first weekly review of the new music and events in the rock world. Tim Lee and Susan Bauer are back, this time under a new band name Bark. Galileo 7 from the Medway area amd Pugwash from Ireland are back with their own brand of refined power pop. Part Time Lover from Cleveland have a new single, and we check out the B-side. We also introduce Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys from Sydney, Australia. We also pay tributes to Fast Eddie Clarke, the last remaining member of Motörhead classic line up. Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues also passed away this month. Oh, and by the way, it’s been 17 years since this little show started out.
A good chunk of today’s show is filled with power-pop tunes. We start off with The Akibas new single. This band is important for the history of our show as it was the first band tune ever played at The Little Lighthouse. The we go on to Terry and Louie, surviving duet from The Exploding Hearts and their new single. Galileo 7 from Medway also has a new single. We also introduce Dot Dash from Washington DC and Belltowers from Orlando. Guadalupe Plata with their dusty rock’n’roll return with a new record without any title. And finally, we hear The Z-Boy, an awesome new surf rock, instrumental band from Rhode Island that I saw playing live in Newport, out of a pure coincidence. The best things happen when you’re least expecting them.
In today’s show we have the new music from the hard rock band Radio Moscow from Iowa and we introduce the new band from the Medway area, The Galileo 7. John Hiatt is back with an excellent new algum called Terms of My Surrender. Also, Mark Lanegan is preparing a new record with his band, and as an advance, a new single and a live recording came out recently. Janiva Magness is an excellent blues rock singer who just recently decided to make an album of original material for her own label. In some ways, this is her most personal album ever, titled simply Original. Also, we jump to the letter “W” in our regular segment called Blues Alphabet because the news comes to us that Johnny Winter passed away on July 16 this year.