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: Seascapes |
Comforting Ocean Waves 2
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Comforting Ocean Waves |
Lotus Sound Records |
2021 |
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| Kalahari Surfers |
The Voice of Rage and Ruin
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Living In the Heart of the Beast | Shifty Records | 1985 | Warrick Swinney (born in 1958), more commonly known as Warrick Sony, is a South African composer, producer, musician and sound designer. He is the founder and sole permanent member of the Kalahari Surfers. They made politically radical satirical music in 1980s South Africa, and released it through the London-based Recommended Records. The South African Sunday Times described his music as a "daring home-mixed collection of subliminal jive rhythms, sad-sweet jazz sounds, tabla burps, church bells, bird shrieks, political speeches and... other... found sounds". The Sunday Times called it "a music born from the spilled seed of our national sickness and nurtured to nightmarehood in the moral drought of daily life/politics". | 0:01:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Honey Drippers |
Impeach the President
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Impeach the President/Roy C's Theme 7" | Alaga | 1973 | "Impeach the President" is a song by funk band the Honey Drippers, written and produced by Roy Charles Hammond, known as Roy C. It was first released as a single on Alaga Records in 1973, and was re-released to iTunes by Tuff City Records in 2017, after being sampled hundreds of times since the mid-1980s. It is a protest song advocating the impeachment of then–U.S. President Richard Nixon. The song takes its drum pattern from "Funky Drummer" by James Brown; one of the most widely heard beats sampled and interpolated in hip hop, R&B, jazz and pop music. Democratic representative Al Green told the US House on Wednesday he was bringing articles of impeachment against Donald Trump for his proposal to “take over Gaza”. “Ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not a joke, especially when it emanates from the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world,” he said. “And the prime minister of Israel should be ashamed, knowing the history of his people, to stand there and allow such things to be said." | 0:06:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| The Clash |
I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
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The Clash (Remastered) | Sony Music | 1977 | The song was originally titled "I'm So Bored with You", a song written by Mick Jones. According to Keith Topping's book The Complete Clash, the song was about Jones's girlfriend at the time, the same woman who was the topic of "Deny". According to the story often told by the song's authors Joe Strummer and Jones, including on the documentary Westway to the World, the change came about by Strummer mishearing the song's title when Jones played it to him during their first meeting at their Davies Road squat. And yes, we are bored. Very bored. People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing. That's my spiel.” ― Joe Strummer | 0:10:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Crass |
Systemic Death
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Penis Envy | Crass Records | 1981 | Penis Envy, released in 1981, was the third LP by the anarchist punk band Crass. The album was included at #36 on Rolling Stone's "40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time" list in 2016. Named as a reference to some of Sigmund Freud's ideas concerning sexuality, this release marked something of a departure from the hardcore image that The Feeding of the 5000 and its follow up, Stations of the Crass, had to some extent given the group, for it featured more obviously complex musical arrangements, as well as exclusively female vocals by Eve Libertine and Joy De Vivre (although Steve Ignorant remained a group member and is credited on the record sleeve as "not on this recording"). The album addressed feminist issues and once again attacked the institutions of 'the system' such as marriage and sexual repression. Donald Trump on Women in 1997 - "Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part." | 0:12:46 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Lambrini Girls |
Big Dick Energy
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Who Let The Dogs Out? | City Slang | 2025 | On this track, they tackle the concept of toxic masculinity with their sharp style, reflecting on how society has idealized certain men—from leaders to CEOs—celebrating their supposed “big dick energy.” However, Lambrini Girls don’t hold back, asking, “Is it really as big as they make it seem?” The message is clear: Not everything that glitters is gold. With this album, the duo are positioning themselves as one of the most promising punk bands in the U.K., combining energetic riffs, sharp lyrics, and an attitude that leaves no one indifferent. While we wait for the release of Who Let The Dogs Out, the preview from “Big Dick Energy” leaves us wanting more. - New Noise | * | 0:16:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| POWER PANTS |
Don't Touch My Gear
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PP7 | Power Pants | 2025 | Egg Punk from another world (but also Winchester, VA), blasting through the universe and your speakers. Powered by rock 'n roll and AA batteries, POWER PANTS is here to invade planet earth and take over your mind. Speaking of takeovers, in the past two weeks the American government has threatened to annex Canada and now Gaza. Repeated statements about Canada becoming "the 51st state" are the norm and all Canada has to say is...DON'T TOUCH MY GEAR. | * | 0:21:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The Dead Milkmen |
Moron
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Eat Your Paisley | Restless | 1986 | EYP was the the Milkmen's 2nd album. The Philadelphia band continued to point out their disdain for anything the adult world holds sacred and with music that purposefully negates the slickly produced synthesizer sounds of pretty boys such as Duran Duran and Howard Jones." Within today's context, it offers insight into the mindset of MAGA...sad, stupid people who just want to belong to something. | 0:22:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Los Mariachis |
The Fool On The Hill
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Exitos De Los Chicos De Liverpool |
The Phantom Boy Music |
2013 |
This one is for Mexico, the other target of Trump's ire. Sadly, many Latinos voted for Trump...which has now led to many of their friends and families to be deported. Slow clap, America. Big. Slow. Clap. |
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Music behind DJ: Mariachi La Playa |
Surfin' USA
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Surfin' USA Single |
MuuuseMe Sounds |
2020 |
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| Lisa Portelli |
Si hautes feat. Etienne Jaumet
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Absens | J'Ai Vécu Les Étoiles | 2025 | Released Jan 24, 2025. [Translated...] "Lisa Portelli returns with Absens, an album that goes beyond simple listening to become an experience. A total immersion in a universe where poetry, electro and dense guitars merge to create a magnetic work, of stunning beauty. //// From the first notes of The Ring, Absens sucks me into a dreamlike world, where water and air merge, where the body floats and abandons itself. Far from the shackles of traditional song, Lisa sculpts a sound that is both organic and experimental, carried by a production of rare finesse, signed Guillaume Jaoul. His chiseled electro arrangements rub shoulders with layers of ethereal guitars, delicate piano and hypnotic rhythms. Each track is a dive into something moving, where the artist's bewitching voice becomes the common thread of an intense delight. //// Among the peaks of the album that makes me dizzy, Si Haute in collaboration with Étienne Jaumet promises a dizzying ascent in a kind of new-wave-electro-funky-punk (in my words)" Video: LISA PORTELLI - SI HAUTE feat. Etienne Jaumet (Clip Officiel) | * | 0:34:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Tunng |
Yeekeys
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Love You All Over Again | Full Time Hobby | 2025 | Released Jan 24. "Since forming in 2003 and over the course of seven studio albums, Tunng are a group that have explored the boundaries between acoustic and electronic music, becoming synonymous with the folktronica genre before moving into territory that managed to both evade that label and continue to redefine it." "Time flies when you’re being Tunng. Can it really be over two decades since the band’s genre-blurring, self-styled ‘pagan folktronica’ first emerged from an east London studio courtesy of a clutch of Gilles Peterson-endorsed singles on the small but perfectly formed Static Caravan imprint? It surely can, and what’s more, January 2025 will mark the twentieth anniversary of This is Tunng... Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs, a debut LP whose acoustic guitars and poetic disquisitions on nature, mythology and the human condition, courtesy of Sam Genders, sieved through fellow band founder Mike Lindsay’s lattice of fractured beats and crackling electronics, still sounds like an impiously postmodern wedding of the rustic and the synthetic, the arcane and the futurist – one for which the designation ‘pagan folktronica’ is as good a shorthand as any. //// Whichever way we choose to describe it, that 20-year-old signature sound makes a warm return on Tunng’s eighth studio album, Love You All Over Again, a winning amalgam of texture and melody, disconcerting imagery and shapeshifting production, predicated, Lindsay reveals, on a conscious reacquainting with the band’s first principles. “I went back to the first two albums just to listen to how we fused genres – things like Davy Graham, Pentangle and the Wicker Man soundtrack, all of which I was discovering back then, together with Expanding Records [the Shoreditch-based repository of soi-disant ‘beautiful electronic music’], whose studio space we shared. That was all going into the early records. Over the years, Tunng’s sound has varied and twisted, but at the root there is always a flavour of what Sam and I made on that first album. Rather than searching for a new avenue we went back to what we used to do, which, after all this time, felt like it was a new avenue... Love You All Over Again is our way of coming full circle.”" https://tunng.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:39:08 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Moreish Idols |
Dream Pixel
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All In The Game | Speedy Wunderground | 2025 | "UK band Moreish Idols have announced their debut album, All In The Game, which will be out March 7 via Speedy Wunderground. The record was produced by label founder Dan Carey. Bassist Caspar Swindells says it’s about “time being spent, time being wasted, time getting away from you, but being able to realize that time is what you make of it.” //// The album includes last year’s singles “Pale Blue Dot” and “Slouch,” and they’ve just shared the album’s penultimate track, “Dream Pixel,” that’s powered by acoustic guitars and a fill-heavy shuffle beat. (There’s a little Beta Band in there.) “’Dream Pixel’ is about what we all see in our dreams; the colors, sounds and occurrences that are often too surreal to put into words and leave you questioning how the subconscious can paint such a vivid, psychedelic picture,” say the band. “Inspired by the experience of swimming in phosphorescence in Cornwall, ‘Dream Pixel’ celebrates the moments in life that could easily be mistaken for a dream, glitch or trip.” //// The “Dream Pixel” video was directed by Lurch & Kaleb Markham." Moreish Idols - Dream Pixel (Official Video) | * | 0:42:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Nightingales |
The New Emperor's New Clothes
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The Awful Truth | Fire Records | 2025 | First track pre-released from forthcoming April 4, 2025 album "The Awful Truth"... "The Nightingales return with ‘The Awful Truth’, a modern mutant music hall interpretation of the day’s news, a haunting jolt into realism narrated with all the angst of an insistent, slightly dishevelled late-night newscaster. Following the widely celebrated Stewart Lee-narrated King Rocker film in 2020, the curtain has finally been raised on the magic of the “long serving punk/alternative rock volunteer” (The Quietus). As pertinent as ever, The Nightingales release a poignant tirade on modern times heralded, quite rightly, as ‘The Awful Truth’. Opening cut, ‘The New Emperor’s New Clothes’ is an upbeat immersive eruption with a thumping percussive piano holding proceedings in order; think the Velvets meet Fairport Convention in a crowded boozer, still waiting for their man." https://thenightingalesuk.bandcamp.com/ | * | 0:46:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Nic & The Narcs |
BILLBOARD
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Crimewave | Nickel And Dime Management | 2024 | Released Oct 25, 2024, Toronto outfit brings you 5 tracks of goodness in under 10 minutes. They have this to say about themselves... "We're an authentic rock n' roll band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are NOT cops." --- Their management / label helpfully adds "They are most definitely NOT undercover police officers trying to infiltrate the underground Rock N Roll scene" //// Of their two releases, 11 total through 2 EPs you will find 9 songs with sirens in them. So there's that, too. https://nicandthenarcs.bandcamp.com/ ----- In the Toronto area on Valentine's Day? Check 'em out at Lowbar as part of Lowbar's Anniversary Weekend. (Lowbar = 1426 Bloor St W @ Sterling) | * | 0:50:36 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Los Pirañas |
El nuevo Prometeo
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Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida |
Glitterbeat Records |
2025 |
1st track from forthcoming March 7, 2025 full-length... Los Pirañas are from Bogotá, Colombia // Ruido Tropical // Tropical Noise // Mario Galeano, Eblis Álvarez & Pedro Ojeda. Bogotá, 2010 //////// "A veritable supergroup consisting of Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo), Los Pirañas, the Colombian Avant-Latin experimentalists, return with their most formidable and forward-looking album yet. //// Improvised live in the studio, with each member contributing ideas and interpretive strategies, the result is a masterclass in spontaneous, collective composition. //// Daring, imaginative, eclectic and always deeply groovy, Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida is an infectious trip into the dark, pulsating heart of Bogota’s thrilling underground music scene. //// The album title translates as One more chance to succeed in life. Not that they need it. The trio of guitarist Eblis Alvarez, bassist Mario Galeano and drummer Pedro Ojeda has been successfully carving out a wildly idiosyncratic musical world since the release of their debut album in 2010, pushing the boundaries of instrumental Latin tropical music with bold infusions of psychedelia, dub, minimalism and more. //// But their journey started a long time before that. All three attended the same high school and have been playing together for three decades, since they were around 15 years old. “We started with punk and heavy metal,” Ojeda recalls. “Then we were very interested in Colombian tropical music and traditional music from Colombia and Latin America, and that led us to focus on African music. It’s been a long road.” //// Along the way, the unfettered, spontaneous improvisation of jazz has been a crucial touchstone. “When we started playing in an improvised setting, we were very influenced by free jazz from the ‘60s,” says Ojeda. “But now we are more into making music for the dance floor and music that has a beat and a strong feeling to dance to – especially in this latest album.”" https://los-piranas.bandcamp.com/ |
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| R-an-D |
Punk the Punk
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Punk the Punk Single | R-an-D | 2025 | R-an-D are a mystery band. Could be French...could be Spanish. Could be Mexican? Who knows but the sentiment is there. Rebel or Rely...we choose rebel... | * | 1:00:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Golfball Jr. |
Sucker
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Sucker Single | Golfball Records | 2023 | If you’re in need of a frightening amount of fun, look no further than Golfball Jr. Whether you’re bringing your children or you’re out on a special date night, they have thrills that you’re looking for. Other Golfball's out there quite clearly lack originality. Many of them appear to be carbon copies of one another. This is why Golfball Jr. pride themselves in offering unique art and design throughout their facilities. None of these other brands could even compare to the excitement and fun that you’ll find at the Memory Museum, their most recent release that also features a wonderfully demented cover of the Tammy's "Egyptian Shumba" I like this band. | 1:03:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Free Weed |
Government Employee
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Government Employee Single | Gnar Tapes | 2025 | Real Name: Erik Gage Profile: Artist and songwriter from Portland, Oregon. Founder of Gnar Tapes, as well as the bands White Fang and The Memories, among others. Currently based in Los Angeles, California. Aliases: Erik Gage, Rikky Gage, Sucky Dorks, Super Destroy Members: White Fang DOGE operatives—one of them reportedly a recent high school graduate—have similarly taken control of key information systems at the Office of Personnel Management, locking out high-level career civil servants. This access provides Musk’s team with detailed and highly sensitive information on millions of government employees. It also has allowed them to send out blast emails to 2 million federal employees, making the legally dubious offer of a lengthy extended paid leave to workers willing to quit their jobs. - Lawfair.org "Elon Musk Weaponizes the Government" | * | 1:05:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Neon Kittens |
Shooters on Scooters
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Like Being Killed EP | Metal Postcard Records | 2025 | York, UK act Neon Kittens continue their prodigious output of oddball no-wave with their newest EP Like Being Killed. Outside the routine and regularity comes the Neon Kittens, a scratching and shape-shifting beast of ad-hoc pseudo-jizz-jazz liable to contort the cranial gunk into a multitude of pain-inducing shapes. Free Luigi Mangione. | * | 1:07:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Normal Weirds |
Not Today
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No Lease On Life | Normal Weirds | 2025 | ynamic punk band from the San Francisco East Bay, blending punk, heavy post-punk, and deathrock into a sound uniquely their own. Normal Weirds are back with their second release, No Lease On Life, a 6-song EP with a unique punk and heavy post-punk sound. No Lease On Life hits hard with aggressive energy, clever storytelling, and dark, humorous lyrics that tell real-life, true stories, capturing the absurdity, horror, and raw reality of existence. | * | 1:09:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Art Fact |
Whom Are You Dancing For?
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In Fact | Sing Your Life! | 1989 | Stockholm Sweden's Art Fact made their own kind of synth pop, but always sad and dark. Always with a nice melody. Famous from the legendary Memento Materia collections ”Illuminative” and ”Autumn Leaves”. And also from the cd edition of Hidden Tapes (minimalwave records) collection! The question begs...far right wing extremists and uneducated MAGA...whom are you dancing for? Are you aware of the role you play in today's society and global events with your choice of dictator? | 1:10:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| miLarKey |
Don't Waste My Time
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Give Them an Inch & They Took the Universe! | miLarKey Music | 2019 | An electro/rock/indie/punk band from London, UK. Milarky also another word for bullshit, which is a good descriptor of the last two and half weeks. For the record, Canada's contribution to the US fentanyl issue is less than 2 percent (and I'm being generous there) But hey, at least Trump learned about how tarriffs work this week. Malarky, indeed. | 1:13:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| THE MIND |
Tomorrow You Will Find You Lonesome
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Open the Window and Leave Your Body | Lumpy | 2021 | the MIND, a band capable of crafting beautifully gloomy gems of songs: vaporous, uncanny, and with all the hidden qualities of a Man Ray photograph. Their sound is really peculiar, it lives in the exact confluence of ’80s post-punk and early dream pop. The music feels like a monolith casting a shadow over a poppy field. There is a dark psychedelic edge to the songs, reminding me of Chicagoans DA! or really early SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES. The band seems to really be hitting you straight from the unconscious with each song, and this is an LP that deserves to be played really loud late at night. Final thought...the actions of the US government only serves to futher isolate the country from the rest of the world, and the outcome will be profoundly negative for those within her borders. | 1:17:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Le Trio Joubran |
Shajan
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Majaz |
Randana |
2007 |
Le Trio Joubran is an oud trio playing traditional Palestinian music. The trio consists of the brothers Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran, originally from the city of Nazareth, now dividing their time between Nazareth, Ramallah and Paris. The Joubran brothers come from a well-known family with a rich artistic heritage. |
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| John McKay |
Flare
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Sixes and Sevens | Tiny Global Productions | 2025 | "A lost masterpiece from John McKay . . . . . . the guitar genius who drove The Banshees! The Scream, the first album from Siouxsie & the Banshees, bears some claim as the first post-punk album, with only minor traces of 1977 and enough hints of what had come before punk - like the Andy MacKay-like saxophone flourishes - to feel utterly new. Siouxsie was clearly the focus, but the real star, we've always known, was John McKay, who wrote most of the Banshees' music, creating a wholly new guitar sound - harsh and brittle, yet melodically intoxicating . . . articulated by a vaguely confounded Steve Albini years later: "Only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs". McKay's influence lives on; many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credit him as a major influence - Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2's The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr and even the two guitarists - The Cure's Robert Smith and Magazine's John McGeoch - who followed him in The Banshees. John McKay was post-punk's first great guitarist - Hong Kong Garden was released anyone heard Keith Levene play on "Public Image" or Gang Of Four's Andy Gill on "Damaged Goods". McKay's burgeoning status as the anti-guitar hero was halted when he and Banshees drummer Kenny Morris - at odds with Siouxsie and bassist Steve Severin - fled the band just after the start of a tour supporting the group's second album, Join Hands. It was a music paper scandal, later the subject of a BBC documentary, with Siouxsie's vitriol working its way into the lyrics of a later Banshees b-side, "Drop Dead / Celebration". Aside from a solitary single on Marc Riley's In Tape label nearly a decade later, McKay wasn't heard from again . . . but a clutch of excellent '80s studio recordings made after he left The Banshees, unheard by nearly anyone, have been unearthed! These feature Banshees drummer Kenny Morris, Rema Rema's Mick Allen, plus Matthew Seligman of Soft Boys, Graham Dowdall from Ludus / Pere Ubu , and John's wife Linda . . . the last three now sadly deceased. Sixes And Sevens is an historic lost album. Brazenly genius and bearing legitimate claim as the lost treasure of the post-punk era, the album collects eleven studio tracks, carefully mastered from original tapes. It's a masterpiece that best speaks for itself. ONLY Bandcamp orders (strictly limited) will come with a bonus CD featuring five more studio tracks that we couldn't fit on the album, plus a booklet of lyrics and tales to sate your soul." https://thejohnmckay.bandcamp.com/ | * | 1:30:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Red Lorry Yellow Lorry |
Piece Of My Mind
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Driving Black EP | Cop International | 2025 | "Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, the seminal post-punk band from Leeds, UK, formed in 1981. Known for their dark, jarring, minimalist sound, the Lorries carved out their niche with a unique blend of punk, post-punk, and industrial influences. Their music radiates a raw, hypnotic energy, led by founding member Chris Reed’s cavernous, brooding vocals; and by Reed and longtime guitarist Dave ‘Wolfie’ Wolfenden’s angular, droning, wall-of-sound guitars. Their early trademark style was driven along by grinding bass, and an almost industrial hybrid of drum-machines and primal live percussion; while later output saw Reed and Wolfenden’s co-writing partnership mature and develop towards a more melodic, song-driven direction. The band achieved critical acclaim and significant cultural influence in the 1980s, with the albums Talk About the Weather (1985), Paint Your Wagon (1986), Nothing Wrong (1988), and Blow (1989), before calling it a day with fifth album, Blasting Off (1992). At the height of their influence and success, singles like ‘Monkeys on Juice’, ‘Hollow Eyes’, ‘Spinning Round’, ‘Cut Down’ and ‘Crawling Mantra’ were among the band’s biggest indie chart hits, while ‘Talk About the Weather’, ‘Walking on Your Hands’, ‘Nothing Wrong’ and ‘Temptation’ became enduring underground anthems. Over the years, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry built a dedicated following that remains with them to this day; their uncompromising sound leaving a lasting influence on the darker edges of post-punk, alternative rock, and gothic rock, despite the band rejecting the goth tag themselves. //// COP International is incredibly proud to add another milestone release to the discography of this iconic band. The band’s first new studio record in more than thirty years, the Driving Black EP serves as a tantalizing prelude to their forthcoming album Strange Kind of Paradise (due February 2025). The EP offers three exclusive tracks alongside three distinctive mixes from the upcoming album, including one by the legendary producer John Fryer, renowned for his work with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, and Cocteau Twins; and another by the Lorries’ own bassist and producer, Simon ‘Ding’ Archer, known for his work with The Fall, 1919, PJ Harvey, and Pixies, who brings his signature experimental edge to the production." https://redlorryyellowlorry.bandcamp.com/ | * | 1:35:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The WAEVE |
Broken Boys (Live from the City Lights Sessions)
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City Lights Sessions (Live) | Transgressive Records | 2025 | "The WAEVE have just released the live album of their second studio LP, ‘City Lights’. ‘Live from the City Lights Sessions’ is available on streaming platforms now. //// Catch the band on their UK Tour in March 2025." //// "The coming together of two musicians who, through working together have formed a new, singular, sonic identity. A powerful elixir of cinematic British folk-rock, post-punk, organic song-writing and freefall jamming. Themes of oblivion and surrender are juxtaposed with suggestions of hopefulness and light. Against a brutal global backdrop of impending apocalypse and despair, Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall strive to free themselves through the defiant optimism of making music." | * | 1:38:23 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Billy Nomates / Tor |
We Are The Men
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Mary And The Hyenas (Original Soundtrack) | Invada Records UK | 2025 | Composed, produced and performed by Tor Maries / Lyrics by Tor Maries and Maureen Lennon / Billy Fuller - Bass / Liam Chapman - Drums // Mixed and Mastered by James Trevascus. "Billy Nomates, has written the original soundtrack for Mary and the Hyenas, a major new play exploring the life of the 18th century feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft. The play premieres at Hull Truck Theatre from 7th February to 1st March and then transfers to Wilton’s Music Hall in London from 18th to 29th March, with an all female cast, writing and directing team. //// The original soundtrack features eleven brand new songs, with all music written by Billy Nomates with lyrics by Billy and the playwright, Maureen Lennon. This is the first new music since her critically acclaimed 2023 album, CACTI which won her support from luminaries such as Iggy Pop, Florence Welsh and Steve Albini. //// Speaking of the play, Billy Nomates aka Tor Maries said: “I didn’t know about Mary Wollstonecraft. It seems history rarely embraces pioneering women. Her story is a compelling one. A true trailblazer, but a human being, ahead of her 1800s environment. I wanted to bring the music into the last few decades, a contemporary place, not wholly defined by now. An attitude and feeling that resonates across time and ages.” //// Widely regarded as the mother of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was a moral and political philosopher whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism. She worked as a schoolteacher, a governess and as a translator for a London publisher. Her first published book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) foreshadowed her later work on the place of women in society, titled A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), which as its core is a plea for equality in the education of men and women. The Vindication is widely regarded as the founding document of modern feminism. In 1797 she married the philosopher, William Godwin. She died days after the birth of their daughter, Mary Shelley." ///////////// "Victoria Ann "Tor" Maries (born 2 May 1990) is an English musician and singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name Billy Nomates. // Maries grew up in Leicester and was a member of a number of bands that failed to be noticed. Following a period of depression, a Sleaford Mods gig inspired Maries to return to making music and she moved to Bournemouth to write and compose. Her stage name, Billy Nomates, was taken from an insult directed at her when she turned up at a gig on her own. //// Maries' first album was recorded in Bristol with Portishead's Geoff Barrow. She released this in 2020 and quickly gained attention from BBC Radio 6 Music. She describes her music as no wave. Critics make mention of post-punk and describe her delivery as sprechgesang. She featured on "Mork n Mindy" by Sleaford Mods in 2021. She released the Emergency Telephone EP in October 2021, produced by herself on Barrow's Invada record label." | * | 1:41:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Horsegirl |
Switch Over
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Phonetics On and On | Matador Records | 2025 | "Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — announce their second album, 'Phonetics On and On,' out February 14th, 2025 via Matador Records, a Chicago record release show and spring tour, and release lead single/video, “2468.” Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, the band’s original and sonic home, 'Phonetics On and On' is an exploration of the lines between pop, minimalism, and playful experimentation. Since the release of 2022’s 'Versions of Modern Performance,' “one of the most confident debuts of the year” (Vulture), much has changed for Horsegirl. In the fall of that year, the three relocated to New York City, where Penelope and Nora were to attend NYU— this was the first time the trio had written music outside of Penelope's parents' basement. The band’s new environment is reflected in the sonic fabric of the record. Through this time of unparalleled change, the band turns inward. When Horsegirl returned to Chicago to record in January 2024, they found a focus and intimacy in the studio that can only arise when it's simply too cold to step outside. Le Bon led them into new, bright, clear, sonic territories, highlighting the inventive nature of these songs. New tools help bring this world to life; violins, synths, and gamelan tiles are all woven into the record. The 11 songs experiment with space and texture while maintaining a pop song at the core. All the while, a confident simplicity brings the band's songwriting ability to the forefront." | * | 1:43:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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Endless Suffering
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Endless Suffering [EP] | MANBIRD! RECORDINGS | 2025 | "A playfully disrespectful song about having faith in an absurd creator, who has inspired generations of cruelty, ambivalence and suffering. "Everyone sing along with Manbird!" THE SINGLE //// Rich Vernon (The Mission), Paul Smith (Helter Skelter) and Steve Hands (Peter Perrett & The Only Ones) team up to create something special with a nod and a wink to icons such as Leonard Cohen, Bowie and The Dandy Warhols. Their Manbird single, Endless Suffering! [was] released on 27th January 2025" //// "What does MANBIRD! mean? Well, you could ask bassist Rich Vernon, but this is what he had to say about it: “I have no idea what it means. Ask Steve Hands; he came up with it. No, don’t ask him. He won’t know either. I can describe what MANBIRD! is though, It’s me discovering that Paul Smith is still writing songs, and playing guitar like Pete Townsend running out of patience with Tom Verlaine riffs. Me persuading him to sing and record, me bringing in Steve Hands to give it wings, and me bringing it back to Earth because I want people to hear this. And all in the kitchen because Smith won’t go in a studio.'” //// MANBIRD! came about as the result of some chance meetings. Vernon and Hands met years ago in a band called The One while Vernon met vocalist Paul Smith some time ago when they were in the band Helter Skelter. Bringing them all together, they each brought with them a great deal of experience from playing in other projects from The Only Ones to The Band of Holy Joy to The Doctor’s Children. Putting together all their many years of experience, MANBIRD! became a sort of under-the-radar supergroup. //// Today we’re spotlighting the new video for the song “Endless Suffering” by MANBIRD! With a sort of noisy brand of pop and surreal lyrics that toy with the sacrilegious, “Endless Suffering” is both blasphemous and delightful. With a trippy video that features a skateboarding Jesus and a crucifixion reenactment, the video hammers home (pun intended) the religious metaphor in a visceral fashion. Check out the video..." MANBIRD! Endless Suffering (Official Video) | * | 1:47:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| AUS!Funkt |
The System's In Place
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That's A Fact [EP] | Disco Devil | 2023 | Released Dec 21, 2023. "AUS!Funkt is a Montreal/Toronto based art-disco-post-punk quartet conceived in the jam session neo-laboratory. //// Rejecting the lyrical and musical excesses of rock music, AUS!Funkt combines the groove of electronic music with the subversive aggression of post-punk. The lyrics, spoken and sung, provoke the mind with their realism and repetition. Electronic beats seduce the body into movement, freeing it from its torpor. On top, the guitar spurts out clouds of noise, while the bass supplies the melody. AUS!Funkt assaults the senses and uneases the mind while you dance to its unsettling disco beats." AUS!Funkt (Bandcamp) | 1:50:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Mogwai |
Hammer Room
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The Bad Fire |
Rock Action Records |
2025 |
"The Bad Fire is the eleventh studio album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, released on 24 January 2025 on Rock Action Records in the UK and Europe, and on Temporary Residence Limited in the US. //// The album is the successor to 2021's As the Love Continues, and was produced by John Congleton and recorded at Chem 19 Studios in Scotland. The cover art by Dave "DLT" Thomas features a painting of a volcanic crater; the phrase "Bad Fire" being an old Scottish name for hell. Three tracks ("God Gets You Back", "Lion Rumpus" and "Fanzine Made of Flesh") were released on or before the announcement date of the album. //// In a press release accompanying the announcement of the album, the band said "After the high of putting out As the Love Continues, the following years were personally hard for us. We’ve dealt with a lot of loss and in Barry’s case a serious family illness with one of his daughters. Getting back together to write and record this record felt like a refuge and with John Congleton we feel that we’ve made something special. We often hear from people that our music has helped them get through hard times in their lives and for once I think it applies to us as well."" |
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Your dishes sounds better. I assume that it is some kind of balsamic glaze. Bell red peppers or a spicy variety?
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Booze can help you feel better under certain circumstances; Jägermeister+Bärenjager cocktail can work. The beer helped me out while in chilly Toronto once upon a time.
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I have been doing some German language related stuff recently; film, grammar, desserts; the desserts are the best.
Any possibility for a german language set in the coming months?
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My family are German and some of the elders DID talk about the wartimes and I know they would be stunned at the developments of the last even…20 years.
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