Murky experimental downer of a show today, but still, great new music from Meatbodies in LA, Goat in Sweden, Strange Attractor in Canada, Wanderlust from Nashville, Shivas from Portland, City of Cool from Australia and the legendary Hawkwind! Also we check out new tunes from Kurt Vile, Iggy Pop and Matt Sweeney that came out on the new Velvet Underground tribute.
Electric Light Orchestra – Fire on High;
Meatbodies – Reach For The Sunn;
Goat – Queen of the Underground;
Hawkwind – Unsomnia;
Strange Attractor – Temenos;
Weird Omen – (I Will Write You) Poetry;
Wanderlust – All A View;
Kurt Vile – Run Run Run;
Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney – European Son;
The Shivas – You Wanna Be My Man;
City of Cool – Inside the work Outside the work.
Today we start with The Meatbodies, a band that involves Chad Ubovich, a long time collaborator of Ty Segall. Then we introduce Sabbath Assembly, self described occult band that travels between Texas and New York City. White Reaper come from Louisville KY and Ghoultown come from Texas, both bands quite rough and heavy. Automatic City from France bring us their playful brand of boogie woogie and so do modern legends Endless Boogie who are back with a new record. We also have two new albums by two wonderful ladies. Juliana Hatfield is here with Pussycat and Mary Bragg debuts at the show with an original approach to songwriting. The Obsessed has a new record called Sacred and we also check how they sounded in Cleveland a few weeks ago. Redd Kross also visited us here in town, after 20 years.
We open up today with a tune from the brand new Electric Six record Human Zoo. Then we move on and check out new albums for two of the Sonic Youth guitarists which are out now, almost simultaneously. Thurston Moore made a really good one called The Best Day and Lee Ranaldo collected songs from his earlier solo albums and put them together in an acoustic setting. We also introduce three new names: Mitski from New York City, Fox and The Law from Settle and Meatbodies from Los Angeles.