A young guitarist named Maximiliano Chavez experiences a flash of divinity when he discovers the Wah-Wah guitar pedal in mid-1960s Peru and assembles Los Orientales de Paramonga - one of the cornerstone bands of Peru's psychedelic Chicha scene. Fiesta en Oriente was the band's second album - and the only one they recorded for the understatedly-historic Infopesa Records.
The most exhilarating rock album of the nineties came from the guitar and mouth of one of the most lovable heroes of the college rock eighties. Five years after the end of Hüsker Dü and without record label support, Bob Mould formed Sugar and found his melody on their debut album Copper Blue in 1992 - a ten-track treasure buried in plain sight amongst the chaotic Hair to Grunge Hunk transition of power.
A hobbyist Sikh devotional singer and her three sons create the first ever Asian-infused electronic dance album in England at their kitchen table in the Punjabi-populated London suburb of Southall in 1982. The record sat in obscurity until this year when Naya Beat resurrected and reissued the magic for our consumption.
A solid discog you could hold in one hand - Dead Kennedys managed to make some awesome rock and roll while simultaneously defying music industry promises and pee-pee tugs. We're gonna nip thru the whole DK catalog but go HARD on Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys number three - where the San Francisco-ness of Jello and the gang shines thru a little more than their perky punk past.
The first music ever recorded in the multi-track format in Ethiopia came about from a Swedish national living in Addis Ababa who offered use of his four-track recorder to a group of Ethio-Jazz workhorses named Ibex Band. The Ibex boys welcomed the opportunity and set up shop in the empty ballroom of a hotel. For two days they made magic that would lay dormant for close to fifty years before a formal release this past April. What a gift.
If you've ever listened to or bought this album because of (Don't Fear) The Reaper - then you were in for a big surprise upon the initial neck-to-nut - All five members of the BÖC each sing lead on at least öne of the ten tracks of Agents of Fortune. Nine other nuggets that sound nothing like the Reap - or each other - but somehow flow with flawless cohesion. An awesome classic rock record that remains buried in plain sight. And we're also gonna try and answer a question that no one seems to ask - who are Blue Öyster Cult?
After a decade of missionary work in Singapore, Sister Irene O'Connor returns home to Australia and unleashes her one true miracle - a 12-song lo-fi/high-spirit psyche-pop classic called Fire of God's Love.
Only a year removed from chaining themselves to the walls of the One-Hit WonderDome with Happy Together, jaded L.A. fun boys The Turtles stopped listening to their handlers and created an underrated thematic classic centered around fictional bands performing songs of various genres popular at the time. Battle of the Bands is a gold nugget mined from one-hit hindquarters. And it must be celebrated.
A group of working-class Bergen County Italians transform into zombie male strippers and form one of the coolest bands ever. This self-titled compilation (a.k.a. Collection I) was released by Glenn Danzig himself three years after the band broke-up, but it's the best single disc appetizer offering of the Misfits original run.
This week's ep is up early because myself, Jose and Bemba have to travel to Mexico for business. 1970's David Bowie is one of the greatest musical runs ever - but we begin with the Bowie's never-before-told quest to create his 1983 midlife crisis pop manifesto - Let's Dance.
Ry Cooder, one of classic rock's greatest journeymen convinces Malian legend Ali Farka Touré to forget about his rice farm for a month to create one of the coolest albums ever under the 'world music' categorical tag.
Years before getting the indie gold star with Before Today, Beverly Hills trust fundie Ariel Rosenberg recorded a couple hundred cassettes-worth of home made pastiche psychedelic bacterium while in high school and college. Loverboy was the fifth LP extracted from this low-fi/highly-invigorating cassette cache. It's my favorite of Phase I Ariel Pink - probably because it's the only one I own on vinyl. Also - we play Cupid and pop the cherry on the Cryofab Rejuvenation Machine II.
The two most staph-infected former members of the New York Dolls get stranded in England with their new band and unload an absolute classic. One of my very favorite two sides of vinyl everrrrr.
During the 1960's - in the wake of a Coup d'état and weird middle-of-the-night Presidential pushup challenges from JFK, Brazil started pumping out some of the most wonderful music ever created - Série Samba Soul is an obscure ray of delight from the early years of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira).
Doors-lovin' Liverpudlian sassboys Echo & the Bunnymen made a single-hander of LPs during the 1980's that are all solid. My favorite is number two - Heaven Up Here - Post-punk poundery that is perfect for soundtracking your BDSM adventure. If that's your thing - pervert.
Harry Hosono's tropical-themed Japanese jamboree from 1978 is the perfect album to put on if you ever find yourself dosed on acid at a Lu’a. Paraiso was Hosono's fourth LP released under his own name - but also the unofficial birth of Tokyo city pop forefathers the Yellow Magic Orchestra.
During the summer of '92 - amidst the official transition of rock and roll power from the Hair Hunx to the Grunge Hunx - the Gin Blossoms dropped the lovable New Mis' - a dryly joyous Mangina Music masterpiece that stands out by not standing out at all.
We pick up where we left off with Faith No More (Check out 045 Introduce Yourself) - the funk-metal carnival continues with a new singer and an oddball classic of an album that somehow wedged it's way into the 1989 popular music zeitgeist amongst an overstuffed populace of Pop Stars and Hair Hunx.
Hair-raising new album from one of Jose's favorite bands - we'll also explore nuggets from Water From Your Eyes' back catalog - boundless creativity with this duo.
Mick puts down his Majesties' wizard hat and Keith picks up open E and D tuning on the guitar as The Rolling Stones pound thru 1968 with something to prove - resulting in Beggars Banquet - the album when The Rolling Stones became The STONES.