Random Old Records Podcast #42

So yeah, after over three years and 41 monthly episodes, I needed a little break from Random Old Records Podcast. When I started thinking about EPISODE #42 back in March, there was just too much shit going on, and the inspiration wasn't there, so I figured it was best to take a break (my first!) and stack up tracks for awhile. I never imagined that I would actually get e-mails from people asking when the next episode would be out. Well, it was only two, but still! You guys rule, and I can't thank you enough for listening to Random Old Records and patronizing this blog, even though I haven't posted a goddamn thing for months.

Anyway, Random Old Records #42 is out, and I'm super proud of this one. This episode functions as a sort of "BEST OF 2012 SO FAR"-type playlist, featuring new tracks from Wax Idols, Natural Child, Gentleman Jesse, Nobunny, Heavy Cream, and Sugar Stems, a bunch of new releases on Trouble In Mind from The Resonars, The Paperhead, Hollows, and Estrogen Highs, Record Store Day Exclusives from Nobunny and The Black Angels, and so much MORE! Hope y'all dig it, check out the playlist below, and be on the lookout for #43 soon!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via iTunes, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! More classic episodes from the past ten years are being added to the feed as well, so check those out as well. You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. On the horizon is the yearly 5/10/15/20 episode featuring classic tracks from the past, along with an episode of fresh recent punk and garage rock. As always, thanks for listening!



Random Old Records Podcast #42
Released 06/04/2012
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1. Natural Child - "8 AM Blues"
(For The Love Of The Game, Burger 2012)
2. Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs - "Violent Girls"
(The Banana Split, Hosehead 2012)
3. The Tough Shits - "Birds (Don't Get Tired Of Flying)"
(The Tough Shits, Burger 2012)
4. Gentleman Jesse - "I'm A Mess"
(Leaving Atlanta, Douchemaster 2012)
5. Sugar Stems - "Never Been In Love"
(Like I Do 7", Certified PR 2012)
6. The Resonars - "Sit Right Down"
(Long Long Thoughts 7", Trouble In Mind 2012)
--Love, architecture, etc.
7. Wax Idols - "Schadenfreude"
(Schadenfreude 7", Suicide Squeeze 2012)
8. Rayon Beach - "Airplane With Tits"
(This Looks Serious, HoZac 2012)
9. Heavy Cream - "Tunnel Vision"
(Super Treatment, Infinity Cat 2012)
10. Nobunny - "I Can't Stop"
(Maximumrocknroll 7", Goner 2012)
11. The Hex Dispensers - "Young Blood In The River"
(Parallel 7", Red Lounge 2012)
12. Estrogen Highs - "Grass Of Leaves"
(Irrelevant Future, Trouble In Mind 2012)
--Beauty as a weapon!
13. The Black Angels - "She's Not There"
(RSD 7", Blue Horizon 2012)
14. Allah-Las - "Catamaran"
(Catamaran 7", Innovative Leisure 2012)
15. Outer Minds - "Gimme A Reason"
(Outer Minds, Southpaw 2012)
16. The Paperhead - "She Is Above Me"
(Pictures Of Her Demise 7", Trouble In Mind 2012)
17. Ty Segall & White Fence - "Easy Ryder"
(Hair, Drag City 2012)
--Deadly spawn!
18. Tiger High - "Boys At The Bottom"
(Myth Is This, Burger 2012)
19. Cosmonauts - "Gillian"
(If You Wanna Die Then I Wanna Die, Burger 2012)
20. Radar Eyes - "Disconnection"
(Radar Eyes, HoZac 2012)
21. Hollows - "Up & Down"
(Vulture, Trouble In Mind 2012)
22. Best Coast - "My Life"
(The Only Place, Mexican Summer 2012)

Random Old Records Podcast #41

Holy moly, things are crazy in the midwest right now! Tornadoes, hail, sunshine, and a huge pile of badass rock n' roll records to listen to are among the highlights. EPISODE #41 of Random Old Records features an hour of rad jams from what is shaping up to be one of the best music years on record. This is also South By Southwest week, so #41 features a bunch of bands playing the annual music orgy plus so much more!

We're talkin' amazing pop tunes from La Sera, Frankie Rose, and Summer Twins, raging punk from LA slackers FIDLAR, the noisy Ramones trip of Terry Malts, and the Denton weird power pop of Mind Spiders. We're talkin' brand NEW tracks from Portland's Mean Jeans and Guantanamo Baywatch, whose new LPs won't be out for another month. We're talkin' brain-frying psychedelic rock n' roll from The Sufis and Ketamines. Most of all, we're talkin' about a track called "Conversation" from one of the most impressive debut LPs I've heard in forever, the 60s sunshine pop/psych hybrid known as OUTER MINDS. Seriously, this album is so good that it's unreal. Think early Arthur Lee and Love mixed with the complex vocal harmonies of The Association, and just run to the record store NOW.

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Random Old Records Podcast #41
Released 03/15/12
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1. Summer Twins - "Got Somebody To Dream About"
(Summer Twins, Burger 2012)
2. La Sera - "Break My Heart"
(Sees The Light, Hardly Art 2012)
3. Frankie Rose - "Gospel/Grace"
(Interstellar, Slumberland 2012)
4. Dreamdate - "What Could I Do"
(Melody Walk, Tic Tac Totally 2011)
5. Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out Of This Country"
(Let's Get Out Of This Country, Merge 2006)
6. Alicja Pop - "I Can't Remember"
(I Can't Remember 7", Neat Neat Neat 2011)
--Zombie beach party.
7. FIDLAR - "No Waves"
(No Waves/No Ass 7", Mom & Pop 2012)
8. Mean Jeans - "Life On Mars"
(On Mars, Dirtnap 2012)
9. Terry Malts - "Nauseous"
(Killing Time, Slumberland 2012)
10. Mind Spiders - "Play You Out"
(Meltdown, Dirtnap 2012)
11. Glow Kit - "Misunderstood"
(Glow Kit, FDH 2012)
12. XRay Eyeballs - "Pill Riders"
(Splendor Squalor, Kanine 2012)
--Hunx is FAMOUS!
13. Hunx - "Do You Remember Being A Roller?"
(Hairdresser Blues, Hardly Art 2012)
14. King Tuff - "Bad Thing"
(King Tuff, Sub Pop 2012)
15. Teenanger - "Frights"
(Frights, Telephone Explosion 2012)
16. Spider Fever - "Done Wrong"
(Spider Fever, Windian 2012)
17. Guantanamo Baywatch - "Chest Crawl"
(Chest Crawl, Dirtnap 2012)
--Australian new wave explosion!
18. Blasted Canyons - "Get High"
(2nd Place, Castleface 2012)
19. Teledrome - "Double Visions"
(Double Visions 7", HoZac 2012)
20. The Sufis - "Wake Up"
(The Sufis, Burger 2012)
21. Ketamines - "Spaced Out"
(Spaced Out, Southpaw 2012)
22. Outer Minds - "Conversation"
(Outer Minds, Southpaw 2012)

Random Old Records Podcast #40

Woah! 2012 is less than two months old, and there's already so much kick-ass rock n' roll coming out that it's making my head spin! So yeah, this time around Random Old Records Podcast #40 is an uninterrupted hour of straight-up jams because there just wasn't any room for the quirky soundbytes you all know and love. HAHA. This fat stack of tracks features one song each from the latest batch of HoZac Records releases, including The Band In Heaven, Radar Eyes, Teledrome, and Bare Mutants, which all rule as usual. Teledrome's super-catchy electro-punk is the real gem this time around. Seriously, give this dude a proper studio and budget and he'll be on the cover of magazines in a year. Mark my words!

Random Old Records #40 also features an EXCLUSIVE track from the upcoming second LP by killer Wisconsin garage punk duo The Hussy! It's called "Mind Alright," the LP is called Weed Seizure, and it's set to be released by Tic Tac Totally sometime next month. This record is a monster folks, just check out the sick artwork by Ben Lyon below! Elsewhere, you'll hear BRAND NEW tracks from upcoming releases by The Sugar Stems, Digital Leather, and Terry Malts, current tunes by Coasting, Gap Dream, Wiccans, The Pharmacy, and Gary Wrong, classics from the Angry Samoans and Teengenerate, and more, more, MORE!!! It all finishes up with a modern classic pop tune from former Lost Sounds and River City Tanlines frontwoman Alicja-Pop that will shake you up good if you're paying attention. This is one of my favorite episodes I've coughed up in awhile, so I hope y'all dig it!


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Random Old Records Podcast #40
Released 02/09/12
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1. The Pharmacy - "Dig Your Grave"
(Dig Your Grave, Kind Turkey 2012)
2. Terry Malts - "Mall Dreams"
(Killing Time, Slumberland 2012)
3. Digital Leather - "Thrill Is Gone"
(Modern Problems, FDH 2012)
4. Teledrome - "Dial Tone"
(Double Vision, HoZac 2012)
5. Gary Wrong - "Pollen Christ"
(Gary Wrong 7", Total Punk 2012)
6. The Consumers - "Your Problem"
(All My Friends Are Dead, In The Red 2011)
7. The Onions - "Alien Astronaut"
(Alien Astronaut 7", Certified PR 2012)
8. The Hussy - "Mind Alright"
(Weed Seizure, Tic Tac Totally 2012)
9. Angry Samoans - "The Todd Killings"
(The Unboxed Set, Triple X 1995)
10. Teengenerate - "Wild Weekend"
(Smash Hits, Estrus 1995)
11. Wiccans - "Witches"
(Skullduggery, Katorga Works 2011)
12. Lantern - "Nothin' Comes Easy"
(Stranger I Come, Stranger I Leave, Night People 2012)
13. The Lonesome Savages - "Black Hair Woman"
(All Outta Love, Kind Turkey 2012)
14. The Band In Heaven - "Summer Bummer"
(The Band In Heaven 7", HoZac 2012)
15. Radar Eyes - "I Am"
(Radar Eyes, HoZac 2012)
16. Gap Dream - "Heart"
(Gap Dream, Burger 2012)
17. Bare Mutants - "Without You"
(Bare Mutants 7", HoZac)
18. Coasting - "Starts And Stays"
(You're Never Going Back, M'Ladys 2011)
19. Pamela - "I'm Nobody"
(Pamela 7", Southpaw 2012)
20. Squish - "Shame Spiral"
(Squish 7", HoZac 2012)
21. Sugar Stems - "Did You Ever"
(Greatest Pretender 7", Certified PR 2012)
22. Summer Twins - "I Will Love You"
(Summer Twins, Burger 2012)
23. Neverever - "Wedding Day"
(Shake-A-Baby, Slumberland 2012)
24. Alicja-Pop! - "Water Death"

(I Play The Fool 7", Certified PR 2012)

Random Old Records Podcast #39

Hey folks! We're entering the fourth year of Random Old Records Podcast, so what better way to kick off 2012 than EPISODE #39, which is packed with more killer rock n' roll than ever before?!

This time around, you'll hear the second straight KILLER single from ex-Mika Miko sisters Bleached, a selection from the current crop of garage punk releases from Wisconsin's Dusty Medical Records, hazy glam-psych from Cleveland weirdo Gap Dream, stellar tunes from Mark Sultan, Wheels On Fire, Digital Leather, Burnt Ones, Coasting, Mikal Cronin, Xray Eyeballs and more! It's a crucial sixty minutes that is the perfect soundtrack for blasting your way out of the winter blahs.

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via iTunes, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! More classic episodes from the past ten years are being added to the feed as well, so check those out as well. You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Watch this space next month for the another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!




Random Old Records Podcast #39
Released 01/11/12
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1. Digital Leather - "Mind Eraser"

(Sponge, Crash Symbols 2012)

2. Xray Eyeballs - "Sundae"

(Sundae 7", Hardly Art 2011)

3. Burnt Ones - "Gonna Listen To T. Rex (All Night Long)"

(Black Teeth & Golden Tongues, Roaring Colonel 2010)

4. The Barreracudas - "Baby Baby Baby"

(Nocturnal Missions, Douchemaster 2011)

5. Bad Sports - "Inside And Out"

(Kings Of The Weekend, Dirtnap 2011)

6. Wheels On Fire - "Dead Of Night"

(Dead Of Night 7", Milk N' Herpes 2011)

--Reform School Girl!

7. Mikal Cronin - "You Gotta Have Someone"

(Tide 7", Goner 2011)

8. Tomorrow's Tulips - "Eternally Teenage"

(Eternally Teenage, Galaxia 2011)

9. Radar Eyes - "Miracle"

(Miracle 7", HoZac 2011)

10. Gap Dream - "Go Ahead"

(Gap Dream, Burger 2011)

11. Swiftumz - "More Than Sleep"

(Swiftumz, Holy Mountain 2011)

--It came from Detroit!

12. Lantern - "I Don't Know"

(I Don't Know 7", Mammoth Cave Recording Co. 2011)

13. Head On Electric - "Here They Come Now"

(Sleep Slaughter Sheep, Dusty Medical 2011)

14. Dead People - "Misleady"

(Dead People 7", Windian 2011)

15. The Famines - "Faux Famous"

(The Complete Collected Singles, Mammoth Cave Recording Co. 2011)

16. Guilty Pleasures - "Put Your Mouth To It"

(Summer Strange, Dusty Medical 2011)

--Gary Busey has a big wednesday.

17. Bleached - "Searching Through The Past"

(Searching Through The Past 7", Suicide Squeeze 2011)

18. Coasting - "Snoozefest"

(You're Never Going Back, M'Ladys 2011)

19. Neverever - "Bitch Boys"

(Angelic Swells, Slumberland 2010)

20. Bazooka - "Back Tou You"

(Jupiter 7", Dusty Medical 2011)

21. Mark Sultan - "If I Had A Polaroid"

(Whatever I Want, In The Red 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #38

[12/2/2019 note: When I uploaded this episode eight years ago, it contained an audio error that cut off the last several seconds. It has bugged me ever since. So, I went back a couple weeks ago and completely remixed, remastered, and recreated the episode from scratch. I got married a month ago, and these songs were the soundtrack of my wife and I's first year together. They will remind me of that time forever, and I am glad the episode is finally complete.]

2011 is almost over, and oh my goodness where did the time go?! The past twelve months were filled with all kinds of good things for me on the life front, and much like last year, there were SO MANY crucial rock n' roll records released and a bunch of killer shows that damaged my eardrums even further. EPISODE #38 of Random Old Records cuts away all of the extra padding and somewhat clever soundbytes and presents an hour of my personal favorite songs of 2011 with no interruptions!

You'll hear all the songs I've been raving about since January, including heavy hitters like "Gold Sneakers" by Wax Idols, "Weekend" by Smith Westerns, and "Into Black" by Blouse. You'll hear heavy-duty psychedelic blowouts from The Paperhead, Thee Oh Sees, and The People's Temple, and perfect pop from Dum Dum Girls, Colleen Green, and The Babies. Have a great 2012, and thanks for listening!!

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Random Old Records Podcast #38

Released 12/14/11
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1. Smith Westerns - "Weekend"
(Dye It Blonde, Fat Possum 2011)
2. Dum Dum Girls - "Bedroom Eyes"
(Only In Dreams, Sub Pop 2011)
3. Wax Idols - "Gold Sneakers"
(No Future, HoZac 2011)
4. Colleen Green - "Y Do U Call Me?"
(Green One, Hardly Art 2011)
5. Vivian Girls - "Dance (If You Wanna)"
(Share The Joy, Polyvinyl 2011)
6. Natural Child - "Chris' Blues"
(1971, Infinity Cat 2011)
7. Black Lips - "New Direction"
(Arabia Mountain, Vice 2011)
8. Bare Wires - "Sweet Little Stranger"
(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)
9. Jacuzzi Boys - "Automatic Jail"
(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)
10. Mikal Cronin - "Again and Again"
(Mikal Cronin, Trouble In Mind 2011)
11. The Babies - "Breakin' The Law"
(The Babies, Shrimper 2011)
12. The Paperhead - "Can't Keep My Eyes Open"
(The Paperhead, Trouble In Mind 2011)
13. Thee Oh Sees - "Chem-farmer"
(Carrion Crawler/The Dream, In The Red 2011)
14. The People's Temple - "Axe Man"
(Sons Of Stone, HoZac 2011)
15. Blouse - "Into Black"
(Blouse, Captured Tracks 2011)
16. Widowspeak - "In The Pines"
(Widowspeak, Captured Tracks 2011)
17. Ty Segall - "Goodbye Bread"
(Goodbye Bread, Drag City 2011)
18. The Strange Boys - "Mama Shelter"
(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)
19. Jeffrey Novak - "Looking Down At You"
(4 Track Solo EP, Trouble In Mind 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #37

Hey folks, I've been on VACATION! Yeah, it's been a year now since I got a full-time grown-up job, so I finally decided to cash in and take a week of paid vacation. Lemme back up a bit and be honest. I didn't just go nuts and check out for awhile, I went nuts and impulsively bought tickets to the Friday night show of the Norton Records 25th anniversary celebration at the Bell House in Brooklyn! I just couldn't miss the Reigning Sound, Mark Sultan, the Great Gaylord, Jackie and The Cedrics, Mighty Hannibal, Andre Williams, and an all-star band led by Mick Collins on guitar. What a lineup! After a five day weekend in NYC that involved much record shopping (original pressings of the second New York Dolls LP AND PiL's Flowers Of Romance, YES!), a midnight show at the KILLER Spectacle Theater, a trip to Coney Island for a Nathan's Famous, and a few moments of clarity in a garden on top of a seventeen story building, I'm back and proud to present Random Old Records Podcast #37, which also happens to be the third anniversary show!

Yep, I've been doing this podcast for a solid three years now and it might seem easy, but it can get hard as hell to scour the bins and blogs for a monthly hour of fresh jams sometimes. Luckily, the fall has coughed up a whole bunch of sizzling slabs that I can't stop spinning, and the springboard was a killer weeknight show at local dive The Comet, featuring Davila 666, Jacuzzi Boys, and Barreracudas. You'll hear a track from each band on this episode, kicking off with Davila's modern classic "El Lobo." Elsewhere, there's bubblegum-catchy glammy power pop punk junk from Italy's Giuda, Bare Wires, Video, and White Faces, another track from the AMAZING new Strange Boys LP (the best American rock n' roll band since the Replacements, for real), dark mysterious pop from Captured Tracks heroes Blouse and The Soft Moon, noisy Ramones worship from Terry Malts, noisy 90s slacker-rock worship from Heavy Times, and a whole helluva lot MORE!

I know that I say it every time a new episode comes out, but seriously, THANK YOU for reading this blog and listening to the podcast! Whether you've been here since the beginning, or just found this site while searching for Mediafire links to the new Bad Sports LP or whatever and decided that REAL old school music writing still had merit in 2011, I'm glad you came along for the ride. Every time I think about quitting and settling into old age and complacency, my mind is blown by another bunch of kids with guitars and the cycle starts all over again. If going to the Norton bash taught me anything, it's that real, passionate rock n' roll still pokes through the cracks in this monolith of Internet cultural saturation every once in awhile, and it's no less vital than it was back in whatever time and place you decide is THE DAY. Hope you dig episode #37, and here's to three more years!

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Random Old Records Podcast #37
Released 11/15/2011
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1. Davila 666 - "El Lobo"

(Davila 666, In The Red 2011)

2. The Strange Boys - "Punk's Pyjamas"

(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)

3. Bare Wires - "Ain't Worth Walkin' Away"

(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)

4. White Faces - "Star Of Bright"

(White Faces, Windian 2011)

5. The Barreracudas - "Don't Roll Your Eyes"

(Nocturnal Missions, Douchemaster 2011)

6. Giuda - "Don't Stop Rockin'"

(Racey Roller, Dead Beat 2011)

--record collectors suck.

7. The Penetrators - "Gotta Have Her"

(Gotta Have Her 7", Windian 2011)

8. Heavy Times - "Let It Die"

(Jacker, HoZac 2011)

9. Terry Malts - "Something About You"

(Something About You 7", Slumberland 2011)

10. Bad Sports - "Can't Just Be Friends"

(Kings Of The Weekend, Dirtnap 2011)

11. Video - "Eyes"

(Leather Leather, Play Pinball 2011)

12. Spider Fever - "Back To You"

(She's No Saint 7", Cave Punk 2011)

--muscleheads on a muscle beach.

13. Jacuzzi Boys - "Cool Vapors"

(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)

14. Reading Rainbow - "White Noise"

(Prism Eyes, HoZac 2010)

15. Super Wild Horses - "Enigma"

(Fifteen, HoZac 2010)

16. Bad Banana - "Teleport Tonight"

(Cry About It, Puzzle Pieces 2011)

17. Colleen Green - "Jesse Has A New Girl"

(Cujo, AF 2011)

--Bob Ross, just painting some trees. NBD.

18. Half String - "Evergreen"

(Tripped Up Breathing, Independent Projects 1994)

19. The Soft Moon - "Alive"

(Total Decay, Captured Tracks 2011)

20. Blouse - "They Always Fly Away"

(Blouse, Captured Tracks 2011)

21. Wax Idols - "Grey Area"

(No Future, HoZac 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #36

Woah, is it really October already?! Judging by the clock at the bottom right of my computer screen and the flannel shirt wrapped around my torso, it must be. Where has all the time gone? It seems like April was only a few minutes ago, and now the year is damn near over. I've been to a bunch of shows, crossed a couple of folks off my live bucket list (New York Dolls, Wanda Jackson), and spent probably a few grand on records, and what do I have to show for it? Slightly more damaged eardrums and a whole buncha physical media that will be a real pain in the ass to lift if I ever move into a new place, I reckon. Seriously though, 2011 might have already topped 2010 as one of the best music years since the mid-90s, and it's not over yet!

Random Old Records Podcast #36 is out now, and it's loaded with just over an hour of jams, starting off with the raging opening salvo from Let's Wrestle's new LP, "In Dreams Part II." It sounds so much like the aforementioned mid-90s that you'd swear that 15+ years of godawful over-produced mainstream rock didn't kill good music after all and that the kids really and truly are alright. The kids really ARE alright, even though their space phone zombie walks and Twitter posts suggest otherwise. Forget about the waves of whiny bedroom folk and trendy corporate "garage rock" wannabes, there's real and VITAL rock n' roll still being cranked out by the truckload all over the world. No better example can be found than the second track on this here podcast, a sizzling blast from the brand new 10" LP from smooth punk titans Bare Wires, who continue their unparalleled streak of insta-classic bangers with "Sweet Little Stranger." That nasty fuzz and snarling vocal might just lift you out of your plush computer chair, Mr. Internet cynic!

Elsewhere, you'll hear the lead-off single from the Strange Boys' highly anticipated new LP out in a few weeks, which finds the Austin garage rockers moving even closer to that Exile On Main Street vibe, another perfect 80s pop jam from the new Dum Dum Girls album, some delightfully evil synth punk from Swedish noise terrorists Black Bug, a fuzzed-out Beach Boys homage from Moonhearts mainman Mikal Cronin's debut solo nod on Trouble In Mind, some obnoxious analog oscillations from California's Blasted Canyons, some dusty reverb rock from Texas teenagers Fungi Girls, and a catchy beach-pop latecomer from the former Mika Miko members in Bleached. Random Old Records #36 finishes up with 18 or so minutes of classic mid-90s indie rock from Material Issue, Hazel, The Spinanes, and Sebadoh, who I'll be glad to cross off that live show bucket list in a couple weeks. Bakesale was released 17 years ago, and if that's not enough to make a guy feel old, I don't know what does. In between the tracks, you’ll hear a series of spooky inserts from “Death Of A Doll,” an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries originally aired October 18th, 1948. Right in time for Halloween, it will send a chill up your back!

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Random Old Records #36
Released 10/12/2011
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1. Let's Wrestle - "In Dreams Part II"

(Nursing Home, Merge 2011)

2. Bare Wires - "Sweet Little Stranger"

(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)

3. Fungi Girls - "Honey Face"

(Some Easy Magic, HoZac 2011)

4. Mikal Cronin - "Get Along"

(Mikal Cronin, Trouble In Mind 2011)

5. The Ketamines - "Line By Line"

(Line By Line 7", HoZac 2011)

6. The Wrong Words - "Summer's Gone"

(The Wrong Words, Trouble In Mind, 2011)

7. XRay Eyeballs - "Big Toe"

(Not Nothing, Kanine 2011)

--Death Of A Doll

8. The Strange Boys - "Me And You"

(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)

9. Colleen Green - "Green One"

(Green One, Hardly Art 2011)

10. Black Bug - "Shard Of Glass"

(Police Helicopter 7", HoZac 2011)

11. Blasted Canyons - "Death And A Half"

(Blasted Canyons, Castleface 2011)

12. Burning Itch - "Dead End Street"

(Burning Itch, Tic Tac Totally 2011)

13. Wax Museums - "Mosquito Enormo"

(Eye Times, Trouble In Mind 2011)

--Death Of A Doll, Part 2

14. Dum Dum Girls - "Heartbeat"

(Only In Dreams, Sub Pop 2011)

15. The Pretenders - "Wait"

(The Pretenders, Sire 1980)

16. Bleached - "Think Of You"

(Carter 7", AF 2011)

17. The Spinanes - "Noel, Jonah, and Me"

(Manos, Sub Pop 1993)

18. Hazel - "Blank Florida"

(Are You Going To Eat That?, Sub Pop 1995)

--Death Of A Doll, Part 3

19. Material Issue - "A Very Good Thing"

(Freak City Soundtrack, Polygram 1994)

20. The Figgs - "Favorite Shirt"

(Low-Fi At Society High, Imago 1994)

21. Sebadoh - "Rebound"

(Bakesale, Sub Pop 1994)

22. Unrest - "Make Out Club"

(Perfect Teeth, 4AD 1993)

Random Old Records Podcast #35

Yeah dude, EPISODE #35 of Random Old Records is finished, fresh off my hard drive to yours, and this one is chock-full of jams! Not only that, but this time around there's no dance pop. Yep, 100% dance pop free! It kicks off with a track from Vancouver's Dead Ghosts, who put out one of the best rock n' roll debut albums I've heard in a long time earlier this year. It sounds like a bunch of degenerate punk kids who grew up on beat-up vinyl copies of early Stones records. A few minutes later, there's a tune from the upcoming second Dum Dum Girls record on Sub Pop, and Dee Dee Dum Dum has morphed into a master of the pop song. "Bedroom Eyes" sounds straight outta 1985, a simpler time when songs that still resembled rock n' roll made it onto pop radio. It sounds like the love song from a classic big-budget 80s flick, and just try to make it through without getting that chorus stuck in your head. It's impossible!

Elsewhere, I dig deep into my bank of classic tunes and pull out stuff by Big Star, The Raspberries, Captain Beefheart, Thee Headcoats, and Louis Jordan. Plus, you'll hear a set of original punk rock from The Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Rezillos, and a sprinkling of newer tracks by Jacuzzi Boys, Bare Wires, Fungi Girls, and Missing Monuments. Hot DAMN! Nestled deep in the playlist, you'll find a track from The Streys, a bunch of kids from the Cleveland suburbs who cranked out a few singles of hammer-dumb 60s garage punk before disappearing forever. It all wraps up with "Since You've Gone" by Spanky And Our Gang, one of the most dazzling displays of psychedelic vocal harmony I've ever heard.

All in all, this is one of the best episodes of Random Old Records I've put together in awhile, so go to the normal locations and download it right away! There's lots of loud guitars, simplistic hooks, and plenty of "hell yeah!" moments to be had. It's a perfect soundtrack for jumping around your room for like an hour!

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Random Old Records Podcast #35
Released 09/13/2011
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1. Dead Ghosts - "When It Comes To You"
(Dead Ghosts, Florida's Dying 2011)
2. Bare Wires - "I Lie Awake"
(Artificial Clouds, Tic Tac Totally 2009)
3. Jacuzzi Boys - "Crush"
(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)
4. Fungi Girls - "Thanks For Following, Love Yoko"
(Denton Denton USA!, Play Pinball 2010)
5. Dum Dum Girls - "Bedroom Eyes"
(Only In Dreams, Sub Pop 2011)
6. The Rifles - "Local Boy"
(No Love Lost, Red Ink 2006)
--The kinda woman they write books about.
7. Louis Jordan - "Caldonia"
(No Moe! Louis Jordan's Greatest Hits, MCA 1992)
8. The Ramones - "Cretin Hop"
(Rocket To Russia, Sire 1978)
9. Stiff Little Fingers - "No More Of That"
(Inflammable Material, Rough Trade 1979)
10. The Rezillos - "No"
(Can't Stand The Rezillos, Sire 1978)
11. The Weirdos - "Solitary Confinement"
(Weird World Vol. 1, Frontier 1993)
--Good times...
12. King Tuff - "Connection"
(Was Dead, The Colonel 2008)
13. Missing Monuments - "Painted White"
(Painted White, Douchemaster 2011)
14. Big Star - "Way Out West"
(Radio City, Stax 1974)
15. Raspberries - "Every Way I Can"
(Fresh, Capitol 1972)
16. Thee Headcoats - "No Way Out"
(Heavens To Murgatroyd, Sub Pop 1992)
17. Len Price 3 - "Chinese Burn"
(Chinese Burn, Wicked Cool 2007)
18. The Nightcrawlers - "Little Black Egg"
(Nuggets, Rhino 1998)
--Zappa does Allen
19. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - "Zig Zag Wanderer"
(Safe As Milk, Buddah 1967)
20. The Streys - "She Cools My Mind"
(Psychedelic States: Ohio In The 60s, Vol.3, Gear Fab 2000)
21. Brenda Lee - "Is It True"
(One Kiss Can Lead To Another, Rhino 2005)
22. Jail Weddings - "One Of These Days"
(Love Is Lawless, White Noise 2010)
23. Spanky and Our Gang - "Since You've Gone"
(Without Rhyme Or Reason, Mercury 1968)

Random Old Records Podcast #34

So yeah, Random Old Records Podcast has been coming out like clockwork every second Wednesday of the month for like a year or so now, but my plans got derailed in the last few days. I had the playlist finalized on Sunday, then came home from work on Monday to find that my computer had taken a dump. LAME! After a couple hours of shopping online and several more hours of staring at progress bars, I had a brand new machine loaded with jams and cracked software and whatnot, so here's Random Old Records Podcast #34, approximately a day late and eight hundred dollars short. It's got roughly an hour of my favorite songs from the past month, and I'm hoping at least some of you faithful readers and listeners will enjoy them, too.

Last month, I spoke a bit about being bored with new music, and judging by the stuff coming out lately, it seems like bands across the land are feeling the same way. My ears have gotten burned out by listening to nothing but lo-fi garage rock for awhile, and after hearing like fifty bands dealing in sounds of the sixties and seventies, the only logical place to go is the eighties. I just can't get down with all those sweater-vested weiners aping Talking Heads, but bands ripping off Depeche Mode, The Smiths, and The Cure get an immediate pass in my book. So this episode features a ton of classic tracks from the eighties by The Sound, The Comsat Angels, and Morrissey's band, along with songs by The Fresh And Onlys, Voxtrot, and Pernice Brothers that remind me of that post-punk time when bands slowed down and got all jangly and noisy and weird.

Speaking of new music and old music, Captured Tracks has become my favorite label of the last few months. On this episode, you'll hear tunes from Soft Metals, Widowspeak, and Hoop Dreams, which bring back the sounds of the late eighties so perfectly that listening to their records might put you into a time warp. If you like dark dance, gothic country, or nervy college kid pop, then you're gonna love this stuff as much as I do. That Mike Sniper guy has a singular vision for his label that rivals Tony Wilson in his prime. Believe it!

If you're a bit confused and are thinking "Well damn, I started listening to Random Old Records because it has a bunch of crazy garage rock n' roll jams every month" then I've got you covered, too. Random Old Records #34 finishes up with the best feral garage pop I've heard in the past month from the new Black Lips LP, The Happy Thoughts, Apache Dropout, and more! This one goes all over the place and back again, and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I had putting it together!

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Random Old Records #34
Released 08/11/2011
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1. Tommy James and The Shondells - "Crimson And Clover"
(Crimson And Clover, Roulette 1968)
2. The Sound - "Winning"
(From The Lion's Mouth, Korova 1981)
3. The Comsat Angels - "Independence Day"
(Waiting For A Miracle, Polydor 1980)
4. Hoop Dreams - "XCPR"
(XCPR 7", Captured Tracks 2011)
--Forbidden World.
5. Soft Metals - "The Cold World Melts"
(Soft Metals, Captured Tracks 2011)
6. Zombi - "Slow Oscillations"
(Escape Velocity, Relapse 2011)
7. Peaking Lights - "Key Sparrow"
(936, Not Not Fun 2011)
8. Widowspeak - "In The Pines"
(Widowspeak, Captured Tracks 2011)
--The Mozzer speaks!
9. Pernice Brothers - "7:30"
(The World Won't End, Ashmont 2001)
10. Voxtrot - "Raised By Wolves"
(Raised By Wolves, Cult Hero 2005)
11. The Smiths - "Sheila Take A Bow"
(Louder Than Bombs, Sire 1987)
12. The Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall"
(Play It Strange, In The Red 2010)
--Amy Winehouse, 27, etc.
13. Black Lips - "New Direction"
(Arabia Mountain, Vice 2011)
14. The Happy Thoughts - "One More Fish"
(The Happy Thougts, Hozac 2011)
15. The People's Temple - "Axe Man"
(Sons Of Stone, Hozac 2011)
16. Apache Dropout - "Sister Burnout"
(Shot Down 7", Trouble In Mind 2011)
17. Ty Segall - "My Head Explodes"
(Goodbye Bread, Drag City 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #33

Summer, summer, summertime! I threw this one together at the last minute, but I think I did a pretty good job of capturing the mood of this lazy, hazy, hot July. Random Old Records Podcast #33 drifts by in a dreamy blur of psychedelic moods, shimmering reverb guitar, and loping dance beats, with a mix of new and old tracks. If you're one of those people who are melting in this punishing 100+ degree heatwave rocking the midwest, and just want to sit around in a dark room getting lifted all day, this is the podcast for you!

Episode #33 kicks off with the all-time classic opening medley from the debut LP by The Soft Machine, a towering groove filled with stunning drums from Robert Wyatt, screeching organs, and slow-burning instrumental fury, and goes into some screaming garage psych from The Night Beats and Thee Oh Sees, then a Brit-psych style workout from The Paperhead, who put out one of the best LPs of the year on Trouble In Mind a few months back. I've been raving about them ever since, and now I'm SUPER-PUMPED that they're playing a free show at one of the best new venues in Cincinnati, MOTR Pub, on July 27th. If you're anywhere close, come check it out! Also, check out the perfect lo-fi 60s psych vibe of Jeffrey Novak on this episode of Random Old Records. He just so happens to be the producer of The Paperhead LP, and will be guesting on keyboards on their tour. Sweet deal!

Elsewhere, you'll hear dreamy electronic-psych tracks from Washed Out, Hype Williams, and Black Moth Super Rainbow, and more chill jams from the likes of Pure X (AWESOME new LP), Seapony, Sic Alps, White Fence, Blouse, and Kelley Stoltz. There's classic tracks from The Kinks and Matching Mole, plus a few more surprises to round things out. Hopefully y'all dig it! There's some of my favorite songs of the year on this thing, so check it out and let me know what you think. Enjoy your summer, folks!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Come back next month (or so) for another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!



Random Old Records #33
Released 07/13/2011
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1. The Soft Machine - "Hope For Happiness/Joy Of A Toy/Hope For Happiness (Reprise)"
(The Soft Machine, ABC/Probe 1968)
2. Night Beats - "Hallucinojenny"
(Night Beats, Trouble In Mind 2011)
3. Thee Oh Sees - "Corrupted Coffin"
(Castlemania, In The Red 2011)
4. The Paperhead - "Back To Those Days"
(The Paperhead, Trouble In Mind 2011)
5. Pure X - "Voices"(Pleasure, Acephale 2011)
--Searching for the perfect wave.
6. Matching Mole - "O Caroline"
(Matching Mole, CBS 1972)
7. Blouse - "Shadow"
(Shadow 7", Sub Pop 2011)
8. Seapony - "So Low"
(Go With Me, Hardly Art 2011)
9. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Moody Day"
(Extra Flavor, Graveface 2011)
10. Hype Williams - "Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior"
(One Nation, Hippos In Tanks 2011)
11. Washed Out - "Echoes"
(Within And Without, Sub Pop 2011)
--Owlsley blue, British dudes, etc.
12. Kelley Stoltz - "Please Visit Soon"
(Antique Glow, Jackpine Social Club 2004)
13. Sic Alps - "Cement Surfboard"
(Napa Asylum, Drag City 2011)
14. White Fence - "Art Investor Collector"
(Is Growing Faith, Woodsist 2010)
15. Jeffrey Novak - "Queen Of Moods"
(After The Ball, LMN Recordings 2009)
16. The Kinks - "People Take Pictures Of Each Other"
(Village Green Preservation Society, Reprise 1968)
17. The Go - "Caroline"
(Howl On The Haunted Beat You Ride, Cass 2007)