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Flashlite #662

Nina Romic

Today, music from Yugoslavia or whatever was left from it. No special reason other than some interesting new tunes from over there and recent obituaries. From Macedonia, we check out 21 Vek, their new single. Rebel Star operates in Serbia and Hungary and now collaborates with Zagreb’s Zvonka Obajdin. Also in Zagreb, Croatia, Nina Romi? is back with the new single. Koikoi is a new name for us, a four piece from Belgrade Serbia. Then we zig zag back to Zagreb and check out Confidential & The Secret Four. Then we end up all the way North in Slovenia and introduce Matthias von Stumberger und seine Jugend. We pay tributes to fallen Yugo rock representatives, Marina Tucakovi? who was a lyricist for many popular songs, singer songwriter and TV presenter Minja Subota. Also musicians Sanja Ili? and Zafir Hažimanov.

Idoli – Pomoc pomoc;
21 Vek – Sama vidi si;
Rebel Star – Pocetak i kraj;
Elvis J. Kurtovic i Meteori – Djevojka bez cinela;
Metak – Panika;
Jadranka Stojakovic – Obicna tema;
Nina Romic – Pismo;
Koikoi – Misisipi;
Korni grupa – Neko spava pored mene;
Crveni Koralji – Tema mladih ljubavnika;
Confidential & The Secret Four – Black Is The Color;
Matthias von Stumberger und seine Jugend – Five year plan;
Lelee – Generacija XYZ;
Boye – Skocila sam s kreveta;
Sarlo Akrobata – Samo ponekad;
Sons – Gajle;
Yu Grupa – Opasno;
Zana – Nastavnice;
Delial – Sejem Želja;
Minja Subota – Homo Homini;
Bisera Veletanlic – Tuzno popodne;
Zlatko Manojlovic – Tvoja pesma.

Flashlite #539

Feels

Today we have new music from Giants In The Trees, the new band for Krist Novoselic which had a wonderful album last year. Now they are back with volume two. Supergroup with Corin Tucker, Peter Buck and Linda Pittmon, Filthy Friends also has a new record. Legendary Wreckless Eric is more active than ever, new record just came out. Another legend, Rickie Lee Jones is also back with a cover of an old America song. Nina Romic from Zagreb Croatia, has a new single. And the legendary leader of True West, Russ Tolman also has a new record. We introduce also two new bands for us, Possible Humans from Melbourne AU, and Feels from Los Angeles.

Rickie Lee Jones – The Blue Ghazel;
Possible Humans – Orbiting Luigi;
Giants in the Trees – Star Machine;
Syd Straw – The Toughest Girl In The World;
Ex Hex – Tough Enough;
Feels – Car;
Filthy Friends – Emerald Valley;
Filthy Friends – Faded Afternoon;
Tommy Stinson – Breathing Room (Live in CLE);
Wreckless Eric – A Pop Song;
Wreckless Eric – Strange Locomotion;
Russ Tolman – Goodbye El Dorado – Almost Heaven;
Russ Tolman – Blame It On The Girl;
True West – You;
Nina Romic – Crno;
Rickie Lee Jones – Lonely People.

Flashlite #476

Nina RomićNew music took us strange places this time. I recently came across a band from Barcelona, Spain, by the name of Belgrado, with a Polish singer that takes up the visual identity of Yugoslavian Zenitism movement and sounds like they are from Rijeka, cca 1983. Then, we also check out a Welsh band that named themselves after my old hometown, Vukovar. Back in that old part of the world, we also get new music from Nina Romić and Punčke. The rest of the show also brings the new albums from Calexico, as well as a new collaboration between Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. We also introduce some new names for us. Big Eyes lead by Kate Eldridge come from New York City and the singer-songwriter Shawna Russel hails from Oklahoma.

Gun – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party);
Big Eyes – Giving It Up For Good;
Calexico – Dead in the Water;
The Fleshtones – Back To School (Live in CLE);
Nina Romić – Svjetla;
Punčke – Valovi;
Baton Rouge – Côte du Py;
Belgrado – Dalej;
Vukovar – Veil;
Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys – Turn The Page;
Ty Segall – Fanny Dog;
Mikal Cronin – Better Man;
The Lighthouse Keepers – Seven Years;
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Billy The Kid And Geronimo;
Shawna Russell – Slow Down in Oklahoma;
Hotrats – (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party).

Flashlite #270

PridjeviWe have two new heavy rock albums to start off today. Hush or Howl by Black Pistol Fire of Toronto and Austin and Get Pure by Mount Carmel from Columbus. Thee Melomen come from Zagreb, and they are basically Backstreet Brats re-branded. Pridjevi are from around there as well – studio trio which consists of Nina Romić, Dino Santaleza and Ivana Picek. Sally Crewe from Austin TX has a new ep with a cover of XTC’s Making Plans for Nigel. Doug Gillard is a guest guitar hero on it. The Hold Steady are back with the new record. For those who like mellower sounds, we have Kevin Kane from Toronto with his charming cover of Simon And Garfunkel’s Cathy and Allysen Callery re-imagines Gordon Lighfoot’s Sundown.

Allysen Callery – Sundown;
Black Pistol Fire – Dimestore Heartthrob;
Mount Carmel – Fear Me Now;
Buddy Guy – Try To Quit You Baby (Blues Alphabet);
Thee Melomen – Cosmic Ted;
Pridjevi – Lucifer i ja;
Alejandro Escovedo – The Bottom Of The World (Live in CLE);
Doug Gillard – Upper Hand;
Sally Crewe and The Sudden Moves – Making Plans For Nigel;
XTC – Making Plans For Nigel;
R Stevie Moore with Dave Gregory – Dates;
The Mice – Downtown;
The Hold Steady – Wait a While;
The Tunes – Too Proud;
Kevin Kane – Last to Know;
Kevin Kane – Cathy.

Flashlite #208

Irena ŽilićToday’s spotlight is on the neo-acoustic music scene in former Yugoslavia. There was a huge folk movement also known over there as akusticari in the early to mid seventies. It seems as that scene is being revived. We already presented Belgrade’s On Tour some time ago, and today we have two more new names. Irena Žilić is a young singer songwriter from Zagreb with her modern and fresh take on western folk music. Nina Romić, also from Zagreb, is on the other hand more rooted in the local folklore. In this episode, she covers a song written originally by Satan Panonski – a hard blood shock punk from the eighties who was both influential and controversial at the same time. Nina’s cover is a part of a larger tribute called Oči u magli. We also have a new album by our old friends from Rijeka My Buddy Moose. Their style is more on the roots rock side. Their new album Shine Shine Shine is produced by Chris Eckman from The Walkabouts, who also lives in that neck of the woods these days – Ljubljana. The Walkabouts have a live album called Berlin and we check that out as well in this show. Elsewhere form Europe, Amsterdam, we have an instrumental outfit called Bevel Emboss who create a wonderful tapestry of guitar sounds on their new album called Celluloid. Back to America – we have Arbouretum from Baltimore for the first time and super-group Sweet Apple have a new single out there which announces their album due this Spring around the Record Store Day. Mark Lanegan is a guest vocalist!

Uncle Tupelo – Gun;
Arbouretum – The Promise;
Arbouretum – Wicked Messenger;
Faces – Wicked Messenger;
Jack Fords – Shake Some Action (Live in CLE);
My Buddy Moose – Girl;
The Walkabouts – Jack Candy;
On Tour – November Hits Hard;
Irena Žilić – Whatever Feels Right;
Nina Romić – Dječakova pjesma;
Bevel Emboss – Straighten A Dash;
Indexi – Nikada;
Low Cut Connie – You’ve Got Everything;
Ben Deily and Will Anderson – Sorry Too;
Stan McMahon – What’s Wrong;
Sweet Apple Feat. Mark Lanegan – Wish You Could Stay (A Little Longer).