Nonstop Pop

On this week’s show: Space-age pop from France (LA FEMME), Italy (VOV VOV!) and the USA (Lake Ruth). Plus American post-punk (Self Improvement), indie pop (Ryli, Whitney’s Playland, Graphic Violets), dream pop (Coral Grief), garage rock (Snake Lips) and punk (Piggy Bank). And more from around the globe, from Germany (Peugeot Brigitte, Empty Bones) to Australia (Gargoyle, The Fillmores) to Luxembourg (Autumn Sweater) and Brazil (MERCENÁRIAS).

What I played, and where to get more from each featured artist, all just a short scroll away…

PLAYLIST:

Coral Grief – Rockhounds
https://coralgrief.bandcamp.com/album/air-between-us

Lake Ruth – The Next Level
https://lakeruth.bandcamp.com/album/hawking-radiation

VOV VOV! – Nancy’s Track
https://vovvov.bandcamp.com/album/sunbathing-in-a-magnetic-field-ep

LA FEMME – Venus
https://lafemme.bandcamp.com/album/rock-machine

Self Improvement – Scam
https://selfimprovement.bandcamp.com/album/syndrome

bIG*fLAME – Debra (session)
https://preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com/album/peel-sessions-84-86

Empty Bones – Funfair
https://emptybonesandbottles.bandcamp.com/album/speed-commitment-and-luck

Retail Drugs – person A
https://retaildrugs.bandcamp.com/album/person-a

MERCENÁRIAS – ONTEM
https://munsterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ba-83-87

Piggy Bank – No Codes
https://discosperoquebien.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-recognition

Peugeot Brigitte – Lasso
https://flennen.bandcamp.com/album/flennen-no-16

Snake Lips – Thumbs Up
https://snakelips.bandcamp.com/album/cat-beach

Whitney’s Playland – Long Rehearsal
https://whitneysplayland.bandcamp.com/album/long-rehearsal

Graphic Violets – Hard to find
https://graphic-violets.bandcamp.com/album/immune-from-evil

Autumn Sweater – Ambulance
https://autumnsweatermusic.bandcamp.com/album/adult-life

The Fillmores – the far right
https://critterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/giant-seagull-boogie-and-associated-movements-for-the-modern-condition

Ryli – Medicine Speed
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-and-get-me

Gargoyle – Quintana
https://gargoyleband.bandcamp.com/track/quintana

Uranium Daughters – I Saw Your Obituary
https://uraniumdaughters.bandcamp.com/album/parfait

On this week’s show: A special Cycles Per Second this week, with guest DJ Joe Silva (athens441.org) and I trading off new tunes from artists in our respective hometowns of Athens, GA (Sloan Brothers, Temple of Calisthenics) and Seattle, WA (somesurprises, Casual Hex). Plus the usual global sampler, incl electronic music from LA (THiQ), Berlin (Diane Electro) and the UK (The Microbes), punk from Detroit (TY), indie pop from Vienna (laundromat chicks) and reissues from longtime faves The Verlaines and World of Pooh.

Where to find out more? Why, in the links set out before you…

PLAYLIST:

Cola – Mendicant
https://bandcola.bandcamp.com/album/mendicant

World of Pooh – Stones Of Judgment
https://bulbous-monocle.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-pooh-tight-loose

Artificial Go – Hallelujah
https://artificialgo.bandcamp.com/album/musical-chairs

laundromat chicks – Want Some Air
https://laundromatchicks.bandcamp.com/track/want-some-air-2

The Verlaines – War In My Head (demo)
https://verlainesband.bandcamp.com/track/war-in-my-head-demo

somesurprises – Lush
https://somesurprises.bandcamp.com/album/year-without-spring

Sloan Brothers – In For Love
https://chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/jay-gonzalez-vs-sloan-brothers

Casual Hex – The System
https://casualhex.bandcamp.com/album/zig-zag-lady-illusion-ii

Temple of Calisthenics – Air Raid
https://primordialvoid.bandcamp.com/album/primordial-god

THiQ – Yes/No
https://thiq.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-cats