Welcome to the first regular show of 2025! We have some new tunes for you. We start with The Jackets from Bern in Switzerland. Then we go to California and hear the new single from Javier Escovedo of Zeros. Ambrose Kenny Smith is busy with Morlocs and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard. Now he is with a third band, Gum. We check that out today. Des Demonas are from Washington DC and have a new, exceptionally sounding record. Syd Straw is back with a new single. David Nance has an album of outtakes. We also introduce The Gypsy Moths from Boston and Spyrals from California. Show closes with a special tribute to Slim Dunlap, legendary guitarist of Replacements and many other configurations from Minneapolis.
Buzz Barker and The Atomic Bums – Land of The Free
The Jackets – Coco Loco
Javier Escovedo – Work It Out
Beachwood Sparks – Wild Swans US Radio Mix
Gum – Old Transistor Radio
Des Demonas – Restructuring
Golden Palominos – Diamond (Ney York City 1986)
Syd Straw – Take Back the Night
The Gypsy Moths – Heart To Break
Pelazo – Ten Feet Deep
David Nance – I Stood Alone In The Grocery Store
The Spyrals – UH HUH
Bound Beggars – All Over Again
The Replacements – Achin’ To Be
Spooks – Laugh It Up
Bob Dunlap and Symphonic Fuzz – Loud Loud Loud Guitars
Slim Dunlap – Ain’t Exactly Good
Slim Dunlap – Cozy
We start off today with the new Swedish quartet Honeymoon Disease with a cool, denim-clad, straightforward rock’n’roll sound. Javier Escovedo, of Zeros and True Believers, brother of Alejandro has a new record as well. We introduce King Mud, a duet from from Fort Wayne, IN. Legendary Dan Stuart is back with a new band and a follow up to his great album Deliverance of Marlowe Billings hecho en Mexico. Our Italian friends Cheap Wine, who never shied away from naming Green On Red as their biggest influence are back with their second live album that contains longer, improvisational pieces. And in the end, we say goodbye to the rock’n’roll legend Giorgio Gomelsky who passed away in January. He helped the career of Yardbirds when we worked as their manager and producer over in the swinging 60s London.
Today we start off with an Australian band The On and Ons who serve as a backup band for Paul Collins when he plays over there. But they are also a band on their own and The On and Ons Calling is their new record. The band is consisted of former members of Zeros, Stems and Hoodoo Gurus. This also made me look up Hard-Ons. It turns out, they recently had a new record called Peel Me Like An Egg, which I have overseen until now. Scott Reynolds recorded a new album a couple of months ago in his bedroom, so we check it out. Ultimate Painting are a duet from London (Jack Cooper and James Hoare) and we check them out for the first time here at the Little Lighthouse. Todd Rundgren recently teamed up with two Norwegian artists Emil Nikolaisen and Hans Peter Lindstrøm for an unusual new album called Runddans.