Radio Free California Episode 2447

 

New music this week from Linkin Park, Greet Death, The Youniverse, Semantica, Blackberry Smoke, Silverlites, Negative, Hana Lili, The Sixsters,  Painted Vein, King Stingray, Du Blonde and much more. Enjoy!

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

What are we playing this week? Why the new Linkin Park album, From Zero, of course. Now I was never really a fan of Linkin Park back when Chester Bennington was their lead vocalist. I found the inoffensive and occasionally okay to listen to, but I wasn't really a fan. Yeah, I'm the guy who name-called him in one of my own songs, but I was never really a fan. His death was an unexpected gut punch though.

I like their new singer, Emily Armstrong. She can scream like Chester did but her singing voice is bloody amazing. Her addition to the band has elevated it to a place I really respect. Nothing against Chester - a friend of mine who knew him says he was a wonderful person and I trust their judgement, but Ms. Armstrong is a much better singer. It makes all the difference, and so I'm going to play the new album on this week's show.

New Releases well worth your time include For the Dreams by King Stingray, I'm Sorry I Didn't Bite My Tongue by Instant Crush, Dripping Only Black by Painted Vein, Sniff More Gritty from Du Blonde, and of course I Feel It All At Once by Semantics - which has perhaps the most misleading album art of all time. They do NOT sound like Meatloaf.

All albums are available in all the usual places.

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

RFC 2447

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 43 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 Thursday 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 1993, and this week we're going to pick another year we haven't gone to yet - another one I've never covered before.

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.

I'm not going to do cheap shots for a while. I see no reason to treat any of this seriously if they don't.

But because I love you, here's the video for the most recent Linkin Park single:

I fucking warned you. Radio Free California Episode 2446

 I tried. I tried.

You want the playlist, it's here: 

New this week from RHEA, Nerina Pallot, Greta Stanley, The Pineapple Thief, Peter Murthy and Boy George, Hayley Mary, Yannis & the Yaw, Our Girl, Mixed Signals and much more.

Remember, as of January 20th, 2025, having brown skin will be a crime.

Radio Free California Episode 2445, radio station notes, and get off your ass and vote

We have new music this week from The Cure, Pixies, Amyl and the Sniffers, Halsey, Danny Elfman, Wishy, Lola Young, Dirty Loops, Bongloard, Lenny Kravitz, Sleater-Kinney, Envy of None, Julia Loagan, SWMRS, Illiterate Light and much more. Enjoy!

ALBUM SHOW NOTES

What are we playing this week? Nothing, I'm afraid. We had to cancel the show this week because of technical issues.

Other new releases worth your time are of course the new album from The Cure, but you should hunt down the Deluxe version, which includes a 2nd disc with instrumental versions of all of the songs. This is their best album since the 1990s. Julia Logan, Halsey and SWMRS also have good new albums. Dirty Loops released a new EP which is quite solid and includes a remake of Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City" that is really pretty fly for a bunch of Scandanavian White guys. You should also check out the band Bongloard.

All albums are available in all the usual places.

The Album Show plays on Thursdays at 9am and 9pm Pacific Standard Time. Just not this week.

RFC 2445

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 2006, and this week we're going to pick another year we haven't gone to yet - one of the best years in classic rock history.

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.

Now get the fuck out there and vote.

Here's something I posted in the spring of 2016. Young people, doing better than we did is pretty easy. The bar is pretty fucking low.