Radio Free California Episode 2421, radio station notes and more!

 

Fantastic week for new music including tracks from Humbird, Childish Gambino, Black Smoke Trigger, Draag, The The, The Warning, Guster, Joywave, Collective Soul, Lake Street Drive, The Linda Lindas and much more. Enjoy!

ROTATING OUT: SONGS LEAVING RADIO FREE CALIFORNIA

This means the music that is aging out is from Radio Free California Episode 2321. This includes music from blur, Homecomings, Yes, Todd Rundgren, MOULE, Greta Van Fleet, PONY, The Ocean and much more.  

We celebrate these songs with a new show that will play on Saturdays at 11am and again at 5pm PST. We will say goodbye to the songs that are now a year on the playlist with one last broadcast, which will be repeated a couple of times during the day.

You can of course still listen to this music - my playlists are still on spotify and you can find them here. They're all searchable as well.

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

"Miranda Winters, as the voice of Chicago’s much-loved noisemakers Melkbelly, has spent the past few years happily in her own shadow. While she has quietly written and occasionally released her own music for 15 years, Winters finally steps out into the bright light with the release of Lawn Girl, the debut album under her Mandy moniker. She self-defines the breathlessly unraveling album as “dirty-bubblegum pop rock,” and while Mandy’s sound is packed full with such exhilaration, there are moments where the relentlessness relinquishes, instead offering up tender, yet equally weighty moments." I don't have a lot of patience for hype myself but I do like this album, which is kind of shoegaze and kind of punk, with solid songs as a foundation and played by an all female band (with Linda Sherman, Lizz Smith and Wendy Zeldin) Mandy's first full release, "Lawn Girl" is available now and will be featured on The Album Show this week.

The Album Show will runs on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time.

RFC 2421

For those of you who stay away from Spotify the current week's playlist will be played on Wednesdays 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. .If you want to hear the songs we've added to the station this week you can use the Spotify playlist above or you can listen to this show.

10 at 10

One last programming note: Every Saturday at 10pm and again on Sunday at 10am and 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 we featured a selection of songs from 1995 and for next Sunday's show we're going to feature a small selection of songs from.. well you'll have to tune in to find out! We also run the show at a "secret" time on Saturdays.

As always, you can go to https://global.citrus3.com:2020/public/radiofreecalifornia to listen to the station, and there is an imbed below. And did you know the station is available as an app? It's only for Google Play (sorry iphone users - Apples terms and conditions were too restrictive for me) but you can listen on your phone at your convenience too.

No cheap shots this week. Just not feelin' it. I may write an essay as to why, but no today.

And because I love you, have a pretty damn good version of "Papa was a Rolling Stone"