Show #330
Time: Saturday 09 January 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Brakes, *Touchdown* (2009) . . . This English band is led by the same brothers, Thomas & Alex White, who front the Electric Soft Parade, whose excellent 2003 release, *The American Adventure*, was featured on this show on 1/13/2007 . . . Brakes is a much punchier outfit, with a trippy punk sensibility that is hard to resist . . . their new album is a fast, frenzied delight, rocking head candy . . .
Classic Rock Album: Stone Harbour, *Emerges* (1974) . . . This duo from Youngstown, Ohio recorded one dandy psychedelic album together that, in its own time, never saw much attention, but has since become a genuine favorite among acid rock collectors in the cyberspace age . . . Stone Harbour's Ric Ballas and Dave McCarty make some amazingly sweet lysergic music together . . . their trip is worth sharing . . .
Storybook Time: Opening & Chapter One of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Ramones and cuts from *Acid Eaters*, their classic 1993 cover album of '60s classics . . . 2009 gave everyone a hot painful shower of reality, a frank view of how bad things have gotten . . . a new year beginning and things don't seem quite so bad, the world is still here, there are still all sorts of chances for things to go right, and while maybe there isn't much excitement right now that they will, I am hopeful there will be . . . and hope is something every last one of us needs . . .
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Show #331
Time: Saturday 16 January 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Surfer Blood, *Astro Coast* (2010) . . . 'Tis said this Palm Beach group recorded this debut album in their University of Florida dorm room . . . their sound is that of mature indie rock, makes me think of them as similar to the Shins (a *great* rock band, indie or no). . . pretty, driving, melodic rock that wears well even after multiple listens . . .
Classic Rock Album: Stray, *Stray* (1970) . . . This London prog-rock outfit never quite hit the big-time, so their story goes . . . but, that question of success aside, they made a hell of a debut album for musicians not yet even in their 20s . . . their sound fuses an acid rock propulsion with expansive ambitions suggesting the coming era of Yes, ELP, and King Crimson . . . a nice platter of grooves, be they boogie, acoustic, or flat out loud . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Lemon Pipers, enough songs of theirs to show that their 1968 #1 hit "Green Tambourine" was a popper aspect of a very talented rock band . . . it feels like a different year already, though some of the struggles are the same, it feels more like the future than the past, and I do now know fully what that means . . .
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Show #332
Time: Saturday 23 January 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Blind Pilot, *3 Rounds and a Sound* (2008) . . . this Portland, Oregon band makes very big acoustic rock music . . . bright guitars are colored by horns, strings, banjo, vibraphone and the like . . . lyrically, they are obscurely sharp, again & again . . . one wonders what their future albums will sound like if they expand their simple palette even more . . .
Classic Rock Album: Relatively Clean Rivers, *Relatively Clean Rivers* (1975) . . . It is amazing sometimes to find a lost gem of a record and realize yet again that greater quality does not always equal greater fame . . . this trippy jewel is just delightful, made by a tight, high beautiful group of California players . . . another treasure floating through cyberspace to be luckily found by some . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artists recorded songs for the excellent 2001 *I Am Sam* film soundtrack . . . it seems as though societal hope has recently turned to cynicism, a kind of snarky darkness . . . and it's easy to fall into it . . . resist the worst of these times, it's difficult, but do, and I will too . . .
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Show #333
Time: Saturday 30 January 2010 at:
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On this week's 11th Anniversary Show:
Featured Rock Album: The Who, *Tommy* (1969) . . . *Tommy* is one of rock & roll's landmark events, like the jazz milestones of John Coltrane's 1964 *A Love Supreme* or Miles Davis's 1970 *Bitches Brew* . . . a rock opera, *Tommy* tells the story of Tommy Walker who journeys from the abuse of his childhood through encounters with doctors and shamans to his final state of enlightenment . . . it is funny, it is profane, it is beautiful . . . were it not for the titanic musical prowess of The Who as a band, it would be long forgotten, as are most other attempts that have been made over the years to create a rock & roll epic . . . four decades come & gone since its release (and subsequent film, and Broadway show), & yet the original has diminished none in power or effect . . . it is a dangerous, wild, visionary treasure, a work of High Art to play for anyone who doesn't yet *get* what rock & roll can do, or how it can swallow whole & happy so many brilliant musicians (this spinning of *Tommy* is for my friend JBIII, who has played every song on this album a thousand times, at least) . . .
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter One of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . it is now 11 years to the day that I began this radio show on Radio Free Cambridge (R.I.P.), a pirate radio station located in a large closet in the back of an art gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts . . . I can think of a lot of things that have come & gone (& sometimes come again) in my life since that day . . . every time I go on air I do with the gratefulness of a person once a boy who broadcast radio shows in his head while delivering the morning newspaper every day of the week before dawn . . . here's to many more shows to come!
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