Random Old Records Podcast #28

2011 is in full swing, and there's a ton of amazing new jams coming out, so what better time to drop another episode of Random Old Records?! #28 is a tribute to the ultimate diva Tura Satana (RIP) and it features a whole bunch of her classic quotes from the classic Russ Meyer flick Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill! As far as the musical portion goes, it starts off with some classic '90s tunes from Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, then moves into a mix of new and old rock n' roll from Spencey Dude & The Doodles, 20/20, Mind Spiders, Mr. Airplane Man, and Bare Wires, then finishes up with brand spankin' new tracks from Smith Westerns, Jail Weddings, and the Strange Boys! Big surprise that the most intriguing track to drop in 2011 so far comes from Austin's Strange Boys, off a FREE Scion Garage A/V single. My favorite band of 2010 goes OUT THERE with a seriously arty song that mixes yacht rock, silly white reggae, barking preacher voices, and their patented Stonesy swagger into a four minute firebomb interrupted by jolts of AM radio static. It sounds like a band of tired rock n' rollers driving their van down a faceless highway at 4 AM, sick of all the previously packed CDs, tapes, and iPods, desperately trying to find something good to listen to on the radio.

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Random Old Records Podcast #28

1. Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"

2. Sleater-Kinney - "One More Hour"

3. Pavement - "Major Leagues"

4. The Ettes - "Love Lies Bleeding"

5. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Seven Or In 10"

--Tura Satana Speaks (RIP)

6. Bare Wires - "Seeking Love"

7. Mind Spiders - "No. 3"

8. The Weakends - "Slow Down & Low"

9. Mr. Airplane Man - "Commit A Crime"

10. Spency Dude & The Doodles - "Flirting"

11. The Barreracudas - "Diet Coke"

--Tura Satana Speaks (RIP) Part 2

12. 20/20 - "Going Up With My Girl"

13. Little Bob Story - "Baby Don't Cry"

14. The RPM's - "Loved By You"

15. The Poppees - "She's Got It"

16. The Red Button - "Gonna Make You Mine"

--Tura Satana Speaks (RIP) Part 3

17. Natural Child - "Crack Mountain"

18. Teenanger - "Big Spirit Payback"

19. The Strange Boys - "American Radio"

20. Smith Westerns - "Dance Away"

21. Jail Weddings - "What Did You Do With My Gun?"

Sunshine, Bitches: Feburary 2011

Obnoxious is such a great word, and obnoxious is how I feel right now. According to the dictionary, it is an archaic word that means exposed to something unpleasant or harmful, and deserving of censure. Like the good book says, right now I am odiously or disgustingly objectionable and highly offensive. Oh yeah?! Who the fuck cares! Who doesn't like to puff their chest out and be a little obnoxious every once in awhile? If I read my history books right, rock n' roll was invented to piss off the squares, and I'm glad to enter my third decade on the planet carrying a hefty batch of killer records under my arm and shining behind the thick coating of road salt and sludge on my windshield.

A lot of weird, crazy shit happened to me in 2010, but right now I'm just gonna let the sun burn my eyes and let it burn my back. Why not?! I am in a good spot, so why fuck with the formula? Good job, good blog, good life. Hey life?! I've got a supercrush on you. You're never gonna stop that little snot-nosed prick in Wavves, and you're never gonna stop me, either (or "eyether," if you're fancy). People talk all funny, and say a whole lot of funny bullshit, but all I can do is roll around and smile like a moron. So here's a lucky thirteen tracks that sound like lolling around on decks, destroying chocolate milkshakes on Sunday afternoons, powering through heroic hangovers on humid days, getting a little sweaty, and wishing upon stars set in hazy midwestern skies. Like always, there's some outrageous T. Rex rip-offs here, along with lots of syrupy-sweet girl voices, ear-bleeding fuzz, gentle finger-picked guitars, crucial harmonies, and blissful, goofy grins. Why fuck with the formula?! Enjoy this Indian Winter, folks. 2011 is gonna be a good fucking year. Just sit back, smile always, and enjoy the ride.

Sunshine, Bitches: February 2011

1. Wavves - "King Of The Beach"

2. Ty Segall - "My Sunshine"

3. Moonhearts - "Shine"

4. Go Sailor - "Last Year"

5. Tiger Trap - "Supercrush"

6. The Babies - "Breakin' The Law"

7. Smith Westerns - "Boys Are Fine"

8. Nobunny - "Breathe"

9. The Fresh & Onlys - "Summer Of Love"

10. Teenage Fanclub - "What You Do To Me"

11. Matthew Sweet - "Sick Of Myself"

12. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - "Sand"

13. The Raspberries - "Drivin' Around"

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Random Old Records Podcast #27

Here it is, all fashionably late and shit: the latest episode of Random Old Records Podcast! Episode #27 was posted up to the Mevio site a couple weeks ago, so if you're a subscriber, you already have it, but if you haven't been paying attention or can't commit to something so formal as subscribing to a podcast, then check it out with haste! This one features the best songs I heard in the year 2010, and features sizzling tracks from The Strange Boys, Ty Segall, Bare Wires, Best Coast, Frankie Rose & The Outs, The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun, Nobunny, The Sugar Stems, and a whole lot more! 2010 was one of the best years for music in recent memory, so I'm sure there's at least four or five songs on here that will become your new favorites! Also, I threw in classic tracks by The Raspberries and The Millennium that I discovered for the first time in 2010. Check out the track list in the comment section, and I hope y'all dig it!

Don't forget to check out my monstrous list of the top 25 albums of 2010, as well. Click the links!

http://randomoldrecords.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-25-albums-of-2010-part-1.html

http://randomoldrecords.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-25-albums-of-2010-part-2.html

http://randomoldrecords.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-25-albums-of-2010-part-3.html

http://randomoldrecords.blogspot.com/2011/02/best-albums-of-2010-part-4.html

Go to http://rorpodcast.mevio.com to stream, download, or subscribe to Random Old Records Podcast and never miss an episode! Also, you can snag a direct download of episode #27 RIGHT HERE. Don't forget to tune into http://realpunkradio.com every Wednesday at 4 PM EST too, as there's a hot episode playing every week, with the new episodes premiering every second Wednesday of the month. Episode #28 is right around the corner, and there's plenty of new updates to come in 2011, so check back and thanks for reading and listening!

The Best 25 Albums Of 2010: Part 4

Oh hey guys, what's up?! I haven't updated this humble blog in a minute because real life intervened, and a new big-time job and all kinds of cool shit just kinda happened. Now it's February and everyone is surely sick of all those best of 2010 lists and ready to move on, right? Well, if I learned anything, it's that I'm gonna keep the list to ten next time. Holy crap! This list turned into a full-time job, and ended up being seven pages when I was all well and done. Never again! Anyway, here's the last eight albums on the list, and if you haven't bought or illegally downloaded these records yet, what are you waiting for?!

18. Nobunny - First Blood

Man oh man, have you ever seen Nobunny live?! He straight-up wrecked Cincinnati's leading hipster nightclub Mayday back in spring, clad in a leather jacket, black BVDs, and a bunny mask that had to have been fished out of the deep recesses of a port-o-let at the corner of a construction site. The whole joint reeked like a roofer's asshole, but Nobunny still did head-first backflips off the stage and whipped the tiny crowd into ecstatic ecstasy. This LP captured the best of his disco-punk jams and even threw in a picture-perfect T. Rex rip-off called "Breathe." If you're sad, do you slide, or just breathe?! Questions!

19. Salem - King Night

Apparently, lots of rock critics and bloggers hate Salem with a passion, and maybe King Night just happened to hit me at the right time, but this record is one of the freshest, most original things I've heard in ages. Some people complain that it's a lifeless example of paint-by-numbers Fruity Loops child's play, smashing together underground rap beats and icy post-goth synth textures, but to me it sounds like a bunch of overstimulated Midwestern kids that watched too much cable television and still can't manage to figure it all out. Good gimmicks still grab my ears sometimes.

20. Vermillion Sands

The best co-optation of the relentless, early-60s Sun Records slapback echo rhythm beat in 2010 came from fucking Italy of all places, complimented by drawled, snide female vocals on a serious Nacy Sinatra tip, rude slashes of banjo melody, and jolts of simple-minded organ drone. Yeah, the self-titled debut album from Vermillion Sands is naggingly familiar in its reference points, but it totally wins thanks to a heaping dose of youthful energy and angst. "Wake Me When I Die" sounds like June Carter shacking up with a bunch of meth heads, just riding out the storm.

21. The Parting Gifts - Strychnine Dandelion

OK, so yeah, maybe one of my most highly anticipated albums of the year turned into a disappointment, but there's still a bit of success in such a noble failure! Maybe my expectations were set too high by the amazing 2009 LP Do You Want Power by The Ettes, produced by Mr. Greg Cartwight himself and full of the exciting and passionate rock n' roll noise missing from recent Reigning Sound records, but Strychnine Dandelion sounds kinda FLAT, doesn't it?! Maybe 15 perfect songs written by two songwriters at the top of their game isn't enough anymore, but even while treading water, these two still mop the floor with hundreds of mediocre bands.

22. The Jim Jones Revue - Burning Your House Down

The worst thing about this year's Jim Jones Revue LP is how good it sounds! The cranked-up LOUD sound of their earlier singles was kinda frightening, scary, and dangerous, but on this one they dial back the fury a little bit and let Mr. Jones' demented Little-Richard-on-crystal-meth yowl dominate the proceedings. What Burning Your House Down lacks in sledgehammer HOLY SHIT moments, it more than makes up for it with more energy than 95% of bands out there and a generally unsanitary vibe. The epic title track is an all-time classic.

23. Wavves - King Of The Beach

I didn't get the hype for the first Wavves album at all, and saw it as a case of people getting worked up over the layers of noise and slacker obnoxiousness that masked the fact that there just weren't any good songs underneath them. You could totally make a case that this record is so much better because of the presence of Jay Reatard's former backing band and a proper producer, but Wavves dude Nathan William comes equipped with a set of relentlessly sunny punk-pop bangers that benefit a ton from his pedigreed collaborators. "King Of The Beach" was the best pop song of the year, period. You're never gonna stop me...

24. Sleigh Bells - Treats

I didn't get into this record until December, well after everyone else was done shitting themselves all over it, but I couldn't help but like it loads. The best tracks (like "Infinity Guitars" and "Crown On The Ground") knock you on your ass with vintage, thunderous Rick Rubin-style Run DMC/Beastie Boys beats, solid-state cheesedick metal riffs, and demented, shouty cheerleader from hell vocals. Then "Rill Rill" bites Funkadelic with gusto and turns it into a stoned-out blissful jam. There ain't much else out there that sounds like Treats, and I'm sure it will get real old real fast, but in that first moment, it's like aural crack.

25. White Wires - WWII

When I first started writing about the Strange Boys back in March of last year, I was seriously fucking tired of Seattle-style grey skies infesting Cincinnati on a regular basis. One year later, nothing has really changed, and everything is as grey as a Pacific Northwest weeknight. Fuck, what I wouldn't give to go to the nearest beach for a hot minute! The second album from Canada's White Wires dropped in December and packs a serious melanin injection. Year-end lists are supposed to pack a weighty punch, but I'm fresh outta Rocky-style counterpunches. "Forget about the troubles that you're running from, let's rock rock rock n' roll summer fun." Sounds like a great idea, huh?!