Modcast #578: Get Mod Jazzed

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Good luck trying to get a definitive answer to what mod jazz is. It's like the famous comment by US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when asked to define what obscenity is: "I know it when I see it." Well thats me with mod jazz folks, I know it when I hear it. Maybe soul jazz is a better shorthand term, this music certainly has a lot of soul to it. All I can do is play the music for you and let you be swept away by it.

Parlor Greens -- The Ripper (2025)
The Lewis Express - Sliced, Diced And Fried Twice (2025)
Lance Ferguson's Rare Groove Spectrum -- Egg Roll (2019)
Dani Nello Organ Trio -- Bric-à-Brac (2024)
The Bongolian -- Soul Drums on 110th Street (2020)
Big Boss Man -- Cuban Heel Blues (2024)
Organ Freeman - You Said You Quit Drinkin' (2017)

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Love Land (2023)
True Loves -- Good Weed & Red Wine (2025)
Abramo & Néstor - Dig It! (2025)
Tee See Connection - Skyline Chili Churner (2024)
Melvin Craig -- Grits N Gravy (2023)
The New Mastersounds - Scrappy Doo (2024)
The Jazz Defenders - Meanderthal (2024)

Bonus Third Set

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)


Rolling on a High - The Jazz Defenders & Doc Brown (Official Video)


The Big Man (Live in Paris) - The Jazz Defenders


True Loves - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)


Menagerie - Free Thing


Nick Hempton & Cory Weeds - Conn Men


Nina Simone- Work Song Live (Merv Griffin Show 1966)


Roy Hargrove Quintet 'Top Of My Head' | Live Studio Session


The Mastersounds - Minnie The Kicker


What Is This Thing Called Love?


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Modcast #577: Floor Fillers

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From deep within the bowels of Suave Manor in -somewhat- beautiful West Seattle on this third rock from the sun comes another pack of power poppin' floor fillers guaranteed to get you up and pogoing, shimmying, shoulder shakin' or whatever it is that moves your tailfeather. New tunes from KVNX, The Wrong Society, The Embrooks and more. Tune in, turn on and get to listenin'.

The Vapors -- The Human Race (2025)
Star Collector -- I Feel You (2025)
Brent Seavers -- I Am Free (2025)
The Pengwins -- Betty And Johnny (20??)
20th Century Boys - Suzy (2025)
Gnome -- It's Never You (2025)
The Wrong Society -- Misery Has Got Me Down (2024)
Great Buildings -- Another Day In My Life (1981)

Los Pepes -- Molly Coddle (2025)
The Capellas -- Zig Zag Wanderer (2025)
The Embrooks -- Terry And Julie (2024)
The Prmitives -- Rattle My Cage (2025 ?)
Geoff Palmer -- Teenage Memories (2025)
KVNX -- I Love You More (2025)
Fortune Tellers -- Take Me Back (2003)
Trambeat -- Blow Up The Groove (2025)

Bonus Third Set

Kathy Valentine & Neal X (KVNX) "The Whole World Lost It's Head" at The 100 Club


Trambeat - Don't Hold Back


Toni Basil -- My Little Red Book


The Skints - In Between Days


Shake Some Action! - Half Past Three


Icecream Hands - Yellow & Blue


Televisionaries - Mad About You


Vista Blue - Somebody's Favorite Band


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New Year, New Mod Friendly Music

Here it comes, my updated for 2025 Spotify list of contemporary bands with sounds that appeal to the modern mod. Just a few samples, be sure to check out each group's full discography.



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Modcast #576: I Can See Clearly Now

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I'm walking, I'm seeing, it's like I'm a real boy again! What's a boy to do when things start getting better? Make a better modcast! And here it is, a show stocked with all new music from bands and artists to whom I give my mod world seal approval.

Sorrows -- What A Good Boy! (1981/2025)
The Mads -- Time By Time (2024)
Taxi Girls -- Rainy (2024)
The Bullets-The Unreleased James Broad Sessions -- High Fivers (200?)
Hexham Heads -- Can't Live Without You (2025)
The Negative Men -- Chain Reaction (2025)
Lambrini Girls - No Homo (2025)
The North Rocks -- Polly Wants Attention (2025)

The Pomps -- Rubber Room (2025)
The Tearaways -- The Wrecking Crew (2019)
The Sound Minds - I'm Not A Bad Guy (2024)
The 7:45s -- Too Little Too Late (2025)
Soul Grenades -- Angel (2024)
Floyd James & The GTs -- Work That Thang (2025)
The Dustaphonics -- La Fille De Piccadilly Street (2025)
The Primevals -- I'm The Man Wulf (2025)
The Laissez Fairs - Living In The Summer (2024)

Bonus Third Set

The North Rocks - Come Along With Me


The Hellflowers - Girl U Want


The Saucy Jacks - Summer's Almost Over


Catbite - Die in Denver


The Molotovs perform Come On Now (original) in Kristianstad Sweden


The Fizz Pops - Feel It In Time


The Targets - Searching for a Scene


The Sound - Golden Soldiers


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Modcast #575: Never Stop

Here we come with the first real new show for 2025 of the Modcast that just keeps going and going. I'm spotlighting some brand new music this time around, as well as some great recent releases that I think you all will enjoy. And of course, I've dropped a few gems yesteryear throughout. So, quit wasting time and never stop listening!

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20/20 -- Lucky Heart (2025)
Librarians With Hickeys -- No More Goodbyes (2024)
Carla Olson and Tall Poppy Syndrome -- Is It True (2025)
The Computers -- Mr. Saturday Night (2013)
International Love Corporation -- Feel More Next To Me (2022)
The Second Summer -- The Reason (2024)
Junior Dell & The D-Lites -- Just Can't Get Enough (2025)

Strange Neighbors -- Influencer (2024)
Telejet -- Beautiful World (2024)
The Ramones -- 7-11 (1981)
L.A. Exes -- Get Some (2021)
The Acid Lemon -- No More (2025)
The Hellflowers -- I Cried (2024)
The Vaccines -- Bad Mood (2013)
Teenage Frames -- Only Lonely Tonight (2024)

Bonus Third Set
The Hellflowers - I Cried


The Vaccines - Bad Mood


Seattle band mega cat cover the Beastie Boys “Sabotage”


Friends of Cesar Romero - Baby Razorblade


Secret Affair - Let Your Heart Dance


The Charlatans UK - Can't Get Out of Bed


Fortune Tellers - Take Me Back


Eurovox - La La La

Modcast #574: Mr. Suave's Faves of 2024

Time again for me take a look back at last year, not in anger, but in awe that I survived. And it was thanks in large part to some great music from many great artists. So here is my humble little list of the bands and albums that I played over and over again, my favorites from 2024.

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Bad Moves -- New Year's Reprieve
Jupiter Motel -- Summer Kids
Lunchbox -- Summer's Calling
Wifey -- Ocean Imagery
Brent Seavers -- Roller Coaster Ride
The Wynotts -- Good Time Charlie
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets -- Love Starvation
The Rifles -- Out For The Weekend
The Prisoners -- Break This Chain
Haircut 100 -- The Unloving Plum

Sharp Class -- Fly By Night
The Well Wishers -- Back Down Son
WIMP! -- Little Heart
Friends of Cesar Romero -- Last Summer A Year From Now
Shake Some Action! -- I Don't Know Where She Goes
The Umbrellas -- When You Find Out
The Cynz -- Room Without A View
Futon Lasagna -- Something 2 Say
CLASS -- Be-Bop With The Rats
Bite Me Bambi -- Girls Like You

Bonus Third Set

The Vendettas - Man With No Name


The Galileo 7 - Can't Go Home


Green Day - Strange Days Are Here To Stay


Paul Heaton - Quicksand


The Explorers Club - Knock, Knock


The Mocks - Do You Want Me Too?


The See No Evils - Spring Time

Modcast #573: Insert Theme Here (Christmas 2024)

Here comes Santa's two laziest elves with a sackful of songs for your seasonal enjoyment. The pack is bulging with tunage from The Happy Somethings, Mayer Hawthorne, Bite Me Bambi, Ben Folds, the Monkees and lots more. DJ Ken from The Shingles joins me in hosting this year's modcast Christmas office party.

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Mayer Hawthorne -- Merry Christmas Party
Shake Some Action! -- Christmas In The Sun
The Monkees -- House Of Broken Gingerbread
The Weeklings -- Festivus
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize -- Christmas Shopping
Jesse Wagner With Western Standard Time Ska Orchestra - Merry Christmas
Bite Me Bambi - Mall Santa
Angry Snowmans - Gift Card
Ralphie's Red Ryders -- Black Bart
The Happy Somethings -- It's Christmas Time (we're as miserable as sin)
Tommy and the Rockets -- December Snow
Timmy Sean -- It Doesn't Feel Like Christmas
Ben Folds -- Christmas Time Rhyme
Jamie Cullum -- Christmas Don't Let Me Down

Tis the season so, here is the oft requested Mr. Suave's Swingin' Christmas, originally mixed in 1999. (Download or spotify)

The Ghost of Modcast Christmas Past Is Here To Haunt You

Bonus Videos

John Waters - It's a Punk Rock Christmas


The Primitives - You Trashed My Christmas


The Yobs - Rub A Dum Dum - Live at Rockefeller


Kittenhead - Falala


June Christy - The Merriest


Palmyra Delran - Coal in My Fishnet Stocking


Cliff Hillis -- Christmas Songs Tonight


X - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Mr. Suave's Swingin' Christmas 2024

Here is the oft requested Mr. Suave's Swingin' Christmas, originally mixed in 1999.

All music, no annoying chatter! A way back when, every year I would crank it up at our annual holiday hootenannies. Then eventually posting the track list online, and generally spreading the cheer. And every year people would beg me to burn them a copy. I even burned dozens of CDs as Christmas gifts in 2000. Seems that people really dig it because of the wide variety of christmas music; it's got everything from Combustible Edison to Frank Sinatra, from the most excellent holiday special ever The Year Without a Santa Claus to the Waitresses, to Bing, Ella, Burt and lots more. I revised and expanded it for the modcast back in 2007.

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Opening- Fred Waring
Happy Holidays -- Mel Torme
Jingle Bells -- Juan Garcia Esquivel
Winter Wonderland -- Ella Fitzgerald
Mr. Snow Miser -- Johnny Thompson**
Sleigh Ride on High -- Squirrel Nut Zippers
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer -- Billy May & His Orchestra
Toot, Toot, Tootie, Toot -- Duke Ellington
Let It Snow -- Lena Horne
Christmas in Las Vegas -- Richard Cheese*
Christmas Wrapping -- The Waitresses
A Time To Be Jolly -- Bing Crosby
Skating -- Vince Guiraldi
The Merriest -- June Christy
Warm December -- Julie London
We Four Kings -- The Blue Hawaiians
Baby, It's Cold Outside -- Dean Martin
Caroling -- Nat King Cole Trio
The Bell That Couldn't Jingle -- Burt Bacharach
Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling -- The Starlighters*
Merry Christmas Darling -- The Carpenters
It Happened In Sun Valley -- Mel Torme
Ring Those Christmas Bells -- Peggy Lee
Merry Christmas Everyone -- Edison LightHouse*
Christmas Time Is Here -- Combustible Edison (on Late Night with Conan O'Brien)**
Mr. Heat Miser -- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Frosty The Snowman -- Ray Conniff Singers
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- Cyndi Lauper/Frank Sinatra
Merry Christmas Baby -- Charles Brown and Bonnie Rait*
Eggnong -- Ramsey Lewis Trio*
Melekalikimaka -- Kasey Musgraves and Zooey Deschenel*
Holiday Cheer -- The Martini's*
Ixtahuele - White Christmas*
Little Jack Frost -- Emilie Clair Barlow*
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -- Bing Crosby
Auld Lang Syne -- Bobby Darin

*Not on original playlist
**Not on Spotify Playlist