Nice tunes today from Tony Molina, Dan Finnermore’s Swampmeat Family Band (ex Low Cut Connie) and King Tuff. Two hipsters from Animal Collective and Spacemen 3 had a cool little project recently called Reset in which they make collages of various well known songs into something entirely new. We check that out. We also hear from the legends. Andy Partridge from XTC has a new Swindon based project called The 3 Club Men and Graham Parker has a new album too. We introduce JJ McCann Transmission from Australia, Justin And The Cosmics from Nashville, David M. Western (also from Australia) and The Half Cubes.
The Flaming Sideburns – Invisible Hands
JJ McCann Transmission – Forces at Work
Justin and The Cosmics – Super Blue (Real Bad Sad)
The Special Pillow – That’s the Way It’s Got to Be
The Toms – Someone I Never Knew
King Tuff – Rock River
Panda Bear and Sonic Boom – Gettin’ to the Point
Diners – Working On My Dreams
Eamon McGrath – Man of Steel
David M Western – I’ll Never Forgive You
Graham Parker – Graham Parker & The Goldtops – It Mattered To Me
Graham Parker – Soul on Ice
Todd Rundgren – It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
Swampmeat Family Band – Black Dogs at Bay
Tony Molina – Devil Song
Tony Molina – Bullshit Riff
Tony Molina – Breakin’ Up
The Half Cubes – The Half-Cubes featuring Moe Berg – She’s So Young
The 3 Clubmen – Racecar
XTC – Don’t Lose Your Temper
XTC – Then She Appeared
Power pop review today! Mike Polizze out of Philadelphia is back with Purling Hiss. REM drummer Billy Berry has a new band out there Bad Ends in Athens, GA. Another veteran name from the south, Superchunk have a new single. Our recent favorites, Whiffs from Kansas City have another album out. Nude Party from New York and Well Wishers from San Francisco are back with new records. King Tuff also has a new album and Librarians With Hickeys have a new single. We introduce Vancouver singer songwriter CC Voltage and California band Decibels.
Mark Crozer – I Feel Heavy
Purling Hiss – Baby
The Decibels – Enough
The Decibels – Wrong Way Right
Popular Creeps – Wait & See
Trotsky Icepick – I Got a Line on You
Bad Ends – All Your Friends Are Dying
King Tuff – Portrait Of God
The Speedways – A Drop In The Ocean
The Rubs – Waste of Time
Superchunk – Making a Break
The Whiffs – Shot Thru
The Whiffs – Forget Your Name
Outtacontroller – Time To Crash
Tony Molina – All I’ve Known
The Well Wishers – Heroes
The Nude Party – Hey Monet
Connections – Steppin’ Out
Beatnik Termites – Strawberry Girl
Librarians With Hickeys – Can’t Wait ‘Till Summer
CC Voltage – Bummer Party
Brad Marino – False Alarm
In today’s episode, we have some news from my ol’ hometurf. We found out some info about the new harmonica player in Disciplin A Kitchme. His name is Igor, he lives in Vinkovci and has his own one man band called Harp Explosion. Check out his new spectacular album on bandcamp. Further down south, in Rijeka, we have My Buddy Moose. After their great album called Shine Shine, the new one is announced with the new single My People. We check out some new names today: The Gotobens from Pittsburgh and Joy from San Diego. Plus new music from King Tuff and Sid Griffin, who used to be with The Long Ryders. And Nikki Sudden’s tapes from the late nineties surfaced as a new album called Fred Beethoven. Sounds really great!
Nikki Sudden – Johnny B. Goode (Version #2 with Terry Miles);
King Tuff – Headbanger;
Lonnie Mack – Wham (Blues Alphabet);
Disciplina Kicme – Samo disciplina;
Harp Explosion – (Thee One Man band – 5 Years Later ) – Howl, Howl;
My Buddy Moose – My People;
My Buddy Moose – Better Rock’n’Roll;
Nels Cline – Impossible Germany (Live in Akron);
Long Ryders – 10-5-60;
Sid Griffin – Circle Bar;
The Gotobeds – Secs Tape;
Pink Floyd – The Nile Song;
Joy – Confusion.
One two three four! Today we rock hard. There’s a new album featuring Joey Ramone’s vocals recorded over the years called “Ya Know”. King Tuff, after the new single presented a few weeks ago in this show, is back with the new self-titled album. Natual Child from Nashville TN, are also back with the new record called For The Love of The Game. Mission of Burma toil on with a new record as well called Unsound. New names in today’s show are fun time rockers Low Cut Connie, retro pop duet Quantic and Alice Russel and a mysterious retro glam band Cozy.
The New Lou Reeds – Stranded in Ashland (Live in CLE);
Dan Sartain – Indian Massacre;
Joey Ramone – I Couldn’t Sleep;
The Vibrators – Sheena Is A Punk Rocker;
Happy Birthday – Fun;
King Tuff – Bad Thing;
New Kind Of Mambo – Land of 1000 Dances;
Gentleman Jesse – You Give Me Shivers;
Quantic And Alice Russell – Boogaloo 33;
Low Cut Connie – The Cat And The Cream;
Johnny Throttle – Lost Sputnik;
Cozy – Cola Shock Kids;
Natural Child – 8 AM Blues;
Natural Child – Natural Blues;
Mikal Cronin – Am I Wrong;
Mission of Burma – Second Television;
Mission of Burma – All World Cowboy Romance;
The Long Ryders – Man of Misery;
The Tough Shits – Hombre de la Cocaina.
Today we have new songs for the Sub Pop band Beachwood Sparks who were a big surprise some ten years ago when they first appeared. They are back with the new music after almost a decade of silence. King Tuff aka Kyle Thomas has a new single out and we check it out today. Ty Segall joined forces with White Fence on their new album together called Hair. New name in today’s show is a Nashville group of musicians go by the moniker The Altered Statesman. In our segment Live In Cleveland we have Joe Grushecky. Today’s show is dedicated to Levon Helm, legendary drummer of The Band who died recently.
Don Nix – My Train’s Done Come And Gone;
The Band – The Weight;
The Band – Jemima Surrender;
Beachwood Sparks – Forget The Song;
The Altered Statesman – All Your Goodies Are Gone;
Parliament – All Your Goodies Are Gone;
Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers – Hideaway;
Mike O’Neill – This Is Who I Am;
The Inbreds – Tell The Truth;
King Tuff – Wild Desire;
Gentleman Jesse – Covered Up My Tracks;
Bill Fox – I Only Did It Cuz I Felt So Lonely;
Eamon McGrath – Young Canadians;
Ty Segall and White Fence – Time;
Fotomaker – Pain;
Janis Joplin – A Woman Left Lonely.
Today we have two obituaries. Jazz vibraphonist from Zagreb, BoÅ¡ko Petrović, better known as B. P, died on January 10. The Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty died on January 4. He is best known for his hit singles Stuck In The Middle and Baker Street, but he actually had a pretty consistently good songbook through the entire recording career. We pay tributes to B.P. and Gerry in today’s show. Bubblegum Lemonade is a new Scottish band that’s out to continue their countryman Rafferty’s work. They, however, roughly belong to the new 80s revival, with sound that’s resembles what once was on The Creation label or Paisley Underground, even a good dose of shoegaze. Jump Back Jake from Memphis are here again with yet another ep. Tim Lee has a new double LP called Raucous Americanus – the first truly (and literally) big record for 2011. Gentleman Jesse has yet another new 45. Kyle Thomas’ band Happy Birthday (he’s also in King Tuff) has an LP that came out quite a few months ago, but I only got it now. It’s a really phenomenal record with great pop tunes. Thomas’ proves again that he’s a very talented songwriter.
BP Convention – Mali djecak sa velikim srcem;
The Monkees – The Last Train To Clarksville;
Bubblegum Lemonade – Last Train to Clarkston;
Bubblegum Lemonade – A Billion Heartbeats;
The Parties – Suite: Feet Back On The Ground/I’m Sorry/Going Away Girl;
King Tuff – A Pretty Dress;
Happy Birthday – 2 Shy;
Gentleman Jesse And His Men – You’ve Got The Wrong Man;
Gentleman Jesse – The Rest of My Days;
Jump Back Jake – If I Ever Go Back;
Jump Back Jake & The Echo-Friendly – Flash the Lights;
Tim Lee 3 – Bigger;
Tim Lee – Speak Up Girl;
Eagles Of Death Metal – Stuck In the Middle with You;
Stealers Wheel – Stuck In The Middle;
Stealers Wheel – Good Businessman;
Gerry Rafferty – Don’t Count Me Out;
Josipa Lisac and BP Convention Big Band – Nesto.
This is the last Little Lighthouse episode for this summer. Radio SC goes for a summer break and this show will take a rest together with them. We will be back in September together with the regular Radio SC programming schedule. For the last show of this season, we prepared some 20 minutes extra content for you. The most exciting thing this time is definitely the new Tav Falco album called Conjurations. Texas Tornados reunited without Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender, and have a new album called Esta Bueno!. Esta bueno is also the new garage band Davila 666 from Puerto Rico. The Half Rats is another good new garage band from Lafayette, IN. The main songwriter from King Tuff, Kyle has a new band called simply Happy Birthday. Mark Olson of the Jayhawks is also back with a new solo album called Many Colored Kite. So plenty of fresh stuff to chew on until we return in September! Keep checking The Little Lighthouse for occasional bonus shows and let me know if you’d like to see some of our older shows repeated while we’re on the break.
Lowel George – Cheek To Cheek;
Marah – Colfax Avenue;
Davila 666 – Ohhh;
999 – So Long;
Dead Milkmen – Rocket Ship;
Hard Ons – Wog Food;
Alejandro Escovedo – Tender Heart;
Mad Dukes – Yo Yo;
King Tuff – Connection;
Apache – Outside;
Happy Brithday – Girls FM;
Juliana Hatfield – Everybody Loves Me But You;
Uncle Tupelo – Give Back The Key To My Heart;
Sir Doug & The Texas Tornados – Give Back The Key of My Heart;
Texas Tornados – Girl Going Nowhere;
Angst – Red Wing;
The Half Rats – For the Sake of Love;
Tav Falco – Gentleman in Black;
Tav Falco – Phantome Demoiselle;
Mark Olson – Wind And Rain;
Dukes of Stratosphere – You’re My Drug.
I finally saw Gentleman Jesse live and I loved the show. A snippet from that show is in today’s episode. Jesse played in Cleveland his new song Word Gets Around and a cover of King Tuff’s Connection. King Tuff is a new band for me, so we check out also their own version of Connection and we introduce them to the Little Lighthouse. Inspired by the new Obits version of Milk Cow Blues, we explore the history of this great song by hearing four different versions of it. Brimstone Howl has a new 45 out, they cover Neil Diamond’s song Solitary Man. New names for today’s show are Palmyra Delran – a powerpop singer-songwriter from New York City, Mark And The Spies, a powerpop band from Netherlands. Also we have DV Nikt art-rocker from Philadelphia and The Guilty Hearts, garage rockers from California. We finish things up with wonderful last year’s Boz Scaggs jazz standards album Speak Low. We caught it as it was slipping thorough the cracks of my forgetfulness.
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me;
Boye – Ja hocu te;
DV Nikt – Spirit of the forest;
Dead Moon – Milk cow Blues;
Sleepy John Estes – Milk Cow Blues;
The Kinks – Milk Cow Blues;
Obits – Milk Cow Blues;
The Guilty Hearts – 3000 Miles;
Brimstone Howl – Solitary Man;
Gentleman Jesse – Word Gets Around;
Gentlemen Jesse – Connection;
King Tuff – Connection;
The Jam – Away From The Numbers;
Palmyra Delran – You’re Loosing Me;
Mark & The Spies – We Fell In Love;
Boz Scaggs – Up to You;
Boz Scaggs – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me.
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