Today we open up with the new music from Life Strike over in Melbourne Australia. Also, from the same city, we have Cakefight with their brand new cover of the Jay Reatard classic Hammer I Miss You. Faux Killas from Memphis are back with the new single. Also, Gabbie Bam Bam is back as BBQT with the brand new single as well. Black Lips have a new album and so does Switzerland’s Destination Lips. We also catch up with some older records which fell through the cracks, by Cocktails from Boston and Muck And The Mires from San Francisco.
Eric Burdon and The Animals – We Love You Lil;
Life Strike – Basic Scratch;
Faux Killas – Sweet Maxine;
Faux Killas – Burn the Clothes;
Cobra Verde – I Want You;
The Troggs – I want you;
Destination Lonely – I want you;
Destination Lonely – Trouble;
Cakefight – Hammer I Miss You;
Jay Reatard – Hammer I Miss You;
Warm Soda – Forbidden Emotion;
BBQT – Fever Rocket;
Black Lips – Angola Rodeo;
Black Lips – BBBJOT;
Hurriganes – Simple Simple;
The 101ers- Steamgauge 99;
The Hot Dogs – Thanks;
Cocktails – Part of the Problem;
Muck and the Mires – Three Steps Closer;
Kim Fowley – Hide and Seek.
Today’s show is dedicated to Jay Reatard and Vic Chesnutt. These two important characters on the modern rock’n’roll scene died recently. Jay Reatard died in his sleep on January 13 this year and Vic Chesnutt died from a muscle relaxant overdose on December 25. Jay was 29 and Vic was 45. We lost much more than just two rock’n’roll musicians. We lost leaders of the scene, relevant guys who moved and shook things around with every record they put out. On the other hand, the two are diametrically opposite. Jay wrote short, loud songs, did great singles and recently injecting some healthy dose of reformation of the rock album format. On the other hand Vic was a leader of the loose pack of new folk authors and singer songwriters, finding a new way to tell the old stories of despair and pain. They left shoes that will be impossible to fill in.
Vic Chesnutt – Dying Young;
The Reatards – Blew My Mind;
The Reatards – Lick on My Leather;
Jay Reatard – Man Of Steel;
Jay Reatard – Another Person;
Jay Reatard – It’s So Useless;
Jay Reatard – Blood Visions;
Jay Reatard – Oh, It’s Such A Shame;
Final Solutions – Poderimo Rock;
The Reatards – When I Get Mad;
The Reatards – Out of My Head into My Bed;
The Reatards – Runnin’ Free;
Jay Reatard – I’m Watching You;
Jay Reatard – There Is No Sun;
Vic Chesnutt – Sleeping Man;
brute – George Wallace;
brute – Blight;
brute – Snowblind;
Vic Chesnutt – Dodge;
Vic Chesnutt – Flirted With You All My Life;
Vic Chesnutt – Gravity of The Situation.
Today we have three new releases by three regular acts here at the Little Lighthouse. Mission of Burma’s new LP The Sound The Speed The Light confirms that they are more than just another 80s reunion. I still remember vividly their amazing open air concert here in Cleveland this summer. Greg Cartwright’s Reigning Sound are also back with their new album Love and Curses, and it re-establishes Cartwright as one the greatest songwriters at this point in history. Another prolific Memphis punk, Jay Reatard has a new album called Watch Me Fall. This master of short form (singles and eps), proves that he can do a long player just as well. We also bring you a new attraction from Perth Australia – smRts, founded by Pedja Delibasic who we know from defunct Soviet Valves.
Stone The Crows – Keep On Rollin;
Python Lee Jackson – Turn The Music Down;
smRts – Lenin’s Funeral March;
Reigning Sound – If I Can’t Come Back;
The Oblivians – She’s a Hole;
Greg Cartwright – Better Man Than Me;
Greg Koons And The Misbegotten – New Boyfriend;
Ray Mason – Lunch Box;
Mission of Burma – Nicotine Bomb;
Mission Of Burma – SSL 83;
Messerschmitt – Ohio;
Jay Reatard – My Reality;
Jay Reatard – Don’t Let Him Come Back;
The Go-Betweens – Don’t Let Him Come Back;
The Chairs – Christopher Bell;
Big Star – My Life Is Righ;
Don Nix – Black Cat Moan;
Mudboy and the Neutrons – Hitler Lives;
Beatles – Revolution 1;
Laboratorija Zvuka – Oprostaj od magneta.
Welcome to a new Little Lighthouse episode, this time full with interesting new (and not so new) records. Preparing one of my previous shows, I came across the news that Austin TX band Glass Eye had a brand new record in 2006. So, I promptly got it and here it is in the brand new Flashlite Lighthouse. News comes to us that Chick Graning’s old ’90s band Scarce is back in the studio. Their new myspace page pleasantly surprised me with several brand new demos, so we check that out in this show. Our contemporary favorites Bellrays and Jay Reatard are back with new stuff: The Bellrays have a new CD out called Hard, Sweet and Sticky and Jay has a new 45. And last, but not least, we introduce a brand new band from France, Jack of Heart.
Serge Gainsbourg – Requiem Pour Un Con;
The BellRays – Coming Down;
The BellRays – Changing Colors;
Reigning Sound – You Got Me Hummin’;
Sam & Dave – You Got Me Hummin’;
Glass Eye – The Big Moment;
Glass Eye – Poison water;
Scarce – Dead Bleaux;
Scarce – All Sideways;
Jack of Heart – Tell Me Lyres;
Jay Reatard – See/Saw;
Jay Reatard – Night of Broken Glass;
Jay Reatard – In The Dark;
The Hellacopters – Gimmie Shelter;
The Hellacopters – Midnight Angels;
Dax Riggs – Dream or Be Dead;
The Mourning Reign – Satisfaction Guaranteed;
The Mourning Reign – Tales Of Brave Ulysses;
Screaming Trees – Tales of Brave Ulysses.
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