One of the most interesting rock musicians that showed up on the scene in the past few years is David Nance from Nebraska. Last year we heard his excellent album Staunch Honey and now he’s back as a part of the band called Astute Palate. Billy Childish is very active recently and we check out his new album with CTFM. Billy Childish is active but not as active as Daniel Romano, who is here again with yet another project called Spider Bites. Melvins have a new single and it’s a peculiar tribute to Beach Boys. We hear new music from Muck and The Mires and introduce Cleveland’s Red Devil Ryders, Advertisement from Seattle and Isolators from Buffalo.
Firehose – Towin’ The Line;
Advertisment – Upstream Boogie;
Muck and the Mires – I’m Your Man;
Faux Ferocious – Listen Hard;
Nick Curran & The Lowlifes – Reform School Girl;
The Revelators – I Can’t Stop Lovin’;
The Isolators – Come On to Me;
Astute Palate – A Little Proof;
David Nance – July Sunrise;
Brimstone Howl – Easter At The Lewises’;
The Hellacopters – Straight Until Morning;
Demolition Doll Rods – Baby Sis;
Quintron & Miss Pussycat – You Made It Weird;
CTMF – Comanche;
Melvins – I Fuck Around;
Husker Du – Won’t Change;
Jay Reatard – Another Person;
Neverever – Now;
Straight Arrows – Petrified;
The Mystery Lights – Too Many Girls;
The Ettes – Trouble With You;
Red Devil Ryders – Elvis’ Piano;
Daniel Romano – Red Dawn;
Daniel Romano – Blue Heron.
Psychedelic boogie episode today with new music from Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Oh Sees, A Place To Bury Strangers and Thurston Moore. Introducing, Carlton Melton from San Francisco and Mugstar from Liverpook, UK. Plus, Clutch and Endless Boogie issue archival material. Melt your mind with the sounds from The Little Lighthouse.
Helicon – The Sun Also Rises;
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – Dog Death opus 27;
Mugstar – Cato;
Oh Sees – Weird and Wasted Connection;
Oh Sees – Dark Weald;
Clutch – Run, John Barleycorn, Run;
Bassholes – John Barleycorn;
All Them Witches – Saturnine & Iron Jaw;
Carlton Melton – Three Zero Two;
Endless Boogie – Cretan Miniatures;
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Automation;
A Place To Bury Strangers – You Are The One;
Thurston Moore – They Believe in Love (When They Look at You).
Twenty years ago, on a Saturday morning of January 14th 2001, I walked into KLSU studio and broadcasted the very first Little Lighthouse over the radio. Soon after that, I had an idea to put mp3 recordings of the show on my website and basically created the first podcast in the world (maybe?!). Twenty years later, I still do this weekly, delighting a negligible amount of listeners. And so we go into the 21st year with some new music from Kelley Stoltz, Radio Days, Mark Crozer, Andy Bopp, Guided By Voices, Pushups. But we start with good old Dukes of Stratosphear that inspired all this that I do and we end with a bouquet of Bob Dylan tunes.
Dukes of Stratosphear – 25 O’Clock;
XTC – Reel By Reel;
Dukes of Stratospear – Little Lighthouse;
Kelley Stoltz – Never Change Enough;
Radio Days – I Got a Love;
Tim Lee 3 – Magnolia Plates;
Redd kross – Dancing Queen;
Mark Crozer – The Winner Takes It All;
Andy Bopp – Bicycle Parts;
The Sandwich Police – Splinters;
Stutter Steps – Floored;
Guided By Voices – King Flute;
Guided By Voices – Stops;
Pushups – Can’t Help Myself;
Bob Dylan – I Contain Multitudes;
Emma Swift – Queen Jane Approximately;
Lucinda Williams – Queen Jane Approximately;
The William Loveday Intention – Positively 4th Street;
Daniel Romano’s Outfit – Sweetheart Like You;
Bob Dylan – Sweetheart Like You.
Today we continue the list of my favorite albums in 2020. The complete top 30 list is below!
1. A Burning Bus
2. Sylvia Rose Novak - Bad Luck
3. The Whiffs - Another Whiff
4. Petrified Max - Charlie Drove North
5. Cocktails - Catastrophic Entertainment
6. David Nance - Staunch Honey
7. 2nd Grade - Hit To Hit
8. The Reflectors - First Impression
9. Low Cut Connie - Private Lives
10. Swampmeat Family Band - Muck
11. Ghost Funk Orchestra - Song For Paul
12. Trotsky Icepick - I Haunted Myself
13. Little Albert - Swamp King
14. Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks
15. Aubrie Sellers - Far From Home
16. Bipolariod - Paint it Blacker
17. Honey Radar - Ruby Puff Of Dust
18. The Berries - Berryland
19. Natural Child - California Hotel
20. Saba Lou - Novum Ovum
21. Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice
22. Fred and Rose - Estado Alpha
23. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
24. Sonic Dawn - Enter the Mirage
25. Levitation Room - Headspace
26. The Third Mind
27. All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal
28. x - Alphabetland
29. Fuzz - III
30. Datura4 - West Coast Highway Cosmic
Aubrie Sellers – Troublemaker;
Emma Swift – Queen Jane Approximately;
Little Albert – Swamp King;
Trotsky Icepick – Oxygen The Destroyer;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Modern Scene;
Swampmeat Family Band – Over Your Head;
Low Cut Connie – Let It All Hang Out Tonite;
The Reflectors – U Should Be My Girl;
2nd Grade – Boys in Heat;
David Nance – My Love, The Dark and I;
Cocktails – Oversaturated;
Petrified Max – Length of Rope;
The Whiffs – Please Come Home;
Sylvia Rose Novak – Flowers For The Fortunate;
A Burning Bus – Watch You Go;
A Burning Bus – Burnt Bridges;
A Burning Bus – I’m Coming Down;
A Burning Bus – Faith healer.
We’re at the end of this historic crappy year. Still, there’s a good handful of albums that we kept coming back to at the Little Lighthouse. So, let’s take a look back and try to list those albums. Before the complete list of top 30 albums is complete in a week for now, let’s dig into the lower end of that list. For a crappy year, overall, the music was really good.
Datura4 – Mother Medusa;
Fuzz – Close Your Eyes;
X – I Gotta Fever;
All Them Witches – Lights Out;
The Third Mind – Claudia Cardinale;
Levitation Room – Stars Speak Softly;
The Sonic Dawn – UFO;
Bob Dylan – False Prophet;
Fred And Rose – In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night);
Nicole Atkins – These Old Roses;
Saba Lou – Penny Roll;
Natural Child – Farm;
The Berries – Passing Scene;
Honey Radar – Almanac Singer;
Bipolaroid – In My Cave.
Today we start off with a new rocking tune by The Short Fuses from Minneapolis. Then we go to Greece and check out the new band for us Alien Mustangs. Rachel Brooke is from Michigan and we introduce her for the first time at The Little Lighthouse. Tanya Donelly, former member of Throwing Muses and Belly is back with a new project with Parkinton Sisters and she rolls out an old Paul McCartney tune for the occasion. Death Valley Girls over in LA are back with new tunes. We also introduce new music from The Budos Band.
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Pause I;
The Short Fuses – Baby Got Bat Wings;
Alien Mustangs – Darklands;
Faz Waltz – Rebel Kicks;
Shemekia Copeland – She Don’t Wear Pink;
Rachel Brooke – Great Mistake;
Kate Clover – Channel Zero (2020 Mix);
Nicole Atkins – In The Splinters;
Tanya Donelly – Let Me Roll It;
Death Valley Girls – I’d Rather Be Dreaming;
Fernando Perdomo – Girl With A Record Collection;
Petrified Max – Fall;
Tuff Sunshine – Move A Mountain;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Pause II;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Queen Bee;
The Budos Band – Gun Metal Grey 1;
The Most – Reintroduction;
Andrew Bryant – Who Am I;
Van Duren – New Year’s Eve;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Pause III.
Today we give you a bunch of sweet new tunes. We open up with a great cover of Making Time by Civics from Melbourne. Then we check out Icarus Peel and his Acid Reign over in UK. Next, we have Supercrush in Seattle and their new album. Then we continue with Tommy Marolda and his The Toms, who go back to 1979 in search for their newly rehashed material. Jack Cades from Warwick UK and Cowboys from Bloomington IN create retro sounds in modern times. We also introduce Robert Jon and The Wreck and Long Goodnight both from California, the latter one being a new project for Fernando Perdomo and the singer Chloe Dolandis.
Mooner – I Can’t Tell;
Civic – Making Time;
Icarus Peel’s Acid Reign – Wishful Thinking;
Primitons – All My Friends;
One plus Two – Promise;
Supercrush – Get It Right;
The Toms – Til the End of the Day;
Jordan Jones – Wrote You a Song for Me;
The Reflectors – U should be my girl;
Dovers – What am I Gonna Do;
The Jack Cades – What Am I Going To Do;
The Cowboys – Round and Round;
Stan McMahon – Great American Hope;
Cocktails – Those Changes;
Bash and Pop – Not This Time;
Low Cut Connie – Nobody Else Will Believe You;
Robert Jon and the Wreck – Makes Me Wanna Yell;
Long Goodnight – Good Song_It’s True;
Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light;
The Lemon Twigs – Leather Together;
Luther Russell – Have You Heard?;
2nd Grade – Sunkist.
Today we have some very interesting comebacks from two greatest rock’n’roll scenes in the world. True Sons of Thunder, a Memphis super-garage-group is back with the new record, and so are the legendary trio from Detroit, Demolition Doll Rods. Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat from New Orleans also have a new record and so does the super-trio Fuzz with Ty Segall, Charles Moothart and Chad Ubovich. We also check out new singles for Outacontroller, Gyasi and Harp Explosion. We introduce Tyler Keith and The Apostles for the first time at the show. Great archival material is also out, by Red Lights (a Jeffrey Lee Pierce band) and the lost album by The Last.
Dead Moon – Fire in the Western World;
Outtacotroller – Loose Lips;
True Sons of Thunder – Killin’ It;
True Sons of Thunder – Crawlin;
Wolfmanhattan Project – Braid of Smoke;
Danny and The Darleans (Live in CLE);
Demolition Doll Rods – Bitch Kickin’;
Quintron and Miss Pussycat – Teenagers Don’t Know Shit;
A Burning Bus – Irrational front;
Tyler Keith & The Apostles – Vaya Con Dios;
Tyler Keith & The Apostles – Fire In The Western World;
Harp Explosion – It’s gonna be a long night;
The Schizophonics – Show Me Your Eyes;
Hayvanlar Alemi – Referendum Day;
Fuzz – Nothing People;
Gyasi – Walk On;
Gyasi – Colorful;
Red Lights – Kisses for my president;
The Last – The Other Side;
The Last – Difference.
Good songwriting today! We have new music by Sarah Harmer and Eamon McGrath, both from Canada, Adam Weiner and his Low Cut Connie on a new album. We also have one of the most legendary ones: Bruce Springsteen. Talking about legends, John Mayall has just celebrated his 86th birthday with a new single, collaborating with Buddy Miller. Willie Nile had a good record this year and there’s also a tribute organized in his honor. Shemekia Copeland has a lovely new feminist cover of Under My Thumb. Finally, Templo Diez is a new band from Netherlands that we introduce in today’s show.
Daniel Romano – Natural Lover;
Sarah Harmer – New Low;
Low Cut Connie – Help Me;
Swampmeat Family Band – Mother’s Lies;
Molly Tuttle – She’s a Rainbow;
The Rolling Stones – Under my Thumb;
Shemekia Copeland – Under My Thumb;
John Mayall – I’m as Good as Gone (Feat. Buddy Miller);
John Mayall – Curly;
Bette Smith – I Felt It Too;
Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap;
Any Trouble – Growing Up;
Bruce Springsteen – Last Man Standing;
Eamon McGrath – Sparkle & Bleed;
Dan Penn – Edge of Love;
Templo Diez – 305 South;
Graham Parker – One Guitar;
Willie Nile – the Fool Who Drank the Ocean.
A pleasant sounding retro paisley pop episode today fits the November gloom. We start off with Left Outsides, a duet from London with Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton. Then we check out The BellTowers from Orlando, FL. A new band that grew out of The Steppes, The Laissez Fairs contribute with the new single and so does the legendary Clientele who we are happy to see back. Also out in UK, from the Medway area, we have Theatre Royal and on the other side of the Earth, in New Zealand, we check out Lamp of the Universe. Stateside, Sally Crewe teams up with Doug Gillard and over in New Jersey we check out psychedelic sounds of Garcia Peoples.
Yardbrids – Heart Full Of Soul;
The Left Outsides – November on my Mind;
The BellTowers – Sunshine Nursery Rhymes;
Electric Prunes – Bangles;
The Laissez Fairs – Crown Plaza;
The Laissez Fairs – 10,000 Tomorrows;
Theatre Royal – Callow;
Part-Time Lover – Kelly Cruise Kelly;
Shocking Blue – Out of Sight Out of Mind;
Leigh Gregory – In These Days;
The Clientele – Orpheus Beach;
Sally Crewe – Where the Fox Runs;
Doug Gillard – Come Out And Show Me;
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints;
The Sonic Dawn – Sun Drifter;
Honey Radar – Wind-Up Man;
Lamp of the Universe – The Eastern Run;
Garcia Peoples – Wasted Time;
Levitation Room – Mr. Polydactyl Cat.
Podcast made in Cleveland, Ohio. Syndicated by Prvi Prvi na Skali in Kragujevac, Serbia. Sponsored by Blue Arrow Records and Baby Next.
