Fresh Sounds Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab
The Fresh Sounds Podcast takes you around the world in five songs. Short reviews, song samples and a fair share of banter. Your hosts Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab are avid music zealots searching the domestic and global indie universe for their favorite songs. The Fresh Sounds podcast isn’t an algorithm, it’s two great old friends keen to share great music with listeners worldwide.
This week's show covers new music from Catalonia’s Rosalía, from Malian guitarist and singer Vieux Farka Tourébacked up by Houston’s Khruangbin, a new tune from Durham, NC’s The Mountain Goats, and Cambridge, England’s Anish Kumar.
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This week's show covers new music from Cambridgeshire’s SBTRKT, Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Kathryn Williams, London’s Jessie Ware, and West London’s George Riley.
For the archive track this week, Mark breaks out of our recent ‘90s fixation with a tune from the aughts, 2007 in fact. Off to Paris for the Michael Jackson besotted “D.A.N.C.E” by the one and only Justice. (They soundtrack that electric Volvo XC 60 ad too, though with a different tune.) Yes, time is a flat circle and music from 2007 still sounds futuristic. ;)
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This week's show covers new music from London’s Hot Chip, Brighton’s Wax Machine, a collaboration between Chicago’s Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and the team-up of Paris’s Biche with the LA band Pearl & The Oysters.
For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1992 for some mutant hardcore punk on the melodic side of that scene. This band was signed to Sub Pop Records at the time, which was about the best indie label on the scene in those days. The track in question is by the Tacoma, Washington band Seaweed, and it’s called “Recall.”
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens, London’s Two Shell, Brooklyn’s Mice Parade, and Toronto’s Alvvays.
For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1994 for a slice of what was called slowcore back in the day, from a California band who went as Idaho. The song in question is entitled “Sweep,” from the band’s This Way Out album. Not the happiest lyrics, but slowcore was generally known for that sort of somber songwriting. (Brendan considers this genre to be the antidote to grunge and all the bombast of the early 1990s.)
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Nashville’s Soccer Mommy, Hamburg’s Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Detroit’s Omar-S with Supercoolwicked on vocals, and Brisbane’s Moses Gunn Collective.
For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1996 for a slice of melodic grunge track from Ash, a band from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. If you know of Ash, you will probably know this tune, as it was a Number 5 hit on the UK Top Ten that summer. It’s a quiet-loud-quiet 1990s tune; what’s not to love?
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Bristol’s Ishmael Ensemble, remixed by Medlar, London’s Sports Team, and while we are there, a new tune from Dry Cleaning, and similar from LA’s MUNA.
For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1993 for a slice of electronic music from the Scottish act Finitribe. This song’s title is “An Unexpected Groovy Treat” and it sits right on the line between industrial music and the influence of early acid house. Sampling was primitive, but an integral part of Finitribe’s approach. Plus, it certainly qualifies as a banger of its era!
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from NYC’s Grace Ives, a new track from London’s Greentea Peng, some fusion electronics from The Range, and a new collaborative single between West London’s Lava La Rue and Cork, Ireland’s Biig Piig.
For the archive track this week, Brendan takes us back to 1992 to the debut album from Aphex Twin, for what used to be called “ambient techno.” The song here is the undying “Xtal,” which one could argue put Richard D. James on the map as one of the key producers in modern electronic music.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from the French band Phoenix, from a new synthpop project from Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar, called Au Suisse, a track that blends Dap Tone retro with Bollywood and Turkish elements from the pairing of El Michels Affair and Piya Malik, and a soulful new reggae cut from Horace Andy.
For the archive track this week, Mark is heading back to 1993 and the debut album by Porno For Pyros, and “Cursed Female.” This was Perry Farrell’s attempt to move beyond Jane’s Addiction, his previous band. (This track has all the 1990s crunch you might want!)
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from a duet between the French producers Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, and LA R&B artist Sunni Colón. Next, some noisy dreampop from Ireland’s Just Mustard. We also feature a new track from London’s KH, which is Four Tet’s name when releasing dance bangers, and some spooky jazz from Britain’s The Natural Yogurt Band.
For the archive track this week, Brendan honored Andy Fletcher, the recently departed member of Depeche Mode, with perhaps that band’s signature song, from 1984’s Some Great Reward: “People Are People.”
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from a duet between Nigeria’s Obongjayar and British jazz musician Nubya Garcia, a new Daphni tune, a song from Morocco’s Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul, and a new song from Ghost Power, which features Tim Gane, a founder of Stereolab back in the 1990s.
For the archive track this week, Mark selects a song from the New York City-based instrumental, post-rock act that goes as Mice Parade. Our song is entitled “Mystery Brethren” from the band’s refreshing 2004 album, Obrigado Saudade. (The band also is putting a new record out in July, if you like what you hear here.)
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. (Great music in there, ladies and gentlemen.) It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Athens, Greece’s Σtella from her new Redinho-produced album, London’s The Hics, Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers, and the team of Danger Mouse and Black Thought, of The Roots.
Brendan took us back to November of 1980 for this week’s archive pick, an early blast from the goth rock cannon. Yes, a non-album single later added to In the Flat Field from Bauhaus—the original goth rockers, if you ask him. “Dark Entries” is the track.
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. (Great music in there, ladies and gentlemen.) It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Sydney’s The Lazy Eyes, LA transplant Carly Rae Jepsen, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and London’s Steak.
Mark plucked this week’s jewel from the Fresh Sounds Music Archive. This time, it is another Aussie band: Empire of the Sun, from the hit album Walking On A Dream, which came out in 2009. Despite hit after hit on this record, they never really crossed over here in the USA. But the tunes still resonate, thirteen years later.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Ghent’s Bolis Pupul, Aix-en-Provence’s Melody’s Echo Chamber, London’s Sault, and Oakland’s Hazel English.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan went back to 1989 for the debut single from Inner City, the duo of Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey. Saunderson is, of course, one of the legendary Belleville Three, the originators of Detroit Techno, a still-vibrant and enduring sound that created a parallel to Chicago’s house music. Even 33 years later, techno and house are dominant styles of club music which are played all around the world.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo, Virginia Beach’s Pusha T, a Penelope Isles track remixed by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, and some new post-punk from Portland, Oregon’s Soft Kill.
For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off an excellent mashup of the late Ranking Roger doing his thing over and with The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah.” Two great artists blended in a dubby, reggae-esque vibe.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Brisbane’s Hatchie, the excellent pairing of LA’s Mykki Blanco and Michael Stipe--of R.E.M. fame!--, a bit of techno from one of the two new albums from Stockholm’s Axel Boman, and some excellent music from Bremen’s Saâda Bonaire.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan takes us back to 1978 for soul/funk gem from a band called Leo’s Sunshipp. We sample “Give Me The Sunshine,” a warm-weather jam that prefigures g-funk by a good fifteen years.
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. (Great music in there, ladies and gentlemen.) It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from London’s Jamie xx, Brooklyn’s Boyish, a film soundtrack by Pennsylvania’s Alex G, and a track from the debut album by London’s Walt Disco.
For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off a 1989 gem from the Glaswegian band Deacon Blue. This is Scottish uptempo soul pop from an ‘80s band, which is always a fun thing to find via the time machine.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Boston’s Cave In, London’s Kit Sebastian, Brisbane’s Confidence Man, and a great new single from Athens-based Σtella with an assist from London’s Redinho.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan digs up some liquid fire from side one of Super Session. That record came out in the summer of 1968, and it features the work of keyboard ace Al Kooper and former Electric Flag guitar maestro Mike Blookfield. (On side two, Stephen Stills plays the guitars, but we will save that for another time.) The tune in question here is entitled “Albert’s Shuffle,” which just has to be a nod to Albert King—one of the Three Kings of the Blues style. (B.B. and Freddie being the others.) Searing electric blues for your listening pleasure.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from LA’s Sudan Archives, a new single from Britain’s Yungblud, a great tune from Detroit’s Elzhi, produced by LA’s Georgia Anne Muldrow, and a hot tune from London’s Ibibio Sound Machine.
For the archive pick this week, Mark digs up a lost gem from Berkeley, CA-based Darondo that was released in 1973, called “Didn’t I.” This is a bohemian soul number, with dynamite vocals and an unexpected lead violin melody.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Barcelona’s Rosalía, with an assist from The Weeknd, a new single from Amsterdam’s Weval, a deep cut from the new album by Christchurch, New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma, and a new single from London’s Robohands with vocals by Aleh.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan sends us back to 1990 for a lost cut, that appeared right before Seattle turned into the grunge capital of the world. Mother Love Bone was the band, and the song in question is rockin’ ripper of a tune entitled “Stardog Champion.” Not a forgotten track, by any means. But this week’s archive pick, all the same.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from an LA and NYC combo, of American Dance Ghosts and Baltra, a new dance banger from NYC’s Doss, a lounge-y new track from Austin’s Flyjack and London’s Scrimshire, and some new indie rock from Philly’s The Districts.
For the archive pick this week, Mark is heading back to 1995, and to the second volume in the late rapper Guru’s Jazzmatazz series. This is the sort of jazz-infused rap that Guru and Gang Starr before Guru went solo were known for, which got an upgrade from Guru’s connection to Blue Note Records and their treasure chest of hard bop and fusion styles from the mid-1950s to the 1980s, before the reissue boom reanimated the label in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Britain’s Tears For Fears, Brisbane’s Sampology, Stavanger, Norway’s Beachheads, and the pairing of Paris’s Janko Nilovicwith backing by The Soul Surfers, of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan is digging up a record that is two weeks older than he is: Kick Out The Jams, by Detroit noise rock legends the MC5; Duel-guitar frenzy, and more than a little revolutionary politics, too.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Glasgow’s Belle & Sebastian, Baltimore’s Future Islands, Boston’s Pixies, and Los Angeles’ Lo Moon.
For the archive pick this week, Mark digs up a gem from 1998: Fatboy Slim’s undying “The Rockefeller Skank,” an actual hit back in the day, (#6 in UK; #21 in the U.S. Top 40, according to Billboard) and one of the opening salvos of the electronica revolution (What an ugly word that is!)
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Sweden’s Sally Shapiro, London’s Babeheaven with an assist from the Brooklyn rapper Navy Blue, a new single from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever of Melboune, Australia, and a bopping new tune from the Bay Area DJ Space Ghost.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan pays tribute to the late grunge icon Mark Lanegan with a track from his 1994 solo album, Whiskey For The Holy Ghost, a very fine record. We lost Lanegan this past week at the too-young age of 57 years old.
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from Zurich’s Mano Le Tough, Philadelphia’s Empath, a great collaboration between Harvey Sutherland and Dâm-Funk, and some great indie rock from Toronto’s Georgia Harmer.
For the archive pick this week, Mark hauls out a song from 1971. It’s a song entitled “Lady Day and John Coltrane”, which is from Gil-Scott Heron’s excellent album Pieces of a Man. It blends poetry and passion, politics and more.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music from NYC’s Caroline Polachek, a nu-Balearic track from Saint Petersburg, Russia’s A Vision of Panorama, a new climate change anthem from Durham, NC’s Superchunk, and a new dance single from London’s Seb Wildblood.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan hauls out one of the best tunes from December 1966. It’s a song entitled “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”, which is probably the signature song from The Electric Prunes. West Coast Electric Psychedelia at its finest!
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a terrific week!
This week's show covers new music France’s Melody’s Echo Chamber, a collaborative bnager pairing Norway’s Röyksopp with Alison Goldfrapp, a fresh new single from London’s Nia Archives, and then a soulful new stomper from Ibibio Sound Machine--another London outfit.
For the archive pick this week, Mark travels back to 1983 for a track from Aztec Camera’s debut album, High Land, Hard Rain. The still-mighty “Oblivious” is the song in question.
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show covers new music from the team of Fred again.., Romy (of The xx) with some mixing help from HAAi (dance banger!), some new music from Glasgow’s noiseniks The Jesus & Mary Chain, a deep house tune from Tokyo’s Soichi Terada, and some jazz/funk from Melbourne’s Surprise Chef.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan digs up a track from shoegaze stars Catherine Wheel, from 1992. The specific track, a power ballad entitled “Black Metallic” is a love song from singer Rob Dickinson to ... his car. Yep.
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Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show covers new music from UK poet and rapper Kae Tempest, pairing up with Brockhampton alum Kevin Abstract, a new synthpop banger from Mitski, a soundtrack cut from Little Barrie and Tony Coote, and Cat Power’s devastating cover of the jazz standard “I’ll Be Seeing You,” originally made famous by Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday who both covered it in 1944.
For the archive pick this week, Mark selects a choice track from DJ Shadow’s debut album, Endtroducing….., which came out in 1996 but still sounds fresh and extra-cool. (The blend of scratching and sampling woven together is superb.) The song in question is entitled, “Midnight in a Perfect World.”
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show covers new music from Sydney’s The Presets, a great new number from Robert Glasper with verses from Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid, and Big K.R.I.T., a new flamenco-pop number from Spain by Soleá Morente and La Casa Azul, and Seattle’s excellent Delvon Lamar Organ Trio.
For the archive pick this week, Brendan picks a Cold War chestnut from Clan of Xymox, from their 1989 Twist of Shadows album, and “Obsession” –a prime slice of gloomy ‘80s dance music.
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
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This week: The Fresh Sounds Festive 50! That's Mark's and Brendan's Top 25s all mushed into one glorious countdown of their favorite songs from all twelve months of this year. That's not like any other "best-of" list you will see. This is indie music at its best, with very few name brand artists here, aside from Burial and Overmono.
Sorry to say there are no bonus tracks this week, but since there are fifty tunes in this year-ender, I think that might be slightly absurd to add more. (Brendan's view, anyway.)
Don't miss our equally triple-stuffed playlist on Spotify! All fifty tunes in all their eccentric glory! You can listen all of them right here!
Have a great holiday season, and a very happy new year! Mark and Brendan will return in 2022, as soon as the record business is cranking out product again. (So, not immediately, but give us a week or two.) Cheers!
This week's show covers new music from Tame Impala, Oslo’s Mall Girl, the team of VANO 3000, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Samuel T. Herring. Next, a new song from the English troubadour Richard Dawson from a new album he made with backing from the Norwegian experimental rock band Circle backing him up.
For the archive pick this week, Mark selects “Soon” from My Bloody Valentine’s landmark 1991 album, Loveless--a searing blaze of overdriven guitars and more than a little influence from the British dance music of the rave era. It’s a blurry gem of a tune!
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show covers new music from Guided by Voices, Mocky, Ibibio Sound Machine, and a team-up between Ancient Astronauts and Brazen Rule.
Then Brendan uses the time machine to visit 2001, for a taste of “Gasoline,” from the debut album by The New Year --a bit of a lost indie classic. (For the '90s heads, The New Year features Matt and Bubba Kadane, of Bedhead fame.)
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show covers new music from a UK collaboration between Anish Kumar and a fellow who goes as Barry Can’t Swim, then a new tune from the intercontinental duo who go as Hard Feelings, which is made up of Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and NYC-based singer Amy Douglas. Next, some indie rock from Montreal’s Cola, and off to Manchester for a winning new Elbow tune.
Then Mark uses the time machine to sample 1986’s Skylarking, perhaps XTC’s finest album, with a bit of “Another Satellite.”
Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show covers new music from LA's Lo Moon, London's Yunè Pinku, NYC's Doss, and Liverpool's King Hannah. All with great new tunes to sample.
Brendan set the time machine's controls to the autumn of 1974 Los Angeles, where we hear "Bon Voyage" from Sparks, in their high Glam Rock era. It's a pretty and bombastic number sung from the perspective of those who couldn't book a seat on Noah's Ark.
Of course there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week we have new music from Ghost Woman, allegedly located in the Arizona desert, then off to Gothenburg, Sweden for a great new tune from Makthaverskan. Up next, an up-and-coming Israeli singer who goes as The Cloud of I, and then some fresh London funk from Foals.
Mark has dug up a true gem with the time machine this week: Big Star's 1972 song "Thirteen," which has quietly become a standard of sorts in recent years with many, many cover versions to be found on Spotify! (It might give Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" a run for its money.)
Of course there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week's show cover new music from Austin, Texas's Spoon, a great new tune from the duo of Swindle and Greentea Peng, from London, then an electronic composition of a sort from LA's Amon Tobin, and perfect pop song from Laetitia Sadier, of Stereolab fame.
Brendan whips out a dance track from 1999 that would still fit into any modern DJ set: "Dreamin'" by Les Rythmes Digitales--the nom de rock of the British super-producer Stuart Price.
Of course there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
This week, Mark and Brendan kick off the festivities with a great new single from Logic 1000 and Big Ever. Next, a single from Connecticut's Anxious in the punk-pop or emo genres. Third song this week is a heavily remixed jazz track by Australia's Surprise Chef, reworked by Harvey Sutherland and Masters at Work. The last new song of the week is from the Norwich, England-based Let's Eat Grandma.
Mark focuses this week's archive track on the late Alan Hawkshaw, keyboard wizard and key player in the KPM Music library of TV themes widely used across US and UK TV networks, and sampled by even first-wave hip-hop legends, including the Sugar Hill Gang, in their landmark "Rapper's Delight" back in 1979. (Jay-Z and Drake have also sampled KPM's tunes in more recent years.)
There are the usual six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pretty easy to do, if you just click this link. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
Welcome to Episode 58 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have more upbeat party tunes, and a few moody ones, too. We began with a new single from Machester's Anz, with some production help from George Riley. Next, a wild brew of reggae and drum-and-bass music, with Peter Falk samples, to boot! Then an interesting bit of new music from Baxter Dury, of London. Prospa is a production duo from Leeds, back with a tune from their Rave Science Vol. 2 EP.
Brendan is driving the time machine this week, and he went all the way back to 2001, for a slice of Motor City garage rock, from The Dirtbombs! (It's actually a cover of a 1968 Smokey Robinson hit, done in garage rock style. )
As is our usual policy, we have six more bonus tracks to recommend, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for our newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
Welcome to Episode 57 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have a fresh basket of groovin' tunes, beginning with a thumpin' new track from London's Overmono, then off for some Chicago indie-rock, from Girl K. Next, some fresh Detroit hip-hop, from the pairing of Illa J. and Atamone. (Illa J, for those who don't know, is the younger brother of the late superproducer J. Dilla.) Rounding out the new music, a taste of deep house from Tokyo's Soshi Takeda.
Mark commands the time machine this week, and he went all the way back to 1971, for a newly released live performance by James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, of a song written by Carole King(!) How may 1970s deities can you fit in one archive track?!
As is our usual policy, we have six more bonus tracks to recommend, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for our newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
Welcome to Episode 56 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have a new basket of great tunes, beginning with a spooky new single from Blood Moon--a collaboration between Kurt Ballou's Converge with Chelsea Wolfe. Next, a slinky new dance tune from the British DJ/producer who goes as Ross From Friends. Up next, a new single from Mitski is featured, followed by a great new song from Toronto's Ducks Ltd.
Brendan twiddles the knobs of the Fresh Sounds Archive this week, focusing on a song from The The, which featured on Infected back in 1986. (What a record that is!)
As is our usual policy, we have six more bonus tracks to recommend, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for our newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
Mark and Brendan are back with a fresh episode of the show, featuring new music from Lyon France, and Dowdelin, next to Dulth, Minnesota for a new song from Low, then over to Oxford, England for the debut single from Noah Yorke--Thom Yorke's son. Then, off to Melbourne from a rip-roaring rocker from Amyl and the Sniffers.
For this week's Archive Track, Mark digs up a lost gem from Kitchens of Distinction, from their 1989 album, Love is Hell. This is proto shoegaze with a touch of Cocteau Twins to the guitars, and deserves not to be a band lost to time.
Fully half the number of our new songs qualify as bonus tracks, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for that newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan; Not some faceless corporation.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
Mark and Brendan are back with a fresh episode of the show, featuring new music from London's Saint Etienne, Dorset's Skinshape, Cairo's Hassan Abou Alam, and Phoenix's Kareem Ali. Then Brendan borrows a lost gem from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, pulling from 1968's Fugi album entitled Mary, Don’t Take Me On No Bad Trip. (Could there be a more 1968 album title?)(Nah.)
And as usual, we are keeping it tight. Running time this week is a slightly tubby 15:56. That's right, you get bits of ten new songs plus a dab of music history in a package that doesn't even take up sixteen minutes of your time. How cool is that?!
Fully half that number of new songs qualify as bonus tracks, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for that newsletter right here. (And do so without fear. We won't misuse your email address, as this show is run by two guys, Mark and Brendan.)
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week!
Mark and Brendan are back with your weekly dose of indie goodness! This week, we start off with a new track from Ontario's Caribou, and then shift to an indie rock track from New York City's Lightning Bug. Then, off we go to Chicago for a new song from Circuit des Yeux, and our last new tune of the week comes from Ibiza-based Nightmares on Wax.
And as usual, we are keeping it tight. Running time this week is a compact 14:34. That's right, you get bits of ten new songs plus a dab of music history in a package that doesn't even take up fifteen minutes of your time. How cool is that?!
Fully half that number of new songs qualify as bonus tracks, but you will have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those gems. If you want to do that now, please take a second to sign up for that newsletter right here.
Lastly, don't miss our fabulous Spotify playlists. We make one for each episode of the show, so grab the latest if you are up to date, and dig into previous episodes if you are new here, or just curious. Have a great week! (And Happy Labor Day weekend to all of our American listeners.)
This week, on the pod, Mark and Brendan has some sizzling new tunes for your playlists, and of course a tribute to the late Charlie Watts, of the Rolling Stones! To preview the content of the podcast episode, let's note Brendan began with a Metallica cover from none other than Chris Stapleton. Mark followed with a new single from Angus & Julia Stone. Up next, B. features a new, non-album single from Baltimore's Future Islands, while Mark previews a new song from New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery, with Brooklyn's Katie Von Schmeichler on vocals.
The archive track this week is a 30-second snippet "Street Fighting Man," recorded in Brussels, Belgium, in 1973, perhaps featuring the Rolling Stones at the peak of their powers. If you don't know of The Brussels Affair bootleg, well, it has been remixed by Bob Clearmountain for a deluxe edition of Goat's Head Soup that is easily found on Spotify. (It came out last year. Scroll down and look for the word "Live.")
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Have a great week!
---Mark and Brendan
Welcome to Episode 51 of the Fresh Sounds podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan feature new tunes from London's TSHA, from Croydon's Joy Orbison (with Léa Sen handling vocals) plus Brighton's Kit Sebastian and a new single from Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500 fame.)
The archive track this week is the title track from Supergrass's 1997 masterpiece (in Brendan's opinion) in a fresh mix.
Bonus tracks are the little prize for those who subscribe to our email newsletter, but those are as interesting and joyous (or gloomy) as ever.
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Episode 50! (Yes, you read that correctly.) This week, Mark and Brendan feature the usual blend of melody, rhythm, and weirdness that you have come to expect.
We start with a indie track from Laura Stevenson, from her new self-titled album. Next, to London for a solo single from Anna Prior, the drummer for the English pop band Metronomy. Next, a crunchy new tune from Hollywood super-composer Danny Elfman that pairs him up with Trent Reznor, on Nine Inch Nails fame. The final new track of the week is from New Zealand, and the artist Reb Fountain. Then, Brendan digs up some math rock from a decade ago with a wonderful tune from Battles, with vocals from the DJ and producer Matias Aguayo.
You can find six more bonus reviews in our email newsletter. If that is something you don't know about, read on.
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As we slide into the dog days of summer (here in the Northern Hemisphere) Mark and Brendan are keeping the tunes fresh and hot. In the pod this week, we have new music from Dundee, Scotland's Andrew Wasylyk, Seoul, South Korea's Didi Han, London's Joel Culpepper and Detroit's Robert Hood. The archive track this week is a track drawn from the sessions for George Harrison's solo masterpiece, All Things Must Pass.The bonus tracks in preview cover a number of styles, and breeze by in preview form, but you can also catch the whole list over on our Spotify page.
Have a great week! Oh, and if you have the urge to contact us, our email is freshsoundspod@gmail.com.
Mark and Brendan are back with perhaps their edgiest collection of tunes in a few months. Luckily, they are still drawn from all around the music world. (Lotta masked performers in this batch, for some reason.) Anyway, they start with a blast of London jazz from Emma-Jean Thackray. Next, a new single from the Snapped Ankles, as well as a singer-songwriter from Oakland who goes as Boy Scouts. The archive throwback is from 1999, and the Welsh psychedelic rockers Super Furry Animals.
We also have the usual batch of bonus tracks, previewed in brief. You have to go to our email newsletter for our capsule reviews of those tunes.
Have a great week, and stay tuned for the next episode of the Fresh Sounds Podcast!
Mark and Brendan are back with another wild mix of fresh sounds, hailing from all around the globe! (At least, as much as you can do that in five songs.) The geography lays out thusly: New York City, then Bamako, Mali, followed by Stockholm, Sweden and Melbourne, Australia. Find me a radio show that does that!
Artists this week include Caroline Polachek, Gaspa and his pal Lil Boula, Swedish House Mafia, and 30/70, a band from Mebourne, remixed by the pair of Kiwi brothers who do remix work as Chaos In the CBD! Archive track is drawn from the distant past, specifically 1997, with the second single from Daft Punk's Homeworkalbum. Yep, their artistic debut.
You'll also get quick tasted of six more bonus tracks that together make a killer playlist. Here is a link for those of you with Spotify accounts: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BeKt7sNr61BaPtjD1ADIt?si=edbfd16e909242af
Have a great week!
Welcome back to the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan are back with some quality music to share. This week's show kicks off with a scorcher of a new single from Sam Fender. Then, a trans-Atlantic collaboration between Amen Dunes and (yes) Sleaford Mods. After that, a bit of quirky pop from the English band Teleman. Next, a stellar mishmash from Nevermen, which feature Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, Mike Patton of Faith No More, and Adam “Doseone” Drucker, of Anticon Records fame. We wrap the pod this week with our archive track: 1984's "I Will Dare," by the undyingly great Twin Cities band The Replacements.
Bonus tracks cover a number of genres, with new songs from Stone Giants teaming up with Amon Tobin; a dance tune pairing UK DJ Mark Hawkins with soulman Jamie Lidell; an Eastern indie track from St. Petersburg, Russia from a band named Shortparis; and a bit of light synthpop from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, followed by a banger from Catching Flies remixed by DJ BORING. For those like Brendan, who don't mind an occasional shot of noise, we wrap with a new single from the noiseniks who go as Pop. 1280.
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Have a great weekend, and a wonderful week ahead!
Another week of strange weather, but Mark and Brendan are back with some red-hot music to share. This week's featured tracks include a song from Dean Blunt's new album, Black Metal 2,a moody new dance track from Park Hye Jin, a great bit of Aussie psych pop from Pond, and a frosty 1980s remix by the team of TVAM and Charlotte Spiral, remixed by DC Gore. And the archive track this week is opening song from the debut album from Manchester's The Stone Roses--a personal favorite of Mark's and Brendan's.
Bonus tracks cover a number of genres, with new songs from Courtney Barnett, Connan Mockasin (and his father), the Nashville band Pile, a dance banger from DJ Seinfeld and Teira, some smoking live cut from Norway's modern jazz powerhouse Jaga Jazzist, and we wrap with the new single from Mykki Blanco, featuring Blood Orange's Dev Hynes.
Have a great weekend, and a wonderful week ahead!
This week, Mark and Brendan are spending a lot of time with music from London, but there are also few curveballs. (Mark didn't love Brendan's main picks, but hey, that's baseball!) The lineup features LCY, Sault, The Bug, a new cut from Dreadzone meant to urge Britain's Euro 2020 team on to victory, and, twenty years on, an archive track from Fennesz.
The bonus tracks this week are a more usual mix with Future Islands teaming up with The Egyptian Lover(!) and Bassbin Twins, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, an Impey remix, SG Lewis remixing a Bee Gee's classic, and Daði Freyr , an Icelandic Eurovision alum whose tune has more than 87 million streams(!), as of this writing.
Enjoy the holiday weekend, if you are listening from the USA, and if in Europe, enjoy Euro 2020, as we heard toward the semi-finals. Rest of the world, well, I hope you enjoy summer or winter, as your location allows.
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This week, Mark and Brendan play bits of new singles from England's audiobooks (Yes, that is a band name) plus a fab new club track from Iceland's GusGus (yes, the "Ladyshave" band, if you recall 1999.) Scotland's Koreless is our next track, also on an electronic vibe, followed by a great new tune from the London guitar band Wolf Alice, and their much lauded new record Blue Weekend. Then Mark digs deep for an archive track from the 1980s Postcard Records band Josef K, with "Sorry For Laughing." (This one has a fun bonus, as Brendan first heard that song as a cover version, on Propaganda's 1985 LP A Secret Wish., which is a perfect '80s record according to him.) (Produced by Trevor Horn!)
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Great indie music, from all corners of the globe. Including some boss new dance tunes, a bit of folk, from fresh funk and a lot more.
This week, Brendan has gone in a rave-y direction, while Mark is usual eclectic standout. Track include fresh tunes from Shire T, Violet, Arooj Aftab, Georgia and David Jackson. The archive track is a lost gem from the Ethiopian band Hailu Mergia and The Walias from 1975.
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Have a great holiday weekend, subscribers here in the USA! (Or in the UK, where there is a Bank Holiday, too.)
The week we have fresh tunes from Doss, Georgia Anne Muldrow, The Chills(!), and A Place to Bury Strangers. Plus an archive track beaming in from 1970, featuring the peak creativity and songcraft of the might Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
We also make our first marketing pitch, hoping some our friends and fans would do us the favor of reviewing the pod on Apple Podcasts, and other platforms that accept reviews. (If you catch us on Spotify, no luck there, yet.) We'd really appreciate it!
We kick off this week with a fresh party track from the electronic artist and Irish Londoner who goes as O’Flynn. Then off to Brisbane, for a single from The Goon Sax. (Great band name, that!) Next, an impressive single from Alaska's Ya Tseen teaming up withPortugal. The Man. Then some masterly new modern funk from Manchester, England's A Certain Ratio. Our archive gem this week comes from Tame Impala's fine debut album InnerSpeaker,which recently turned 10 years old.
We start with some new fresh UK bass music from DJ Counselling with Allie Donelly. Then off to a comeback single from Norway's always suave Kings of Convenience. Then, over to southeastern Tennessee, for a great rendition of an old John Prine song by Sturgill Simpson. Burial is back with two cuts on a split single with Blackdown. We had to feature one! And then, a dancehall reggae favorite from 1983, with a one-of-a-kind title: “Zungguzungguguzungguzeng.” That's right! Yellowman is this week's archive pick.
This week we start on France’s Basque coast by way of Paris, and France’s hottest new band: La Femme. Next, to Amherst, Massachusetts where we get a hot new track from the venerable Dinosaur Jr.
Then we touch down in Oslo, and a solid global indie song from Orions Belte. Following that, off to L.A. for some funkdafied experimental house music from Dâm-Funk.
For the archive pick, we spin back to Beirut of the 1970’s and RogérFakhr. This is a true undiscovered gem, that’s getting a fresh new release. Rock on hipsters of Lebanon!
We start this week in the Big D, Detroit, Michigan and a sizzler of a record from The Armed.
Then it’s off to Montreal, and the incredible new album from CFCF; it’s powerful electronic music with a global dance bang!
Next, we are off to London for a new post-punk ditty from Sports Team.
Then it’s off to the Windy City and the terrific pairing of Peter CottonTale and the wondrous Jamila Woods for a great new song.
The Archive Pick is a bruised-but-defiant deep cut from Marvin Gaye’s greatest album recorded in Hitsville U.S.A, right there on Grand Avenue once again in Detroit.
This week we start in Carrboro, North Carolina and a great track from Jenn Wasner, and her solo project: Flock of Dimes. Then off to Los Angeles for the grunge-esque MILLY. Next stop on the global tour: Colombia, and an amazing recording from French producer Lion’s Drums and the Kagabas indigineous people of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Then off to the African nation of Niger for a hot new track featuring some blazing guitar from Mdou Moctar and his band.
And we turn the clock back to a legend by the name of Junior Kimbrough, it’s a Delta Blue classic, and get ready for some of the best blues guitar you’ll find anywhere, anytime. And believe it or not, this Kimbrough was remixed by Daft Punk! (Honest!)
We begin in London, with a great new single from the living legend, Gary Numan!
Then, we make a stop in London’s grime district, a place where electronic dub still lives in the form of Mr. Mitch.
Next, it’s off to Dublin, for a new one from Inhaler.
After that, a hop over to the west coast of Ireland and Galway a home of traditional Irish music, but we bring you something quite different. It’s NewDad that delivers a prototype of a great global indie electronic quasi-dance track.
And we wrap up with our weekly chestnut, “It Won’t Come Again,” from The Bevis Frond.
Also check out the bonus tracks on the playlist and in the weekly newsletter. Our bonus bands include, Goth Babe, Small Black, Sven Wunder Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, dodie with a great remix by Georgia, and a loud nasty track from The Horrors, called “Lout.”
We start with the return of Super Furry Animals' frontman Gruff Rhys…then a beuatiful-but-somber new ballad from Nashville’s Lambchop; our an intriguing new direction for Frankenmuth, Michigan’s Greta Van Fleet. Then a sharp indie track from Lila Ramsay, (who also wrote and played the Fresh Sounds theme song). Lastly, a dip into the Archive: a vintage demo track from the mighty PJ Harvey.
We begin in London, with a fresh track by the veteran band Killing Joke. Then, we make a stop in Glasgow for the new album from Arab Strap--their first new music in 16 years. Next, off to Lagos, Nigeria for an upbeat and righteously political tune from Femi Kuti, the eldest son of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. After that, a short hop over to the West African nation of Guinea, and the talented Falle Nioke and his latest team-up with Sweden's sir Was. And we wrap with a chestnut more than 40 years old, from the debut album--a truly seismic record--from The Ramones.
This week, Mark starts us off with a great new tune from the team of Juan Wauters with Benamin, and Nick Hakim, on a fun New York City hip-hop tune. Next, Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk build smooth electronics and guitar into a tune entitled "Asteroid 2467." Then, a great pop song teaming Glasgow's Texas with RZA and Ghost from the Wu-Tang Clan. From there, we head west for some gothic folk from Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle. Our archive track this week is a lost '80s gem from That Petrol Emotion.
This week, we start with a new single from Clark, an English producer currently based in Berlin. Next we move to an E.U. blend of Dutch and UK artists on a soft-rock single with a hint of disco, too. Then some fresh trap jazz from AraabMusik, of Providence, Rhode Island. Then, off to Tulsa, Oklahoma for an unGooglable band, named Sports. And the archive cut this week closes the pod with a 1990 rave anthem from A Homeboy, a Hippie and a Funki Dread.
Welcome back to the global indie tour! We have two songs from the Sleaford Mods in our list this week, as both Mark and Brendan are big fans of this Nottingham duo. We also have a new electronic cut from Edinburgh's Blanck Mass, plus a remix of Kyoto artist Cuushe being remixed by Moscow's Kate NV. Next, some buttoned-up indie from Toronto's The Weather Station, and an archive track from avant-pop titans Stereolab. Enjoy!
This week, we kick off season two of the pod. To do it, we start off with a cookin' new club track from the London-based Bicep. Next, we are off to Glasgow for a fresh indie single from Mogwai. Then, to Philadelphia, for the R&B star Jazmine Sullivan, with a track from her great new album. Up next, a combination of Nottingham artists, Little Barrie and Malcolm Cotto, with their new bangin' single. To round out the episode, a lost New Wave gem from 1980, from the British band Japan.
This week, Mark and Brendan are doing something different. With a nod to the late BBC DJ John Peel, we have put together a holiday spectacular featuring the Fresh Sounds Fifty--25 favorite songs from each of our hosts. It blends into a mighty episode proving that 2020 was a great year for music, even if the rest of the year was for the birds. Don't miss the playlist, which runs 3-1/2 hours of quality favorites from around the world. Happy Holidays!
Also, one programming note: This is the finale of Season One of the Fresh Sounds Podcast. Mark and Brendan will be back with Season Two's first episode on January 8, 2021. See you then!
This week, we start off with Babe Rainbow, an unsigned act from Vancouver, BC. Next, a new song from the Superwolf pairing of Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney. Then a great new track from Glasgow's CHLOBOCOP. (Yes, we spelled that correctly.) Over to London, next, for a dark new song from folktronica act Tunng, and finally to Los Angeles for an Archive Gem from the late, lamented, Elliot Smith.
This week we start out in the middle of America, and a great new track from Wichita’s Jordana. Then it’s off to London by way of Lahore, Pakistan, and Tenderlonius’s latest underground global jazz interpretation. Our next stop is back in the Midwest and St. Joseph, Missouri’s Radkey with a punk rock outfit that lets it rip. We then move out to Seattle, and wonderful new song from Polyrhythmics for some Afro-Psycho-beat with a jazzy feel. And finally in this week’s archive track, we take the pod to Germany in the summer of 1996 for a very trippy techno classic from Porter Ricks.
The five-song global indie podcast makes stops this week in London for Loyle Carner’s great new track “Yesterday.” Then we turn to Bristol and the terrific group Django Django. Then its off to the Pacific Northwest and Seattle's Delvon Lavarr Organ Trio for some serious funk, jazz and soul. Then back to Europe and Refused for a taste of some hardcore Swedish punk. Then for the archive pick, we turn the clock twenty years and a mellow piano rendition of Grandaddy’s “Chartsengrafs.” That, and tastes of six more Bonus Tracks, on our latest episode.
This week we start out in Minsk and some terrific new electronic music from Molchat Doma that has shades of 80’s dance. Then we make a stop in Leeds, where we find a post-punk, spoken-word dark comedy track, which is hilarious, from Yard Act. Then it’s a few hours north to Edinburgh, and the return of Teenage Fanclub with a very homespun covid track. Then we’ll introduce you to a Brooklyn Ukrainian rapper who goes by Your Old Droog. Then in the weekly archive track, we turn the clock back to Benin and the early 1970’s and T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo.
The five-song global indie podcast makes stops this week in London with a partnership between Ultraista and The Cinematic Orchestra. Then it’s off to another part of London, and Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler. Then we move to Nottingham, and Sleaford Mods with a banging new track called “Mork n Mindy.” Next stop, Reykjavik and Sólstafir’s latest effort in the realm of Icelandic post-metal. And then we turn to a reissue from the Manchester legends The Fall, and a cover of a 1969 classic from The Kinks, pulled from deep inside the Fresh Sounds digital archive.
This week we start in our home away from home: Glasgow, Scotland with a great new track from Mogwai, then in it’s off to London for an emerging terrific artist: she’s Greentea Peng. Our third stop on the global indie weekly tour is Barcelona, Spain and the band: Mourn. Then it’s a new one from an oldie but goodie, The Smashing Pumpkins with a major new release. Then we turn the clock back to 1985, with a song from Paul Weller and the British legends known as The Style Council.
Discover some great songs from around the global indie scene. In our weekly new music podcast, we make stops in London for new tracks from living legends The Clientele and the folktronica group Tunng. Then it’s off for some new Americana from Knoxville’s Briston Maroney. Then it’s off to Stockholm, Sweden and the latest from Viagra Boys. And then we turn the clock back to 1987, and Scottish indie giants The Pastels for a Glaswegian classic: “Crawl Babies.” Five songs, a quick trip around the world, and a bunch of great music!
This week we offer a sonic buffet with a wide variety of treats in the form of songs. On the pod, we take you around the global indie scene in less than 15 minutes. This week we start out in the Las Vegas desert with Isola and some great electronic dance music, then Pakistani Londoner Nabihah Iqbal that has shades of the Cocteau Twins. Then we are off to Dublin with a terrific uptempo rocker from the band Inhaler. Our final new song is a bit of a mystery, the artist is Sven Wunder, who might be from Turkey, and has released an awesome track based on a Japanese children’s song. Then we turn the clock back to 1984, for a deep cut from then-West Germany’s Alphaville.
Discover some great songs from around the global indie scene. In our weekly new music podcast, we make stops in San Antonio with an assist from Philadelphia, then it’s off to London for a super jazzy Aftrotronica song. We also have some warped dance(?) music from Sheffield, England, and a sweeping dreampop track from Helsinki, Finland. Then in the archive pick, we turn the time machine to 1968 on a new/old song. How does Elton John doing a very Sgt. Pepper's style song. It’s cool, and pretty weird, too. Jump on, not even fifteen minutes of podcast and plenty more on the playlist!
Discover some Fresh Sounds from around the global indie scene. In our weekly new music podcast! We start with a drive-by in Sweden and a band called I Love Your Lifestyle, (What’s not to like about that?!) Then we go down under and explore the Melbourne jazz funk and rhythm scene with The Pro-Teens latest track. Then a great new song with an Irish interpretation of America. Then we drop down to Christchurch, New Zealand and an unheralded and legendary indie band known as The Bats. Then we turn the clock back for the archive pick, and a classic hard bop track from Hank Mobley. It’s a lot of music in less than 15 minutes!
Discover some great songs from around the global indie scene. In our weekly new music podcast, we make stops in London (for a New York legend), before a stop in Raleigh, North Carolina. Then it’s off to Montreal, Quebec and then we’ll bring you a banger from Bradford, England. Then in the archive pick, we turn on the time machine for a late, lamented and very purple legend from Minneapolis.
It’s new music Friday again, so it's time to discover some fresh sounds from around the global indie scene. In our weekly new music podcast, we make stops in London, Long Island by way of Aachen, Germany, before a pit stop in Paintsville, Kentucky. Then we bring you a great song from a London-Seoul duo, and the archive pick drives home the African-American rebellion anthem with deep roots back on Long Island.
This week we have tunes from Philadelphia by way of Montreal and Basrah, Iraq, before making a pit stop in Cleveland Ohio. And our archive pick has Canadian roots but now she resides in the Laurel Canyon of Los Angeles. Mixed in, some tunes from Chicago and Portland, Oregon, too.
t’s another new music Friday! This week we present some interesting tracks from around the global indie scene. We make stops in Berlin by way of Tel Aviv, Hobart, Indiana, and a couple stops in the UK: Falkirk, Scotland and East London. Enjoy!
In this episode, we feature hot new tracks from London, Kingston, Lagos, and an archive track from Manchester's Lamb.
This week we feature artists from Las Vegas, London (of course), Sintra, Portugal and an archive gem from 1987 based in Hereford, Herefordshire, England.
All sorts of fun this week, with great new tunes from London, Gothenberg, Mexico City, Raleigh-Durham, and Oak Park, Michigan in the pod, and more fun beyond.
This week the Fresh Sounds world tour in five songs makes stops in London, England, several times, as well, as the great American cities of Chicago, Detroit and Portland, before touching down in Timbuktu, Mali. Enjoy!
This week, we take you around the world in five songs, four new and one from the archive. (It's spicy this week!) You'll hear artists from Irvine, CA, London, Bristol, New York City, and Cardiff, Wales. Join us on the Fresh Sounds Podcast, and if you dig our show, subscribe! Sign up for our email newsletter, and share it with music fans you know.
Another week, another trip around the globe, with songs from Baltimore, Melbourne, Los Angeles, London and the gloomy Manchester of 1986. Plus, snappy commentary from your pals Mark and Brendan.
This week, our musical travels take us from Glasgow to Paris, and Los Angeles to London, before hopping back to Los Angeles for an archive track from The Byrds, and no, not the song you're thinking of. ;)
This week, our musical travels take us from Baltimore to Los Angeles, to New Orleans, Brooklyn, and a final stop in the Chicago of 1967.
In this episode of Fresh Sounds, we open with a tune with Afro-Portuguese overtones, then it’s off to Sweden for a great indie track; next stop Paris for a funky modern dance track, then we make a stop in Austin, Texas before uncovering a reissue track from a legendary British band from 40 years ago, which is this week’s archive track.
In this episode, the Fresh Sounds Pod’s five songs opens up in London, before making a stop in Melbourne, Australia. Then it’s onto Washington, DC and Los Angeles, before finishing back in the UK for this week’s archive track, all in just a bit more than 11 minutes.
In week two, the Fresh Sounds' five songs come from Nuremberg, Germany to Melbourne, Australia and onto London, maybe, and Toronto, before making a final stop in Los Angeles in 1973 with a Bronx-styled, Motown remix just released for this week’s archive track.
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In this premier episode, the Fresh Sounds' five songs come from Washington, DC and Auckland, New Zealand, and onto Chicago and Sydney, Australia, before making a final stop in Liverpool circa 1981 for this week’s archive track.