I played a DJ set at Beachland Ballroom on Saturday. It was a benefit for Waterloo Alley Cat organization with a ton of music, fundraising and two live sets, one was by Ethan Daniel Davidson and the headliners were The Sadies. Below is the setlist I delivered on that evening.
The Flesh Eaters – Satan’s Stomp;
The Babies – Burned on Fire;
The Babies – SOUL;
Treat Her Right – Backdoor;
John Mayall – Room To Move;
Tav Falco – Tina The Go Go Girl;
Link Wray – Fire And Brimstone;
Elektricni orgazam – Citadel;
Terry Manning – Savoy Truffle;
Martin Bisi – Money;
Divine Horsemen – Gimmme Shelter;
Giant Sand – All Along The Watchtower;
Elektricni orgazam – The Man Who Sold The World;
Windbreakers – Glory;
The Killer Shrews – Don’t Let The Bastards Wear You Down;
The Gods – Maria;
Brian Eno – Needle In The Camel’s Eye;
Mott The Hoople – Rock’n’Roll Queen;
Ty Segall – 20th Century Boy;
The Fuzz – Teen Rex;
Replacements – Color Me Impressed;
Mega City Four – Start;
Mega City Four – Pride and Prejudice;
Swa – Headphones;
Tony All – New Girl Old Story;
Husker Du – Girl Who Lives On The Heaven Hill;
The Gun Club – Carry Home;
Leaving Trains – Creeping Coastline of Lights;
Rank And File – Golden Age;
Nova Mob – Old Empire;
Meat Puppets – Rat Farm;
Rocky Erickson – If You Have Ghosts;
Cairo Gang – A Heart Like Yours;
Viv Akauldren – Looking At You;
Big Star – September Gurls;
Cobra Verde – Every God For Himself;
Andy Gabbard – More;
Glass Eye – I Don’t Need Drugs;
Tommy James – Moses And Me;
Cubist Blues – Candy Man.
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 pay tribute to four artists that passed away in the recent days. Kevin Junior was an institution of the larger Cleveland and Chicago scenes. Music that he created with The Chamber Strings was much larger than the attention they were given. He passed away on January 17. Dale Buffin Griffin from Mott The Hoople passed away on the same day after 10 years struggling with alzheimer’s. Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane passed away on January 28 and the original singer of Jefferson Airplane Signe Toly Anderson passed away as well on the same day. But amidst of all those tragic news, we find time to hear some new music as well. Our friends at Blue Arrow Records released the new album by Jonathan Richman entitled Ishkode! Ishkode!. Ty Segall has a new record called Emotional Mugger. Night Beats come from Seattle and we check out their new album Who Sold My Generation. We open up with The I Don’t Cares, which is a new duet featuring Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield.
Here we go, second Vinyl Junkyard special of The Little Lighthouse in a row. In these special episodes I play almost entire LPs that I found dirt cheap somewhere laying in some bargain bin at a record store. 
It’s time for another Vinyl Junkyard special of The Little Lighthouse. In such special episodes I play almost entire LPs that I found dirt cheap somewhere laying in some bargain bin at a record store.
Today we check out the new album from Thee Melomen from Zagreb called Chinatown. Also, we have new music from the legendary Pretty Things, All Them Witches and Kropotkins. Lilly Hiatt, daughter of John Hiatt is back with a very good new album (great drum sound and lovely songs on it!). Bernays Propaganda from Skopje also have a new record called Politika and looks at the politics from a female view point. Royal Headache is a new band for us from Australia and their latest album called High rocks. Finally, a tribute to Lemmy.
Here we are in our first regular show in 2016. We all heard the bad news – David Bowie passed away and we pay respects today. A less covered exit also happened recently – Brett Smiley, an American boy in the late 1970s who tried to become a glam rock star a-la Bowie, but failed. Still, he left a great album which only came out about ten years ago. Carson Van Osten also passed away. He is from Nazz, a legendary rock band formed by Todd Rundgren in the 60s.
Andy and Zach Gabbard are in a hard rocking, jammy band from Cincinnati called Buffalo Killers. As a band, Buffalo Killers delivered a string of five notable albums and both brothers wrote the songs. This year, Andy decided to try something on his own.
Just when you think rock’n’roll is ready to be sent into history as a past musical expression that has nothing to offer to a new generation of listeners, a band like Faux Killas shows up to prove us wrong. Rock’n’roll is not dead, it just smells funny.
Warm Soda are lead by Matthew Melton from Austin TX. Symbolic Dream is their third album already, although somehow I missed the previous two records. That shouldn’t be too surprising, after the initial local success with Someone For You in 2012, the second album Young Reckless Hearts did not sound the way Melton really wanted, so it received an abysmal support. This year, Warm Soda returned with Symbolic Dream and certainly won my heart with an incredibly catchy collection of 12 songs engraved into a 12″ 45 RPM vinyl clocking barely over the 26 minute time mark.