We have a few really cool returns of legendary bands. Team Dresch and Dinosaur JR are back with their new singles. Leigh Gregory who we follow and support closely since our first year of broadcasting is back with a new track as well. He had sent us this exclusively. Another one of our old time favorites Low Cut Connie is enduring through line up changes and showed up with another fresh records. Natural Child from Nashville is also here with a new album. As we mentioned, All Them Witches are back as well. Twisted Teens who keep cranking great records have a second one in the past year out. And in the end, we saved one new introduction: Violet Grohl, daughter of Nirvana’s Dave, has a single out and we check it out as well.
Team Dresch – Remember Who You Are
Team Dresch – One Song
Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away
Dinosaur Jr – Let It Ride
The Sewergrooves – Stray Arrows
Low Cut Connie – Can’t Be Wrong
Natural Child – Financial Reasons
The Peawees – Wild About You (Strepitoso Session)
The Long Ryders – How Do You Wanna Be Loved
All Them Witches – Starting Line
Twisted Teens – Dancer
Arbor Labor Union – Out to Pasture
The Bevis Frond – Romany Blue
Violet Grohl – Big Memory
Leigh Gregory – Rising Tide
Mr. Bruce Gordon – Genie In A Bottle
Mitski – That White Cat
Lemmy Kilmister, Jennifer Batten, Bruce Kulick, Samantha Maloney – Shout It Out Loud
Today we bring you one new tune from Natural Child. Their new album is about to come out. We introduce BTs who’s members span from east to west coast, lead by Joey Genovese, including the people from No Bunny and Apache. Faz Waltz are from Italy and they bring out that vintage glam rock sound. Skeptics are from France and have a new cassette. Dori Freeman is a young singer-songwriter from Virginia and Willie Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson is on our playlist for the first time. Enjoy!
Today we check out the new record for the legendary Stooges guitar player James Williamson. He took some old song that he wrote for the Raw Power follow-up, finished them up, recorded with various singers and put them out on a new record Re-Licked. Matthew Smith is back with another Outrageous Cherry album, after a few years of hiatus. We introduce a new band from Sweden – The Youth. Also, check out a cool version of NRBQ tune Magnet, performed live in Cleveland by Natural Child.
Today we have a Velvet Underground tour de force. Death of Samantha play a cover of Rock And Roll in our Live in Cleveland segment, Danny And The Darlean’s play a pre-Velvet Lou Reed tune You’re Driving Me Insane. Also Natural Child participated in the Burger Records tribute to White Light White Heat. That album also saw a deluxe reissue with a lot of previously unreleased material, so we check out one of the songs. Talking about Natural Child, they also have a new record Dancing With The Wolves, which is about to come out. Other good new stuff come from The Cry!. We also check out The Moldes from Peru.
A very heavy show tonight, folks. We start off with the new band from San Francisco, Hot Lunch. They have a new record on Tee Pee that is an awesome tribute to the old hard rock records that used to come out on Vertigo or Deram labels in England. Then we have the newly discovered Jimi Hendrix recordings. Then we introduce two new bands: John The Conqueror from Philadelphia and another heavy one Major Stars from Boston. Thee Oh Sees are back with the new record called Floating Coffin and Natural Child have another great single. Cheater Slicks come from Columbus OH, and we listen to their new music as well. Finally, Queens band Hollis Brown are here for the first time. And yes, they name come from a Bob Dylan tune!
Last week we introduced the list of 20 best LPs that we liked to listen to here at The Little Lighthouse. This week, we move on to the list of five best reissues and archival recordings that came out in or around 2012. The title goes to Tav Falco and a gorgeous reissue of Beyond the Magnolia Curtain with also included Blow Your Top EP and four pages of early history of the band. The whole list looks like this:
New supergroup today: David Hidalgo from Los Lobos, Luther Dickinson from North Mississippi Allstars and Mato Nanji join forces on a new album together called Three Skulls And The Truth. We have also the new non-album single from Natural Child and a track from a new LP for Suzi Chunk. The new names today are The Shivas from Portland and Forty Nineteens from LA. Famous tribute to the great late Arizona guitarist Rainer Ptacek called The Inner Flame has been reissued with some tracks missing and some new tracks. We check it all out today.