Radio Free California Episode 2442, radio station notes, and more!

 

New music this week from The Linda Lindas, Pale Waves, Dea Matrona, The Cure, Desperate Jouirnalist, Office Dog, Francis of Delirium, The Criticals, Maaya Sakamoto, A Short Walk to Pluto, Tank and the Bangas and much more. Enjoy!

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

There are a lot of good new albums out this week, and that's actually kind of a shame, because I made a promise that I would play the full album by The Linda Lindas once it came out. Guess what? The full album, called "No Obligation" is now out. Let's face it, the rise of The Linda Lindas is kind of incredible: they went viral for playing their punk anthem "Racist, Sexist Boy" at a Los Angeles Public Library during the worst days of the Pandemic and before all of them had finished JUNIOR HIGH they had a record deal. The new album is their second full-length album and the songcraft has just improved at a near-geometric rate, and their live shows are all showstoppers. There are a LOT of potential hits on this album, and I'm going to play all 12 songs from it for you this week on the album show.

But as I said, there are a lot of other good albums out this week, and any of them could have made the cut if The Linda Lindas weren't already occupying the top spot. This includes Smitten by Pale Wolves, The EP Sadolescence by Indoor Foxes, No Hero from Desperate Journalist, Lighthouse from Francis of Delirium, For Your Sins by Dea Matrona, No Small Parts by Sweet Loretta, The Heart, The Mind, The Soul from Tank and the Bangas, and if you're really adventurous you should try out Goat, by Goat. I've linked to Spotify but all of these albums including the Linda Lindas one are available at all the usual places.

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

RFC 2442

For those of you who stay away from Spotify the current week's additions will be played on Wednesdays. This is a change from prior programming: what we're going to do going forward is just play the music added this week only. Every other day will be the usual rotation, but we set aside Wednesdays for just the new additions for the week. This week that's 51 songs which we will play in the same order that they're in on the Spotify playlist of the same name up at the top of this post. So if you tune in at just about any time on Wednesday you will hear the whole playlist. 

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 I played a group of songs from 1976, and this week we're going to pick another year we haven't gone to yet - a year just a bit more recent.

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. You have no idea how busy I've been with secret project I will talk about much later.

But becaue I love you, here's the video for "Glasgow" by Pale Waves.

Radio Free California Episode 2441, radio station notes, cheap shots and The Linda Lindas!

 

Welcome to the fall season of new releases! New music this week from The Iddy-Biddies, Melt, Dawes, Jake Bugg, Billie Eilish, Joan Armatrading, Lake Street Drive, Tears For Fears, Dirty Loops, tricot,  Gary Marx with Miles Hunt and so much more. Enjoy!

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

For the uniniated Jake Bugg might have seemed to come from nowhere with his sixth album, "A Modern Day Distraction", but in fact he has been on w whirlwind rise going back over a decade. He leaped on the UK stage by sending a song called "Lightning Bolt" to the BBC as part of an unsigned bands and soon found himslef playing Glastonbury - even before he was signed. He is actually a well-know star in his native England and has toured with the likes of Lana Del Rey and many others. This is his second album for RCA, and it's a solid rock/pop album that I think you'll like as much as I do. We will be playing "A Modern Day Distraction" as this week's selection on The Album Show.

Other new albums this week well worth your time include Do You Know from The Iddie-Biddies, If There's A Heaven from Melt, and No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire from Dora Jar. I also have to recommend the soundtrack to the Apple TV+ show Bad Monkey, which is made up of nothing but Tom Petty covers and includes efforts from 28 different artists. Also I hear Coldplay has a new album out, but I found it kind of dull. What's not dull is the new album from Nice Biscuit called "SOS". Finally, if you weren't already aware, Billie Eilish's new one, Hit Me Hard and Soft is really quite good. All of these albums are available wherever you get your music.

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

RFC 2441

For those of you who stay away from Spotify the current week's additions will be played on Wednesdays. This is a change from prior programming: what we're going to do going forward is just play the music added this week only. Every other day will be the usual rotation, but we set aside Wednesdays for just the new additions for the week. This week that's 58 songs which we will play in the same order that they're in on the Spotify playlist of the same name up at the top of this post. So if you tune in at just about any time on Wednesday you will hear the whole playlist. 

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 I played a group of songs from 1986, and this week we're going to pick another year we haven't gone to yet - more towards the end of the last century.

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.

Cheap Shots:

"It's not the 1950's anymore."

It hasn't hit yet and DeSantia is already looking for ways to blame FEMA for "Flying Missiles".

Lockjaw's coming Lockjaw's coming...

Woah. Seriously, Woah. The entire British Pathe archive. Online.

This is quite literally what racism is. He is a fucking racist. Full stop.

The Supremes say (without saying) that's it's okay to be a He Man Woman Hater.

Oh noes! She might brainwash the womens!

Don't worry, it's the fucking New York Times. I'm sure they'll be back on your side shortly.

Somebody just might be a Masochist.

Oh yeah, we should shove something down your throat you racist fuck.

It would seem that Billy Graham's kid is a dick.

I've read Project 2025 and men, this is true: They're coming for the porn.

Lady, this is election interference.

All come together in times of peril my pasty white ass.

Interesting that solving non-existant problems could end democracy.

And because I love you here's a previw of a song I'll be adding next week: