Spotify Playlist for this episode:
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This week on RetroGroove:
Side B:
Icebreaker - what did you buy? What are you listening to?
Liam: Tracked down a reprinted copy of Jets To Brazil’s Perfecting Loneliness, out of print since 2002. Purchased Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin Grass 2, Explosions In The Sky - The Rescue was only available on CD at live shows in 2005 , Peter Gabriel - So, Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters, The Cars - Candy-O
Adam: purchased: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless reissue (not in hand yet) local shop had the wrong album held, ordered from a shop in the U.K. Action Records. Eric’s live auction show on FB group The Grail: Original pressing Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd, The Pretenders - s/t, threw in The Cars - Heartbeat City, and Abbey Road - The Beatles. Bought Justin Hayward - Songwriter. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour. Kool Moe Dee - Greatest Hits on cassette, still shrink wrapped. Listening to: Spoon - Transference & They Want My Soul. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins. Manchester Orchestra. New Garbage tracks off the upcoming album. Black midi.
New music:
May 28: black midi - Cavalcade, experimental, math/noise rock, Reminiscent of bands like Mr Bungle, Battles.
June 4: Billy Gibbons - West Coast Junkie
Liz Phair - Soberish (first new album in 11 years)
Questions
@solo_something “If you could collaborate for one day with any musician or band (be it playing or song writing) who would it be and why them?”
First piece of music merch?
First concert without a chaperone?
Weekly Topics
News
Oasis 30th anniversary, band still not getting back together and 2000s greatest hits scrapped.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/noel-gallagher-says-oasis-greatest-hits-album-was-scrapped-after-liam-disagreement-2949844
Mouse Rat vinyl release in Oct, pre-order open now. (talk about fake bands?)
https://consequence.net/2021/06/mouse-rat-the-pit-two-birds-holding-hands-stream/
Bob Dylan album returned - guy has retired and is finally indulging in his vinyl collection when he discovers this. (Liam - I have two short stories about odd vinyl discoveries)
https://apnews.com/article/ca-state-wire-bob-dylan-entertainment-music-oddities-1d681299aecd35961da85623a0c69cdf
Tours announced: Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket/Brittany Howard, Sublime With Rome, Alice Cooper & Ace Frehley, Dead & Company, The Monkees (Farewell tour), The Flaming Lips (non-space bubble), Genesis (without Peter Gabriel), Rage Against The Machine (2022), Green Day Fall Out Boy and Weezer’s Hella Mega
New Releases
New music from “retro” artists:
Tom Petty
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-angel-dreams-album/
Duran Duran - new music and Billboard Awards performance
https://youtu.be/YkAl2l8zLZg
Jim Ward - ATDI/Sparta/Mars Volta talk?
The Monkees - final tour (2 surviving members)
Which bands would you still want to see? Which bands do you hope NEVER tour again?
https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/around_the_web/entertainment/brian-may-theres-a-possibility-queen-might-not-tour-again/article_6f022551-f148-5877-8596-333dd7ffe01b.html
Record Store Day - Drop 1 - June 12?
https://recordstoreday.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/2021_RSD_DROPS_PUBLIC.pdf
This day in music history:
1 Jun 1967
The Beatles released Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1 Jun 1974 Birthday Alanis Morissette,
2 Jun 1972
Pink Floyd released Obscured By Clouds
3 Jun 1942 Birthday: Curtis Mayfield. Died December 26th 1999, would’ve been 79
3 Jun 1977
Bob Marley & the Wailers released Exodus
4 Jun 1969
Johnny Cash released At San Quentin
4 Jun 1984
Bruce Springsteen released the album, 'Born In The USA'
Spotlight:
Butch Vig & Garbage - new album No Gods No Masters (7th studio album)
First Garbage album 1995 (Queer, Stupid Girl, Only Happy When It Rains)
Version 2.0 1998 (I think I’m Paranoid, Special)
1999 “Theme for The World Is Not Enough”
Beautiful Garbage 2001
Bleed Like Me 2005
Absolute Garbage 2007
Not your kind of people 2012
Strange Little Birds 2016
Butch produced Nevermind and Gish in 1991.
Sonic Youth - Dirty 1992
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 1993
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set… 1994
AFI Sing the Sorrow (2003)
Against Me! New Wave (2006)
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light (2007)
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (2009)
Against Me! White Crosses (2010)
Foo Fighters Wasting Light (2011)
Various - Sound City: Real to Reel (2013)
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways (2014)
Silversun Pickups - Widow’s Weeds (2019)
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