Modcast #266: Get Ready To Rumble

Another week, another great modcast coming your way. I'm, kicking off the show with an American 60s band that sounds almost more mod than the British mods of their day. The band is Powder and I included them this week in part because this coming Saturday I'm going to get to meet them when they play at the Studio 66 mod night at the LoFi Performance Gallery here in Seattle, and lucky me I'm going to be the guest DJ.

Another thing that is making this week's show especially good is that I'm joined by my old friend Dean Hoth who is the singer and bass player for power pop band The Eddies. Additionally Dean has been a behind the scenes mover and shaker in producing some great tribute albums, and is also working on releasing unheard live materials of older mod bands from the 80s to the 90s to the 21st century. Such as The Shambles. He's got some news for mod music lovers.

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Powder -- I Try (1968)
Chardon Square -- 65 Film Show (1985)
The Plimsouls -- Great Big World (1980)
The Shambles -- Blindspot (1996)
Cheap Trick -- I Want You To Want Me (1979)
Jeff Hershey & The Heartbeats -- Don't Come Around (2013)
Fitz & The Tantrums -- Spark (2013)
Greyboy Allstars -- Old Crow (2013)
Vampire Weekend -- A-Punk (2008)
Scouting For Girls -- She's So Lovely (2007)
Tim Timebomb & Friends -- Skeleton Crew (2012)
Spearmint -- Outside The Roundhouse (1999)
Generation X -- Friday's Angels (1979)
Split Enz -- Six Months In A Leaky Boat (1981)
The Blues Magoos -- Gotta Get Away (1966)

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This Saturday in Seattle Get Thee To Studio 66 Mod Night

I'm getting off my lazy ass this weekend and going out on the town. I've been invited to be the guest DJ at Studio 66, the quarterly mod night at the LoFi Performance Gallery in Seattle. If you're in town look us up after 9pm. Also appearing will be Powder the sixties power/art pop band.

Powder - I try (1968)

Modcast #265: Doin' The iMod Shuffle III

This is the modern world. So proclaimed The Jam back in 1977. But how much more modern is the world today, as it is complete with iPods and mp3 players and more portable music than you can shake a tailfeather at?

When I first got into the mod scene portable music was a cassette tape played on a three pound Walkmen. Cassettes typically held a dozen songs, maybe 18-20 if you made a Ramones mixtape. But that was the best you could do if you wanted your music to go mobile.

Well, this indeed is the modern world. Now I have an iPod that has upwards of 6,000 songs on it, a phone that has a couple thousand more, and a laptop with a digital catalog of just over 30,000 songs. And in this digital musical dream world I have become a slave to shuffle.

So this week I'm bringing back the iMod shuffle. The whole show was picked out by my iPod's shuffle. This installment of the iMod shuffle is the result of a recent trip to the dog park with Kali Shiva and Dick Gibson (she's a goddess, and he's a dick). Anyhow, this modcast mix really did come up in exactly this order. That's the only rule for the iMod shuffle, I play it as it came up on the iPod -- these exact songs in exactly this order, no substitutions.

Have fun Doin' the iMod Shuffle.

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Jenny Dee & The Delinquents -- Let Me Go (2009)
Fitz & The Tantrums -- Moneygrabber (2010)
The Parties -- Kensington Avenue (2010)
Len Price 3 -- Jack In The Greens (2010)
Smashing Pumpkins -- 1979 (1997)
Erma Franklin -- Whispers (Getting Louder) (1968)
The Max Levine Ensemble -- Adventures In Petsitting (2011)
Secret Affair -- Three Wise Monkeys (1982)
The Saturday People -- The Castle (2001)
Just Brothers -- Sliced Tomatoes (1972)
Lavendar Diamond -- Open Your Heart (2007)
Jeremy Jay -- Just Dial My Number (2010)
Dig Dig Dig -- Our Money (1981)
Tomorrow's World -- Forgetting (1999)
Yard Trauma -- Little Girl (Who Left) 1984
Buzzcocks -- Real World (1978)

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The Max Levine Ensemble - Big Problems USA


The Len Price 3 -- Rentacrowd (Live)

Modcast #264: Waiting for Something to Happen

Modcast # 264 is so full of hot stuff it will be like sex for your ears. I've got new stuff from The Strypes, Rhonda, and Veronica Falls, as well as great stuff from The Dead 60s, The Charlatans UK, The Vice, Sky Saxon, and even Bill Cosby. So get yourself something to drink, get comfortable and let the music make love to your ears.

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Noise A Noise -- Get On With It (2004)
The Eddies -- Gonna Sing About This (2013)
The Strypes -- Monkey (2013)
The Vice -- Singing Around (2013)
Richard Groove Holmes feat. Brenda Jones -- This Is The Me Me (1976)
Rhonda -- Here We Go Again (2013)
The Solution -- Must Be Loving Coming Down (2004)
The Rooks -- Love Said To Me (1993)
The Rascals -- Bond Girl (2008)
The Dead 60's -- Control This (2005)
The Valkyrians -- Another Girl, Another Planet (2011)
The Yum Yums -- Walking Out On Love (2001)
Sky Sunlight Saxon & SS/20 -- Born To Be Wild (1984)
Veronica Falls -- Waiting For Something To Happen (2013)
The Charlatans UK -- Can't Get Out Of Bed (1994)
The Lodger -- The Back Of My Mind (2010)

Sky Saxon & Stardust Starlove -- I Wanna Be Your Dog live



Veronica Falls - Bad Feeling

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From the Vaults: Modcast #175 Gentlemen Start Your Engines

Welcome to the 175th installment of Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World. You are in for a treat today with some great covers that you will absolutely love, as well as some old school mod power pop, and a few bright and shining pieces of the now sound of indie power pop. What more can you ask for? If you're looking for one of the last things Ella Fitzgerald ever put on an album, or a shining example of soulful power pop courtesy of The Chords, or maybe something new from Scottish power poppers The Martial Arts, then you've come looking in the right place. Gentlemen, and ladies, start your engines. The race starts now.

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The Punkles -- Glass Onion (2006)
The Martial Arts -- Empty Out Here (2010)
The Burning Hotels -- French Heart Attack (2010)
The Love Language -- Heart To Tell (2010)
The Action -- She's Got My Heart (1982)
Twist -- This Is Your Life (1979)
The Second Generation -- The Way You Were (1988)
Supergrass -- Condition (1995)
The Chords -- Knock On Wood (1979)
Stupidity -- You've Got My Number (1983)
Ella Fitzgerald -- Get Ready (1969)


Supergrass -- Grace


The Chords -- Something's Missing

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Modcast #263: Made in America, Mod in the USA

Made in the USA is a tag that means something over here. Sort of. At least it means it wasn't tiny-hand crafted by children in a third-world sweatshop. Supposedly. But, I digress. The point today is that made in the USA means mod in the USA.

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Worldwide, the modness out there is almost palpable. Spain. France. Russia. The Netherlands. Philippines. Is there anywhere a mod band won't pop up these days? Short answer is no.

From the four corners of the earth we've got slick dressed chicks and dandified dudes. And all of them are backed up by a lot of sixties inspired, soul infused, garage rockin', freakbeat driving, pogoing powerpop, music. And hey guess what: I ain't talkin' about Britain. This is America, we're having our own little mod revival going right here in these good ol' United States

That right, this week's show is all Mod in the USA. All American bands representing different approaches to the mod scene -- soul bands, power pop bands, garage rock acts, I've got it all covered for you. So right here right now you can briefly stop being an anglophile and you can appreciate all the great American mod sounds.

Propeller -- Gone Too Far (2013)
Paradise -- Creatures of the Night (2012)
RAF -- It's A Modern World (2012)
Trolley -- The Calico Cat (2011)
The Luck of Eden Hall -- She Falls Down (2011)
The Inciters -- End of our Love (2010)
Suedehead -- Small Town Here (2011)
Fitz & The Tantrums -- Out of My League (2013)
The Satin Chaps -- Wet Leather (2010)
The Mallrats -- I'd Be Impressed (200?)
The Young Veins -- Young Veins Die Tonight (2010)
Kurt Baker Band -- Weekend Girls (2012)
The Decibels -- So You're In Love Again (2004)
Manual Scan -- Yesterday's Gone (1986)
The Jetz -- Add It Up (Live, 1984)
The Key -- Those Days (1987)
This Is Ivy League -- London Bridges (2007)

Trolley -- I Woke Up

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Modcast #262: The Stuffed Cougar

This week Ken and Daren from The Shingles are bringin' the rock and roll to you.  They got the old stuff, the new stuff, the in-between stuff, and the stuffed cougar stuff. And it's the good stuff, if you know what I mean.


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88 - At Least It Was Here (Community: Music from the Original Television Series, 2010)
Kids - This is Rock'n Roll (The Kids, 1977)
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Hard Drivin' Man (Live) (Teenage Depression, 1976)
Boys - Schoolgirls (To Hell with the Boys, 1979)
Attention - Have A Drink (Gettin' All​.​.​., 2012)
Impressions - The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (The Young Mods' Forgotten Story, 1969)
Jimmy Hughes - Neighbor, Neighbor (Steal Away, 1964)
Solutions - My Mojo Ain't Workin' No More (Communicate!, 2004)
Dirtbombs - I'll Wait (Ultraglide in Black, 2001)
June Noa - Spin Around (Not Guilty, 2013)
Robin McKelle & The Flytones - Fairytale Ending (Soul Flower, 2012)
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Bahooka Tiki Restaurant 1967-2013

From The Vaults Modcasts #42 & #50 (2007)

Once more into the vault my friends, once more into the vault. Step back in time, to a time when the modcast was young and fresh. Take a giant step outside your current listening constraints and journey with me all the way back to those oh so suave days of 2007. I've opened up the vaults and dusted off a couple classic modcasts that I think you'll enjoy. Again.

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Modcast #42: But It's Alright

Here's another great episode of the Mod World, if I do say so myself. Lots of variety here with some soulful sounds, some 60s psychadelia, some mod revival, some pop-punk of the late 70s, and just overall good stuff.

• Sleeper -- Lie Detector
  
• Crawling Walls -- Fly Tonight
  
• Johnny Moped -- Incendiary Device
  
• Agent Orange -- Bloodstains
  
• JoBoxers -- Just Got Lucky
  
• JoJo Zep & the Falcons -- But It's Alright
  
• The Kick -- Stuck on the Edge of A Blade
  
• Wreckless Eric -- I Wish it Would Rain
  
• The Kinks -- (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
  
• The End -- Shades of Orange
  
• The Prisoners -- Wish the Rain

Bonus Videos: Here are two great videos from Sleeper. Delicious Nice Guy Eddie If you'd like to have your band featured on the modcast e-mail me at rob@mistersuave.com.

 

Modcast #50: Wanna Know A Secret?

Welcome to Mr. Suave's Mod Mod World, I've got lots of really interesting songs this week including some ska from Canada's Kingpins, some new stuff from Mando Diao and the Kaiser Chiefs, and some very excellent power pop from Permanent Green Light. Not to mention a bit of soul music, not the least of which is from Ms. Amy Wnehouse. If you want to get a look at Amy Winehouse and see her do Rehab live skip down below to where I've got the video posted. If you haven't heard Rehab yet you absolutely need to check this out. It's amazing how much she has perfectly captured the sixties soul sound. If you've got a question for me drop me a line at rob@mistersuave.com.

• Fingerprintz -- Do You Want to Know a Secret
  
• Permanent Green Light -- We Could Just Die
  
• Naz Nomad & The Nightmares -- Kicks
  
• SheBeats -- Marianne
  
• DC Fontana -- Take Your Time
  
• Betty Davis -- Walkin' Up the Road
  
• Amy Winehouse -- Tears Dry on Their Own
  
• Kaiser Chiefs -- The Angry Mob
  
• Mando Diao -- Morning Paper Dirt
  
• Subways -- City Pavement
  
• Kingpins -- Lot's Wife

Bonus Video: Amy Winehouse -- Rehab