Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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Music behind DJ: Seascapers |
Comforting Ocean Waves 2
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Comforting Ocean Waves |
Lotus Sound Music |
2021 |
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| Adrian Belew |
Coconuts
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Mr. Music Head | Atlantic Records | 1989 | I don't know this song well but I am delighted (I think?) to have found it. Research shows me that prog-heads hated this album, which is considered to be his most "pop leaning". "Belew's voice isn't really his largest asset, it's not unlistenable, and along with the multitude of instruments used on every track, each song carries its own persona. Past work with the Talking Heads can be heard from start to finish, showing up by way of certain staccato rhythms and well-constructed melodies. Hearing Adrian Belew in a pop sense is surprisingly enjoyable, even if he can't leave his experimental string bending behind entirely." - Allmusic | 0:01:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Blondie |
In The Sun - Private Stock Single
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Blondie | Capitol Records | 1976 | I can't believe this record came out in 1976....In 1976, Blondie signed their first record deal with Private Stock, a New York-based record label. The group then quickly began to record their debut album with producer Richard Gottehrer. With the raw, energetic synthesizer, rumbling guitar, fresh harmonies, and the blend of rock and pop coupled with witty, humorous lyrics that at times challenged misogyny and sexism, Blondie’s eponymous album is regarded as the precursor of the new wave sound, rooted within the punk-rock genre. “I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for grabs, you just had to see what fit. I was desperate to live in New York and be an artist.” ― Debbie Harry, Face It | 0:05:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Drums |
Let's Go Surfing
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The Drums | Universal Island | 2010 | “The first EP there was this air of innocence. We were obsessed with vintage Americana sort of things. There were personal moments on the first album and EP, but it was very idea driven and conceptual. We wanted it to be cinematic. A scene from a movie, if you will. Now that’s gone. The new album, it’s like every song is a scene from real life. I think from beginning to end it’s sort of autobiographical for me. I was able to be alone for a lot of this, and really write about myself. This new album touches on everything from my extreme religious roots to transgenderism to violence" - Jonny Pierce | 0:08:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Stiff Richards |
No Fun on the Beaches
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DIG | Legless | 2018 | Five blokes from Melbourne, Australia playing tunes straight from the shed, straight to your head. "One of our friends showed us the track a couple of years ago, the song is originally by the Chosen Few, who were from around our area. Living by the coast the tourist scene gets pretty bonkers each year & this song kind of sums that up perfectly, haha...punk music should always have a fuck you element behind it, but in the end, we play music to have fun with our mates. There is more strength in kindness" - Aaron Mawson | 0:10:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Wavves |
King of the Beach
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King of the Beach | Fat Possum Records | 2010 | King of the Beach features a complete rhythm section comprised of Stephen Pope and Billy Hayes, both formerly of the late Jay Reatard's touring band. They toured for almost a year straight until Hayes left the band for some time off. Jacob Cooper, former drummer of The Mae Shi, has since taken his place. After playing the major festival circuit, Nathan started his own record label Ghost Ramp and released the Life Sux EP on September 20th 2011. | 0:14:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Dead Milkmen |
Beach Party Vietnam
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Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection | Restless Records | 1997 | The Dead Milkmen is an American punk rock band formed in 1983 in Philadelphia. Their original lineup consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Rodney Linderman, guitarist and vocalist Joe Genaro, bassist Dave Schulthise and drummer Dean Sabatino. As a teenager growing up in the 80's this was some dangerous fun summer music. | 0:16:43 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Ramones |
Surf City
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Acid Eaters | Radioactive Records | 1993 | "Surf City" is a 1963 song recorded by the American music duo Jan and Dean about a fictitious surf spot where there are "two girls for every boy". Written by Brian Wilson and Jan Berry it was the first surf song to become a national number-one hit. While at a party with Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, Wilson played "Surfin' U.S.A." for them on the piano. Berry and Torrence suggested that they do the song as a single, but Wilson refused, as "Surfin' U.S.A." was intended for the Beach Boys. Wilson then suggested that the duo record "Surf City" instead, demoing the opening, verse, and chorus. Wilson had lost interest in the song and believed he was never going to complete it himself. | 0:18:28 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Pottery |
Hot Heater
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Welcome to Bobby's Motel | Royal Mountain Records | 2020 | Pottery is a Canadian five-piece indie rock/garage punk band from Montreal, Quebec, composed of Austin Boylan, guitarist Jacob Shepansky, keyboardist Peter Baylis, drummer Paul Jacobs and bassist Tom Gould. Over 11 (generally) groovy tracks, Paul Jacobs, Austin Boylan, Tom Gould, Peter Baylis, and Jacob Shepansky touch on funk, dance-punk, psychedelia, and post-punk, sometimes in a casual way but very often out loud, reminding us here of David Byrne and Talking Heads, there Television, sometimes XTC or Parquet Courts. Welcome to Bobby’s Motel is a bristling record, where percussion has a preponderant place. An often raucous and wild album, very much in the image of the Montreal quintet. | 0:20:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Holger Czukay |
Cool In The Pool - Cool Version
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Movie |
Groenland Records |
2016 |
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| Breeders |
Saints
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Last Splash | 4AD / Elektra | 1993 | ""Saints" is a song by the Breeders, released as the third and final single from their 1993 album Last Splash. It was released in 1994 on 4AD/Elektra Records." //////// "Saints" is a different version than the one on Last Splash, and is the version used for the song's music video. //////// The music video was directed by Frank Sacramento and features the band playing the song in a snowy forest, as well as the band walking around a carnival while certain parts are played at the fair. The video uses the version of the song issued as a single." The Breeders - Saints (Official Video) | 0:33:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Grand Duchy |
Shady
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Let The People Speak | Sonic Unyon Records | 2012 | I listened to this album quite a bit one summer [or more] and therefore relate to it as a summer album, even if there's no reason to do so. This is the second (and last) album of this collaborative project between Frank Black & [then] wife Violet Clark. By this time Frank Black was touring more regularly with a reformed Pixies, so Violet Clark took a much larger role for the album overall. This song is one of the rare exceptions, where Frank Black plays a predominate role & Violet Clark only provides vocals. The album itself seems to have garnered a small clutch of mostly less-than-favourable reviews at the time; only to fall off the map completely after that. Not for me, though... It keeps drawing me back in. Lineup for this song... -- Backing Vocals – Silver Sorensen // Drums, Backing Vocals – Jason Carter // Vocals – Violet Clark // Vocals, Guitar, Bass – Black Francis // Written-By – Black Francis | 0:36:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Fall |
Can Can Summer (Brittannia Row Recording)
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Imperial Wax Solvent (Expanded Version) - Disc 2: Britannia Row Recordings 21/09/07 | Cherry Red Records | 2008 / 2020 | Different version than from the 2008 original album. Shorter length, inverted mix (more guitars, less keys), plenty of alternate lyrics. Worthy prequel to the final product. //// An amusing story from around the time, from the linernotes of the reissue: "...Smith was presented with the Maverick Award at the Mojo Honours, the fabled UK awards ceremony that ran between 2004 and 2010. At the Brewery event space in London's Barbican, in front of an audience that contained Nick Cave, John Lydon and Neil Diamond. John Cooper Clarke, on the cusp of his establishment as national treasure, presented the award. He called Smith "Head honcho of the coolest band in the universe. Even as I hand this over, I say, with Fall fans the world over - even as he receives this award - he is not appreciated." //// Smith's speech was brief: "I'd like to thank my dad, who's dead, and everybody else... don't believe what you hear about Manchester, it's all fantasy." Smith gave this award to Cooper Clarke, and then after, put it on Ebay, with the proceeds of its sale going to Manchester Victim Support." | 0:39:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain |
Mediterranean X Film
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Glasgow Eyes | Fuzz Club | 2024 | Another band I associate mostly with summer. Instead of playing a song that clearly fits a summer theme (they have many), I thought I'd play another from their most recent album, an excellent album that I have not returned to enough. This spends its last minute+ repeating the vocals "darkest day", which doesn't seem too summery, but I can't picture JAMC as a wintery group, so let's pretend this makes sense, like Christmas in July. "Arriving 40 years after that landmark debut album Psychocandy, and probably about 40 minutes since the last bust-up between brothers Jim and William Reid, it’s hard to know whether Glasgow Eyes is a fresh start for the Mary Chain – or just the latest chapter in alt pop’s second-most high-profile sibling soap opera. //// Glasgow Eyes is the first proper album the feuding siblings have made since their final bust-up back in 1998 which occurred, fairly typically, in the middle of a gig in the middle of a song. Since then they’ve reunited for the 2017 release Damage And Joy (a mixture of new tunes and re-recorded solo numbers) and kept the fighting to a minimum, if only by dint of living 5,000 miles apart – William in Arizona and Jim in Devon with his partner and kids. //// Not that it’s all peace and love, maaan. By all accounts recording of the new album did not pass entirely smoothly, as evidenced by each brother recording contributions in their before (or maybe after) they got together at Mogwai’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow with today’s Mary Chain members – Mark Crozer on bass, Scott Von Ryper on guitar and Justin Welsh on drums. As has become their custom, there are female guest vocalists too: one-time Rezillos/Revillos frontwoman Fay Fife on opening number Venal Joy and Jim’s partner Rachel Conti on Girl 71, taking the roles occupied last time around by Isobel Campbell and Sky Ferreira. //// Opening number Venal Joy sets the tone by reminding us of the sheer antisocial noise that debut made back in 1984 – a noise that I distinctly remember feeling I had not heard since the first time I heard the Pistols and Ramones; guitar as a weapon of mass aural destruction. Venal Joy’s fuzzed-out and fucked-up intro, channelling The Living End, doesn’t quite have the same impact but it’ll make you check your speakers aren’t about to blow or short out. //// It leaps out of the speakers with its scuzzy electronic throb, all glitchy synth noises and distorted guitars around Jim’s languid vocal, proclaiming: “I’m on fire, piss on fire… don’t piss on fire.” What does it mean? Who knows or, honestly, cares. Fay Fife adds her dulcet tones to his tired rasp as he promises, perhaps in a mission statement that this album will reach completion: “I won’t give up and die”, assuring us that: “I’m all right, I’m OK. Well OK, I’m all right.” //// It’s a powerful opener, and one that sets the tone for an uncompromising album on which the duo seem determined to demonstrate that age has not withered them, nor doused the fire that burns in their bellies. Things slow down with American Born, a disconcertingly gentle number that sounds like Suicide with its chimes and music box melody, with Jim surely singing William’s words: “I drink with Americans, I live with Americans” as his brother peels off a beautifully Velvety guitar arpeggio. //// There’s another female voice somewhere deep in the mix at the beginning of Mediterranean X Film, muttering about “live transmission… revolution” before Jim makes another declaration about historical figures: “Churchill and De Gaulle, Berlin and the Wall, The Bunny boys and The Fall, I think I love them all.” Perhaps peace and love really has broken out in the Reid family after all. “Looks like I love everyone,” he adds, though the darkness of the music suggests otherwise." | 0:41:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Sufjan Stevens |
Christmas in July
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Songs For Christmas | Asthmattic Kitty | 2006 | "Christmas On The Beach, Christmas in July". I like the idea of Christmas in July, even maybe more-so than December. "Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. //// His debut album, A Sun Came, was released in 2000 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he co-founded with his stepfather. //// Stevens has released albums of varying styles, from the electronica of The Age of Adz and the lo-fi folk of Seven Swans to the symphonic instrumentation of Illinois and Yuletide-themed Songs for Christmas. He employs various instruments, often playing many of them himself on the same recording. Stevens' music is also known for exploring various themes, particularly religion and spirituality. Stevens' tenth studio album, Javelin, was released in October 2023." | 0:46:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Stereolab |
Transmuted Matter
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Instant Holograms on Metal Film | UHF Disks / Warp Records | 2025 | Another band that I associate mostly with summer. Ask me in July if listening to Stereolab makes sense, and I'd say "of course!" Ask me in the winter... I'd be uncertain... Am I alone in this? //////// "Instant Holograms on Metal Film is the eleventh studio album by English-French rock band Stereolab. It was released on 23 May 2025 through Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. It marked their first studio album in nearly 15 years, following Not Music (2010). //////// Stereolab started teasing the record in early April 2025, via a wordsearch image sent to subscribers of their Lab Report newsletter as well as a series of Instagram posts. On 2 April, 16 years to the day that the group announced their indefinite hiatus, fans received a package called "unsolicited Stereolab material" comprising the lead single "Aerial Troubles" alongside the instrumental. Additionally, posters of the band's name appeared in major cities around the world. Stereolab announced their eleventh studio album on 8 April, which marks their return after a 15 year wait. "Aerial Troubles", a song that features their "signature otherworldly, radiant groove", received an official release the same day alongside a "retro" music video directed by Laurent Askienazy. //// Instant Holograms on Metal Film includes 13 tracks, all of which were written by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier and performed by the duo alongside Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz of the group's 2025 touring lineup. It features contributions by Cooper Crain and Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay of International Anthem, Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf of Cavern of Anti-Matter, Marie Merlet and Molly Hansen Read. The album was released as a double vinyl LP, available in standard and coloured variants as well as on CD. Instant Holograms on Metal Film will be supported by a tour through Europe, North America and the United Kingdom from May to December 2025." | * | 0:49:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Messer Chups |
Margarita for Me and My Horse
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Don't Worry, Be Creepy |
Hi-Tide Recordings |
2024 |
What says 'SUMMER!' more than a surf record released in December recorded by German ex-Pats living in Russia? "Formed in Hamburg in 1998 and originally consisted of Oleg Gitarkin (bass) and Annette Schneider (synths). They had several member changes and in 2003, they invited Lydia Kavina - the most famous thereminvox-player and grand-niece of its inventor - to release Crazy Price and Vamp Babes. As of 2016, Messer Chups is based in St. Petersburg" https://messerchupsmusic.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Les Touffes Kretiennes |
Rock Lobster Live
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Crazy Punk Brass Band Live | L'assos Dallas | 2005 | I'm always thrilled when I find a new version of Rock Lobster but this album is CHOCK A BLOCK FULL of amazing covers. The colorful satyrs of Touffes Krétiennes, escaped from groups such as Hurlements d'Léo, Sleeppers, Les fils de Teuhpu, Mabreuch, Babylon Circus, Los Tres Puntos, Fumuj... come together for crazy and recreational interludes, canvassing at the school of sweat and asphalt. They quickly scour the French stages before permanently squatting the biggest festivals (more than 600 concerts in France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, USA, Hungary, Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Belgium...). From the street to the venue, euphoric funk and disco nuggets, pi(g)mented with ska or alternative sauce, have been simmered in the infernal crucible of groove, served hot on this latest album... | 1:05:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Sena, Jenn Honovitch, TALIA |
Gidget Goes to Hell
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Single | Sad Boi Records | 2020 | An excellent cover of the Suburban Lawns' song...Diminutive teenager Francie Lawrence (Sandra Dee) has a bunch of boy-crazy friends, but she could care less about boys. That is, until she goes to the beach one day and meets surfer Jeffrey Moondoggie Matthews (James Darren) and his friends, including Burt The Big Kahuna Vail (Cliff Robertson). Now, Francie, whom the boys call Gidget -- short for girl midget -- wants to learn how to surf, so she buys a used board and dives into the sunny world of Southern California surfing fever...inspired by the book Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas.... | 1:09:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Cramps |
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
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Stay Sick! | Vengeance Records | 1989 | The Cramps made weird music for weird people. Stay Sick makes no bold claims to being a piece of high art. It’s trashy, kitschy, low-rent, garish and defiantly punk. It’s the soundtrack to a night out I once had in my dreams. The record’s production, the sound of each instrument apart and together, is probably the best The Cramps have ever sounded, polished but not enough to totally remove the dirt....kinky, transgressive...and pure Cramps... | 1:11:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Dead Kennedys |
Funland at the Beach
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Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables | Cherry Red | 1980 | Another beach inspired surf romp from the best surf punks out there...DK....For every icon-maker, there is an iconoclast. For every Rockwell, an anti-Rockwell. In the late 70s and early 80s, Dead Kennedys were it. One photograph of them, looking nerdy and gormless, with sprayed dollar signs on their shirts, presents them best – puckish imps spawned by the American Nightmare. Their name alone characterised them as provocateurs, straying into territory that was crass and insensitive, which was precisely the point. Led by Jello Biafra, they were disgust embodied, golems or gremlins willed into being by the hypocrisies of the greatest nation on earth. They were the children of Reagan, Falwell, Kissinger, Jim Jones. A living personification of a diatribe by an earlier American iconoclast, Henry Miller,:“This is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.” | 1:14:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Chats |
Heatstroke
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High Risk Behaviour | Bargain Bin Records | 2020 | That’s the talent of The Chats: they take seemingly banal Australian things – growing up in small towns, waiting for the train, or having a pub feed – and turn them into raucous and relatable two-minute punk anthems.In 2019, The Chats created their own label, Bargain Bin Records, so they could release their own music and help out music mates at the same time. “I’ve had mates in bands [tell me] they’ve finished a record and then the label doesn’t want to put it out. So they’ve got to start again. And I just think that sounds ridiculous. I think that’s really stupid,” - Eamon | 1:16:12 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Erik Nervous |
Ice Cream
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Familiar Anxieties | Ol Blue | 2023 | ...is from the wonderfully named Shipshewana, Indiana. Erik Hart has produced at least an E.P. a year since 2015, releasing his music on a long list of American indies, such as Warm Ratio, Total Punk, Neck Chop, Lumpy, and Digital Regress. As his Bandcamp Bio says..."workin on new stuff" | 1:19:10 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Membranes |
Tatty Seaside Town
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Everyone's Going Triple Bad Acid, Yeah! | Cherry Red | 2017 | The Membranes are an English post-punk band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1977. Their first release was the "Flexible Membrane" flexi-disc in 1980, and over the next 11 years they went on to release six studio albums. Their first single proper, "Muscles", was a single of the week in the UK music press and a big club hit in New York being played in the Danceteria. The band pioneered the avant noise scene of Big Black and Sonic Youth for several years with their "Spike Milligan's Tape Recorder" single and Death To Trad Rock EP and their debut Gift Of Life album They were destined to be the first band to be signed to Alan McGee's Creation label, but the deal fell through when McGee could not afford to pay their studio bill for the "Spike Milligan's Tape Recorder" single. | 1:20:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Clash |
London's Burning
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The Clash | Sony Music | 1977 | Never Mind the Bollocks may have appeared revolutionary, but the Clash's eponymous debut album was pure, unadulterated rage and fury, fueled by passion for both rock & roll and revolution. Though the cliché about punk rock was that the bands couldn't play, the key to the Clash is that although they gave that illusion, they really could play -- hard. The charging, relentless rhythms, primitive three-chord rockers, and the poor sound quality give the album a nervy, vital energy. Joe Strummer's slurred wails perfectly compliment the edgy rock, while Mick Jones' clearer singing and charged guitar breaks make his numbers righteously anthemic. | 1:23:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Black Honey |
Beaches
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Written & Directed | Foxfive Records | 2021 | Black Honey are a British four-piece indie rock band formed in Brighton, England in 2014. Izzy Baxter Phillips (lead singer and guitarist), Chris Ostler (guitarist), Tommy Taylor (bassist) and drummer Alex Woodward are Black Honey, a bold Brighton rock quartet here to remind us that great indie music defies convention, embracing vulnerability and character. Following their game-changing debut Written and Directed, the rising four-piece present their next offering A Fistful of Peaches, which thematically, they describe as being "a homage to the Spaghetti Western film A Fistful of Dollars, but making it queer". Speaking openly on themes of sexuality, neurodivergence, sexual assault and anxiety, Black Honey deliver emotionally driven lyrics which work with their interest in bold, surreal film aesthetics. | 1:25:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Monty Kelly |
Tropicana
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Tropicana |
Countdown Media |
1958 |
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| BC Camplight |
The Tent
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A Sober Conversation | Bella Union | 2025 | Released June 27 // Officially released after the start of the official (northern hemisphere) summer... This is the opening track from this seventh BC Camplight album... ////////////// "Every BC Camplight album has a backstory every bit as compelling as its music. A Sober Conversation is no different, as virtuoso songwriter and pianist Brian Christinzio documents the last two years of his life, finally confronting a shocking childhood trauma while embracing sobriety, to create his bravest and most revealing record. It’s an enthralling, sometimes haunting quasi-concept record marked by ruthless tragic-comedic purging and sublime, intricate melody, knitting lyrical screenplays to dazzling arrangements. It is BC Camplight at the height of his remarkable powers. "A Sober Conversation follows Christinzio’s 2023 album, the critically celebrated The Last Rotation Of Earth (his first Top 40 album), a record centred around the agonising break-up of his long-term relationship." //// “Around the time of The Last Rotation… I realised I was living in this perpetual childhood, messed up all the time, trying to free myself from responsibility and all the bad thoughts I had. It led to a kind of existential crisis… I was craving meaning, thinking about having kids… I’ve been running away from stuff for a long time. You can either try and achieve milestones in life or chase a dime bag - you can’t do both. And I’ve decided not to let myself be defeated anymore.” //// In part, Christinzio’s new-found clarity led him back to childhood, to summer camp in New Jersey when he was abused by an adult counsellor. Previous BC Camplight records have referred to it obliquely, but it’s now front and centre of A Sober Conversation. “I had spent 30 years being terrified to open that door, and afraid of the price I’d pay once I had. I’ve opened the door. To some extent this album is what was on the other side. I hope it helps me but this album is also for everyone that is having trouble finding their bravery, finding themselves” he says. //// As album intro ‘The Tent’ evolves from an ominous crescendo of synths and footsteps into a pensive country-tinged piano ballad into a passage of increasing tonal violence and euphoric choral harmonies, Christinzio sets the scene of the crime. Later on in the album, stunning magnum opus ‘Rock Gently To Disorder’ underlines how the struggle continues. “I might be owning my life, but it doesn’t mean it's not going to hurt,” he affirms. “It’s always going to hurt.” //// "Christinzio got through [his] break-up, started therapy, buried his addictions, and made his new masterwork A Sober Conversation. The album is self-played except drums (shared between Sidonie Hand-Halford and Adam Dawson, who plays in Christinzio’s live band), plus backing singer Jessica Branney. Live band members Jolan Lewis and Thom Bellini make cameos. Christinzio believes that his sobriety, “really comes out in the music. It’s more meaningful because it’s coming from a place of clarity.”"https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/ | * | 1:40:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Morphine |
Like Swimming
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Like Swimming | DreamWorks/Rykodisc | 1997 | "Like Swimming is the fourth studio album by [Cambridge, MA's] Morphine, released in March 1997 by DreamWorks/Rykodisc. It was Morphine's first album (out of two) released as part of their multi-album deal with DreamWorks and the last album released within the lifetime of singer and bassist Mark Sandman. //// After releasing three albums for indie label Rykodisc between 1992 and 1995, Morphine wanted to leave the label in 1996 and sign with DreamWorks. Since the band still owed Rykodisc two albums, the two labels negotiated a deal where Like Swimming would carry branding of both labels in North America, and Rykodisc would have the rights for the rest of the world. The deal also included Rykodisc's exclusive rights to two future archival releases: B-Sides and Otherwise (1997) and Bootleg Detroit (2000). //// Before the Morphine contract was sold off to Dreamworks, a finished album had been delivered to Rykodisc for release. However, when DreamWorks got involved, some songs were remixed, two songs were added to the track list ("Lilah", "Hanging on a Curtain"), and one song was removed ("In Your Shoes"). The latter remains officially unreleased. The album's planned October 1996 release date was eventually pushed back to March 1997." /////////// Sadly, "Mark Sandman collapsed during the band's eighth song. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance en route to the hospital. He was 46. Billy Conway and Dana Colley continued working together on a project called Twinemen keeping Mark Sandman's legacy alive. Dana Colley and original drummer, Jerome Deupree, along with blues guitarist Jeremy Lyons currently tour as Vapors of Morphine and The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band // Billy Conway died of liver cancer on December 19th 2021, aged 65." | 1:45:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests |
Aha Begena
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Moa Anbessa | Terp Records | 2006 | Another album I associate with summer. One of my favourites, from one of my favourite bands, with Toronto's Brodie West amongst the guests. And so, last night, it was an excellent surprise to see this album (deservedly) as one of the ten records Discogs highlighted in their feature: "The Lost Ethio-Jazz Scene Collectors Love // From smoky Addis Ababa clubs to global reissues, these 10 albums trace the rise of Ethio-jazz." ///////// They wrote the following of this album: "You could be forgiven for thinking that Ethio-jazz and Dutch anarcho-punk are not a perfect fit. Inspired by hearing him on Éthiopiques 14, Dutch band the Ex had tracked down Gétatchèw Mèkurya to play at their 25th-anniversary show, which eventually led to this remarkable merger of disparate genres. Together they birthed some of the most electrifying jazz fusion of the decade. //// The artists had more in common than you’d suspect. Indeed, Mèkurya’s integration of traditional battle chants became all the more visceral and forceful when backed by the Ex’s aggressive guitars and pummeling drums. It’s stunning, arresting music that pushes the distinctive melodies and grooves of the Ethiopian sound into unforeseen territories. Though not as lilting as what many have come to expect from the Ethio-jazz scene, Moa Anbessa is a worthwhile departure for open-minded jazz fans." ///////// "In addition to Mekuria and The Ex's core two-guitar/drums/vocals line up, Moa Anbessa and the tours surrounding it featured additional brass and reed work from Canadian alto sax player Brodie West, French clarinetist Xavier Charles, and Dutch trombonist Joost Buis who had previously played with the band in their Ex Orkest project. The Ex also reunited with Scottish bass player Colin McLean with whom they had toured and co-released records in the late 1980s when both McLean and Andy Moor were members of the Dog Faced Hermans." https://theex.nl/ | 1:49:29 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Th' Faith Healers |
Reptile Smile
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Lido | Too Pure / Elektra | 1992 | Yet another band I associate with summer, another album & song that doesn't have much to do with summer. This album and band don't seem to be well represented on digital services, so we'll attempt to rectify a bit of that now. "Lido is the debut album by the English band th' Faith Healers, released in 1992. The band promoted the album in the United States by touring with the Dentists. //// Recorded in London, the album was produced by Ott & Robs and mixed by the band. The American release includes two additional tracks, "Reptile Smile" and "Moona-ina-Joona". "Trouser Press wrote that the band cranks "out hypnotic drone rock that crests with cathartic power and recedes." Spin praised the "intense, well-structured blurts of melodic noise." Robert Christgau considered Lido "sheer power-drone, never fully controlled and often breaking into something quite frantic and exciting."" | 1:56:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Messer Chups |
Kiss Of The Night
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Don't Worry, Be Creepy |
Hi-Tide Recordings |
2024 |
What says 'SUMMER!' more than a surf record released in December recorded by German ex-Pats living in Russia? "Formed in Hamburg in 1998 and originally consisted of Oleg Gitarkin (bass) and Annette Schneider (synths). They had several member changes and in 2003, they invited Lydia Kavina - the most famous thereminvox-player and grand-niece of its inventor - to release Crazy Price and Vamp Babes. As of 2016, Messer Chups is based in St. Petersburg" https://messerchupsmusic.bandcamp.com/ |
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| Fred Scheider |
Summer In Hell
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Fred Schneider and the Shake Society | Warner | 1984 | Fred Schneider and the Shake Society is the debut solo studio album by American new wave musician Fred Schneider, released in 1984 by Warner Bros. Records. It was re-released in 1991 as Fred Schneider. Musicians and backing vocalists varied from track to track. Notable names included co-producer Bernie Worrell on keyboards, synthesizers and/or backing vocals on several tracks, as well as Schneider's B-52's bandmate Kate Pierson on backing vocals on four tracks, including "Monster" | 2:12:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Housemartins |
Happy Hour
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single | Go! Discs | 1984 | Happy Hour" is a 1986 single by British indie rock band the Housemartins. It was the third single from the album London 0 Hull 4 and reached number three in the UK singles chart. Vocalist Paul Heaton had been working on the lyrics for some time, with the song originally being called "French England". It was completed on 22 January 1986, the same day "Me and the Farmer" was written. Guitarist Stan Cullimore had a chord progression planned for the verses, but wanted to finish the song quickly in order to go and buy some cakes, so he reused the same chords for the chorus and a quick demo was recorded, the whole process taking less than ten minutes. The lyrics are centred on the expectations of male office workers to participate in social conventions such as happy hour. | 2:17:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Sauna Youth |
The Patio
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Deaths | Upset the Rhythm | 2018 | SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. "Weird" is a meaningless platitude and "art punk" is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Consisting of Boon (drums, vocals), Pines (guitar), Ecke (vocals, sampler) and Mince (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper, Sauna Youth sound considered - live, they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe - then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. As Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?" Sauna Youth consistently pose the question, "Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?" Having formed in Brighton in 2009, the band then moved to London in 2011, shifting its line up to its current constellation. As well as performing as Sauna Youth, all four members also make up the band Monotony, swapping their roles around in the group. They did two sessions over two days as both bands for Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music, and both bands were invited to play DRILL Festival by Wire. As well as playing in Monotony, members of Sauna Youth are also in Tense Men, Primitive Parts, Feature and Cold Pumas. | 2:19:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Young Knives |
Long Cool Drinks by the Pool
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Super Superabundance | Warner | 2023 | Young Knives is an English indie rock band hailing from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Formed in 1998, the band consists of Henry Dartnall on guitar and vocals, Thomas Dartnall (affectionately known as 'The House of Lords') on bass and vocals, and Oliver Askew on drums. Lead singer Henry affectionately refers to his younger brother Tom as 'The House of Lords' due to his knack for vetoing his ideas. Together, they create a unique sound that has captivated audiences since their inception. With their catchy melodies and energetic performances, Young Knives have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the indie rock scene. Their music is a blend of infectious hooks and clever lyrics that showcase their undeniable talent and creativity. | 2:21:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Gobs |
Bad Day to be a Beer
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Obsgay Uleray | Self Released | 2025 | The Gobs are a punk band from Olympia, Washington State. They are on tour! Catch them at 7/31 chicago 8/1 indianapolis 8/2 detroit 8/3 cleveland 8/4 pittsburgh 8/5 TBA 8/6 TBA 8/7 philly 8/8 NYC 8/9 boston | * | 2:24:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| FIDLAR |
Cheap Beer
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FIDLAR | Mom-Pop | 2012 | Fidlar, stylized as FIDLAR, is an American punk and garage rock band from Los Angeles. The band's name is an acronym for Fuck It Dawg, Life's a Risk, a skate mantra stolen from singer Zac Carper's former roommates. Elvis Kuehn (guitar/vocals) and Max Kuehn (drums) are the sons of Greg Kuehn, keyboardist for Long Beach punk legends, T.S.O.L. while Zac Carper (vocals/guitar) is the son of famed surfboard designer John Carper. Carper struggled with drug addiction and spent time in rehab for it, inspiring the song "No Waves". Bassist Brandon Schwartzel was Carper's friend before joining the band, with the two bonding over drugs and homelessness. The four have been performing together as FIDLAR since 2009. | 2:26:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| JFA |
Beach Blanket Bongout
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Blatant Localism | JFA Music | 1981 | Blatant Localism is the first EP released by the Arizona-based skate punk band JFA aka Jodie Foster's Army, in 1981. It was the first major underground release in the punk rock scene to incorporate skate themes, making JFA one of the pioneering skate punk bands. JFA was formed in April 1981, 19 days after the failed attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley, an obsessed fan of Jodie Foster and her portrayal of a teen prostitute in the 1976 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver, reportedly attempted to kill the President as a means of impressing the actress. The band's name was thus a dark play on Hinckley's attempt at murdering Reagan. | 2:28:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Manu Dibango |
Coconut
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African Voodoo |
Soul Makosa |
1972 |
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| Madness |
Day on the Town
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7 | Stiff Records | 1981 | The third album is often where a band makes a great leap forward, and so it is with Madness’ Seven. Although they’re still clearly the same nutty band that tore it up with One Step Beyond, Seven finds the group expanding its horizons considerably, ratcheting up the melodious pop quotient in their songwriting, as well as the distinctly English character sketches. Much of the album comes across as a blend of the Kinks and Ian Dury backed by a propulsive ska beat, and the production is a appropriately just as imaginative, colored by the odd sitar, finding new carnivalesque flourishes for the horns, and expanding the rhythmic palette considerably. | 2:35:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Desmond Dekker |
Keep a Cool Head
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Single | Beverly's Records | unknown | Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces, he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007", "It Mek" and "You Can Get It If You Really Want". | 2:38:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Orange Juice |
Barbeque
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Coals to Newcastle | Domino | 1982 / 2010 | Edwyn Collins musing over the meaning of life and resulting head injuries while contemplating existential crises and barbequeing. I am so fucking confused. This tune is bizarre and wonderful. Scottish post-punk band formed in Bearsden, Glasgow. The band started out as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. They changed their name to Orange Juice in May 1979 and signed with Alan Horne's Postcard Records. Their first record 'Falling and Laughing' was also the first Postcard release. /// This song was originally released in 1982 on the "I Can't Help Myself" 12-inch EP. Sp. 'Barbecue' on some issues. | 2:40:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Siouxsie & The Banshees |
Swimming Horses
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Hyena | Polydor | 1984 | In the United States, Hyæna was the first Banshees studio album to be released on Geffen Records, which also signed to reissue the rest of the band's catalog. Prior to that, "Dear Prudence" had become the band's highest-peaking single in the UK, reaching number 3 in September of the previous year....Hyæna is the sixth studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 8 June 1984 by Polydor Records. The opening track, "Dazzle", featured strings played by musicians of the London Symphonic Orchestra (LSO), a 27-piece orchestra called the "Chandos Players"; it was scored from a tune that Siouxsie Sioux had composed on piano. Hyæna is the only studio album that guitarist Robert Smith of the Cure composed and recorded with Siouxsie and the Banshees.... | 2:45:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Stranglers |
Midnight Summer Dream
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Feline | Epic | 1983 | "Feline is the seventh studio album by the Stranglers and was released on 14 January 1983 on the Epic record label, their first for the label. The first edition came with a free one-sided 7" single "Aural Sculpture Manifesto". Feline drew heavily on two of the dominant musical influences in Europe of the time, by using primarily acoustic guitars and electronic drums as well as synthesizers. The American edition of the album included the British hit single "Golden Brown" as the closing track on side one of the original vinyl (and the fifth song in on the CD version). //// There were three singles released from Feline: the first was "European Female" in January 1983, followed by a remixed 7" version of "Midnight Summer Dream" in February. The third and final single released was "Paradise" (released in July 1983)" | 2:49:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Patti Page |
Old Cape Cod
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Golden Hits | UMG | 1960 | I have always loved this dreamy song. The song extols the virtues of Cape Cod as a leisure destination with each verse ending with the line "You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod." The nucleus of the song was a poem written by Boston-area housewife Claire Rothrock, for whom Cape Cod was a favorite vacation spot. "Old Cape Cod" and its derivatives would be Rothrock's sole evident songwriting credit. She brought her poem to Ace Studios, a Boston recording studio owned by Milton Yakus, who adapted the poem into the song's lyrics. His associate Allan Jeffrey wrote the music and a demo recording was made at Ace. However, according to Page, Claire Rothrock brought "Old Cape Cod" directly to her, approaching Page at a Boston nightclub where the singer was performing. Page says of the song: "I just fell in love with it." She recorded "Old Cape Cod" during a day trip to New York City, enabling her return to Boston in time for that evening's nightclub performance. Old school, for sure! | 2:55:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Ramsey Lewis |
Summer Samba
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Goin' Latin |
UMG |
1968 |
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| Brian Eno |
Everything Merges with the Night
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Another Green World | Island | 1975 | Another Green World is not a happy record, nor is it sad. There are no demonstrations of personal triumph or failure, pain or elation, tension or release, desire or disappointment....This is the nature of Another Green World’s romance: Not what one person does or says for another, but the bond created between two people bearing witness to something bigger than both of them: Not love but wonder. | 3:03:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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