Just like almost every episode, the annual Halloween edition of The Ledge would never exist without the friends of the show who provide us with fresh material every year. In the weeks leading up to the ultimate rock and roll holiday, bands and/or labels send us all kinds of material perfect for this ghoulish show.
This year is no exception, and thanks must go to Big Stir Records, The Ex-Bombers, Red on Red Records, Mr. Fang and the Dark Tones, The Cutthroat Brothers, and quite a few others for sharing with us a large percentage of the material you hear tonight. Along wtih those donations are a ton of relatively new music that fits the format. It’s the perfect Halloween soundtrack!
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
Dave Coop starts things off with a bloody playlist with brand spanking new tracks by The Slackers, Dogs In The Fight and Broken Cuffs! Plus tracks by Archie King, The Besimerchers, The Freeze and Agression( Rest In Peace Big Bob, you will be truly missed!) The WITCHING HOUR with your host LA BRUJA, This week Bruja brings you all things spooky with Christian Death, Johnny Thunders, UK Subs, Rezurex, Mass Arrest, Ill Repute, Mad Sin, Dwarves, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Freeze! Hear The Darkness, La Brujo has the Halloween episode for 2021. This year Benny Brujo hosts a costume party! Battalion Of Saints show up as Motorhead! Born Against is X! Snuff crash the party as GBH! See who else shows up and who they’re “in costume” as! and a all new Smash The Discos!
October 27th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #515. The Count is back from from Greenwood Cemetery with another killer Halloween Spooktacular! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
This week, after a refrain of 1970 Neil Young: a guest DJ slot by Jeff Kelson, plus brand new Don McGlashan, Real Estate, Parquet Courts, La Luz, Tombstones in Their Eyes, Downstrokes, and Descendents, plus The Beatles, Buckinghams, George Jones, Barry McGuire, Bunny Wailer, Shocking Blue, Screaming Jay Hawkins, etc.
I’m sure that all Ledge fans could have predicted this week’s episode. With today’s release of the 40th anniversary deluxe edition of the very first Replacements album, Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, it was pretty obvious that there would be a deep dive into this box set.
The great news is that this box does not disappoint. Besides a desperately needed remaster of the orginal album, this 4 CD/1 LP set includes 67 previously unreleased tracks. There’s home demos, basement recordings, studio outtakes, and the band’s earliest professionally recorded show. How could I not make this the main reason of the show?
But there’s much more. With this being reissue and box set season, I go through a number of other similar releases. Yet I also have some harsh words for a couple of them. There’s also an opportunity for listeners to compare two versions of the same Heartbreakers song. Is the newly discovered “master” of L.A.M.F.’s “Born to Lose” actually better than the “restored” version from the 2012 remix? Let me know what you think.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
The Monsters- Gimme Germs
The Headcoats- Youngblood
The Flaming Groovies- Let Me Rock
The Carter Administration- What’s Next To The Moon
Norfolk Nightmares- Zip Your Lip
Young Rascals- Come On Up
Lyres- Stay Away
Cromm Fallon- Two Stroke Smoke
911 Pilots- Under The Sea
Blue Balls Deluxe- 3 Days Drunk
Black Diamond Heavies- Hambone
Dictators- Stay With Me
Chuck Mead- Evil Wind
Gene Vincent- Bird Dogin’
Pine Leaf Boys- Pour La Derniere Fois
The Carter Administration- Home Run Derby
This week, after some once-unreleased 1968 Beatles: plus brand new Boo Radleys, Sunflower Bean, Laetitia Sadier, Muun Bato, Bart & Friends, Fotoform, and Shebangs, plus The Beatles, Marvin Gaye (with Martha & the Vandellas), Bee Gees, John Hartford, Missing Links, Uniques, Boris Karloff & Vincent Price (and Red Skelton), etc.
With today’s release of the Velvet Underground documentary on AppleTV it was pretty obvious what tonight’s Ledge was going to be. I just never relaized how easy it would be to comile a show consisting of nothing but Velvet Underground covers.
I knew I had quite a few of these types of tracks, but I was shocked at just how many were in my collection. Besides the various one-off covers on quite a few records by the likes of the Beat Farmers, Wreckless Eric, and The Soft Boys, I also had quite a number of indie tribute records. I even had four records that completely covered the entire Velvet Underground and Nico album, including the brand new “I’ll Be Your Mirror” tribute.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
First record party. I'm back at it in the basement spinning up a couple hours of the good stuff. It's going to take a couple episodes to polish off the rough edges but starting it off right.
Git it.
Sugar Pie DeSanto | In The Basement: The Chess Recordings | In The Basement (Geffen) 2017
The Redskins | Neither Washington Nor Moscow... | Keep On Keeping On (Decca) 1986
Bad Manners | Fat Sound | Skinhead Love Affair (Pork Pie) 1993
The Hotknives | Home | Driving Me Mad (Grover Records) 1996
Serious Drinking | The Revolution Starts at Closing Time | Love On The Terraces (Make III) (Upright Records) 2011
Long Tall Texans | Singing To The Moon | Nine Days Wonder (Rage Records) 1991
Bloodshot Bill | Guitar Boy | Bad Bad Girl (Norton Records) 2017
The Frogs | Witch! | I Will Catch You With My Tongue (Razmataz Records) 2012
The Nevrotix | Paranoid | Moon Monster (Crazy Love Records) 2016
The Test Pilots | Urban Mirage | Last Wish (Western Star Recording) 2017
Dypsomaniaxe | One Too Many | Demon Quiff (Tombstone Records) 1992
Beat Devils | Dig My Beat | Dig My Beat (Magnetic Loft Records) 2019
The Pharaohs | Blue Egyptian | Blue Egypt (Diablo Records) 2014
Lee Rocker | The Curse Of Rockabilly | Rockin' Harder (Hypertension) 2005
The Legendary Raw Deal | Outlaw Man | Outlaw Man (Anagram Records) 2008
The Peabrains | In The Hangman's Shadow | Through The Woods (Crazy Love Records) 2019
Batmobile | Amazons From Outer Space | Ravin' Women (Count Orlok Music) 1989
The Meteors | In Heaven | Maniac (Lost Soul Records) 1981
The Arkhams | Road To Arkham | Bulldog (Self Release) 2009
Amyl & The Sniffers | Comfort To Me | Maggot (Rough Trade) 2021
Low Rats | Year Of The Rat MMXX | Ex Crisis (Self Release) 2020
New York Dolls | New York Dolls | Personality Crisis (Mecury) 1973
The Stooges | Raw Power | Raw Power (Columbia) 1973
Fret Rattles | Pedal To The Metal And Damn The Consequences | Shake My Brain (Self Release) 2016
Amyl & The Sniffers | Comfort To Me | Capital (Rough Trade) 2021
Motörhead | Overkill | Damage Case (Bronze Records) 1979
G.B.H. | Leather, Bristles, No Survivors And Sick Boys... | Big Women (Clay Records) 1982
The Restarts | Uprising | The One Percent (Pirates Press Records) 2019
G.L.O.S.S. | G.L.O.S.S. | Outcast Stomp (Total Negativity) 2015
In Defence | Party Lines And Politics | ...And Toxic Justice For All (Profane Existence) 2010
Mass Arrest | Power | White Validation (Iron Lung Records) 2019
TJR´s host Tschebesta got a hold of the one, the only Reverend Dave and talks about his first hand impressions of this year´s Punk Rock Bowling event. Evil Pie, naked girls, post COVID impressions – it´s all in there. Lean back and relax.
October 13th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #514. This week….new tunes from Cutthroat Brothers & Mike Watt, The Erratix, Dalaplan, ANC4, and La Decoupe! Promoted upcoming shows with tunes from Josie Cotton, Jonny Couch, Killer Hearts, The Idolizers, Bad Vacation, and Cold Dice! Plus a little pre-Halloween treat and more! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
Spizz Energi – Where’s Captain Kirk?
Cutthroat Brothers & Mike Watt – Been Away
The Spike – Ain’t No friend of Mine..
The Erratix – You Don’t Care
Josie Cotton – Calling All Girls
Jonny Couch – Shadow Eyes
Blondie – Living In The Real World
Dalaplan – En fot i dyngan och en pa vag till dig
ANC4 – Go Easy
La Decoupe – La Decoupe_Inadapte
Baron Daemon and the Vampires – Transylvania Twist
Buck Owens – Monster’s Holiday
Screaming Lord Sutch – Dracula’s Daughter
Cold Dice – Vengeance Calls
Bad Vacation – Tear It Up
The Idolizers – Until Then
Killer Hearts – 24-7 Action
SpreadEagle – Roadwarrior
THE DRIPPERS – TIME FOR SOME ACTION
The Dirtys – Grind Baby Grind
Motörhead – Stone Deaf in the USA
This week Dave Coop starts things off with tracks by Old Firm Casuals, Dogma, Asexuals, Local Retards, The Take, Electric Chair and More! On World Noise This week’s brujeria features Dead Hero/Columbia, The Chats/Australia, Cuir/France, The Nurse/Japan, Urban Bandits/Philippines, The Chisel/England, Mess/Mexico, Kjoltyg/Sweden, Hanako/Russia and Santa Muerte/Brazil. Hear The Darkness has tracks by all new and (kinda new) music from: BOLO, SPY, Koma, Planet On A Chain, Tokyo Lungs, Alien NoseJob, Reckoning Force, Slant, Filth Is Eternal, HEZ and more and a all new Smash The Discos!Continue reading "On The Nod Ep.145 on Real Punk Radio!!"
This week, after brace of 1971 David Bowie: a guest DJ slot by Elizabeth Klisiewicz, plus brand new Billy Bragg, Successful Failures, Split Single, Descendents, Petrified Max, Piroshka, and Dennis Davison, plus The Byrds, Blues Magoos, Jackie Wilson, Tom Russell, Colin Blunstone, Isley Brothers, Nico, etc.
Link Davis- Kajalena
Slick 57- Swashbuckler, TX
Bottle Rockets- Love Like A Truck
Glossary- American Bruises
Slobberbone- Pinball Song
Drive-By Truckers- Bulldozers and Dirt
Courtney Granger- You’re Still On My Mind
Courtney Granger- Le Two Step Des Festivals Acadiens
Courtney Granger- Don’t Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There
Lost Bayou Ramblers w/ Spider Stacy- Si J Aurais Des Ailes
Lost Bayou Ramblers- Carolina Blues
Waylon Jennings- Sure Didn’t Take Him Long
Faron Young- Face To The Wall
Nick Curran- Heebie Jeebies
John Paul Keith- I Work At Night
Time for Class! Got some Replacements (see the photo above - just left of the third button on Jack's shirt - thanks Brent), Clash, AC/DC and Eddie Cochran.
Here's the Playlist: I Don't Wanna Be Learned / I Don't Wanna Be Tamed (Demo) Ramones Ramones (Expanded Edition) Dropout You Am I Idiot Box Soundtrack
Hear You Been to College The Replacements Re- Place- Ments Fuck School The Replacements Stink [EP] The Twin Tone Years Box Set
As announced last week, this week’s episode is a carry over of the previous episode’s new release format. Not that these are second rate to those aired last week. Nope, that’s not how it works on The Ledge. You had two hours of tracks that worked well together last week, and now this week is another two of the same excellent quality.
Yes, there are more great tunes from the Rum Bar Records’ Rocktober II sampler, but there are also fine new releases from veteran acts such as The Bevis Frond, Divine Horseman, Mountain Movers and many more, along with newer acts like Mom and Bitch Queens.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
October 6th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #513. This week….Spun new tunes from Bitch Queens, Nine Pound Hammer, Sonny Vincent, The Dirty Denims, the Voodoo Rhythm Label Compilation Vol.5, ROCKTOBER II (Free digital) label sampler! Voodoo Rhythm Records, Rum Bar Records, SVART Records, Acetate Records, and Spaghetty Town Records! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
The Devils – Coitus Interruptus (From a Priest)
the Monsters – Smell My Tongue
Nestter Donuts – Infeccion
Sloks – No Makeup
The Heartdrops – ’95
Cromm Fallon – Back Seat Cigarettes
Bullet Proof Lovers – Take It Or Leave It
Bitch Queens – Burn It Down
Plastic Tears – Doomsday Girls
Satanic Overdrive – Get me evil
Nine Pound Hammer – Mama Lied
Sonny Vincent – Never Tired
Amyl and The Sniffers – Maggot
Reverend Beat-Man and Izobel Garcia – Black Metal
Bad Mojos – Crash & Burn
the Dead Brothers – Mean Blue Spirit
The Phantoms – I Won’t Be Around
Freddie Dilevi – In The Light Of A New Day
The Raging Teens – Let’s Drink Some Booze
Nine Pound Hammer – When the Shit Goes Down
Sonny Vincent – Get Out
Amyl and The Sniffers – Don’t Fence Me In
The Dirty Denims – Fit In Stand Out
This week Dave Coop’s playlist has tracks by Harington Saints, The Mob, Conflict, Rotton UK, The Warriors and More! On World Noise This week Bruja plays all new songs from Desenterrados/Spain, Gumiho/South Korea, Bull Brigade/Spain, Fake Fun/Russia, Lucky Malice/Norway, Kohti Tuhoa/Finland, Jalang/Australia, Choke Cocoi/Philippines, No No No/Japan and Hersterria/Poland. Hear The Darkness features tracks by SPY, Paprika, Filth Is Eternal, Hologram and more, including the new songs from Scowl and Reckoning Force! This episode also features a classic from Void and other faves from Zulu, Porvenir Obscuro, False Confession and more! Plus, a tribute to Ruby from No Statik who is recovering from her injuries after being hit by a car and an all new Smash The Discos!!Continue reading "On The Nod Ep.144 on Real Punk Radio!"
Covering the Globe tonight with some Cute Lepers doing the Starjets, The Inmates doing the Standells and the Mats ripping through some Kiss, among others.
This week, after a pinch of 1979 Damned: a guest DJ slot by Dr. R.B. Korbet, plus brand new Secret Shine, Wet Leg, Bob Mould and Fred Armisen, Bevis Frond, La Luz, Persian Leaps, and Carina Messier, plus Eddie Cochran, Marvin Gaye, Orioles, Hurricanes, Johnny & Jackey, Yoko Ono, Connie Smith, etc.
It’s almost a given that if Rum Bar Records puts out a sampler, that month’s Ledge “New Release” show will be a two parter, and this month is no exception. Thanks to “Rocktober II”, the massive 38 track collection of new releases, old faves, and other fun selections, there just isn’t enough time to go through all the goodies.
But we also have fabulous new tracks from our friends at Red On Red Records, Big Stir Records, Stardumb Records, and Spaghetty Town Records. There are also new tracks by our friends Sonny Vincent, Pavid Vermin, and others. And there’s a great new covers record by The Queers!
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
September 29th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #512. This week….Spun new tunes from Nine Pound Hammer, Bad Kitty, Dirt Byrds, Sonny Vincent, and Lorne Behrman! Plus TONS of killer ROCK’N’ROLL!! Acetate Records, Zodiac Killer Records, Dammit Records, SVART Records, Passport Records, Drag City Records, and Spaghetty Town Records! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
Nine Pound Hammer – Drunks, Babies & Fools
A Bombs – Bitch
Electric Frankenstein – It’s All Moving Faster
Motorsex – Que asco me doy!
Bad Kitty – Women Rock
Dirt Byrds – Bastards
Satanic Overdrive – Satanic Overdrive
Sonny Vincent – Japan MOFO
Sonny Vincent – Stick
Sonny Vincent – Higher Than Charlie
Link Wray – Good Good Lovin’
Flaming Sideburns – Heavy Tiger
Dollhouse – Can’t Come Down
Nine Pound Hammer – What Kind Of God
Columbian Neckties – Drunk You
Gluecifer – Heart of a Bad Machine
Australian Kingswood Factory – Wasted
Motherfuckin’ Motherfuckers – Lazy Suzy
Lorne Behrman – Sandcastles
This week we are back with an all new show, we kick things off with Dave Coop’s Playlist, World Noise This week’s brujeria features Ultra Razzia/France, Tornado/Russia, Bull Brigade/Italy, Helem/Israel, Bad Co. Project/Germany, Tystvar/England, Sial/Singapore, Kohti Tuhoa/Finland, Cold Meat/Australia and Mess/Mexico, Hear The Darkness features brand new music from: Planet On A Chain, Koma, Taqbir, Filth Is Eternal, Direct Threat, Mujeres Podridas and more! Plus, recent faves from SOUL GLO, Convenience, Limpwrist, Poison Idea and old-school songs from Faith and Christ On Parade! Smash The Discos has tracks by old firm casuals, arg barg,, 45 adapters, and more!!Continue reading "On The Nod Ep.143 on Real Punk Radio!!"
This week, after a little bit of 1969 The Clique (Texas): a guest DJ slot by Jeff Kelson, plus brand new Triptides, Beths, Bastards of Melody, Bevis Frond, Guest Directors, American Darlings, and Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, plus Jackie Wilson, Small Faces, Delroy Wilson, Dan Penn, Yardbirds, Porter Wagoner, Paul Revere & the Raiders, etc.
The idea for this show actually came about earlier this summer when I noticed that over the last few months I had acquired a number of songs about various movie stars. Over the next few days, with the help of a bunch of Facebook friends, I put together more than enough tracks that fit this theme. Tonight’s supersized show is the results of hours and hours of research, and consists of songs about not only classic Hollywood royalty such as Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, and Clark Gable but relatively recent stars like Keira Knightley, Winona Ryder, Timothy Chalamet, and Emma Stone. It’s a show that jumps from acoustic-based singer/songwriters to classic rockers to some outrageous punk rock.
BTW, it should also be noted that the intro voice of the Ledge, Max, is now a high school student who has an opportunity to spend a few days in New York City with his school’s performing arts department. Please consider helping him out by donating at his Gofundme page. (https://www.gofundme.com/f/maxwell-to-nyc)
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
September 22nd, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #511. This week….Spun new tunes from Caströl, Iron Lizards, HØVL, Ramon & Los Mineros, Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys, The Slime, The Amplifier Heads, Bajo Custodia, and Huntingtons! Promoted an upcoming show with tracks from Hi-End, The Idolizers, and The Shang Hi Los! The Sign Records, Rum Bar Records, Cursed Blessing Records! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
Caströl – Burnout! Burnout! Burnout!
Iron Lizards – Obey / Annihilate
Iron Lizards – Confusion Blues
HØVL – Burn This City Down
Ramon & Los Mineros – Missed Wave
Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys – Creepy
Miss Georgia Peach – You Blow My Mind
Hi-End – Looking For Some Kicks
The Idolizers – All Night Long
The Shang Hi Los – Skipping Records
DEVO – Come Back Jonee
Minor Threat – In My Eyes
Sonny Vincent – Till There Was You
The Slime – Death Champs
The Amplifier Heads – GlamOrama
Bajo Custodia – Equilibrio
Criminal Kids – Vanity
Gluecifer – God’s Chosen Dealer
Huntingtons – Suzy Is a Headbanger
It´s commonly known that when is comes to kissing, French people have set the standard ever since Adam met Eve in some garden in Paris. Well, here comes Dr. Justice from TJ Saboteur, who not only lays down the law as far as French Kissing within the TJ goes, but also explains why Hellfest is one of the hottest festivals for our typa music. Alors: allez a la guillotine!
This week, after a brace of 1935 Cole Porter: brand new Johnny Marr, Persian Leaps, Reds, Pinks & Purples, Gulps, Shivas, Startographers, and TUNS, plus The Move, George Jones, Ethel Waters, Scott Walker, Cream, Bunny Wailer & Dave Barker, Mills Brothers, etc.
After taking a week off (for various reasons that I discuss at the beginning of the show), The Ledge is back with another show of various odds and ends. There are sets influenced by some packages I received from Indonesian Junk and Lucinda Williams. There’s some memories of that great Replacements show in St. Paul six years ago with a few tunes from a show recorded earlier on that tour. There’s an oddly great tribute album to Elvis Costello that couples Latin singers with the original backing tracks of the legendary This Year’s Model album. And there’s also quite a few songs initially meant to be in the last new release show, but had to be cut for time constraints. Plus quite a few other great tunes in a variety of formats.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
September 15th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #510. This week….New tunes from The Cutthroat Brothers and Mike Watt, VANDALIZER, Turbocoopers, The Gasölines, Amyl and The Sniffers, The Hi-End, The Right Here, Freddie Dilevi, Hard-Ons, LIVE Criminal Kids, and more!! Hound Gawd Records, Metal Assault Records, Devils Beat Records, Rum Bar Records, and Cheersquad Records & Tapes! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
The Cutthroat Brothers and Mike Watt – Devil In Berlin
VANDALIZER – Time Can’t Count
Turbocoopers FT Keri Kelli and Chad Stewart – All American Man (KISS)
Criminal Kids – Outcast
The Gasölines – Autobahn Outlaws
The Gasölines – Booze, Gambling & Hotrods
Amyl and The Sniffers – Choices
Amyl and The Sniffers – Security
The Hi-End – Actions Speak Louder Than Words
The Right Here – Here We Go Again
Freddie Dilevi – Blue Hotel
Grande Royale – Just as Bad as You
Electric Frankenstein – Blow It Up
The Drippers – White Light
Custom Serie – Dejando Todo Atras
Hard-Ons – Lite As A Feather
This week, after a brief tribute to NYC: brand new Deep Sea Diver, Bevis Frond, Courtney Barnett, Flyying Colours, Illuminati Hotties, Joy Formidable, and Bastards of Melody, plus Lefty Frizzell, Syd Barrett, Them, The Beatles, The Aggrovators (and King Tubby), Woody Guthrie, Louis Armstrong (and Ella Fitzgerald), etc.
September 8th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #509. This week….New tunes from Bitch Queens, The Dead Beats, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Bronx, Grindhouse, Killer Hearts, The Gents, and Chubby and the Gang! Punk classics and more! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
Bitch Queens – Burn It Down
The Dead Beats – Necro Nina
Teenage Bottlerocket – Semi Truck
The Bronx – High Five
Sin City Six – Drunk Zombies
The Boatsmen – Big Waves
Grindhouse – City High
Mud City Manglers – 1234 Motherfucker
The Ramones – I Wanna Be A Good Boy
The Clash – Rudie Can’t Fail
Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device
Killer Hearts – Dead End Kid Forever
Killer Hearts – Good Time Motherfucker
Killer Hearts – Dynamite Tramp
The Gents – Nothing is Real
The Gents – Carport
Chubby and the Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts
Rocket From The Crypt – Wrong and Important
Apa State Mental – Monkey
Green Day – Only Of You
Born Loose – Step Up To The Plate (Be A Runaway)
This week Dave Coop’s playlist includes tracks by the Fatskins, Plizzkin, Dyrt Birds, Ese, Classics from Naked Aggression, Ill Repute and more! World Noise This weeks brujeria features Bull Brigade/Italy, Skandalo Oi/Columbia, Plizzken/Germany, Mister X/Belarus, Algara/Spain, Muerte/Mexico, Slant/Korea, Vivisektio/Finalnd, Chubby and the Gang/England. Hear The Darkness has features hot new music from: -Planet On A Chain (P.O.A.C.)-Koma -Under Attack -Stingray -Moxiebeat Plus a mix of faves and classics from: -White Murder -Rocky and The Sweden -No Statik -Attestor Tokyo Lungs -The Weirdos & more! and Smash The Discos plays Cinderblock, Blue Collar Criminals, Harrington Saints and more!!!
This week, after a refrain of 1984 Chameleons: brand new Daniel Wylie, Billy Bragg, Chime School, Checkered Hearts, Fotoform, Carina Messier, and Pineapples, plus Buffalo Springfield, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Sonny Curtis, Joni Mitchell, Tom T Hall, etc.; and R.I.P. Lee “Scratch” Perry (1936-2021) and Ed Asner (1929-2021)
This is the type of new release show that should appeal to all veteran Ledge listeners. New music by Lydia Loveless! A Stones cover by Brad Marino. A set of nothing but great power pop from Big Stir Records. Always great tunes from Rum Bar Records. Wilco covering Sleater-Kinney, and vice versa! Plus lots of other great new tunes from familar and not so familiar artists.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
September 1st, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #508. This week….new tunes from Poison Boys, The Bronx, Teenage Bottlerocket, Enock Eunuck, The DeRellas, FRVITS, Baabes, Brian Setzer, Infamous Stiffs, Chubby and the Gang, and Mary’s Kids!! Along with some killer classics and favorites! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
Poison Boys – Little Speedway Girl
The Bronx – New Lows
The Bronx – Curb Feelers
Teenage Bottlerocket – Strung out on Stress
Teenage Bottlerocket – Never Sing Along
Enock Eunuck – Eutanasi
The DeRellas – Pressure Gonna Get Ya
FRVITS – Stupid Vacation
Baabes – Greaseballs to Glitters
The Cramps – Hipsville 29. B.C.
The Runaways – Cherry Bomb
Koffin Kats – Demon Demon
Brian Setzer – Turn You On, Turn Me On
Infamous Stiffs – Singin Streets
Infamous Stiffs – New Sensation
Chubby and the Gang – Beat That Drum
Marys Kids – Esther Be The One
Gluecifer – Under My Hood
Electric Frankenstein – Listen up Baby!
The Cheats – Sober Days, Wasted Nights
This week World Noise has All new music from Las Ratapunks/Peru, Paranoid/Sweden, Raw Power/Italy, Ananas/Japan, Illegal Corpse/France, Stingray/England, Rata Negra/Spain, Chain Cult/Greece, Sial/Singapore. Hear The Darkness features new music debuts from Under Attack, Planet On A Chain and Mujeres Podridas plus new and recent music from Mustang, Cell Rot, Sin Ritmo, Porvenir Obscuro, Alien Nosejob, Chain Cult and more! Classics from Poison Idea and DC Youth Brigade, too and an all new SMASH THE DISCOS!!Continue reading "On The Nod Ep.140 on Real Punk Radio!!"
August 25th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #507. This week we cranked up new tunes from Shannon & the Clams, The Bambies, and Plizzken!! Plus a couple RPR Band Submission tunes from Napalm and a triple-shot from Jonny Manak & the Depressives! Along with some killer classics and favorites! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
The Junkyard Dogs – Breakin’ the Law
Shannon & the Clams – Leaves Fall Again
Shannon & the Clams – Midnight Wine
The Mono Men – He’s Waiting
The Bambies – Dirty taint
Criminal Kids – Run from the Police
The Uppers – Bulldozer
Ramones – All The Way
Generation X – No No No (B-side To Ready Steady Go)
Turbonegro – No Beast So Fierce
Husker Du – Something I Learned Today
Napalm – Put Me
Napalm – The News
Zeke – On the Run
Peter Pan Speedrock – Lucky Bastards
Jonny Manak & the Depressives – 1.21 Jiggawatts
Jonny Manak & The Depressives – It’s A Shame
Jonny Manak & the Depressives – Motorpsycho
Plizzken – Beware
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta F’ Wit
This week, after some 1957 Little Richard warbling, Everlys style: a tribute to Don Everly (1937-2021)–plus Charlie Watts (1941-2021), Tom T Hall (1936-2021) and Rod Gilbert (1941-2021)–alongside brand new Successful Failures, Jorge Elbrecht, Lauds, Spires, Film School, Furious Seasons, and Jack Skuller, plus The, Beatles, Pioneers, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Davy Graham, Jimmie Rodgers, etc.
The death of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts earlier this week created an obvious opportunity for The Ledge to celebrate his almost 60 years of playing behind fellow Stones members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
But, of course, I didn’t go the obvious route. You don’t get two hours of the band’s greatest hits. You don’t even get the most well known covers of the band. No, instead this tribute consists primarily of bands that fit the true spirit of the “Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World”. The tracks consist of a ton of live encores of Americana artists, garage rock versions recorded for various tribute albums, and a handful of B-sides and other bonus material. Oh yes, and a drunken cover or three found on Replacements’ bootlegs.
Rest in peace, Charlie. You will be missed.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
Mikki Sixx from Turbojugend Salzburg joins TJR to discuss the recent comeback of popularity of Turbonegro´s fantasstic 2007 album RETOX. Tschebesta and Mikki go through all the songs and mix it up with their personal TJ experiences in order to serve the audience a very well reflected COCKtail based upon profound personal and music historical ingredients.
This week Dave Coops playlist has tracks by Chain Whip, Plizzken, On The Job, classics by Circle Jerks , Fear, Shattered Faith and More! WORLD NOISE This week’s brujeria features F.A.V.L/Italy, The Execute/Japan, Sin Ritmo/Mexico, Idles/England, The Chats/Australia, Plizzken/Germany, Oi Polo/Scotland, Helem/Israel, Kobra/Russia and Kohti Tuhoa/Finaland, HEAR THE DARKNESS kicks off with not one but two killer recent NARDCore releases from Stalag 13 and False Confession,followed by old-school tracks from Necros, Government Issue and Part Time Christians with new music from EXIL, Psico Galera, ANF, Gobierno Militar and CO-ED mixed in, along with much more, wrapped up with a big Naked Raygun finale and SMASH THE DISCOS talks to Tevis Marcum about Tubi TV’s new hit show TALE OF TAILS, fighting with Sly and Arnie, the hot chick from Resident Evil, and cock socks!Continue reading "On The Nod Ep.139 on Real Punk Radio!!"
This week, after a 1967 George Harrison refrain: brand new Bevis Frond, Parquet Courts, Art Bergmann, Persian Leaps, Piroshka, Wednesday, Joy Formidable, and Guided By Voices plus Easybeats, Beatles, Smoke, Slim Gaillard, Ethiopians, Benny Barnes, etc.
August 18th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #506. This week we spun a killer set of new and upcoming tunes from Rum Bar Records (Freddie Delevi, Cromm Fallon, Sister Suzie, and The Peppermint Kicks)! Plus tons of listener favorites!! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
Jerry Reed – East Bound And Down
AC/DC – Shoot to Thrill
Motörhead – Fast and Loose (40th Anniversary Master)
Zeke – Twisted
The Vibrators – Baby Baby
The Real Kids – All Kindsa Girls
Misfits – We Are 138
The Clash – This Is Radio Clash
Freddie Dilevi – Damned Love
Cromm Fallon – Two Stroke Smoke
Sister Suzie – Are You Gonna
The Peppermint Kicks – Johnny D’s (Play It Again)
The Joneses – Graveyard Rock
Supersuckers – Born with a Tail
Dead Moon – Walking on my grave
Hedwig and The Angry Inch – Tear Me Down
The Hellacopters – Her Strut
Joan Jett – Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
Dirty Fences – White Lies
Bitch Queens – B-Stock Babies
The Hip Priests – Losers Of The Faith
Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn
The “odds and ends” format seems to have worked the last few times I’ve done it, so why not do another show of this type? For those new to The Ledge, the show consists of material I’ve been listening to in my home over the last few days. Some selections are faves from a few years ago that I haen’t pulled out in a while (Sarah Shook, Lydia Loveless). Others are recent purchases that don’t quite fit the new release shows (live Bob Mould, Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows). Add to that my recent fascination over everything involving Ncio, thanks to the new book, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, and you get a handful of tracks featuring her beautiful, haunted vocals.
Of course, news of a new box set including previously unreleased tracks by The Replacements takes priority over everything. This October, a 40th anniversary reissue of their first album, Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash will hit the stores, and features 100 tracks, 67 of them previously unreleased. Expect to hear a lot from this in the next few months!
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
Franz Nicolay has had a long and winding and frankly vaudevillian journey through the music industry over the two-plus decades since he left our shared home state of New Hampshire. Dying Scene readers from the days of yore no doubt are familiar with the #1 accordion player in punk rock (it's true, Connor checked: https://dyingscene.com/heroes-of-the-punk-accordion-a-tribute-to-squeezebox-rockers/) through solo work or his stints in The Hold Steady and The World/Inferno Friendship Society and Against Me! and perhaps Anti-Social Music and maybe Guignol and probably from collaborations with countless beloved acts like Jeff Rosenstock and The Loved Ones and Frank Turner and Junior Battles and more.
A few years ago, he published a fascinating nonfiction book, "The Humourless Laties of Border Control: Touring The Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar." It's an incredibly detailed and dense look at DIY touring through large chucks of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia and the like. At long last, Nicolay is set to release his debut novel. It's called "Someone Should Pay For Your Pain," and it's finally due out next week (August 24th) through Gibson Press, and let me tell you: it's wonderful. It centers around a character named Rudy Pauver.
Originally from Wisconsin, Pauver finds his way to the DIY punk mecca that was late 90s Gainesville and joins a band and, when they goes belly up for a variety of reasons, he continues to ply his wares as a solo artist/troubadour for the better part of the next two decades. There is a cast of characters that includes former bandmates and former proteges-turned-megastars and crotchedy bartenders and condescending soundguys and a next-generation punk rock niece. If you've been in a band or been even loosely tied to a scene, you know these people and these places and these roads and these dive bar floor tiles and these mattresses in the corner at the local flophouse. It's real and it's relatable and it's a sort of book about what happens after the "coming of age" stuff gets old.
For a musician who dabbles in writing - Franz can craft a hell of a novel.
This week, after a slice of recent TV Smith: brand new Split Single, Shivas, Descendents, Tremolo Beer Gut, Cold Beat, Tambourina, Lou Barlow, and Furious Seasons plus The Ventures, Pretty Things, Derrick Morgan & the Aggrovators, Hank Williams Sr., Jan & Dean, Tony Bennett, etc.
Part two of this month’s new release series carries on from the excellence of last week’s first show. There are great tribute records to John Prine and The Ramones, along with some other fabulous covers of the Flamin’ Groovies, T. Rex, The Beatles, and The Blasters. There’s the returns of the Descendents and Pearl Harbour. There’s also new bands (at least to me) such as Vacation, The Umbrellas, Liquid, and a few others. And to top things off are some more tracks from the brand new FREE “XOXOXO Volume One ‘the nice price'” compilation.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
This week Dave Coop’s playlist has tracks by Stalag 13, Lean 13 (Las Vegas), Waste, Bonecrusher, South Class Veterans, Hanging Judge, Sluggers 3 and more! Bruja has a killer new WORLD NOISE!, Benny Brujo is back with a all new HEAR THE DARKNESS with throwback tracks from Siege, Totalitar, Dicks, and Hot Snakes covering Government Issue; followed up with new music from Co Ed, Alerta!, Sin Ritmo & Soldiers Of Destruction mixed with recent faves from Moxiebeat, BOLO, Rata Negra and more and Jason and Russ talks with ‘Sam I Am The Roadie’ on SMASH THE DISCOS!
August 11th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #505. This week we spun new(er) tunes from The Chris Rolling Squad, The Girls, The Bambies, Lorne Behrman, Scumbag Millionaire, Upploppet, Indonesian Junk, and Naked Raygun!! Plus scoped out some killer Radio Birdman covers from The Candy Snatchers, Gluecifer, The Nomads, and The Hellacopters!! Spaghetty Town Records, Wanda Records, Savage Magic Records, Lux Noise Records, and Ghost Highway Recordings!! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
PLAYLIST
The Chris Rolling Squad – Wild Time
The Girls – Shaking hands with Rock N’ Roll
The Girls – Running from the law
Electric Frankenstein – Rock & Roll Outlaw
The Bambies – Party
The Bambies – Go Gore Boy
Lorne Behrman – When I Hit The Floor
DEVO – Working In A Coalmine
Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job And Shove It
DIRT BOX DISCO – Working For Wankers
Scumbag Millionaire – (Don’t Say) I Didn’t Say So
Upploppet – Born To Lose
Chuck Norris Experiment – Let the wheels roll (2021)
The CANDY SNATCHERS – Murder City Nights
GLUECIFER – Monday Morning Gunk
The NOMADS – Hanging On
The HELLACOPTERS – Time To Fall
Indonesian Junk – Livin’ In The USA
Naked Raygun – Go the Spoils
Naked Raygun – Living in the Good Times
The Judex – Cult of Judex
Suzi Moon has been an active member of the punk rock scene for well more than half her life, so you might expect that she would have used the free time provided by unplanned COVID-related shutdowns over the last 18 months to pause and catch her breath. You'd be sorely mistaken, however. After years of playing in a band with her sister (Civet, obviously) and taking filmmaking classes and starting a new band, Turbulent Hearts, and playing bass in a new band that flamed out rather unceremoniously last year (L.A. Machina), Moon stepped out on her own for real. She put out an EP, "Call The Shots," earlier this year under her own name with the help of Pirates PRess Records. She self-produced and directed music videos for each of the three songs on "Call The Shots." She's also got another ten songs already recorded for a full-length, and is going back in to the studio in the coming days to record another brand new EP. She's got a full backing band of fellow scene vets (Drew Champion and Sean Peterson of The Split Second on guitar and drums respectively, Patti Bo from River City Rebels on bass) that are slated to play their first shows, including Camp Punksylvania, in a couple of weeks - delta variant be damed. We caught up with Moon to talk about all of that and more. Stay tuned for updates on new material and new videos soon!
This week, after a 1965 Graham Gouldman/Yardbirds refrain: brand new Billy Bragg, Piroshka, Guided By Voices, Daniel Wylie’s Cosmic Rough Riders, Stranglers, Lanterna, Jorge Elbrecht, and Haroula Rose plus Moody Blues, Roy Acuff, Neil Young, 13th Floor Elevators, Ray Charles, João Gilberto & Stan Getz, etc.
Jazz Tents, Lipstick Lips, One Way Streets and American Nights. It's all on the Best of 2015 - So Far.
Here's the Playlist: Do You Wanna Rock Danko Jones Fire Music Addicted Jesse Malin New York Before the War Jazz Tent The Replacements 2015-04-13: Masonic Auditorium,San Francisco, CA (DMonkey) Not Your Turn Summer Cannibals Show Us Your Mind
Brainfreeze Bully Feels Like Lucille The Drip Dry Man Fuck and Forget Suggested by Kate Bad Heart Mischief Brew This Is Not For Children Personality X-Ray The Hex Dispensers III Let's Get Together Avalanche Party The Avalanche Party EP Fine Without You Best Coast California Nights Suggested by Jer Baby Bhangs PINS Wild Nights Raising the Skate Speedy Ortiz Foil Deer Suggested by John Dennis & Billy Craig Finn Newmyer's Roof Suggested by Boyd Josh Jeremy Porter & The Tucos Above the Sweet Tea Line American Night Benchmarks American Night Liquid Daydream POW! Fight Fire
This is another of thsoe months where the new release episode is so easy to compile that it just has to be split into two seperate shows. So tonight is part one, and what is especially gratifying is that so much of the broadcast consists of “friends” of the show.
Yes, there’s the usual contributions from our friends at Rum Bar Records, Red On Red Records, and Big Stir Records. But there’s also newer friends such as Old Town Crier and Dan Israel, who emailed new tunes to check out. And then there’s The Ex-Bombers, the fabulous “psychedelic jazz noir blues explosion” due that I recently discovered on Instagram. After an exchange of DM’s, they actually sent me a vinyl version of their fabulous new “New Love Is Easy” album.
Besides those picks, there’s brand new tunes by longtime Ledge favorites Son Volt, CTMF, Ty Segall, Wavves, and so many otheres. There are new discoveries such as The Pokes, Cosmic Psychos, and The Bug Club. Plus, there are a handful of tracks from Rum Bar’s brand new “XOXOXO Volume One ‘the nice price'” compilation.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
This week Dave Coop has tracks by Senseless, Mass Arrest, Direct Threat, Hard Evidence, a classic by the Dead Kennedys and much more! WORLD NOISE This week’s brujeria features Riistetyt/Finland, NoxNoxNox/Japan, Luz de Gas/Spain, Alien Nosejob/Australia, Rubella Ballet/England, Svetlanas/Russia, Svaveldioxid/Sweden, Negazione/Italy, Acidez/Mexico, Funeral Dress/Belgium, Die Schwarzen Schafe/Germany and The Bois/Indonesia, HEAR THE DARKNESS has new songs from Chain Whip, Reek Minds, ANF, EXIL, Imploders, Systema, Gobierno Militar and more, plus throwback tracks from Born Against, Beex, Scared Of Chaka, Infect and current faves from Seized Up, Gulch, Slant among others, SMASH THE DISCOS is reminiscin’ about dumb shit.. Continue reading "On The Nod Ep.137 on Real Punk Radio!!"
August 4th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #504. This week we scoped out two-fers of new tunes from Grindhouse and Descendents!! Plus…Spaghetty Town Record’s Electric Frankenstein/The Stripp split 7″…RPR Band Submissions from Enock Eunuck, Damn Vandals, Nihiloceros, and Louis Lingg and the Bombs…Covers ‘n’ Originals with The Manics/The Heartbreakers and Indonesian Junk/D Generation…along with Rum Bar Record’s Rumbar Rumble split with Pale Lips/The Sorels…and Rum Bar’s XOXOXO Vol. 1 Compilation with tunes from Natalie Sweet, The Kowalskis, The Short Fuses, and The Dents!! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
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PLAYLIST
Natalie Sweet – Video Phone
Grindhouse – Something for You
Grindhouse – Father’s on Bail
Descendents – Sailor’s Choice
Descendents – Nightage
The Kowalskis – I Love You Baby But I Hate Your Friends
The Short Fuses – Rock Yo Self (Until You Wreck Yo Self)
The Dents – Do You Want It
The MANICS – One Track Mind
The Heartbreakers – One Track Mind
Indonesian Junk – She Stands There MP3
D Generation – She Stands There
Gerry Lehane – Drinking Life
Pale Lips – Candy Song
The Sorels – Spring Break
Enock Eunuck – Fattigdomssaga
Damn Vandals – This City
Nihiloceros – Mammal Science Fiction
ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN – Everybody’s Dead Again
The Stripp – The rising tide
Louis Lingg and the Bombs – Freaky Deaky
July 28th, 2021. Tommy Unit LIVE!! #503. This week we scoped out the Dammit, Blast and Other Expletives comp from Dammit Records with tunes from BORN=EQUAL, DIRT BYRDS, Headspace, Mad Mulligans, Punky Ruckus, and Stanton’s Grave! New tunes from Smash the Granny! Classics from KISS and MC5! Plus promoted upcoming shows with tunes from Labretta Suede And The Motel 6, KILLER KIN, MALA VISTA, RAVAGERS, and Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts! And wrapped it with a new one from The Peppermint Kicks! Turn it up! We’re LIVE, Wednesday nights, 10:00pm ET/7:00pm PT on REAL PUNK RADIO – Radio Done Right!
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PLAYLIST
Kiss – Detroit Rock City
BORN=EQUAL – Blind Leading The Blind
DIRT BYRDS – Call Around
Headspace – And Sending Part 2
Mad Mulligans – Action Man
Punky Ruckus – She’s A Geezer
Stanton’s Grave – Us Them Everyone
Smash The Granny – Embrace The Grind
Smash The Granny – Where’s The Bar?
KILLER KIN – NARROW MIND
KILLER KIN – BAD, BAD, MIND
Labretta Suede And The Motel 6 – Beach Party Town
Labretta Suede And The Motel 6 – Boogaloo
MC5 – Gotta Keep Moving
MC5 – Tutie-Frutie
Kiss – Deuce
MALA VISTA – NY Groove
RAVAGERS – SUZI (HAS AN UZI)
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – Same Old You
The Peppermint Kicks – When Rock & Roll Met Your Dad
This week, after a small slice of 2002 Decemberists: brand new Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Descendents, Aints!, Marty Stuart, Fotoform, Film School, and Jeff Elbel & Ping plus Larry Williams, Alton Ellis, Webb Pierce, Donovan, Bee Gees, Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, etc.
Although I have a montly new release episode, I don’t really have a place for new reissues, compilations, live albums, and other odd releases such as that. Once in a while, I do throw a reissued track or two in the new release show, but for the most part it’s hard to find a spot for them in my usual themed shows.
So tonight those types of releases get their own theme. I can’t say it’s all archival material, though, as there are new recordings by the likes of Los Lobos, The Descendents, and The Beat-Hells. But for the most part, tonight’s show comes from the type of releases I mentioned before. There’s archival collections of bands such as The Outsiders, R. Stevie Moore, and David Bowie. There are rare tracks from reissues of classics by George Harrison, Mudhoney, The White Stripes, and many others. And there’s quite a few great cover tunes.
I would love it if every listener bought at least one record I played on either of these shows. These great artists deserve to be compensated for their hard work, and every purchase surely helps not only pay their bills but fund their next set of wonderful songs. And if you buy these records directly from the artist or label, please let them know you heard these tunes on The Ledge! Let them know who is giving them promotion!
This weeks show starts with Dave Coop’s playlist with tracks by Strike First, Brand new tracks by TV Drugs, Culture Shock and Head Space plus more! WORLD NOISE features tracks by Ultima Guerra/Columbia, Tereet Cadet/Finland, Brünner Todesmarsch/Czechia, Gauze/Japan, Cuir/France, Golpe/Italy, Bent Out of Shape/Netherlands, The Boldness/Indonesia, Booze & Glory/England, Mess/Mexico, Bishops Green/Canada and Mister X/Belarus. HEAR THE DARKNESS has Classics from: BGK, Kraut, Dillinger Four, Dag Nasty and Career Suicide plus favorites from Ceremony, Trash Talk and new music from Deviated State, Moxiebeat, Bootlicker, Soldiers Of Destruction, Alerta!, ANF and more! SMASH THE DISCOS drunkenly bitches about being born too late!
LISTEN, ENJOY and BREAK SHIT!
If you've watched previous episodes of (*both laugh*) or if you've heard me guest on other podcasts or if you know me personally, you know that Pearl Jam has been a huge part of my musical journey. "Ten," which turns thirty years old this time next month, struck at exactly the right time in my formative years. The shockwave is still being felt, to say the least. Pearl Jam were very honestly the band that really ushered in my love of punk rock, in part through their very public love of bands like Dead Kennedys and Bad Religion and Social D and Dead Boys and obviously The Clash and Ramones. As I one-time aspiring bass player, it was Jeff Ament whose style got me to buy my first bass when I was a teenager (an Alvarez Dana bass, if you're interested).
I've not only followed Pearl Jam far and wide over the last three decades, but I've followed Jeff's solo career and side projects (Three Fish, Tres Mts., RNDM, etc) along the way. His songs are always intricate and textured and unique and pull from a variety of influences. Next month, Ament will release a new solo full length. Entitled "I Should Be Outside," it was written and recorded entirely during COVID-related quarantine. But it's also not the only material he's put out during this time, as it follows last year's blistering "American Death Squad" EP and a new project called Deaf Charlie that features Fitz and the Tantrums' John Wicks on drums.
This was immensely entertaining and meaningful for me, and I hope that came across. I was lucky enough to meet Jeff once in passing at an RNDM show on a snowy November night in Boston (there's a picture of that meeting in the intro and over my right shoulder during our chat here) and I thought that was one of the coolest things that had ever happened to me that didn't involve marriage or the birth of my kid. This was cooler. Thanks Jeff. And yes, don't worry Pearl Jam fans...we talked a lot about PJ and songwriting history and all the "how the sausage is made" stuff!
This week, after a snatch of 1966 Rolling Stones: brand new Piroshka, La Luz, U-Roy, Billy Bragg, Shirley Collins, Descendents, Steve Gunn, and Low plus Kinks, Glen Campbell, Beatles, Solomon Burke, Neil Innes, Kitty Wells, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.
Ass some of you might be aware of, there´s a new “interest” oriented, global Turbojugend out there: TJ Lucha. TJR talked to members Kevin Mash (UK) and Jimmy Beautiful (USA) about their common interest in Wrestling and even analyze the stunning parallels of Wrestling and our Denim centered community, hence: a Turbojugend World Order (TJWO). Furthermore, we provide a brief update on the current plans of the 2021 Weltturbojugendtage ass well ass a mini-festival in Hamburg, which is scheduled for Juli 31st of 2021.
