First, I want to thank Doug Peterson for giving us a shoutout on his blog. Thanks Doug, it is great to know you are listening! Here is his write-up.
So, for this week, we have two versions of the show. A 60-minute version that is already up on Mixcloud and an extended version for Saturday night on VoicEd Radio. So to make these easier to find – we will archive the 90-minute version on Spreaker and keep the recording of the live Mixcloud show archived there.
Here is the extended play version
Here is the 60-minute version we uploaded to Mixcloud earlier this week.
This week’s playlist!
Mother Mother – I Got Love
The Linda Lindas – Racist Sexist Boy
Lido Pimienta – Eso Que Tu Haces
Mountain Goats – Clemency for the Wizard King
Pokey Lafarge – End of my rope
Plants and Animals – House on Fire
William Prince – The Spark from 2020 Reliever
Holly GoLightly – Satan is His Name
Real Estate – White Light
Mother Mother I Got Love
Mother Mother released two songs in March 2021 – I Got Love and Stay behind. The band has been producing great music on the west Coast of canada for years, but now seem to be best known for having a Tik Tok hit. Canadian Beats Media continues:
Mother Mother, the Vancouver-based alt-rockers have released two new songs; “I Got Love” and “Stay Behind.” The brand new music is Mother Mother’s first offering on the heels of their recent explosion on the platform TikTok.
After over a decade of releasing music and touring, a new global audience discovered and organically began using the band’s catalogue on the platform, resulting in rapid growth in the millions across all streaming and social platforms, and a Rolling Stone feature on this unique artist development story.
The new music was written during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and was produced by frontman Ryan Guldemond and Howard Redekopp, who produced much of the older music that is connecting with the global audience today. Both “I Got Love” and “Stay Behind” are available now. The release of “I Got Love” and “Stay Behind” also marks the first under the band’s deal with their new label Warner Music Canada.
The Linda Lindas – Racist Sexist Boy
The Linda Lindas are a group of LA youngsters playing punk rock. In May 2021, the Los Angeles Public Library posted a video of the Linda Lindas playing “Racist, Sexist Boy” at a “TEENtastic Tuesdays” event. In the video, 10 year old Mila explains the song’s origins.
The band first came to Bob’s attention in Amy Poehler’s teen comedy Moxie. Here, they perform a cover of Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl”
Lido Pimienta – from Miss Columbia song Eso Que Tu Haces
I have loved her music and her style ever since she started out winning the Polaris for her first album.
From Pitchfork Magazine
“She is still an extreme rarity in Canadian music: an Afro-Colombian queer woman with indigenous Wayuu heritage, a single mother, a Spanish speaker. The great promise of Miss Colombia, and of her new leadership in a predominantly white scene, is that brown girls will hear it and be inspired to surge to the front.”
Pitchfork Magazine
Here is her video from the Emmys.
Lyrics from the song
Today I understood, sitting in your sand
That it was because of you, that I stopped being me
You are not to blame for being like this
And don’t give me anything if you don’t want
You can read more about this great musician and rebel here
Mountain Goats – Clemency for the Wizard King
The Mountain Goats are an American band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The song selected was “Clemency for the Wizard King” In this Vanity Fair article, Darnielle gives some background to how Dungeons and Dragons inspired the album.
Anyone who has kept a project going for more than a quarter century has a right to be a little set in his ways. Which is why it might come as a bit of a surprise to hear that John Darnielle, songwriter and front man of the Mountain Goats, was willing to entirely change his attitude in the recording studio when he started to record his 17th album, In League with Dragons, out next month.
Vanity Fair March 2019
Here’s a video of The Mountain Goats performing their ode to reggae great Dennis Brown.
Pokey Lafarge – End of my rope
Pokey Lafarge is a discovery I made this week while listening to a great show on Mixcloud by David the Worm – his taste in music is amazing and I listen whenever I can. He is usually on at 2;00 PM Monday to Friday plus an extra show with his partner on Sundays.
More about Pokey Lafarge from his Bandcamp page
Pokey LaFarge is a musician, songwriter, bandleader, entertainer, innovator and preservationist, whose well-rounded arsenal of talents has placed him at the forefront of American music. His music transcends the confines of genre, continually challenging the notion that tradition-bearers fail to push musical boundaries.
Bandcamp
Here is a great ‘unplugged’ version on Youtube of this week’s song End of My Rope
If you want another great song by Pokey Lafarge, you have to listen to Something in the Water
Plants and Animals – House on Fire
Plants and Animals are a 3 piece band from Montreal. This the video for their latest. “House on Fire”. As one YouTuber put it, “ LCD Soundsystem meets Talking Heads. Love it.”
More on Plants and Animals, another Montreal band here from Under the Radar Magazine
“House on Fire” was inspired by Spicer’s concern for a friend of his. The band collectively further explain in more detail in a press release: “We started working on this a couple of years ago. Warren was afraid for a friend’s health. He thought he was self-medicating too much and not taking care of himself. He couldn’t let go of this image of an overworked dude swallowing too many sleeping pills and falling asleep with the stove on. So it began as the place next door, sometime before Greta Thunberg turned the expression into a rallying cry, where Earth is the house and the people are sleeping. It’s terrifying, and on the whole we’re not unlike this friend, are we?”
Under the Radar June 2020
William Prince – The Spark from 2020 Reliever
My last track is by William Prince who I saw on the underwhelming Juno production last week. His performance of this song was certainly the highlight on a show that could have done so much more.
Holly GoLightly – Satan is His Name
Holly Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith is a British singer-songwriter. Her mother christened her after the main character of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She’s been performing her brand of garage rock for years.Perhaps she is best known for contributing the song “There is an End” to the movie Broken Flowers starring Bill Murray.
We featured the tempting little number “Satan is His Name” from 2018’s “Do the Get Along”
It’s a cover of an obscure 1962 single by Steve King
If you like Holly, this is the album to grab if you can find it.
Real Estate – White Light
We closed with a great indie band from New Jersey, “Real Estate”
Whole-Hearted 