16 April 2018

Evenin'

Christian Fitness - Hamsterland
A fifth slab of Andy Falkous's side project. Nuance - The Musical is out now.

His Electro Blue Voice - Scum Rat
Italian noise off the album Mental Hoop which came out in November last year.

Blade Of Grass - Looks So Good
These are from LA and this is their latest single.

Louise Distras - Land Of Dope And Glory
A new track from the forthcoming, crowdfunded second album.

Purple Heart Parade - Painting Pictures
Bit of Manc shoegaze now, a track from the album A Minutes Silence At Weatherfield County.

Wilko Johnson - Marijuana
His first album of new material in 30 years, Blow Your Mind is out in June.

Doc & The Headshrinkers - If There Wasn't Any Sinners, The Saints Wouldn't Look So Good
And ore good old-fashioned rock n roll from West Wales. This came out as a single last summer and features on teh new LP Crashland.

Missile Society - River
Another track from the Watford/New York trans-Atlantic partnership that is Missile Society, taken from the album The Walk Back Home.

The Jjohns - So Alone
You only pronounce one J, I'm told. They're from Liverpool, none of them are called John - or Jjohn - and this is their new single, very much in a La's vein.

John Dredge & The Plinths - Learn To Ignore
Kind of a supergroup, really. This is off the EP The Emergency which came out in January.

Baker Island - Always, 1995
To Newcastle now and a track from the album Restless Legs which came out last summer.

April Towers - Tel Aviv
Nottingham duo with a track from the much-anticipated debut album Certified Freaky.

High Rise Finale - Actions
A new track from the Barnsley synth-pop artists.

Computer Magic - Perfect Game
New Yorker Danielle Johnson - aka Danz - with a track off the LP Danz which came out in February.

Dementio13 - Cortex Fault
Another EP snuck out by friend of the show Paul Foster. 78 is available now.

TVAM - Psychic Data
A new track from Wiganer Joe Oxley's TVAM persona. Top notch.

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1 April 2014

Back after a football-interrupted week.

Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey - Keep It To Myself
Glorious. Good old-fashioned blues-rock. And why not? Going Back Home is the album, out now.

††† - The Epilogue
Or Crosses, to you and me. That came out last November.

Fear Of Men - Luna
New stuff from Brighton. The album is Doom and is out on the 22nd of April.

Cover Version Corner
Jefferson Airplane/The Damned - White Rabbit
Still bonkers. That was a non-album single for The Damned in 1980, punkifying the psychedelia of 1967 and the Surrealistic Pillow album.

The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
The second single and title track from the album which came out last month. It's full of great stuff like that.

Kigo - Dress
Absolutely sensational. From Brisbane comes this tribute to the shoegaze scene of the early '90s. That is just brilliant. The EP is called Chance and it's superb.

Mourning Birds - Eve Of The Isle
Their second single and the third and easily the longest track we've played by them on the show. The others were about 90 seconds - this a mighty two-and-a-half minutes. More please.

I, Ludicrous - Fabulous
The show is back-loaded with older stuff today, starting with this. From their debut album It's Like Everything Else from 1987.

One Degree of Separation
Muddy Waters - Mississippi Delta Blues
The Standells - Dirty Water
Muddy Waters - Dirty Water. You see? Course you do. First, McKinley Morganfield from 1948 and then some classic garage rock from 1966 and easily their biggest hit. Totally misread by many Bostonians, it's more complaining about the state of the rivers, but was quickly adopted by sporting franchises there.

The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today (part 1)
Just five minutes, not the full eleven and some. Their biggest hit, from 1968 and the album The Time Has Come.

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Simple And Sure
Love 'em. Off the forthcoming album Days Of Abandon.

Retroject - Sourbridge
Another track from the Murky Window EP. Keep 'em coming, lads.

Shit Robot ft Reggie Watts - We Got A Love
Excellent Chicago-style house from Dublin's Marcus Lambkin.

Ed Harcourt - Come Into My Dreamland
And to finish on a wind-down, a slice of relaxatory music from the Time Of Dust album that came out in January.

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Wilko Johnson

Why are we all saddened by the news about Wilko Johnson? As well as helping bring the delta blues to the Thames Estuary, developing a unique style of playing and writing some of the most important music of the late 20th century, he's been one of the most charismatic front-men around.

I mean, here he is using his guitar like a machine gun:



And in his wild-eyed, hyperactive pomp:


What's most humbling is his determination to complete that album and continue touring until physically unable. Catch him while you can - fingers crossed he'll make it to Holmfirth. If not, try Julien Temple's 2009 film Oil City Confidential.