While Zooey Deschanel is currently doing her own thing, giving She & Him a rest, M. Ward’s been busy as well. The indie/alternative all-star band on A Wasteland Companion includes Dr. Dog’s Toby Leaman, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, DeVotchka’s Tom Haberman, the Cardinals’ Jon Graboff and Norfolk and Western’s Amanda Lawrence. The album comes out April 10.
This lush single’s video was directed by animator Joel Trussel.
How Come You Never Go There (Beck Remix) by Feist
You’ve been hearing “How Come You Never Go There” by Feist on Lightning 100. Now here the version Beck remixed! What do you think?
Here’s the playlist for January 28th:
Craig Finn – When No One’s Watching (Full Eyes, Vagrant)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames – Old L.A. (New Multitudes, Rounder)
Jim White – Infinite Mind (Where It Hits You, Yep Roc)
Laura Gibson – Skin, Warming Skin (La Grande, Barsuk)
Graffiti6 – Free (Free EP, Capitol)
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Major (Out Of Frequency, BMG)
Jessie Baylin – Hurry Hurry (Little Spark, Blonde Rat/Thirty Tigers)
Kathleen Edwards – Empty Threat (Voyageur, Zoe/Rounder)
The Soul Rebels – Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (Unlock Your Mind, Rounder)
Shawn Lee’s Incredible Tabla Band – Apache (Tabla Rock, Ubiquity)
Trailer Trash Tracys – You Wish You Were Red (Ester, Domino)
Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless (Attack On Memory, Carpark Records)
Portugal. The Man – Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) (In The Mountain In The Cloud, Atlantic)
(Show #952; aired on 01-28-2012)
1982 was definitely the “center lane” for Techno-Pop! New Brit and L.A. bands were experimenting with dance club mixes full of rhythmic beats, synthesized keyboards and added special effects. The rest of the U.S. was playing it safe with a clean, more polished sound. Many top market Rock stations were starting to tighten-up their playlists with highly-researched songs in a format called Album Oriented Rock (AOR). But don’t worry… we’ll be going a lot deeper than that on today’s program. Have fun listening! — Fred
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| ARTIST | TITLE | ALBUM |
| The Steve Miller Band | Abracadabra (LP cut) | Abracadabra |
| Asia | Only Time Will Tell | (self-titled debut) |
| R.E.M. | Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars) | Dead Letter Office |
| David Johansen (live) | We Gotta Get Out of This Place (trilogy) | Live It Up |
| The Fixx | Stand or Fall | Shuttered Room (debut) |
| Billy Joel | Allentown | The Nylon Curtain |
| Melissa Manchester | You Should Hear How She Talks… | Hey Ricky |
| Don Henley | You Better Hang Up | I Can’t Stand Still (solo debut) |
| Trio | Da Da Da | Musique |
| Supertramp | It’s Raining Again | …Famous Last Words… |
| Pete Shelley | Homosapien | Homosapien |
| Talk Talk | Talk Talk | Party’s Over (debut) |
| Chris de Burgh | Don’t Pay the Ferryman | The Getaway |
| Richard & Linda Thompson | Walking on a Wire | Shoot Out the Lights |
| TV THEME | “Cheers” | |
| Musical Youth | Pass the Dutchie | The Youth of Today |
| A Flock of Seagulls | Space Age Love Song | (self-titled debut) |
| Martha and the Muffins | Danseparc (Everyday It’s Tomorrow) | Danseparc |
| Donnie Iris | Love Is Like a Rock | King Cool |
| The Police | Spirits in the Material World | Ghost in the Machine |
| Planet P (f/Tony Carey) | Why Me? | Planet P Project |
| MOVIE – David Bowie | Cat People (Putting Out Fire) | “Cat People” (OST) |
| Journey | Still They Ride | Escape |
| Icehouse | Great Southern Land | Primitive Man |
| Roxy Music | More Than This | Avalon |
| Duran Duran | Save a Prayer | Rio |
| LOCAL – Jim Peterik (w/Survivor) | Eye of the Tiger | Eye of the Tiger |
| LOCAL – Steve Winwood | Valerie | Talking Back to the Night |
| LOCAL – Adrian Belew (w/King Crimson) | Heartbeat | Beat |
| Joe Jackson | Breaking Us In Two | Night and Day |
| Warren Zevon | Looking for the Next Best Thing | The Envoy |
| Huey Lewis and the News | Bad Is Bad | Sports |
| The J. Geils Band | Freeze-Frame | Freeze-Frame |
| Moving Pictures | What About Me | Days of Innocence |
| Rainbow | Stone Cold | Straight Between the Eyes |
| Fleetwood Mac | Gypsy | Mirage |
| The Cars | Since You’re Gone | Shake It Up |
| THEN – Van Halen | Dancing in the Street | Diver Down |
| NOW – Van Halen | Tattoo | A Different Kind of Truth (forthcoming 2/7) |
| Peter Godwin | Images of Heaven | Images of Heaven (debut) |
| The Alan Parsons Project | Sirius–>Eye in the Sky | Eye in the Sky |
| Bonnie Raitt | Me and the Boys | Green Light |
| Lindsey Buckingham | Trouble | Law and Order (solo debut) |
| BEATLE – George Harrison | That’s the Way It Goes | Gone Troppo |
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| NEXT SATURDAY: 1971 | ||
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I thought some of you would enjoy some older Avett Brothers. Here is “Denouncing November Blue,” a track off of Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions.
Click here if you want to see a few videos from the last time the Avett’s were in the Lightning 100 studio.
Now here’s a Mashup/cover I can get behind. Some people don’t get Bon Iver. Some people don’t like Bon Jovi. This video, from post-rock band Miracles of Modern Science, just might help out both camps.
