New music this week from Miles Hunt, Sub-Radio, Fever Live Again, The Wooten Brothers, Green Day, Peter Gabriel, Natalie Merchant, The Mountain Goats, Fish on Friday, Jethro Tull and much more. Enjoy!
There is a nice group of new album to play on the album show this week. Miles Hunt's new album is pretty good, and I've been a fan going back to the mid 1980's. King Gizzard & The Wizard LIzard release a synth-based album for the first time, Fish on Friday had already released a couple of great singles from their new album and it's finally out, but I finally settled on "Hold", by Wild Nothing. Wild Nothing is the name Jack Tatum, formerly of Jack and the Whale and Facepaint, uses for his musical endeavors, which began as shimmery, synth-washed indie pop in the summer of 2009. This is his first self-produced album since those days, although he's had several releases in the interum. This release is straight-ahead popwer pop with elements of alt-rock thrown in, and is a solid effort.
The Album Show will run this Thursday November 2nd at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time. For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday November 1st at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation. This week, I even threw in an extra song that's not on the playlist above!
One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 10pm we will feature our new show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11 or even 12!) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST.
No cheap shots this posting. I just wasn't feeling it today. Outrage all the time is tiresome.
An eclectic mix of new music this week including Adoraborealis, blink-182, Fish on Friday, Louis Cato, Atarashii Gakko!, Rik Emmet, Duff McKagan, Hannah Marks, Victory Peach and much more. Enjoy!
To the couple of you who actually listen to the radio station, where every piece of music we've put on these playlists this year can be heard, you might have noticed some dead air early in the week. That's because I made a teeny tiny mistake and erased the music database. You'd be shocked at how easy it was to do. I certainly was. I actually considered packing it in.
This is why you don't make decisions about things like this in the moment and why I don't do social media from my phone. Sometimes immediacy is terrible for you.
After a few hours I figured out an easy way to restore everything and by Thursday we were back to business as usual. That's where we are today.
Anyway, Let me tell you about Emma Anderson. She is one of the founding members of the band Lush, and I promise you would recognize her singing voice. After Lush ended she founded the band Sing-Sing, and now at long last she has released her long-awaited and COVID delayed first solo album, called "Pearlies". Working with the string arranger from Cocteau Twins and Suede Guitars Richard Oakes she ahs released a 10 song album that leaves you wanting more and we're going to feature it this week on the Album Show.
The Album Show will run this Thursday October 26th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday October 25th at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation.
One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 10pm we will feature our new show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11 or even 12!) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST.
Cheap shots:
How much do you want to bet that <<ahem>> somebody winds up back on the Forbes 400?
And because I love you, here is the Video for this week's Atarashii Gakko! song, where they portray both the Kaijuu, some of the bystanders, and the Self-Defense Force in an old-style Japanese monster movie:
New music this week from The Supplements, Uni Boys, Jamila Woods, Sarah Jarosz, Kiffie, Teh Dandy Warhols, The Drums, Middlebees and much more! Enjoy!
Uni Boys are a young 4 piece that just released their 2nd label album after a couple of self-released albums and a fun first release. They remind me a lot of the early Replacements or perhaps The Posies. Solid pop/rock that doesn't seem to take itself too seriously. The station will feature their new album "Buy This Now!" on The Album Show this week.
The Album Show will run this Thursday October 19th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday October 18th at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation.
One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 10pm we will feature our new show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST.
Cheap Shots:
A war crime, committed by and against people not in the war.
I keep using "The Handmaid's Tale" as a reference point and metaphor for the current anti-abortion movement in the United States, and people call me out for it. As long as bullshit like this happens, I'm not taking it back and I will never apologize.
New music this week from HUNNY, Descartes A Kant, Sweet (yes, that Sweet - "Fox on the Run" and "Ballroom Blitz" Sweet), blink-182, Vixen (yes, that Vixen), Joe Bonamassa, The Going Rate, Hiromi, Get Violet and much more! Enjoy!
I had a couple of great options for the Album Show this week, as HUNNY, Hiromi, Death Pill and Descarte A Kan all released new albums, any of which I highly recommend (the band Get Violet as of yet doesn't have a full album available). I've decided for this week we will feature the new album by HUNNY called "new planet heaven". This is a Los Angeles based indie band that's been around for a few years and this album is a product of honing their songwriting craft duyriing the pandemic (according to their website). The album is just over 1/2 an hour in length and packs quite a punch in my opinion, so I am sharing it with you.
The Album Show will run this Thursday October 12th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday October 11th at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation.
One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 10pm we will feature our new show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST.
Before I get into the stuff you really came for (i.e. me calling people names and riffing like an amateur John Oliver) let me talk about the undenyably horrific situation in Isreal.
I have no real good answers about who is right and who is wrong here. On the one hand, shelling a country with missiles and killing hundreds is never going to be a good thing, but neither is taking the land of people who have been living in the same spot for generations. When the Allies partitioned off a portion of Palestine for the Jewish people in an undenyable fit of guilt after their failure to stop the Holocaust they gave only a small portion of the land that Isreal claims today. I think that today the west mostly backs Isreal out of an extension of that guilt, because let's face it the man running Isreal is a criminal.
But it's not his fault that Hamas launched this attack.So why did Hamas launch this attach now? What's so important about now? People talk about how this was launched on the sabbath and a national holiday in Isreal but that hasn't worked out well for the attackers in the past. Everyone should keep in mind that it's not the Palestinians who are attacking Israel.
Hamas is to Palestine as the KKK is to Christianity.
It's also worth pointing out that one of Israel's top newspapers puts the blame squarely on the criminal currently running the country.
Two things worth noting: One is that right now we don't have a fully staffed chain of command for US forces in the region, and that is 100% the fault of the Republican Party, and one specific Senator who I call out below. But another thing I've seen a lot of print about lately is that some of the Top Secret/Classified information that was disseminated by the previous "President" was about troop movements and strengths of Isreal, and that by now it has probably been leaked all the way down to Hamas.
I don't know the truth of this and you probably don't either. But it should be looked into. Any bets as to if it will be?
=====Cheap Shots=====
Oh wait, didn't Jared Kushner already solve all of this shit?
He dropped off of Forbes' list (and not for the first time), but I notice that an awful lot of what gets counted as wealth isn't actual money. Given his current issues with the values of property, he might be worth much less (worthless).
Makes you wonder if they're going to be able to teach about the Enola Gay.
This is a good move, but I'm troubled by the fact that it doesn't say they have to release any of the past data they covered up.
And becuase I love you, here is the video for the blink-182 song in this week's list. It's hilarious, especially if you know the original inspiration:
New music this week from U2, Rolling Stones, Slow Pulp, OMD, Kiffie, Johnny Marr, Gunship, Saving Amber and much more! Enjoy!
How do I even explain the band Gunship and their new album, Unicorn? The band describes themselves as "A Neo Retro Futuristic Assault". That's it - their entire Spotify profile. What I would call them is a modern day band with its roots in everything about the 1980's that you secretly loved while telling your friends that you hated that stuff. You know, like Journey or Styx or Roxette. And yet they sound nothing like those bands. I can you that I like it, excesses and all, and I find it leaning towards anime music while staying rooted in rock and roll. But it is rock and roll to the excess - so much so that even Saxophonist Tim Capello is featured from time to time not only in their videos but in their albums as well. I was introduced to this band by a friend at counter.social, and this week will feature the album Unicorn on The Album Show.
The Album Show will run this Thursday October 5th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.
For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday October 4th at 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm PST. All of the songs I feature on Radio Free California are played as part of the regular rotation.
One last programming note: Every Sunday at 10am and again at 10pm we will feature our new show "10 at 10", where we play 10 (and sometimes 11) songs from a year we pick at random. Again, all times are PST.
As I've released a few covers myself I know for a fact that to release this commercially you have to pay for the right to do so. Actual cash money. That doesn't seem like a trait of these people. And yes, she's not a great singer but that sort of thing can be fixed in the mix. What I object to is the affected twang in her voice. She's from New York, people.
