Podcast & Playlist 17/05/13

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Melt Yourself Down – Release!

The National – Don’t Swallow The Cap

Minks – Everything’s Fine

The Breeders – Cannonball

Public Service Broadcasting – Night Mail

Terriers – Sometimes When You’ve Gone Too Far, You Just Can’t Turn Back

Deerhunter – Pensacola

The Child Of Lov – Living The Circle

The Dodos – Confidence

Savages – No Face

Tandem Felix – Tell Yer Loved Ones

The Smiths – Hand In Glove

Friday Freebie: Terriers

We were both impressed seeing Dublin duo Terriers at The Camden Crawl Festival a few weeks back. It’s bass heavy downtempo house music, but it gets you on your feet, it’s dark and it gets in your head. This creepy nocturnal post club sound is the work of Ronan Downing & Peter Ward. Following up their debut EP Marie Celeste is current single Sometimes When You’ve Gone Too Far , You Just Can’y Go Back. It is available now for free in a high quality wav right here.

Music Documentaries: The Smiths: Not Like Any Other Love and The Importance of Being Morrissey

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the first single by The Smiths ‘Hand In Glove’. Even before the internet, The Smiths have always been heavily championed, adored by ciritcs, the subjects of countless articles and media, constantly topping ‘most influentual’ and ‘best album’ polls and perhaps most impressively, a die hard fan base knowing no generational limits. We all probably have a friend who had a Smiths t shirt in school, and a parent/teacher/bus driver who had all of Morrissey’s lyrics stored carefully in their memory banks waiting to pop out at any given opportunity. Most of us have probably quoted lines from their songs to a significant or a potential significant other. There are very few acceptable reasons for not knowing The Smiths, and realising how they changed pop music.

For the obsessive fan, Tony Fletcher‘s book The Enduring Saga of The Smiths is one of the most well written and illuminating music books available. Below are some of the best documentaries on the band. First is the excellent BBC Culture Show special that was broadcast this week that really illustrates just how important the band were.

 

For the casual fan and insatiable fan alike, this is a doc made by Grandad in 2002, just try to get past the opening cover version.

 

 

This endearing documentary on the band’s former frontman was also made the same year. Definitely for the die hards but might just win over a few of the Moz haters too.

 

Podcast & Playlist 10/05/13 with Cat Dowling live in studio

So, the RTÉ gremlins got into the studio while we were broadcasting live today and the entire show was unlistenable, as is the playback on the RTÉ player right now. Huge apology to the lovely Cat Dowling who joined us on the show. Luckily we did record the show also so you can listen back to that right here right now, for a limited time. Big thanks to those listening who pointed the fault out to us, and as this recording shows…NOT OUR BAD!!!

 

Iggy & The Stooges – Gun

Deerhunter – Back To The Middle

Public Service Broadcasting – The Now Generation

FRIDAY FREEBIE – Jon Hopkins – Open Eye Signal (Nosaj Thing Remix)

Cat Dowling- Come On

Cat Dowling joins us live in studio

Cat Dowling – Cruel (live)

Sam Amidon – My Old Friend

Tieranniesaur – DIYSCO

Generationals – Put A Light On

Mykal Cronin – Shout It Out

Valerie June – Workin’ Woman Blues

Slowdive – Machine Gun

Friday Freebie: Jon Hopkins – Open Eye Signal (Nosaj Thing Remix)

Having previously come to our attention through his work with Brian Eno and King Creosote, London electronic wizard Jon Hopkins releases his 4th album on Domino Records next month. Who knew? Anyway in anticipation of the release he has just put out a remix EP of current single Open Eye Signal. It features contributions from Happa, Lord of The Isles & Luke Abbott, and also this remix from Californian producer Nosaj Thing.

Nosaj Thing released his second album Home recently.

Jon Hopkins is bound for Body & Soul Festival in June.

You can download Jon Hopkins Open Eye Signal (Nosaj Thing Remix) RIGHT HERE

Iggy Pop – Documentary

(Photo by Cormac Figgis)

Taking his cue from Duane Eddy & Bo Diddley records James Osterberg derived his stage name from his time as drummer with high school band The Iguanas. The Stooges were officially unleashed on the world with their self titled debut album in 1969, the same the month as Woodstock. The antithesis of flower power, Iggy Pop and brothers Ron & Scott Asheton had given birth to a new music. Punk before punk.

This documentary from 2004 traces Iggy’s life through The Stooges and his solo career while also shining a light on the enormous musical legacy of a peerless performer and musical progenitor.

New album Ready To Die sees Iggy reunited with guitarist James Williamson for the first time since 1977′s Kill City, original Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton having died in 2009. Ready To Die by Iggy & The Stooges is out now on the Fat Possum label.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Interview

The fizzy sunburst lo-fi garage rock of their 2011 debut album was a show staple as its 2013 successor has been since it landed. Songs like unearthed gems from a Wes Anderson soundtrack, reveling in the sonic detail of nuggets from a golden age of 60′s rock, proggy folky wig-outs built around Ruban Nielson’s guitar and voice, both similarly familiar yet quite unlike anything in particular, now pulled into sharper focus with Nielson’s production.

I was lucky enough to get to sit down with the man himself for a chat in Dublin, on the afternoon of their debut Irish gig.

I was however foolish enough to believe that Ruban knew what timezone he was in. He told me twice that they were due onstage at 10pm, so I showed up at 9.45pm and missed most of their set. Gutted!!!… the band did however play a 5 song encore, including Pink Floyd’s Lucifer Sam and a Jay Reatard tune. Nielson and his two merry men, having doused the crowd with tequila, exuded pure joy and enthusiasm, commendable considering the shithole of a venue (THEIR IS NO STAGE!!!) that the unscrupulous promoters disrespect both bands and punters with.

…anyway before I digress further in diatribe, you can listen to that chig wag with Ruban Neilson aka Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Podcast & Playlist 03/05/13

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!!! – One Girl/One Boy

Wampire – Train

Tieranniesaur – The Changeling

Shannon & The Clams – Into A Dream

Melt Your Brains – Release!

Interview with Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Amateur Historians – These Cities Are Stealing My Soul

The Altered Hours – Sweet Jelly Roll

Nancy Elizabeth – Simon Says Dance

Ten Speed Race – It Ain’t Gonna Last

Friday Freebie 3/05/13 – Shannon And The Clams

Retro garage rock n’ roll is having quite a moment in the music world and what better name for a band that embraces that sound than Shannon and The Clams. Their debut album for Hardly Art is due out this month and their first single from it ‘Into A Dream’ is available to download for free just below. So grease that hair up and get ready to swing dance the weekend into being.

Podcast & Playlist 26/04/13

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra – How Can U Luv Me

Born Ruffians – Needle

The Child Of Lov – Fly

His Clancyness – Machines

Savages – Shut Up

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Holy Roller

The Altered Hours – Sweet Jelly Roll

Yellow Bird – Young Men Of Promise

Bombino – Imuhar

Valerie June – You Can’t Be Told

Cat Power – Bully

Willie Nelson – These Lonely Nights