Robert Pollard, Sunny & The Sunliners, Savage Necromancy

I was going over my Mixcloud archives and realized I'm achieving what I've been wanting to do without realizing, establishing a rotation of songs and bands in the fashion of the radio I grew up with. I love there's so many music podcasts and internet music stations, and of course terrestial college stations and WFMU -- and don't forget my new favorite internet streaming station, KPISS.FM -- playing music I appreciate. The Radio Garden app is a must, I gotta tell ya. There's so much content, you could never hear the same song, even the same band, twice.

I like to hear new stuff, but I also like to hear the same cool stuff over and over, so that'll be my focus with my KPISS.FM show (every other Saturday at 5PM EST). I learned with my previous CNQ podcast that it's real easy to only play new or new-to-me stuff, because there's so much of it. But a lot of bands and singles I hear deserve to be repeated, so I'm going to do so.

Uncle Bob got a re-mastered release of an older album out:

There's a Sunny and the Sunliners best of out, Volume 2. You see a lot of Sunny and the Sunliners 45s down here. San Antonio legend:

Here's the first volume of Mr. Brown Eyed Soul:

Black metal from Phoneix!

CNQ35

Big long year-end show. Space disco and afro-funk from the 1970s, a little classic soul from the 60s,
and rock'n'roll of all stripes, mostly new stuff from this year on bandcamp. Listen/dl from the embed
above, or iTunes, or any fine podcast app.

Meco: “Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk Side 1” (Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk,
Millennium, 1977)

Don Bruce and the Angels: “Sugar Baby” (Nigeria Soul Power 70, Soul Jazz Records, 2017)

Gouge Away: “Sweat” (Swallow b/w Sweat 7”, Secret Voice, 2017)

Downtown Boys: “Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas)” (Cost of Living, Sub-Pop, 2017)

Mulligrub: “Canadian Classic” (Soft Grudge, 2016)

Martin Månsson Sjöstrand: “The Sun Is A Playground” (Wonderland Wins, 2017)

This Heel: “Mars About To Leave” (E.P., 2015)

Big Heet: “Flint” (On A Wire, Exploding In Sound Records, 2017)

Hip Shakes: “Shot” (Shot/Samba single, Nerve Centre Records, 2017)

Rat Motel: “Dog” (Dog Digital Single, 2017)

Chronic Anxiety: “City Lumberjack” (Faxed, 2017)  

Copa Turbo: “My Car” (Pruébalo antes de Masturbarte, 2017)

Jan and Dean: “Mr. Freeze” (Jan and Dean Meet Batman, Liberty, 1966)

The Ventures: “Telstar” (The Ventures Play Telstar, The Lonely Bull, Dolton Records, 1962)

Otis Redding: “Try A Little Tenderness (Live)” (The Stax/Volt Revue Live in Paris, Stax, 1967)

The Bordellos: “Fuckable” (Life, Love, and Billy Fury, Recordiau Prin, 2017)

Spud And The Blood: “Sad Boi” (Spud and the Blood, Abnormal Broadcasting, 2017)

Mala Leche: “Mareos” (Cassingle, 2017)

Bib: “The Face” (The Face, 2017)

HÄRDA UT: “Gå På Stan” (S/T, 2017)

Jesus Chris and the Beetles: “I’m A Happy Guy” (Trickle Down, 2017)

Pale Kids: “Prayer List” (Holy Mess, Frux Tapes, 2017)

Couleur Dessin: “Find Me Easily” (Couleur Dessin, Fixture Records, 2017)

Freak Genes: “Still Disgusting” (Playtime LP, Alien Snatch!, 2017)

Diet Cig: “Blob Zombie” (Swear I’m Good At This, Father Daughter Records, 2017)

The Rubs: “Wrong Right Girl” (Impossible Dream LP, HoZac Records, 2017)

Dead Arms: “Give Me Shelter” (4 Track Masters EP, 2017)

C.A.P.: “Gimme That” (Making America Hate Again, 2017)

Glue: “Hammered Down” (S/T MLP, La Vida Es Un Mus, 2017)

JACKAL: “Disguise” (Demo, 2017)

Skrew Eyez: “Song Number Two” (Hospital Socks, 2017)

The Drew Thomson Foundation: “Psychic g/f”
(The Drew Thomson Foundation Vol 1: Huh, It’s Generally Pretty Empty In Here, 2017)

Flux of Pink Indians: “Tube Disaster” (Neu Smell, Crass Records, 1981)

35 Denton Festival 2016: Saturday

Some bands and such you might want to check out on Saturday, if you're up there:

Folk rock from Akron:

Rock'n'roll from Denton:

Fun punk...from Monaco!?!

Post-punk from Houston:

This is an old video/song and the sound is pretty low, but Cornhole should be cool to catch. Their album "Hornswoggled" is on Google Play Music so probably on Spotify too; worth checking out:

From Monroe, Louisiana, one man band who, according to the bandcamp page, wears an alligator mask and plays with three inanimate objects. Here's a song he wrote about Slayer's Jeff Hanneman:

Shoegazey alt from Brooklyn:

Pretty tune from Argentina:

Singer song-writer rocker from Denton:

Relaxed indie pop from Denton:

Grungey rock'n'roll from Beaumont, Texas:

Bluesy alt-rock from Fort Lauderdale:

More rock'n'roll, this from New York:

Indie rock from Dallas:

This is what's up -- KBD-esque punk from Denton:

I'm into this electro-punk from California:

Finally, soul from Brooklyn:

Whew! That's not near all the bands playing on Saturday, just the ones that appealed to me.

All New Vinyl Releases From Bandcamp

All of these tracks are on recently released vinyl you can order on Bandcamp. I should say more often but I think with the amount I post from it it's implied: Bandcamp is the best site on the Internet, if you love new music. Usually I focus on the punk releases but for 2016 I want to branch out a little, ya know?

From a British label called Muj, I assume Matt Love is British as well. This hip-hop was put up on Bandcamp yesterday and you can order a 7" featuring this song and the instrumental from the page:

Twee-Soul from Salt Lake City:

In the same vein, from Portugal:

Melodic indie pop from Philly:

You can pre-order this two song flexi from Euro-label Slimer Records. Psychomagic is from LA and the laid-back, cool-ass instrumental second track is from Italy:

Finally, this December release from Barcelona's Nueva Fuerza isn't available on vinyl but it's cool hardcore nonetheless...here's the whole EP, clocks in around 10 minutes or under:

Catching Up On December Releases: Hardcore Punk, Powerviolence, Peruvian Psych, and a 60s Soul Re-Issue

This covers the first 10 or so days of the best December releases from Bandcamp artists and labels I follow. Let's start with an excellent new 60s soul/funk 7" re-issue from Germany's Tramp Records. Sid Wallace was from St. Louis:

NYC HC from Toxic State records. The Grave Mistake Records update calls this self titled 5-song 7" "essential." Check it out:

California HC. Whole 11 song album is killer, but here's just one track:

The UK's Mind Ripper Collective has this split between powerviolence acts Endless Swarm (from Edinburgh) and Dallas' Pavel Chekov available as pay what thou wilt. Here's the whole dang thing, clocks in maybe even a little under 10 minutes:

More groovy Peruvian neo-psych from Kanaku Y El Tigre and Tiger's Milk Records:

CNQ 2015 Retrospective

I'll be coming up with faves from the year's posts here shortly. Meanwhile, I had a lot of favorite other things this year, and this 30 Rock clip sums them up.

Bully's Feels Like is my favorite album of the year.

I became openly reggae and got big into dub and rocksteady. Check out The Upsetters' "Super Ape." Totally rad.

I discovered 19th-early 20th century composer Erik Satie's Gymnopédies.

I loved Tom Holkenborg's Mad Max: Fury Road score. I listened to his Black Mass score the other night and it's also good. Music scores in general are a new thing for me. I have never had a taste for them until recently.

The new Faith No More, Sol Invictus, was really good.

I like the Leon Bridges album.

The Lil Bub album "Science and Magic" might be the last great album of 2015.

Protomartyr's The Agent Intellect is top notch.

I recently discovered these next few. Johnny Burnette is amazing o.g. rockabilly. Some really raw, rockin' songs. This one is a little more kitschy:

The Vibrators are amazing o.g. punk. Here's the complete Peel Sessions.

Bluesman Tommy Johnson. The band Canned Heat got their name from this song:

Hollywood session man/jazz guitarist Howard Roberts. This is a cut from his excellent 1959 album, Good Pickin's.

Quick Blast of October Releases

Tonight I'll catch up a little more on new October releases from CNQ regulars, and hopefully do one more new releases post this week to get caught up before an upcoming special Halloween post from an old record.

This is from a new live EP from Swedish alt-rockers and CNQ fave Dog, Paper, Submarine, and Manx label Small Bear Records:

Dallas' own self-professed greatest emcee in the world has a new digital album available for $10 on bandcamp. We caught this cat live a few months ago, opening for Kool Keith and DJ Q-Bert, and he was really impressive. After you finish listening to the rest of the songs here you can go listen to the whole We Buy Gold album over at relevantmagazine.com.

Rippin' two song hardcore punk digital release from Spain's Orden Mundial and London label La Vida Es Un Mus Discos:

More punk rock from Dutch band Placebotox:

Rad 7" 1960s soul re-issue from Germany's Tramp Records:

New Texan hip-hop y noise rock; HC punk from Italy, Chicago, and New York; a new 70s funk/soul compilation from Tramp Records.

HC hip-hop from Houston. Cool video too:

New noise rock from Denton, Texas:

HC punk from Italy:

Label Randy Records and band The Yolks are both from Chicago:

Here's two new full albums, courtesy bandcamp:

New York lady-punks, all in Portuguese. I listened to all of this today, it's rad. They've gotten some press from the Village Voice and Stereogum, much cooler than CNQ:

CNQ's favorite German re-issue label Tramp Records has this compilation, "Praise Poems 2- A journey into deep, soulful jazz & funk from the 1970s," available in various formats. Very groovy:

Internet Blaster

Two weeks after I began my ambitious new money making scheme, a blog for strictly new music, "Ear Baby," I am tonight shutting it down and going back to strictly CNQ for my 45 RPM posts and new stuff I come across on the Internet. Trying to figure out how to turn a dime on a music blog wasn't fun to think about. CNQ is fun because it's my hobby. Not the first project I began abruptly and ended just as quick - not the last. In the meantime expect more of what you've come to expect from CNQ - quick mixes of new music for my work desk, and obscure 45s of various quality I come across, all posted when I feel like it.

So here's the new stuff I've shared on Ear Baby in the past couple of weeks, in case you missed it. I'm not dedicated enough to go back in and put in the hyperlinks to the labels and whatnot I'd linked to in the Ear Baby posts, so just imagine they're there.

Two new hardcore tracks from Brisbane's Naked Noise Records. The label says they're about to release a promotional tape for Choke's Left with Nothing LP, due out later this year.

Atlanta's Chunklet Records has this 12" split available on clear vinyl, from London's Part Chimp and Miami's Torche. Apparently Part Chimp is breaking up and this is their last Stateside release. They have two pretty heavy, five minute-ish songs on the split. Torche covers three Guided By Voices songs. It's really odd, I just heard this today, and just last night I ordered a used CD copy of Propeller/Vampire On Titus, GBV's 5th and 6th album together on one CD. Two of the three covers are from Propeller. The 12" has cool cover art too:

I've been on a bit of an 80th goth kick so this new gothy punk from Australia and Costa Mesa's Mass Media Records sits well with me. Available on colored vinyl:

Mid-70s soul/funk re-issue from Tramp Records:

Cool new French garage from France's Frantic City Records:

More new deutschpunk from German hardcore label Terrortubbies Tontrager:

Straightforward punk from Knoxville. New 10 track album available for dl on bancamp. I like this:

LoVeMuscLe is Lisa Preston and Sir Froderick. Laid back breakbeat with female vocal, what's not to groove to? Originally released back in 2011, this 7 track album is now available for dl on bandcamp:

The wife and I caught Baltimore's War on Women a couple of weekends ago at Spillover Fest in the D and they blew us away, a feat all the more impressive since it was noon on a Sunday and we had not yet begun to drink. Bridge Nine Records put out their 11 track debut album back in February. Radical agitprop fourth wave feminism. Buy the LP from Bridge Nine here. Highly recommended:

They've got a new video too:

Yesterday Twerp Records released this 8-song 45 from Boston punks 2x4. It's their first vinyl effort and you can order it here. Back in November, fellow music blogger Cut & Paste shared the band's 4 song demo, which features the two songs streaming below ("Survive the Mess" and "Lost In Terror") plus two more. Pretty cool hc.

I've been enjoying this new album from Chicago's Broken Prayer. A mix of hardcore with some Devo-esque synth. Available on cassette or green vinyl from Sorry State Records:

If you're into hc and haven't done so already, also check out Gay Kiss' Preservation Measures and Dark Ages' Vapor LPs, both available through Sorry State.

Grave Mistake Records is taking pre-orders for Red Death's Permanent Exile LP, which will be released April 21. The band will also be going on a U.S. tour with UK's The Flex. It's packed with shows all over the country, click the Red Death embed below for those dates:

Also on April 21, Negative Fun Records will be releasing this all female garage punk EP from Philly:

Germany's Sabotage Records has LP previews for these more straightforward punk acts. The first is another all female band, this one from Portland:

...and these guys are from Singapore:

Rounding out this batch from my favorite German labels, Germany's re-issue crazy Tramp Records has just put out their third 45 single collection of rare and obscure funk, soul, and r&b tracks from like, yesteryear:

LA's Recess Records has recently posted this on their bandcamp page, from recently defunct SoCal punkers Summer Vacation, 3/4's of which now operate as Winter Break. As Winter Break, they got press from the A.V. Club the other day. That's big time, good job guys:

I'm a little late to the table on this cassette comp of Australian acts, released in January and already sold out (You can still support 'em with $5 for a digital dl). I recently heard and really like this song. I've also very recently learned the curative properties of retail therapy, so it, ya know, speaks to me, man:

Cool new scuzzy-fied garage rock from Richmond, VA. The Nervous Ticks have a $5 cassette, "Skynet," that should be ready to ship around April 6. Or you can get it now digitally for $2 via bandcamp. Enjoy:

Lloyd Price: "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" b/w "Little Volcano" (Lloyd Price's Turntable, TT-509, 1969)

In April 1952 Specialty Records (who would release Little Richard's Tutti Fruitti three years later) released Lawdy Miss Clawdy. The single spent seven weeks at the number one spot on the Billboard R&B chart, and was named R&B Record of the Year by Billboard and Cashbox. It was written and sung by Lloyd Price (with Fats Domino on piano), was Price's first hit, and is a seminal piece of R&B and early rock'n'roll. Larry Williams (who had been Price's valet, per wikipedia), later reworked the song into Dizzy Mizz Lizzie. Lawdy Miss Clawdy has also been covered many times, but I think in my personal experience I've heard Dizzie Miss Lizzie more often.

Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933) had more hits (Stagger Lee, Personality) and a long career in music and business. Price currently manages Icon Food Brands, which on top of Southern-style foods also features Lawdy Miss Clawdy clothing and collectibles. He's got a street named after him in his hometown of Kenner, Louisiana, and that city celebrates an annual Lloyd Price Day. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Per Wikipedia, he and his wife live in New York and he continues to sing.

There's a couple of different recordings of Price doing this song on Youtube, but none are as upbeat as the one that's on his Millennium Collection. I assume that one on the Millennium Collection is the original single, and the others are re-stylings, like this 1969 version I present tonight, along with its b-side.

This electrical soul version was recorded for his own label, Lloyd Price's Turntable. Per Discogs, he opened an identically named Manhattan restaurant-nightclub the same year he started the label. The label design is particularly groovy and features a picture of Price looking sharp. The B-side is another funky soul reworking of one of his older songs, the Luther Dixon-penned Little Volcano.

I didn't find either of these versions after my customary quick Google search. I picked this up over at Josey Records, for $3.

As always, this is presented strictly for educational and historical purposes, and will only be up for a limited time.

Lawdy Miss Clawdy (1969)

If the embedded player above doesn't work for you, try this: Lawdy Miss Clawdy (1969)

Little Volcano (1969)

If the embedded player above doesn't work for you, try this: Little Volcano (1969)

Land of Blood and Sunshine, Modern Life is War, La Urss, Midnight Plus One, Leroy and the Drivers, and Simo Soo

I like this new psych-pop from Marshalltown, Iowa. You can order the 12" yellow vinyl of Land of Blood and Sunshine's Aeon from Very Nice Dementia:

I was reading the Wikipedia page for Marshalltown, Iowa, because I was like, what's up with there? And it said one of the town's notable exports is a band called Modern Life Is War, who I've never heard of, but this sounds cool:

Synchronicity: I read on Bremen's Sabotage Records newsletter that band Terrible Feelings new LP Tremors will be out in April, just in time for their tour with the aforementioned Modern Life is War.

Here's something else cool from Sabotage, coming out in March:

You can pre-order Limited Edition Red Shell Cassettes of this sweet action from Negative Fun Records, run out of North Carolina and New Hampshire.

Germany's Tramp Rec is in the habit of re-issuing awesome stuff on vinyl:

Life isn't complete without a Simo Soo track, this from 2011, but I just heard it for the first time, and it sounds fresh as all get out:

Threat.Meet.Protocol., HOLY, kudzu, Treasure Fleet, FUTURO, PAVEL CHEKOV, x=, and Henry Boatwright

Check out this awesome/bizarre/new favorite claymation video that kiwi punkers Threat.Meet.Protocol made for their song The Last One, off their new album, Pretentious, released last month. CNQ breathes for just this type of action. Absolutely the best thing I've seen/heard all month:

HC punk from Milano, Italy:

New lo-fi rock from Springfield, Missouri. Good song:

New space-rock from Chicago:

New punk from France's Crapoulet Records label:

This Dallas powerviolence act has a new cassette tape release. I need to see these guys soon:

More new punk, this from Pennsylvania:

We began with awesome, we continued on with awesome, and now we end with awesome. German label Tramp Rec has re-issued this awesome Houston funk/soul from 1970 on 45:

A Potpourri of Sound

This morning at work I listened to Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here, which is good, on google play. Google recommended Donny Hathaway based on that listen, whom I thought I had never heard. I queued up Hathaway's soundtrack for the 1972 movie Come Back, Charleston Blue. Turns out, the fourth track on the album, Vegetable Wagon, has been sampled several times over, from Dr. Dre's Rat-Tat-Tat off my fave album ever The Chronic, to DJ Jazzy Jeff, Biggie, and KRS-One (according to WhoSampled and Youtube comments on the Vegetable Wagon clip below).

I recognized the first few seconds of the song from Mix Master Mike's absolutely amazing Anti-Theft Device. You can hear the sample from Vegetable Wagon at around 10:36:

A little while later on the Hathaway album is Little Ghetto Boy, used prominently in the Dr. Dre/Snoop/Nate Dogg song Lil Ghetto Boy, also off The Chronic. I didn't realize Lil Ghetto Boy had an official video:

Google play then suggested Minnie Riperton's first two albums, 1974's "Perfect Angel" and 75's "Adventures In Paradise," re-released together in 2004 by the U.K. label Stateside. I feel like my life has been enriched by listening to these two excellent albums -- I recommend you go do the same after you're done here.

Google play suggested Roy Ayers after that, another one I'd never heard, so I brought up Ayer's 1976 effort, Everybody Loves The Sunshine, which was cool too:

And that was my day of listening to cool shit while I worked. Meanwhile, on twitter, Canada's 4th smartest person recommended to me this new video from Winnipeg's shoegazey The Hours:

And I got the Doomtown Records update today, and zeroed in on this synth-punk sweetness, from Croatia. This was released this past February:

Ted Taylor: "I'm Glad You're Home" (Ronn Records, 1970)

I picked up this Ted Taylor 45, "It's A Funky Situation" b/w "I'm Glad You're Home," for 49 cents at the Half-Priced Books at Preston Village in Dallas. "It's A Funky Situation" was a single from "Taylor Made," and I am completely in love with the whole album. It's on Google Play, so it's probably also on Spotify. I highly recommend it. Here's Ted Taylor's Wikipedia entry, here's a little info on Ronn Records outta Shreveport courtesy Discogs, and, here's a more lengthy history of the label. Super-cool.

For educational purposes, here's "I'm Glad You're Home," which isn't on "Taylor Made," and, I believe, has yet to appear on our Internet until now. It does appear on a best of Taylor called "Ever Wonderful Vol. 2."

After you listen to this, go listen to "Taylor Made."

CNQ On A Roll...Some New Bandcamp Stuffs

Insomnia by Elizabeth:

Second Demonstration by Lovechild:

Matt Gurley Sampler (2010-2012)

Fellow Matt Matt Gurley is a stay-at-home dad who lives with his family and cats in Moore, Oklahoma. He's been a musician for 25 years now and writes and records bad-ass genre-jumpers in his spare time. Think Beck, Ween, and They Might Be Giants, and you get an idea of Matt's musical capabilities. He uses Garageband for Mac to record, a blue Alvarez acoustic, a Fender Stratocaster, an Apollo bass guitar (sans frets), shakers, tambourines, snares, toms, and found sounds.

He's buddies with Aaron Aldridge, another Okie rocker who was featured in my Scrambled Channels post from a few days ago; Aaron's exact words in regard to Matt were "an absolutely astonishing genius musician." See for yourself with these five tracks, as Matt jumps from metal ("In The Frozen Lands," with his buddy and another fellow Matt Matt Mason, performing as "The Knights of Mattonia" - cuz they're both Matts, see), to country ("Oklahoma Weather") to Motown ("Hurt a Guy Like Me," with himself as back-up singers) to komedy kraut-rock ("Fascist Dance Party") with equal parts style and pizzazz. His most recent album, "Love Is So Bright," is sweet'n'shoegazy dreampop that will make you wonder why Matt's not making you pay for it. The final song of Matt's posted here, "Red Orange Yellow," is off that album. Pretty frickin' impressive.

Download: In The Frozen Lands

Download: Oklahoma Weather

Download: Hurt a Guy Like Me

Download: Fascist Dance Party

Download: Red, Orange, Yellow

Carl Carlton: "I Won't Let That Chump Break Your Heart" (1972)

This is the B-side to "Why Don't They Leave Us Alone," which is a cool song too but readily available on Youtube.

Here's Carl's wiki page. I didn't know anything about him when I picked this up from Vintage Freak today for a dollar; I just liked the song title because of the word "chump." It's on Back Beat, a Houston label that operated from 1957 to 1974.

Download: I Won't Let That Chump Break Your Heart