Veteran’s show today! We open up with Lannie Flowers who was part of the Texas power pop scene since the 70s. He appeared on the new tribute record to the British band Records. We had an exclusive track from Vex and the Voxtones from that tribute a few shows ago, but now we have the whole thing. Then we also have a new tune from Jim Keays who comes originally from the 60s Scottish beat scene, but made his name over in Australia in the 70s. His new album sounds really fresh and it’s called Dirty Dirty. Finally, Grant Hart’s new album The Argument is out. It’s a complex work based on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, or more precisely, on an interpretation of the same work by William Burroughs. It’s been in the making for quite some time, and it’ll probably take some time to completely understand fully. We also have Brent Kirby’s New Soft Shoe – a live recording of their Gram Parsons tribute in our Live in CLE segment.
The Association – Goodbye Forever;
Lannie Flowers – Come On Girl;
Lannie Flowers – Up All Night;
The Records – Up All Night;
Syd Straw – Think Too Hard;
Lisa Mychols – Make Believe;
Shoes – Do You Wanna Get Lucky;
New Soft Shoe – Return of the Grievous Angel (Live in CLE);
Gram Parsons – Return Of The Grevious Angel;
Boz Scaggs – Cadillac Walk;
Mink DeVille – Cadillac Walk;
Ceramic Dog – Bread and Roses;
Jim Keays – Dirty, Dirty;
Grant Hart – I Will Never See My Home.
We start off with the new band in the show today. Their name is Mouthbreathers and they come from Lawrence, KY. Another new band for us is The Fish, which don’t play together anymore. Their leader Chuck is now in Nude Beach, which is also a guest at our Live in CLE segment. We also have one new lady in the show today. She is Ariane Mahryke Lemire and she comes from Edmonton, Canada. Eamon McGrath joins her on a song that we check out today. We know Valerie June from her last year’s collaboration The Wandering with Luther Dickinson, Shannon McNally and Amy LaVere. She now has a solo album out, produced by Dan Auerbach. We also have one new tune for King Khan. Finally, we say goodbye to Dejan Kostic, a musician from Belgrade who played in two very interesting new wave bands, Grupa i and Du Du A. Sadly, he passed away last week.
Mouthbreathers – Nowhere Else to Go;
King Khan – Strange Ways;
Step-Panther – Sentimental Town;
The Fish – Lazy Lover;
Nude Beach – No One But You;
Nude Beach – Some Kinda Love (Live in CLE);
Taste – Same Old Story;
Booker T. Jones – Representing Memphis (Featuring Matt Berninger & Sharon Jones);
Booker T. Jones – Fun;
Du Du A – Afrikanac u Beogradu;
Grupa i – Teenage Blues;
Yardbirds – Someone To Love;
Chuck Berry – Deep Feeling;
Valerie June – Somebody To Love;
The Wandering – If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day;
Shannon McNally – Save Me Jesus;
Ariane Mahryke Lemire and Eamon McGrath – Ce Soir.
Today we begin with two obituaries. Arturo Vega, art director and logo designer of The Ramones passed away on June 8 this year. Alan Myers drummer of Devo passed away on June 24. After we pay respect to the two of them, we continue with some new music. King Louie’s Missing Monuments have a new single, Calexico covers Replacements on the new EP and Mama Rosin joins forces with Mick Collins and Matt Verta-Ray for a Marvelette’s tune Please Mr Postman. Mark Ribot’s Ceramic Dog has an exceptional new album and Lisa Mychols is back with the new album too. Finally, we have a reissue of the Shoes first LP One In Versailles which is finally widely available.
The Turtles – You Showed Me;
Ramones – Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment;
Devo – Uncontrollable Urge;
Paraf – Perspektiva;
King Louie’s Missing Monuments – Answer the Call;
Willie Nile – God Laughs;
Willie Nile – Trying To Find My Way (Live in CLE);
Richard And Linda Thompson – Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
Shoes – Do I Get So Shy;
Calexico – Unsatisfied;
The Replacements – Unsatisfied;
Jimbo Mathus and The Tri-State Cualition – (I Wanna Be Your) Satellite;
T Bone Burnett – Tear That Building Down;
Ceramic Dog – Lies My Body Told Me;
Chris Cacavas – Strand By Strand;
The Marvelettes – Please Mr. Postman;
Mama Rosin (Featuring Mick Collins & Matt Verta-Ray) – Please Mister Postman;
Lisa Mychols – Better Than Nothing.
Today we have new bands from all over the world. Blues band The Wanton Bishops hail from Beirut, Lebanon. Midnight Woolf come to us from always exciting Melbourne rock’n’roll scene. Tijuana Panthers from California have a new album called Semi-Sweet and Scott Kempner and his Del-Lords are back with a cool new record called Elvis Club. Boz Scaggs found the new inspiration in Memphis, but also covered a Mink DeVille’s Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl on his new record.
The Bevis Frond – Tree Line;
Oblivians – Little War Child;
Tijuana Pathers – Forbidden Fruit;
Scott Reynolds – Peanut;
Scott Reynolds – Dot (Live in CLE);
Mink DeVille – Mixed Up Shook Up Girl;
Boz Scaggs – Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl;
The Wanton Bishops – Whoopy;
Midnight Woolf – Fuss & Tight;
The Del-Lords – Mercenary;
The Del-Lords – Southern Pacific;
Rainer And Das Combo – Drop Down Mama/Mellow Down Easy.
We start off today with Pond – a band from Australia with ties to Tame Impala. We continue with another song from the Pop Depression compilation album Pesme ispod pokrivaca, this time it’s ŽeneKese from Belgrade with their version of the Hüsker Dü classic Flexible Flier. Then we check out the new albums for Willie Nile and Queens of The Stone Age. We also have Neko Case as a guest singer on the new musical written by Stephen King, T Bone Burnett And John Mellencamp. Finally, we introduce the new duet from Belgium Iris and the Deadly Flowers, which consists of a 16 year old girl and her father.
Dancing Hoods – Impossible Years;
Pond – Hey Joe;
Pond – Fantastic Explosion Of Time;
Tame Impala – Elephant;
Hüsker Dü – Flexible Flyer;
ZeneKese – Supersonicne sanke;
Willie Nile – Welcome to my Head;
Willie Nile – This Is Our Time;
Cobra Verde – Was It Good (Live in CLE);
Queens of The Stone Age – If I Had A Tail;
My Boddy Moose – Lack Of Imagination;
Neko Case – That’s Who I Am;
The Band of Blacky Ranchette – Getting It Made;
The Stan McMahon Band – Crystal;
Iris and the Deadly Flowers – Stop Me;
Turf War – 100 Years.
Today we continue discontinuity with Chris Cacavas. He had an album in 2009, which we pronounced the best LP that year, called Love’s Been Discontinued. It turns out that Chris had more than just 12 songs back then. There were 11 more demos which he decided to finish out recently and turned into the continuation of the 2009 album which just came out recently. So, how do you continue discontinuity? Cacavas came up with the new term (re)discontinuity. Brilliant! We also have three new bands this time: English Singles from Sacramento, CA, Futurebirds from Atlanta GA, Gooch Palms from Perth, Australia. Marshal Crenshaw is back with the new EP called Stranger and Stranger and Connection of Portsmouth, NH are back with the new, self titled single. We also have three nice compilation records connected to the 60s rock’n’roll scene in Memphis and Muscle Shoals: Feeling High The Psychedelic Sound of Memphis and Hall of Fame Volume 2. The third one is called Pesme ispod pokrivaca and it is put together by the gig promoter Ivan Loncarevic from Pop Depression who is celebrating 10 years of activity.
NRBQ – Rocket Number 9;
Connection – Connection;
English Singles – Ordinary Girls;
Green on Red – A Tragedy;
Chris Cacavas – Let Me Hear;
Chris Cacavas – We Are History;
Dan Stuart – Can’t be Found;
Steve Wynn – Follow Me;
On Tour – Follow Me;
Low Cut Connie – Cleveland;
Futurebirds – Virginia Slims (Live in CLE);
The Gooch Palms – Just Like Romeo and Juliet;
The Gooch Palms – Participant No. 91;
Step-Panther – Rock and Roll Alone;
Oblivians – Back Street Hangout;
The Goatdancers – Eat Me Alive;
Jackie – Unfortunately;
Susanna Hoffs – Picture Me;
Marshall Crenshaw – Mary Anne.
We begin today with some new bands for us. Mexican Knives come from Detroit and A Place to Bury Strangers come from Brooklyn. A Place… lead by Oliver Ackermann is not a new band, but their recent EP is a tribute to Dead Moon, and it’s impossible to ignore. Boston legends Big Dipper, a band that had some very nice albums in the late 80s, reunited last year and today we check out their new alvum Big Dipper Crashes on the Platinum Planet. After a new album last year, dB’s are back with the new ep Revolution of the Ming. And finally, a rare 1983 cassette tape The Mush Mind Blues by the legendary dobro player from Tucson, Rainer Ptacek and his Combo, came out as an Internet download and his first album Barefoot Rock is scheduled for vinyl reissue this summer.
Carnival Season – Obsessive Season;
Mexican Knives – Down To Hell;
A Place to Bury Strangers – Graveyard;
Dead Moon – Graveyard;
Guided By Voices – He Rises! Our Union Bellboy;
Big Dipper – Robert Pollard;
Big Dipper – Lunar Module;
Paul Kelly and the Messengers – Forty Miles to Saturday Night;
Paul and Dan Kelly – Forty Miles to Saturday Night (Live in CLE);
The dB’s – Revolution of the Mind;
Chris Stamey – You n Me n XTC;
XTC – The Tissue Tigers;
Oblivians – Desperation;
Rainer – Deadly Sins;
Howe Gelb – Forever and a Day;
Minutemen – Have You Ever Seen the Rain;
John Fogerty and Alan Jackson – Have You Ever Seen the Rain.
Disciplina KiÄme boasted self-confidently as being the “greatest band in Yugoslavia” back in the late eighties. One thing is certain, they were the most original and it was exciting growing up and learning from their chants. Zerkman was their trumpet player and he passed away at the age of 50. Zerkman was the member of the band in their most glorious period from 1986 to 1991. Although legendary Koja was the undisputed boss in the band, Zerkman’s trumpet was a major contributor to the originality of Disciplina’s sound. The band originally featured only Koja on bass and a guy on a drum set. Then they added trumpets, an extra drum set and took the entire country by surprise. Going into the nineties, Koja and Zerkman from Belgrade, were joined by two Zagreb musicians Gulić and Novoselić and it looked like nothing can stop them. Nothing, but the war. Koja moved to London and when he returned, there was no room for trumpets in the new sound. Just two days before Zerkman suddenly passed away, Zerkman joined Disciplina once again on the stage, but that was also his last stand. Today we dedicate this show to him, and to the incredible sound of his trumpet that changed my life. I can only hope that the music you learned in your formative years was half as exciting as this one.
Disciplina KiÄme – ZaÅ¡to;
Disciplina KiÄme – DeÄja pesma;
Disciplina KiÄme – Iza 9 brda;
Disciplina KiÄme – Da li ti znaÅ¡ za neki drugi ritam;
Funk-y-stretch – FLCZ II;
Zerkman’s Big Bang – Emrald;
Disciplina KiÄme- Zemlja svetlosti;
Disciplina KiÄme – Love Removal Machine;
Disciplina KiÄme – Ne ne ne;
Disciplina KiÄme – Manitua mi 2;
Disciplina KiÄme – Prijatelj sa maÅ¡tom;
Zerkman’s Big Bang – Cermes;
Disciplina KiÄme – Planeta dosade.
Today we say last goodbye to two important rock’n’roll musicians. Ray Manzarek played keyboards in The Doors and passed away on May 20th from bile duct cancer. Trevor Bolder, bass player in David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars and Uriah Heep passed away on May 21st from pancreatic cancer. Both will be remembered for their big contributions to the world of music. We also ding some time to hear some new music. Oblivians from Memphis have a new record out called Desperation and they are back together in the studio for the first time after 15 years. Mark E. Smith continues to toil with The Fall and we sample the new album called Re-Mit. We introduce Dan Kelly, nephew of Paul Kelly, with his cover of Paul’s song Crosstown and a song in our Live in Cleveland segment.
Kim Salmon and Spencer P. Jones – Jack On Fire;
Flo and Eddie – Another Pop Star’s Life;
The Fall – No Respects rev;
The Fall – L.A.;
Oblivians – I Don’t Wanna Live Alone;
Oblivians – Call The Police;
David Bowie – Suffragette City;
David Bowie – Kooks;
Earth Quake – Mr. Security;
Dan Kelly – Crosstown;
Dan Kelly – Everything Is Amazing (Live in CLE);
Died Pretty – Crawls Away;
Nomad Planets – Devil In Between;
Turf War – Enemies;
The Doors – Soul Kitchen;
The Doors – Light My Fire.
Today we have new songs for Black Lips and Grant Hart. Nick Saloman and his Bevis Frond has a new double album out called White Numbers. We also sample the new tribute record called Dring A Toast To Innocence: A Tribute to Lite Rock, which collects interesting cover versions of cheesy 70s radio hits. As it turns out, those songs weren’t that bad after all, so we hear Lisa Mychols’ cover of David Soul’s Don’t Give Up On Us and Plasticsouls’ cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Sentimental Lady. Australia is the land of great garage rock bands. Step-Panther is another new name from that scene to prove it.
Jeff Beck Group – Spanish Boots;
Step-Panther – Liar Liar;
Step-Panther – My Neck;
Black Lips – Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah;
Black Lips – Crusing;
Ty Segall – The Motivator;
Steve Wynn – Shelley’s Blues pt 2 (Live in CLE);
The Young Rascals – Find Somebody (Eddie);
Grant Hart – Letting Me Out;
Nova Mob – Buddy;
Miss Chain and the Broken Heels – Little boy;
The Masticators – He’s Coming Out;
Lisa Mychols – Don’t Give Up On Us;
Plasticsoul – Sentimental Lady;
Plasticsoul – Cock Rock 101;
Bevis Frond – Hold The Fort;
Bevis Frond – Cruel World;
Bevel Emboss – City of Amsterdam.
Podcast made in Cleveland, Ohio. Syndicated by Prvi Prvi na Skali in Kragujevac, Serbia. Sponsored by Blue Arrow Records and Baby Next.