Radio Free California Episode 2348, radio station notes, a few cheap shots and more

 

New music this week from The Rolling Stones, an amazing new album from Ghost Hounds, Wallat, Bjork, Kiffie, Guided by Voices, Alex Kapo, Cleo Soul, a long-delayed release from The Veldt, Negative, Lien and much more. Enjoy!

A couple of things about this playlist: As per usual, my favorite song on a Rolling Stones album is the one sung by Keith Richards, which is on this playlist - and this is the best Stones album in decades. Other tracks I have released earlier and can be heard on previous lists and on the radio station. The Veldt is probably a surprise for those of you who know early shoegaze - their "new" album is the long-shelved and never-released album they recorded all the way back in 1989, finally available to the public. Hey, I have an album like that in my own catalog. Finally, I have to tell you about my discovery of the band Negative. They have only released two singles and both are on this list.

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

I have a college buddy named Karl. We're not as close as we once were, and he lives in Alabama now as a full Professor at Alabama State. He's a blues-rock king and has introduced me to several bands I would have never heard otherwise, and this week he introduced me to Ghost Hounds. Holy crap their new album just rocks and rocks. This is their 4th album so far, and I hope that like I did you go back and dig into their previous releases. They're all good and I'm going to feature the Deluxe Edition of their new album "First Last Time" on this week's album show.

The Album Show will run this Thursday November 30th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday November 29th 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 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. Last week was 1979:

plus one other song not listed here. Heh.

Cheap shots:

Quick refresher Kevin, what's the name of the Museum that's in your district that mentions multiple times that territory was ceeded to the US thanks to wars?

Answer: Yes.

Receipts.

Who do you think you are? Come on, you know the song if not the singer.

Are we not Liberals? We are Swifties!

How many hostages can we get for this motherfucker?

It wasn't terrorism. It was a nutjob driving (does the math from the article) 90 Miles per Hour who lost control of his car. Just Darwinism.

And because I love you, here are a couple of old guys giving a master class.

Radio Free California Episode 2347, radio station notes, and respect for a kind lady.

 

New music from many an indie artist and a few from way way back in the day. We have Blush Hour, Mr. Groove, Dolly Parton with Pat Benetar, Madness, Judas Priest, Spells and Curses, SOS, Dua Lipa and much much more. Enjoy!

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

Some interesting new albums out this week and while it's tempting to play Dolly Parton's 30-song foray into rock I just don't have it in me to subject everyone to that. I mean, no one is going to say no to Ms. Parton covering "Free Bird" and "Stairway to Heaven" but was it necessary? There is also the new album from Madness. Yes, Madness. And what's more, it's a bloody concept album. But I have a spot in my heart for Juliana Hatfield, whom I discovered when she was playing bass for the Lemonheads. She's had a solo carreer since then (including her smash hit in 5 called "Spin the Bottle"), and in recent years has been alternating between solo indie albums and tribute albums - her first was to Olivia Newton John and her second was to The Police. And now she has released "Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO". It's a straight ahead and ernest groupd of covers from all aspects of the ELO catalog, with her own unique spin.

The Album Show will run this Thursday November 23rd at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday November 15th 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 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. Last week was 1973:

Not doing cheap shots today. Don't have it in me. Instead, I ask that you respect the wishes of a kind lady:

In lieu of flowers, donations should be sent to the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, P.O. Box 647, Americus, GA 31709, or the Carter Center Mental Health Program, 453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307. Donations can be made online at https://www.rosalynncartertribute.org/

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Radio Free California Episode 2346, Radio Station Notes, Cheap Shots and more!

 

New music this week from Maneskin, glass beach, Bloc Party, Field Medic, Allison Russell, Leo, PinkPantheress, the first new music from Scream since Dave Grohl left the band to join Nirvana, Wallat, Bas Jan and more. Enjoy!

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

Another good week with several albums I could choose from to feature on the Album Show this week, but I've settled on the new PinkPantheress album "Heaven Knows". It's a vibrant mix of R&B and Indie-tinged alt-rock and I feature a couple of songs from the album in this week's playlist. If you're active on TikTok you've probably seen some of her short songs, but I'm not so I only really discovered her this week. She started out on Tik Tok and eventually landed a record deal with Epic Records. She hails from England and has made a big impact there and has crossed the pond to the U.S., even contributing the song "Angel" to the Barbie Movie. What makes her even more impressive than the fact that she's done all of this by age 22, is the fact that she hasn't let severe hearling loss slow her down. According to Wikipedia she is 80% deaf in her right ear. Even with all that, "Heaven Knows" is her first label release and it's worth your time.

The Album Show will run this Thursday November 16th at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday November 15th 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 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. Last week was 2007:

Cheap Shots:

Congressman QAnon Shaman?????

Does the US Military not get the same sensitivity training that the rest of the country gets? Oh wait, they do.

Throwing a Spanberger in the works.

This strikes me as weak but it's better than nothing.

Support your local Fiefdom!

He's going to spend more time with his Canadian Girlfriend.

Try it, motherfucker.

Did you even know this movie was out? I didn't. 

If you think this man gives a fuck about family values, think again.

I'm of the opinion that the U.S. Military should DRAFT this fucking piece of shit, make him a PRIVATE, and then order him to get this unstuck.

This bozo again?

Mr. Speaker, you might believe the country is in need of prayer but you sir, are in dire need of an actual education.

Mein Trumpf. Dude, you act like a fucking Nazi, I'm calling you a fucking Nazi.

Ditto, motherfucker. Ditto.

Um, wait. What!?!

And becuase I love you, here is the trailer for what is, in my opinion, James Cameron's best film:

Radio Free California Episode 2345, radio station notes, and of course a few cheap shots,

 

New music this week from Judas Priest, The Veronicas, Peachy Dukes, Wolves at Midnight, Lenny Kravitz, lovelytheband, the final album from the late Jimmy Buffett, Wallat, Of All People, and a final single from these guys called... hmmmm... The Beatles? All this and much more! Enjoy!

The Drop Nineteens were one of the original "shoegaze" bands. They had a solid run in the 1990's and when they broke up their chief songwrite said he was done with the music business, and with music altogether. It's now 30 years later and everyone should know to never say never. The band is back with a brand new album called "Hard Light" and it's a solid album and worth a listen. So we've decided to play it for you this week on the Album Show.

The Album Show will run this Thursday November 9nd at 9th and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

For those of you who stay away from Spotify this playlist will be played this Wednesday November 8th 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 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. Last week was 1987:

The only way to know what this Sunday will be is to tune in!

Cheap shots:

Weren't your grandparents actual Nazis? Screen that, motherfucker.

Stepping back from the increasingly dangerous and dysfunctional...

Slome days it seems like the whole fucking Republican't party needs to get laid.

I do feel sorry for those he left behind, but it's amazing to me how many of these fuckers can't deal with the same pressure they put on others who don't deserve it either.

Yeah, sure. That's not weird at all. Uh huh. Nope. Not. Weird. At. All.

I have always known that this guy was a crook. But holy cow what a fucking crook.

I'm not on twitter any more, but this is funny as hell.

My DNA testing for this process took less than 30 days. Not nine months. This may shock you, but he's lying. (Full disclosure, I'm about as white as white gets.)

I don't know about the whole "Bad as Playboy" part, but there are Shape-shifting Gargoyles.

"Maybe We Don't Let An Anti-Semite Open A Casino"

I don't even like popcorn, but pass the popcorn.

And because I love you, enjoy The Veronicas: