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Flashlite #740

Altin Gun

Nice show today with new music from California’s Crocodiles, Londoners Embrooks, Sunfruits of Australia, Les Lullies from Frnace and Turkish band from Netherlands Altin Gun. We introduce Moonlight Benjamin from Toulouse France, originally Haitian. We also welcome legendary Iggy Pop, Julie Christensen and Jody Stephens with new tunes. Jody is with Luther Russell in the third installment of Those Pretty Wrongs. At the tail end of the show we pay a tribute to David Lindley, who started his career in sixties with Kaleidoscope and continued contributing to important solo records, most notable Warren Zevon’s.

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Zlatni akordi – My Generation
Crocodiles – Degeneration
The Embrooks – In The Sky
Babaganouj – Stay Up For Me
Sunfruits – End Of The World
Those Pretty Wrongs – Scream
Popular Creeps – Wait & See
Iggy Pop – Strung Out Johnny
Les Lullies – Dernier Soir
Robert Forster – Always
Eamon McGrath – Fireworks
Julie Christensen – How He Lost Her
Moonlight Benjamin – Taye banda
Moonlight Benjamin – Salwe
Altin Gun – Kalk Gidelim
Kaleidoscope – Pulsating Dream
Warren Zevon – Detox Mansion
Warren Zevon – Something Bad Happened To A Clown

Flashlite #532

Crystal & Runnin WildToday we start off with the retro 50s sound of Crystal & Runnin’ Wild from Belgium. We follow that up with another retro band, Fever Feel lead by two brothers from Canada Landon Franklin and Logan Gabert. They are inspired by the 70s sound. Luther Russel is probably the most faithful keeper of Big Star fire. After his excellent project with Jody Stephens, Those Pretty Wrongs, he is back with te new solo record. Hedvig Mollestad is a guitar virtuoso from Norway and Crows are a new band from London. Two old-timers are back. Legendary Robin Trower has an excellent new record and so does the legendary psychedelic magicians Chocolate Watchband. Today’s show is dedicated to Boris Popović, the leader of Croatian band Running Party who passed away recently.

Boz Scaggs – Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered;
Crystal & Runnin Wild – Recipe For Agony;
Fever Feel – Come to Me;
John Wesley Coleman III – Baby I Like Your Style;
Guided By Voices – Windshield Wiper Rex;
Luther Russel – Talking to Myself;
Robin Trower – Little Girl Blue;
Red Devil Ryders (Live in CLE);
CFM – Wolf Behind My Eyes;
Shagg – Rustbelt Reject;
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Bewitched, Dwarfed and Defeathered;
Running Party – Memories;
ESC Life – Say You Will;
The Long Ryders – Walls;
Gorilla – Mary Anne;
Chocolate Watchband – Bombay Pipeline;
Crows – Dysphoria.

Flashlite #412 – The Best Albums in 2016 (Part Two)

Best of 2015Last 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.

Flashlite #380

Jody StephensThe best news for this show is that Jody Stephens from Big Star and Luther Russel of Freewheelers formed a new band called Those Pretty Wrongs (after a Shakespeare’s poem). Their new record is made in Memphis Ardent Studios with the old Big Star equipment and while it definitely draws on that sound, it’s definitely not a cheap nostalgic take on a beloved band. It underlines on just how much Jody was integral to this band. We also have new music from Fort Wayne’s Left Lane Cruiser, and Pat Todd. We have no less than two supergroups today. Hard Working Americans are Todd Snider and Dave Schools from Widespread Panic together with and Neal Casal. Hard working Canadians are Tuns with Chris Murphy of Sloan, Matt Murphy of Super Friendz and Mike O’Neill of The Inbreds. We also check out Fifty Foot Combo from Belgium and The Hunches from Portland OR.

Ron Wood – Act Together;
Left Lane Cruiser – Laid to the Bone;
Fifty Foot Combo – Accident Or Incident;
Hard Working Americans – Stomp and Holler;
Hard Working Americans – Half Ass Moses;
Neal Casal – I Will Weep No More;
Jody Stephens – You & Your Sister;
Those Pretty Wrongs – Ordinary;
Big Star – February’s Quiet;
Big Star – Way Out West;
Warm Soda – Jeanie Loves Pop;
Pat Todd And The Rankoutsiders – Don’t Be Sellin’ Emptiness to Me;
Pat Todd – Route 66 (Live in CLE);
The Inbreds – Cruise Control;
TUNS – Throw It All Away;
The Hunches – You’ll Never Get Away With My Heart;
Snooze In Motion – Mirror Song;
Pridjevi – Ubila sam cvijet.