Rural Ledge-ucation #42: More New Stuff

Now that we're into 2012, new releases are finally beginning to make their ways into record stores, online retailers, and websites. Today's show samples a few of these recordings, along with a short tribute to Lux Interior, who died three years ago yesterday. Download this at the usual interwebs stops, or directly stream/download it HERE!

1. Wilco, Cruel to Be Kind (feat. Nick Lowe)
2. Leonard Cohen, Darkness
3. Mark Lanegan Band, Gray Goes Black
4. Dr. Dog, These Days
5. Jack White, Love Interruption
6. Nada Surf, Waiting for Something
7. John K. Samson, When I Write My Master's Thesis
8. The Cramps, It's Just That Song
9. The Cramps, Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?
10. Mike Doughty, 27 Jennifers
11. Mike Doughty, Like a Luminous Girl
12. The Rolling Stones, She's So Cold
13. The Rolling Stones, Little T&A
14. Destroyer, Leave Me Alone

Live Ledge #51: I Hate People

A busy, busy show tonight, as I bring back the Double Cover Challenge, along with celebrating the 56th birthday of X's Exene Cervenka. There's also tributes to two tragic rock 'n' roll deaths, Buddy Holly and Sid Vicioius. Add to that a discussion of the Mevio situation, along with some great (and two not-so-great) new and old tunes.
For the time being, you can still get this show via iTunes, Stitcher, or directly HERE! There will probably be an update in the next week or two on new ways to grab all of my shows.

1. The Rolling Stones, Under My Thumb
2. Mark Lanegan Band, The Gravedigger's Song
3. The Cult, Nirvana
4. Killing Joke, Eighties (live)
5. The Stooges, Down On The Street
6. T.Rex, Born To Boogie
7. Lou Reed, Satellite of Love (Live)
8. Mott The Hoople, Sweet Jane
9. David Bowie, Watch That Man
10. Personal & the Pizzas, Bored Out of My Brains
11. The Penetrators, Baby Dontcha Tell Me
12. Bare Wires, Cheap Perfume
13. Cloud Nothings, Cut You
14. X, We're Desperate
15. The Knitters, New World
16. The Knitters, Burnin' House Of Love
17. The Original Sinners, Birds & Bees
18. Buddy Holly, Rave On
19. Rockpile, Teacher Teacher
20. The Jesus & Mary Chain, I Love Rock'n'Roll
21. Sex Pistols, C'mon Everybody
22. New Bomb Turks, I Hate People
23. The Meteors, I Hate People
24. H2O, Sick Boys
25. H2O, Train In Vain
26. The Clash, Louie Louie (Sandinista Outtake)
27. The Sons Of Hercules, Easy Action
28. The Church Keys, Ramona
29. The Pretty Things, Let's Talk About Girls
30. The Swingin' Neckbreakers, The Girl Can't Dance/Look Away
31. Spazzys, I Want A Divorce
32. Pink Mink, Booby Prize
33. Supersuckers, Born With a Tail

Rural Ledge-ucation #41: Amnesty Covers Dylan

Another delayed upload, this short show takes a look at the new four-disc set of Dylan covers released last week to benefit Amnesty International. While there are some of the typical weak tunes you come to expect form these types of releases, what makes this set stand out a bit is some unique choices in not material but artist.
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1. Johnny Cash & The Avett Brothers, One Too Many Mornings
2. Patti Smith, Drifter's Escape
3. Sinead O'Conner, Property of Jesus
4. Billy Bragg, Lay Down Your Weary Tune
5. Elvis Costello, License to Kill
6. Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli, One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
7. My Morning Jacket, You're a Big Girl Now
8. Queens Of The Stone Age, Outlaw Blues
9. Flogging Molly, The Times They Are A-Changin'
10. Rise Against, Ballad Of Hollis Brown
11. My Chemical Romance, Desolation Row
12. Bad Religion, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
13. The Gaslight Anthem, Changing of the Guards

Live Ledge #50: RIP Megaupload

Finally!

I'm sure a handful or so of you are reading this post wondering what happened to last week's Live Ledge? Surely it should have been posted by now!

Well, my Friday evening started off like normal. I did Live Ledge on realpunkradio from 6 - 8 pm. In fact, I even went a few minutes long, as my successor, Mojo Workout, had the night off. After signing off, I did a little bit of editing at the beginning and end of the show, and went to upload it.

Uh oh. For some reason, my account was listed as "suspended"! WTF?!?!? I was obviously paranoid as to exactly what I had done wrong, but over the next day I discovered that almost everybody who used the same hosting service had found similar messages.

With the help of RPR head honcho Jason Snyderman, though, I appear to be back up for the time being. My other shows, though, have yet to appear but hopefully will in the near future.

Back to this episode. A good majority of the program deal with the shutdown of the popular file sharing site Megaupload. As always, most of the music for the night consists of obscure and out of print singles and albums that can only be found on music blogs. It's my feeling that Megaupload actually serves a legitimate purpose, and is actually a very inefficient method for those who want to rip off the entertainment industry.

This show also talks a bit about Reg Presley of The Troggs, who recently announced that he was retiring the band due to the discovery of lung cancer. Known primarily for "Wild Thing", the band actually had quite a few great tunes during their mid-60's heyday.

As always (or should I say hopefully), you can find this show at the various online hideouts, or you can directly download it HERE!

1. Paul Kelly, Domestic Criminal 

2. The Neighborhoods, No Place Like Home  

3. Real Kids, Outta Place 

4. Best Kissers In The World, Hit Parader 

5. Dancing Hoods Impossible Years  

6. Dimestore Darlings, Waste of Time  

7. Purple Things, Wild Man 

8. The Bogeymen, I'm Sure You'll Get Everything You Want

9. The Mummies, Little Miss Tee-N-T  

10. Wild Giraffes, Move it on Over  

11. The Penetrators, Teenage Lifestyle 

12. Tranzmitors, Who's Gonna Tell Mary?

13. Replacements, Bastards Of Young  

14. Hüsker Dü, Ticket to Ride 

15. Soul Asylum, To Sir With Love 

16. The Tired And True, I'm The One  

17. Caleb Lionheart, Anchor Grill  

18. Hospital Garden, I'm Not A Punk 

19. Bike Tuff, When I Get Old  

20. Plow, United Bikeage 

21. Bouncing Souls, Pervert 

22. Pavement, It's A Hectic World 

23. Bunnygrunt, Silly Girl  

24. The Troggs, I Can't Control Myself  

25. The Troggs, 66 5 4 3 2 1  

26. Sonic Youth, Is It My Body? 

27. Love Battery, Mr. Soul  

28. Mad Daddys, Take Me Back To Woodstock  

29. Supersnazz, I Wanna Be Your Love 

30. The Delinquents, Sticky Situation  

31. The Launderettes, I Wanna Jump Your Bones

32. Nikki & The Corvettes, Back Seat Love

33. The Scruffs, Frozen Girls 

34. Thee Oh Sees, Where the People Do Drugs  

35. Suburban Studs, Suburban Stud 

36. The Brags, Pretty Girls (Don't Notice Me)  

37. The Waldos, Seven Day Weekend

38. The Booze, Straight To Hell 

39. Cannibals, Back Door Man  

40. Short Dogs Grow, Doesn't Somebody Wanna Be Wanted  

41. The Mr. T Experience, Sonic Reducer  

42. The Vipers, I've Got You 

Rural Ledge-ucation #40: Johnny & Etta

A note to all listeners - this show almost didn't happen. The morning started like every Sunday - I woke up and headed to the coffee shop for my usual two mugs of caffeine. I headed home and set up everything for the show, and when Drazzle handed the reins over to me - NOTHING! I couldn't connect.
For once in my life, I stayed calm. I reset my modem. I restarted my laptop. Still nothing. Finally, I pulled out a few cables and rejiggered everything to load onto my other laptop, which I then was able to connect. It's rough, but the show is here!
Why go through all this trouble? Good question. I guess it's mainly because I had put together a pretty varied set for the day. Besides lengthy tributes to Johnny Otis and Etta James, including a rare bootleg duet between Etta and Bob Dylan, I also had lined up a rare cover of Ratt by Ryan Adams, and new music by Joseph Arthur, Craig Finn, and others. Plus, a great Jimmy Cliff EP where he covers Rancid and The Clash!
Download this sucka at the usual spots around the interwebs, or directly download it HERE!

1. Johnny Otis, Shake It Lucy Baby
2. Big Mama Thornton, Hound Dog
3. Johnny Otis, Willie And The Hand Jive
4. Marci Lee & Johnny Otis, Telephone Baby
5. Joseph Arthur, Travel As Equals
6. Craig Finn, When No One's Watching
7. Jimmy Cliff, Guns of Brixton
8. Jimmy Cliff, Ruby Soho
9. Chuck Berry & Etta James, Rock And Roll Music
10. Etta James, Hoochie Coochie Gal
11. Bob Dylan & Etta James, I'm A King Bee
12. Ryan Adams, Round and Round
13. Dave Davies, Hold My Hand
14. Alex Chilton, All I Really Want Is Money (Original Mono Mix)
15. The Jesus & Mary Chain, Darklands (With Strings)

Live Ledge #49: Sick & Tired

Of course, I would have to get sick the first time we actually get some real winter weather. Two days ago, I woke up with a terrible cough, which has spread to the rest of my body. I'm a trooper, though, so I made it to The Ledge studio for the 49th edition of Live Ledge. Along with brand new tunes by Craig Finn, Lucero, and many others, tonight's show featured the usual mix of old, new, blog finds, covers, and other silliness.
Along with those tunes, it was only natural that I paid tribute to two greats that we lost this past week. Blues great Etta James died earlier today, and on Tuesday the great bandleader, drummer, vocalist, and talent scout Johnny Otis passed away in his L.A. home. RIP to both, who will be greatly missed by all!
To listen to this show, you have a number of methods. The easiest is to go to iTunes and subscribe HERE! While you're at the iTunes store, why not leave a nice little review of the show? There's also a Ledge app for both Apple and Droid formats - you can nab that sucka HERE! Or head to Stitcher and stream it on any device HERE! If all of that is too confusing, you can directly download it HERE!

1. Alex Chilton, Sick And Tired
2. Craig Finn, No Future
3. Craig Finn, Terrified Eyes
4. Lucero, Sometimes
5. Pink Mink, Black Door
6. Bnlx, Color Me Impressed
7. Bnlx, I Don't Know
8. The Replacements, Hayday
9. Howler, Beach Sluts
10. The Who, Pictures Of Lily
11. The Kinks, Who'll Be The Next In Line
12. Chocolate Watch Band, I'm Not Like Everybody Else
13. The Kwyet Kings, David Watts
14. Etta James, Spoonful
15. The FEAtures, She Said Yeah
16. The Mummies, I'm Down
17. The Original Sins, Sugar Sugar
18. Fastbacks, Allison
19. The Eyeliners, Anywhere But Here
20. Sleeper Agent, Get It Daddy
21. The Muffs, Everywhere I Go
22. The Flipsides, Two Weeks
23. Guided By Voices, The Unsinkable Fats Domino
24. Personal & the Pizzas, Brain Damage
25. Cloud Nothings, Stay Useless
26. Thee Oh Sees, Opposition
27. Johnny Otis, Hum Ding A Ling
28. Velvet Crush, Hold Me Up
29. Radio City, She's A Heartbreaker
30. Young Fresh Fellows, Taco Wagon
31. The Singles, I'm In Love With You
32. Joyride, Take A Chance
33. No Bunny, (Do the) Fuck Yourself
34. The Outnumbered, Why Are All The Good People Going Crazy
35. The Boy-Scouts, She Never Said No
36. The Connection, My Baby Likes to Rnr
37. Giant Sand, Anarchistic Bolshevistic Cowboy Bundle

Rural Ledge-ucation #39: Odds and Sods

Even obsessed music collectors miss a few releases towards the end of the year. One is so busy with not just the actual holidays but their own silly lists and compilations. I'm no exception. Today attempts to right that wrong, as the show consists of primarily 2011 releases that I somehow missed...along with some brand new archival releases from Alex Chilton and The Lemonheads. You can find this at the usual online locations, or directly download it HERE!

1. Carter Tanton, Murderous Joy
2. Dale Watson, Down Down Down Down Down
3. Chris Isaak, I Forgot to Remember to Forget
4. Gene Clark, She's the Kind of Girl
5. Big Troubles, Somebody's Baby
6. Wilco, I Might
7. The Lemonheads, It's About Time
8. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Just Like A Woman
9. Rhett Miller, Waterloo Sunset
10. Alex Chilton, Jumpin' Jack Flash
11. Giant Sand, Johnny Hit And Run Pauline
12. The Connection, Baby Doll
13. The Red Button, Caught in the Middle
14. The Raveonettes, Go On And Kiss Me