November 8, 2020

Modcast #466: 21st Century Garage Rock Reenvisioned

Join me on my deep dive into modern garage rock, all from around the turn of the century. A new century required a new garage rock sound. And we got it. Built around buzzed out, guitar driven buzzsaw sounds and incorporating elements of everything from soul to grunge to modern alternative rock, all aimed at keeping the garage sound fresh but still recognizable.

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The Mooney Suzuki -- Everything's Gone Wrong
The Come-Ons -- Whatcha Got?
The Detroit Cobras -- Breakaway
The Dirtbombs -- Chains Of Love
The Boss Martians -- She's In You're Gone
Jet -- Last Chance
Hawaii Mud Bombers -- Surf N Don't Walk

The Hives -- Knock Knock
Oblivians -- Jim Cole
The Black Keys -- Girl Is On My Mind
The White Stripes -- Broken Bricks
The Flaming Sideburns -- The Witch
The Vines -- Outtatheway
The Datsuns -- In Love
The Libertines -- Up The Bracket

All the past garage rock modcasts:
Modcast #425: Garage Rockin' Through the 80s (2019)
Modcast #415: Garage Stompin' in the Sixties (2018)
Modcast #375: Time Out In The Garage (2016)
Modcast #314: Cleaning Out The Garage (2014)
Modcast #294: Garage Stompin' (2014)
Modcast #274: Everybody's Going To The Love-In (2013)
Modcast #161: Garage Rock 'Round The World (2010)
Modcast #3: In The Garage (2006)

Bonus Third Set

Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel

Detroit Cobras - I'll Keep Holding On

The Strokes - Barely Legal

The Von Bondies - Going Down

The White Stripes - Screwdriver

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Miles Away

The Sights - Rock and Roll Circus

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Hate The Taste

VPRO: Detroit Music Scene Documentary
A White Stripes & The Dirtbombs documentary made by the Dutch television station VPRO.

November 4, 2020

Modcast #465: The Devil Made Me Do It

Lucky you, you get to listen to DJ Ken's 13th annual halloween modcast, the unluckiest of modcast spooktaculars. Twenty tracks of ghoulish greatness. Like candy corn for your ears.

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You can catch up with any of the 12 past annual halloween modcasts right here.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Spooky Madness (Casper: A Spirited Beginning, 1997)

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (Black Celebration, 1986)

Damned - Black Is The Night (The Rockfield Files, 2020)

Fleshtones - Face of the Screaming Werewolf (Face Of The Screaming Werewolf, 2020)

Fred Schneider & The Shake Society - Summer In Hell (Fred Schneider & The Shake Society, 1984)

Kate Nash - Death Proof (Girl Talk, 2013)

No More Kings - Zombie Me (Apoca-Mix) (III, 2014)

Shaina Taub - If I Die Before You (Die Happy, 2018)

Horny Toad - Vampire Ska (Thirteen, 1996)

Baked A La Ska - Pesky Kids (Skalloween, 2019)

Slackers - Bo Evil (The Great Rocksteady Swindle, 2010)

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Chase The Devil (War Ina Babylon, 1976)

Tampico Mariachis - La Llorona (Día de los Muertos: Viva Mexico, 2016)

Michael Jackson - Is It Scary (Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, 1997)

Dusty Springfield - Haunted (A Brand New Me, 1970)

Robert Upchurch - The Devil Made Me Do It (Single, 1974)

The Heavy - A Ghost You Can't Forget (Hurt and The Merciless, 2016)

Kaiser George & The Hi-Risers - I'm Gonna Haunt You (Transatlantic Dynamite!, 2006)

Vista Blue - This Street Sucks (Tricks and Treats, 2019)

Fats Waller - There's Going To Be The Devil To Pay (Single, 1935)

Vintage Halloween Safety

November 3, 2020

Mr. Suave's Electile Dysfunction Election Night Special

From the vaults . . . I was going to do a special election episode of the Modcast, but in reviewing what I did in 2016 I found it was going to be hard to beat.

[Originally broadcast Nov. 2016] One year, 6 months, 27 days and 16 hours ago that 'nasty' woman announced her bid to become president in 2016. That means we've suffered through 829440 minutes of hearing about her effing e-mails. It wasn't much later that an orange hot air balloon slithered down that escalator and started the whole world laughing. Funny thing is, no one's laughing anymore. But it's all over now, except the screaming and shouting and suing.

So, turn on your least favorite cable news outlet whether it be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, turn the sound down on the tube and way up on your stereo system. With no talkin, just rockin' here is Mr. Suave's Electile Dysfunction Election Night Special playlist. Sort of like a soundtrack for your breakdown.

I'm Mr. Suave and I approved this playlist.

Featuring music from The Kinks, the Temptations, Barry McGuire, The Who, The vipers, The First Steps, The Rainyard, The Guess Who, Pretty Things, Jetty Boys, Slickee Boys, Buzzcocks, Mad Parade, Oingo Boingo, Devo, The Riptides, The Ruts, The Clash, Agent Orange, The Offspring, X, Steve Adamyk Band, The Ramones, The Cute Lepers, The Darling Buds, The Diodes, The Grays, Sam Cooke, Davie Bowie, Mountain Goats, The Chambers Brothers, The Addicts, Scissor Sisters and The Doors.

October 25, 2020

Halloween Grab Bag of Musical Goodness for 2021

Halloween 2021 is upon us!

Ever year about this time DJ Ken hunkers down in his basement lacing his candy with some serious vinyl and carving his annual Halloween Modcast.

October 23, 2020

Modcast #464: Who Did It Better?

Welcome to Modcast #464: Who Did It Better in which I will undoubtedly piss off a bunch of people by proclaiming various covers to be far superior versions than the original songs themselves. Change my mind! Covers from artists such as The Jam, Goldbug, Night Trains, Secret Affair, the Three O'Clock, Paul Weller, Scissor Sisters, Agent Orange, White Stripes, Material Issue, The Beautiful South, Men of North Country, Oingo Boingo, and Cake.

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Bonus Video Set

Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - The Fool On The Hill (1968)

The Fuzztones - Strychnine

The Offspring - Bloodstains

No Doubt - It's My Life

Green Day - Another State Of Mind

Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire

Chicago Transit Authority - I'm A Man

October 13, 2020

Modcast #463: We Have Lift Off!

Houston we have a problem, too much great music for just one modcast! From soul to power pop to punk to sixties styled R&B, I've got a great show standing on the launching pad ready to blast off to your ears. Crank up the volume on your headset and get ready to be blown outta this world.

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The Ghost Wolves -- Let's Go To Mars (2020)
The Sunchymes -- Emily Layne (2020)
The Lemon Drop Gang -- Georgie (2020)
The Corner Laughers -- Changeling (2020)
The Jaded Hearts Club Band -- This Love Starved Heart Of Mine (2020)
Eli Paperboy Reed -- That's Love (2020)
Billy Buchanan -- Love Me Right (2018)
Stone Foundation -- Deeper Love (2020)
Darron Robinson -- She Can Love (2020)

Nick Frater -- So Now We're Here (2020)
Brontosaurus -- Band Of The Week (2020)
The Bookends -- She's Got It (2020)
The Reflectors -- Teenage Hearts (2020)
Leslie Pereira & The Lazy Heroes -- Not To Me (2020)
Ed Ryan -- Let It Out (2020)
Bloods -- Girls Are Just Fucking Cool Like That (2020)
RX27 -- Murder Ballad (2020)
Live Ones -- Right On Sister (2020)

Be sure to check out Rum Bar Records free summer sampler: Somebody Out There Is Having A Party Vol 2

French Girls - No Morals

Foreign Films - Ocean Moon

James Taylor Quartet ft. Natalie Williams & Noel McKoy - People Get Ready

The Moons - Today

Hey My Friend - Brick Nova

Theater Royal - A Marvelous Death

60' Whales - Ready Go

September 23, 2020

Modcast #462: Skankin' To The Beat

Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Welcome to the skacast. Mr. Suave's Mod Mod world is going rocksteady this week with a full load of new ska and reggae tunes for you. I've mixed up a potent brew of new ska and reggae for you all. Your welcome.

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T-Killas -- Kowalski
Heavensbee feat. Mista Rhee -- Rude! Original! Suave! (A Tribute to Ranking Roger)
Omegaman feat. Kromanauts -- Politics of Greed
Subsetters -- bump In the Night
Lotek Hifi feat. Daddy Speedio -- This Is The Rebirth Of Rude
Emily Capell -- Lunatic On De Run
Johnny Reggae Rub Foundation -- No Bam Bam

The Specials -- B.L.M.
The Interrupters -- Easy On You
Kalles Kaviar -- 24 7 Ska
The Red Stripes -- Do The Ska
The Oldians -- Walking By The Line
Alpheus -- Gonna Be Good
Jamaican Jazz Lovers -- Delerium Tremens

T-KILLAS -- Dandy & Rude (Live Session)

Bite me Bambi- Song 2 (Blur Cover)

The Interrupters -- Easy On You

Crucial DBC -- Universal melody

Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Get Smart

The Slackers -- The Way Of A Woman

Get Up - Maroon Town

September 4, 2020

Modcast #461: The Lockdown Sound

Welcome to Mr. Suave's locked down, shut down, quarantined mod world. Periods of upheaval and trauma often result in amazing bursts of art -- physical art, written art, recorded art, all sorts of art. Since right after the global shut down I started scouring the interwebs for artists who were producing new music from lockdown. And I found it. Lots of it. More than one modcast could possibly contain. I'm not gonna do another one, at least not right away. So you'll just have to enjoy this one.

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Emily Capell -- Rapture (Sweet Rapture) (2020)
The Regrettes -- What Am I Gonna Do Today? (2020)
Muck & The Mires -- Zoom Breakup (2020)
Marc Platt -- Insane World (2020)
Andy Lewis -- In the Lockdown (2020)
Nick Pride & The Pimptones -- Don't Turn Me Loose (2020)
The Go-Go's -- Club Zero (2020)
Gallows Birds -- My Lambretta (2020)

Geoff Palmer & Lucy Ellis -- In Spite Of Ourselves (2020)
Goldfinger -- 99 Red Balloons (2020)
The Dollyrots -- Teenage Kicks (2020)
The Grip Weeds -- For Pete's Sake (Stay At Home!) (2020)
Billie Joe Amstrong (with Sussanna Hoffs) -- Manic Monday (2020)
Oliver Orton -- Days (2020)
Kurt Baker -- You Can't Do That (2020)
The Interrupters -- Get Down Moses (2020)

Watch more lockdown music:
Emmaline is Quarantined -- Vista Blue (2020)
Housebound Ska Collective - Feel Good Inc.
Sparks - All That (Live in Isolation)
CHRISSIE HYNDE & JAMES WALBOURNE – DYLAN LOCKDOWN SERIES 01: IN THE SUMMERTIME

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