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LA-based band Redd Kross, led by brothers Steve and Jeff McDonald, has endured with various line-ups since they officially formed in 1980. After 15 years since their last studio album release (Show World), Redd Kross has brought forth a killer power pop album, Researching the Blues - a perfect inclusion in this summer's beach bag (along with the new King Tuff self-titled record), out on Merge Records. Reunited with guitarist Robert Hecker and including Muffs' drummer Roy McDonald. It's a record that's filled with varied-style pop nuggets. The McDonald Boys are back!!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Evil Lives (Ad Rock Mix)/ BOSCO DELREY (’11)
North American Scum/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’07, Sound of Silver)
Metal/ GARY NUMAN (’79, The Pleasure Principle)
That’s Not My Name/ THE TING TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)
Big Fat Liar/ KINNY (’12, Tru Thoughts Recording Compilation)
Irresistible Bitch/ PRINCE (’82, B-side to “Let’s Pretend We’re Married)
Bitch/ THEESatisfaction (’12, awE natural)
Pusherman/ CURTIS MAYFIELD (’72, Superfly ST)
Egg Man/ BEASTIE BOYS (’89, Paul’s Boutique)
B Side Wins Again/ PUBLIC ENEMY (’90, Fear of a Black Planet)
Me Myself and I (OBLAPOS MODE)/ DE LA SOUL (’89, 3 Feet High and Rising)
Gangsta/ tUnE-yArDs (’11, whokill)
Wicked Midnite/ THE MEKONS (’92, I ♥ Mekons)
52 Girls/ B-52’S (’79, self titled)
Everything Will Be Fine/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’11, Want More)
Hollowpoint Blues/ CARY ANN HEARST & MICHAEL TRENT (‘08, Shovels & Rope)
Shake Your Hips/ SLIM HARPO (’66)
Wolf Teeth/ JC McPHERSON (’12, Signs & Signifiers)*
Cage/ SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE (’11, Dirty Radio)
Garbageman/ THE CRAMPS (’80, Songs the Lord Taught Us)
Bad Thing/ KING TUFF (’12, self titled)*
Choose to Play/ REDD KROSS (’12, Resarching the Blues)*
I Want You Around (Original Version)/ THE RAMONES (’78, Road to Ruin)
Date w/ Ikea/ PAVEMENT (’97, Brighten the Corners)
Keep It in Motion/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’12, Class Clown Spots a UFO)*
I Move Around/ LEE HAZELWOOD (’66)
I Move Around/ THE PURRS (’10, Tearing Down Paisley Garden EP)
Hall of Mirrors/ HELIO SEQUENCE (’12, Negotiations)*
Blodbuzz Ohio/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)
King of Silence/ CIBO MATTO (’99, Stereo Type A)
Look Around the Corner/ QUANTIC & ALICE RUSSELL (’12, Look Around the Corner)*
*new or recent release
South Carolina-based singer/songwriters Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent came together and made a collaborative record entitled Shovels & Rope in 2008. The name stuck with the duo, who eventually got hitched - artistically and personally. Now, under the moniker of Shovels & Rope, the powerful duo, rooted in county, Americana folk, rockabilly and straight-up rock & roll, have delivered a new, excellent recording, O' Be Joyful, filled with kick-ass, revival-like execution and fire-spit spirit. If you don't know them, check out their video of them performing an earlier song, "Gasoline," excerpted from a two-year documentary film project that will finally be wrapped after several Charleston, SC hometown shows in several weeks: http://vimeo.com/31819086
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Cash on the Barrelhead/ LOUVIN BROTHERS (’56)
Kemba’s Got the Cabbage Moth Blues/ SHOVELS & ROPE (’12, O’ Be Joyful)*
Get Out of My House/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’11, No Help Coming)
Steel Strings No. 1/ PETER CASE (’11 collection, The Case Files)
That Certain Female/ CHARLIE FEATHERS (‘50s)
The Call of the Wrecking Ball/ THE KNITTERS (’85, self titled)
I’m on Fire/ WHTEY MORGAN & THE 78’S (08, Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels)
Out of Control/ GEORGE JONES (’60)
Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Used to Do/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’81, Almost Blue)
It Came Out of the Wilderness/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
Can’t Hardly Stand It/ CARY ANN HEARST & MICHAEL TRENT (’08, Shovels & Rope)
The Singer/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)
Signs & Signifiers/ J.D. McPHERSON (’12, Signs & Signifiers)*
How Soon is Now/ THE SMITHS (’84 collection, Hatful of Hollow)
There is a Light That Never Goes Out/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, He Gets Me High EP)
The Nu Temptations/ REDD KROSS (’12, Researching the Blues)*
Come On Baby Grace/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’11, Let It Beard)
Anthem/ KING TUFF (’12, self titled)*
Gimme a Beer/ DIAMOND RUGS (’12, self titled)*
Do the Shake/ THE RENEGADES (’02, The Man Without a Past ST)
Ye-Ye/ EIKO SHURI (’67, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)
Crimson Enemy/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)
Skull/ SEBADOH (’84, Bakesale)
Join My Gang/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83, ’11 reissue, Native Sons)
Twilley Don’t Mind/ DWIGHT TWILLEY (’77, Twilley Don’t Mind)
That Time is Gone/ THE DB’S (’12, Falling Off the Sky)*
Feelin’/ THE LA’S (’89, ’06 collection, BBC in Session)
Are You Ready to Die/ CARY ANN HURST (’11, Lions & Lambs)
Your Life is Gone/ REPARATA (’72, ’09 collection, The Laurie Records Story: Vol. 3)
No One Like You/ BEST COAST (’12, The Only Place)*
Golden/ KELLY HOGAN (’12, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain)*
Pretend That You Love Me/ SONNY & THE SUNSETS (’12, Longtime Companion)*
*new or recent release
South Carolina-based singer-songwriters Cary-Ann Hearst and Michael Trent got together and recorded an album called, Shovels & Rope in 2010. The name stuck for this brassy duo, who now called themselves Shovels & Rope, a band filled with jet-fueled hillbilly folk and swampy rockabilly spirit. On the heels of their upcoming release, O' Be Joyful, the do will be stomping at this year's Pickathon festival (in Oregon), and they will be playing with Midtown Dickens at the Arcata Playhouse on Tues., Aug. 7th. Don't miss this opportunity to see this smokin' southern duo!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRLCES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
I’m a King Bee/ SLIM HARPO (’57)
Mona/ BO DIDDLEY (’57)
Fire/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’56)
Signs & Signifiers/ J.D. McPHERSON (’12, Signs & Signifiers)*
Goo Goo Muck/ RONNIE COOK & THE GAYLADS (’62)
Your Love Is Mine/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’98, ’01 collection, Singles Round-Up)
Against the Law/ SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE (’11, Dirty Radio)
Brand New Cadillac/ VINCE TAYLOR (’59)
Earthquake Heart/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’03, Dangerouse Magical Noise)
Buried Alive/ MARK HARRISON & SNAKE HIPS (’82, 7” single) [Twister]
Losing Out/ TIGER HIGH (’11, Myth Is This)
Keep Your Lantern Burning/ WHITE MANNA (’12, self titled)
Researching the Blues/ REDD KROSS (’12, Researching the Blues)*
Loose/ THE STOOGES (’70, Fun House)
Osaka Rock City/ SHONEN KNIFE (’12, Pop Tune)*
Gasoline/ CARY ANN HEARST & MICHAEL TRENT (’08, Shovels & Rope)
Sea of Darkness/ SONNY & THE SUNSETS (’12, Longtime Companion)*
Gimme a Beer/ DIAMOND RUGS (’12, self titled)*
Suffering Season/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)
Haller Lake/ THE CAVE SINGERS (’11, No Witch)
Suckers/ NOUELA (’12, Chants)*
Sudden Bright/ ORMONDE (’12, Machine)*
Do You Love Me?/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’94, Let Love In)
Junkpile/ GRANDADDY (’97, ’12 reissue, The Inner Flame: A Tribute to Rainer Ptack)
Chinatown/ LUNA (’95, Penthouse)
Sweetness in Her Spark/ LIGHTSHIPS (’12, Electric Cables)
Sugar Man/ RODRIGUEZ (’70, Cold Fact)
Picture of a Bird/ FRUIT BATS (’11, Tripper)
*new or recent release
Arcata, CA-based psych-rock band, White Manna have recently released their self-titled debut on Holy Mountain Records. And it smokes! The sound is ferocious and beautiful, captured excellently by engineer Pieter Dohlman. The influences stretch from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Stooges (Fun House era). Apparently, the record is already selling like fresh chips in the UK and Europe. Local boys done (& doin') good - real good. White Manna performance photo by Ryan Boyd. Click here for nice detailed review in UK's The Quietus site.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
The Entertainer/ THE INTELLIGENCE (’12, Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me)*
Annalisa/ PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. (’78, Public Image: First Issue)
Why Can’t I Touch It?/ BUZZOCKS (’79, ’10 reissue, A Different Kind of Tension)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind/ YO LA TENGO (’06, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Sweet Jesus/ WHITE MANNA (’12, self titled)*
Whatever Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll (punk song)/ BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB (’01, B.R.M.C.)
Real Emotional Trash/ STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS (’08, Real Emotional Trash)Confection/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’07, Draw Breath)
Wrong Time Capsule/ DEERHOOF (’05, The Runners Four)
Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)
Pen/ THE SIMPLE ONES (’95, Worth the Weight)
Your Favorite Thing/ SUGAR (’94, File Under Easy Listening)
Faster Pussycat (live)/ THE CRAMPS (‘83, Smell of a Female)
Wolf Teeth/ J.D. McPHERSON (’12, Signs & Signifiers)*
Number 9 Train/ TARHEEL SLIM ('59)
Long Tall Sally/ LITTLE RICHARD (’56)
Never No More Blues/ THE BLASTERS (’81, self titled)
Perfect World/ JAMES INTVELD (’95, self titled)
Golden/ KELLY HOGAN (’12, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain)*
I’m On Fire/ WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78’S (’08, Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels)
Mermaid Parade/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s to Taking It Easy)
I’m Going to Try to Make You Love Me/ SONNY AND THE SUNSETS (’12, Longtime Companion)*
Black Wings/ TOM WAITS (’92, Bone Machine)
Walking Through the Park/ BRONWYNNE BRENT (’11, Deep Black Water)
*new or recent release
Artist, musician and songwriter Sonny Smith has just released a new recording, Longtime Companion, with his "band" The Sunsets. But since Sonny And The Sunsets are an ever-revolving group of musicians, this album possesses '60s country-psychedelia combined with garage pop. The result? Longtime Companion, released on Polyvinyl Records, just may be one of the best recordings released this year! Inspired, for a lack of a better word, by the ending of his 10-year marriage, these songs are far from self-pitying, and Smith has the charm of contemporary Stephen Merritt. Great stuff.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Diamond Head/ THE VENTURES (’65)
Pipeline/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)
Odalisque/ IMPALA (’94, El Rancho Reverbo)
New Siberia/ LOS STRAITJACKETS (’12, Jet Set)*
Surfin’ Bird/ THE RAMONES (’77, Rocket to Russia)
I Want Candy/ THE STRANGELOVES (’65)
Aqui en mi nube/ SONIA (’66, ’11 collection, Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974)
Ye Ye/ EIKO SHURI (’67, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-70)
Je T’aime Moi Non Plus/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’69)
Mae Kha Som Tam/ ONUMA SINGSIRI (’10 collection, The Sounds of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz And Molam From Thailand 1964-1975)
Rock N Roll Girl/ THE BEAT (’79, self titled)
Nickels and Dimes/ THE PLIMSOULS (’81, self titled)
The Beat/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’78, Live at the El Macombo)
Bedroom Eyes/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)
Kid/ PRETENDERS ( ’79, self titled)
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)/ EDISON LIGHTHOUSE (’70)
No One Like You/ BEST COAST (’12, The Only Place)*
I’m Waiting For the Day/ BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)
Our Love Will Change the World/ OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY (’04, Our Love Will Change the World)
Mad Love/ BELLES WILL RING (’12, self titled EP)*
Class Clown Spots a UFO/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’12, Class Clown Spots A UFO)*
Simple Song/ THE SHINS (’12, Port of Morrow)
Life With Grace/ SUPER700 (’12, Under the No Sky)*
Sweetness in Her Spark/ LIGHTSHIPS (’12, Electric Cables)*
Pretend You Love Me/ SONNY AND THE SUNSETS (’12, Longtime Companion)*
Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (’08, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
Walking Through the Park/ BRONWYNNE BRENT (’11, Deep Black Water)
Out of Sight/ SHANNON STEPHENS (’12, Pull It Together)*
Autumn Sweater/ YO LA TENGO (’97, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One)
Passenger/ EMILY WELLS (’12, Mama)*
*new or recent release
The great country duo, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, performing at Flamingo Park, Miami, FL, for the Democratic National Convention - before the d-i-v-o-r-c-e.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRLCES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Just A Little Bit of Time/ CHARLIE RICH '66))
Cry Like a Baby (’68)/ THE BOX TOPS (’68)
Minnie Skirt Minnie/ WILSON PICKETT (’68)
The Have Nots/ X (’82, Under the Big Black Sun)
Join My Gang/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83, ’11 deluxe reissue, Native Sons)
Gimme a Beer/ DIAMOND RUGS (’12, self titled)*
Bad News/ WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78’S (’10, self titled)
Sweet Little Lisa/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’79, Repeat When Necessary)
Before I Wake/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (’09, Country Club)
Do Right Woman/ FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS (’69, The Gilded Palace of Sin)
Take Me/ GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE (’71)
Every Night About This Time/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)
Dusty Groove/ KELLY HOGAN (’12, I Like To Keep Myself in Pain)*
I Walk By Your House/ REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)
Against the Law/ SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE (’11, Dirty Radio)
I Don’t Know What to Do With Myself/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’78, Live Stiffs)
Your Life is Gone/ REPARATA (’71, ’09 collection, The Laurie Records Story, Vol. 3: Girls and Girl Groups)
Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DEVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)
Funtimes in Babylon/ FATHER JOHN MISTY (’12, Fear Fun)*
Don’t Forget Me [H. Nilsson]/ NEKO CASE (’08, Middle Cyclone)
Tidal Wave/ HUSKY (’12, Forever So)*
Everything/ MEGAFAUN (’11, self titled)
Lighthouse/ PATRICK WATSON (’12, Adventures in Your Own Backyard)*
Strawberry Road (2012 version)/ SAM PHILLIPS (’94, ’12 reissue, Martinis & Bikinis)
Like the Thunder/ BRONWYNNE BRENT (’11, Deep Black Water)
Thirteen (alt. mix)/ BIG STAR (’72, #1 Record)
Michelle/ THE BEATLES (’65, Rubber Soul)
The Wrecking Ball Company/ MARISSA NADLER (’12, The Sister)*
Oh How It Rained/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
By the Time I Get to Phoenix/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)
Valley of Tears/ SOLOMON BURKE (’06, Nashville)
*new or recent release
Kelly Hogan's excellent new album, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain (out on Anti-) is an ecclectic collection of cover songs, composed by a selection of artists/songwriters that she has worked in the past some-odd 30 years. Assisted by a crack band, including Booker T. Jones, James Gadson, Gabriel Roth and Scott Lignon, Hogan may have on her hands her most finessed and satisfying solo record to date.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
The Ace of Spades/ SOLA ROSA (’09, Get It Together)
Uzi (Pinky Ring)/ EL MICHELS AFFAIR (‘09, Enter the 37th Chamber)
Step It Up/ THE BAMBOOS w/ ALICE RUSSELL (’10 comp., Unfold Presents Tru Thoughts Funk)
Mama Feelgood/ LYNN COLLINS (’73)
All That (Natural Self Mix)/ LIZZY PARKS (’10, Unfold Presents Tru Thoughts Funk)
Nickel Bag/ DIGABLE PLANETS (’93, Reachin’)
God/ THEESatisfaction (’12, awE naturalE)
Mama’s Gonna Give You Love/ EMILY WELLS (’12, Mama)*
The Wicked & The Blind/ THE DO (‘11, Both Ways Open Jaws)
Dime Cuando/ ELY GUERRA (’00, Amores Perros ST)
Darkest Part of Town/ HELGI JONSSON (’12 collection, Made in Iceland)*
Remember (Falling Off the Sky)*/ THE DB’S (’12, Falling Off the Sky)*
Starfire/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’12, Class Clown Spots a UFO)*
Keep It in Motion/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’12, Class Clown Spots a UFO)*
Keep It Movin/ KING TUFF (’12, self titled)*
Caught in One/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)
Tonight We Ride/ MATTHEW SWEET (’03, Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu)
Candy Machine/ STEVE WYNN & THE MIRACLE 3 (’03, Static Transmission)
Past Time/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08. Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails)
I Will Dare/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)
I Took Note/ DIAMOND RUGS (’12, self titled)*
Hang Loose/ ALABAMA SHAKES (’12, Boys & Girls)*
Walking Through the Parl/ BRONWYNNE BRENT (’11, Deep Black Water)
Quattro (World Drifts In)/ CALEXICO (‘03, Feast of Wire)
When I Fall/ SAM PHILLIPS (’84, Martinis & Bikinis)
Haunted/ KELLY HOGAN (’12, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain)*
The Wilhelm Scream/ THE BAMBOOS w/ MEGAN WASHINGTON (’12 comp., Tru Thoughts Recording Compilation)
You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman/ TERRY CALLIER (’72, What Color is Love)
*new or recent release
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