The Little Lighthouse

I have a killer bluesy roots rock update for you today, featuring a collaboration between Boston’s GA-20 and the Memphis legend Charley Musselwhite. We also have new tunes from Van Morrison and Tinsley Ellis. We introduce Laurence Jones from Liverpool, Lonesome Shack and Laura Chavez from California, Studebaker John from Chicago, Theo Sieben and Kyle … Continue reading Flashlite #897 →

Quarter century ago 91.1 KLSU FM in Baton Rouge allowed me to impose my musical taste to the local audience every Saturday morning. A few months ago I got in touch with one of the KLSU Saturday DJs, Mike the Distortionist who has a cool radio show called The Fuzz on the current KLSU schedule. … Continue reading KLSU Collaboration and Interview →

A variety of catchy tunes today. If you were around in the late 80s, maybe you remember one of the most original Americana bands Souled American from Chicago. They disappeared in the 90s and now they are back. Cleveland’s own Doug Gillard is back with excellent new solo record. Graham Winchester from Memphis, formerly of … Continue reading Flashlite #896 →

A nice show today with the folks we know well. We have Rosali with her new single, new Australian giants Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Muck and the Mires from Boston, and Tony Molina teams up with Rachel Orimo in a cover of a legendary Nico song. Two Headed is a new collaboration of Kurt Dräckes … Continue reading Flashlite #895 →

Today we have an garage rock update with excellent new tunes and killer oldies. Lots of new introductions. We have Big Boss Man from UK, Femur and La Perra Blanco from Spain, Linnea’s Garden from Boston, Fret Rattles from Minneapolis, The Jukeez and Crater Shakes from Canada, Daffodil Pill from Wroc?aw, Poland, The Jackets from … Continue reading Flashlite #894 →

Tonight we knock on the doors of the masters of the past. Lots of well known established artists have new tunes. We hear the new single of The Godfathers from London, new song from a brand new album by the paisley legends The Long Ryders, Georgia southern rockers Drivin N Cryin, Australian legend Dom Mariani … Continue reading Flashlite #893 →

Power pop udate today with the newest hits by Brad Marino from Rochester, Ruby Rogers-Garcia and The Clumsy Dollies and The On and Ons from Australia. Hedge Burners, also from Australia are put together from the former members of Boomgates, Dick Diver and Stiff Richards. King Tuff is back with the new album and so … Continue reading Flashlite #892 →

Yu rock update today with the latest music by Let 3 from Rijeka, Etoric Biljan and His Heretics from Zagreb and SIZ from Kumanovo. Legendary guitarist of Yu Grupa and Terusi, Miodrag Bata Kostic is back with his new band Putnici. Prkos Drumski sets music to Vasko Popa’s poetry over in Novi Sad. Skotni Vrag … Continue reading Flashlite #891 →

We check out the new tunes by Daniel Romano, The Lemon Twigs and Josephine Network. Our good friends Shake Some over in Bordeaux France are back with their new single. We also hear Glimmer Stars, a band for Mini Mendez who we heard a few weeks earlier for the first time. Lande Hekt used to … Continue reading Flashlite #890 →

We check out the latest on the independent rock scene across the globe. The literal kings of the scene are in today with the new stuff: Osees. We also check in with Helicon over in UK who collaborated with the Los Angeles DJ Al Lover on the new proj. Hey Colossus are in from the … Continue reading Flashlite #889 →

XCSB will occasionally post filler shows when other DJs don’t show up. My Krautrock and my mix of Macedonian Dark Wave from the late 80s aired so far. You can hear them here and here. And playlists are below. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helicopter String Quartet Novalis - Zingaresca Octopus - The Delayable Rise of Glib Faust … Continue reading Planet Boredom @ XCSB →

On March 30th a special edition of the new XCSB jazz program aired my mix of Yugoslav jazz. This is the playlist and you can hear it here. Two excerpts from the unreleased soundtrack for The Written Off by Milivoje Mica Markovic and Belgrade Big Band Krizanke 73, by Joze Privsek and Ljubljana Big Band … Continue reading Brewing Luminous @ XCSB →

Hard rock update today with no less than two new projects coined by Scott Wino Wienrich (ex Saint Vitus and The Obsessed), a solo album and an album with the new band Ritual Arcana where he joined forces with Sharlee Luckyfree from Moth and Oakley Munson from Black Lips. We introduce Borracho from Washington DC, … Continue reading Flashlite #888 →

International Psych update today with new music for Wytches in UK and our long time friends Special Pillow from Hoboken NJ. We’ve been playing them for over two decades intermittently and here they are with a new tune. We have two bands from Germany contributing cool tunes: Kadaver from Berlin, and Liquid Orbit from Bremen. … Continue reading Flashlite #887 →

A few fresh international neo-new-wave tunes today. We start off with Sweet Reaper from Ventura, CA, then hear Hot Face and Dry Cleaning from UK, Golden Hours and DBR in Germany, American Lips from Montreal, Belgrado from Poland/Spain. The colors of the US flag are defended by Lifequard from Chicago. We also check out a … Continue reading Flashlite #886 →

We have new music from Sick Shooters consisting of young punks from Netherlands. Die Verlierer from Berlin Germany are here with a new single. We also cover some ground on the Turkish scene with new albums by Altin Gun and a new name for use Eve Dönüs Yok. Wowrmstew come from California and consist of … Continue reading Flashlite #885 →

Special announcement first: starting next week, Little Lighthouse will be broadcasted as a part of the new XCSB. XCSB is launching on Sunday and until then, we’re still here. And we’re staying here no matter what. We have a few new tunes. Rocked Bureau from Madison, WI has a new EP, Arbor Labor Union from … Continue reading Flashlite #884 →