The Oedipus Project
Tonight I present my annual Christmas Eve Broadcast on 89.7, WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR.
Around the world at www.wgbh.org/radio.
6 p.m.-Midnight (EST) Christmas (and this year Hanukkah) music from my private collection heard nowhere else.
Songs like:
“Simple Feeling” by Smoke Fairies
Peace
It’s coming on Christmas and we have a new Christmas song from L.A.’s Best Coast.
“Christmas and Everyday” was written for An American Girl Story – Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas, an upcoming Amazon Kids short film based on a character from the American Girl historical doll lineup.
Joyful power pop to put us in the mood.
Jonathan L as always on Monday from Berlin.
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*Hail Taxi “Crystal Clear” (Edmonton, Canada)
*Viruuunga “Going North” (Lugano, Switzerland)
*Miracle Flair “Still Remaining Part” (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
*Prince Alla f/Lone Ranger “Ethiopian Vibes” (Kingston, Jamaica)
*Sugar For Sugar “Bizarre Love Triangle” (New Order cover)
*Other Houses “Fabulous Dates” (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
RAMONES SONG OF WEEK:“Somebody Put Something In My…”
*Wax Tailor f/Raashan Ahmed & Mattic “The Chase” (France)
*Lossy “You Who’s Guiding Me” (New So.Wales, Australia)
*Go Satta “Giant Rock (33rd Parallel)” (Plymouth, England)
*The Sunjays “Certain Man” (Hamburg, Germany)
*Jane Jensen “Trust” (Los Angeles)
*The Georgia Flood “Whistle King” (Atlanta, Georgia)
*Kill Your Boyfriend “Man 4” (Treviso, Italy)
+Saphira “5 Minutes” (Switzerland)
*The Crocked Monsieurs “Pictures Of You” (South London)
*Gappy Ranks “Guide Me” (London, England)
*Jennifer Brening “Remember” (Lauingen, Germany)
*Theophilus London “Dance Hall Days” (Wang Chung cover)
*Maxhoseni f/ Dj Joejo “Ixesha” (Cofimvaba, South Africa)
*Dreamers “Sweet Disaster” (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
*Animal Noise “Little Things” (Colchester, Essex, England)
*The Mission “Met-Amor-Phosis” (Leeds, England)
*Eric Walker “Brand New Day” (New York)
*Ragweed “Rust Box” (Bristol, England)
*Beasto Blanco “Feed My Frankenstein” (Los Angeles)
RAMMSTEIN SONG OF WEEK: “Engel”
*Chickn “Aleppo” (Athens, Greece)
Jonathan L with Monday pleasure.
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*True Moon “Voodoo” (Malmö, Sweden)
*Anton (Ewald) “Devil” (Stockholm, Sweden)
*Nina Diaz “Trick Candle” (San Antonio, TX)
*DJ Maars f/ Born Ina Barn “Soundclash” (Melbourne, AU)
*Love Zombies “Birthday” (London)
*Dead To Me “I Wanna Die In Los Angeles” (San Francisco)
*Gang Of Four “At Home He’s A Tourist” (Live 2016) (Leeds, U.K.)
*Statickman “Soul Young” (Santiago, Chile)
*Brandish “Airport Song” (Launceston, Tasmania)
*Rafael & Energia “Hasta que salga el sol” (Dominican Republic)
*Kate Tempest “Europe Is Lost” (Southeast London)
*X-ite Project “The Sound Of Goodbye” (Bremen, Germany)
*Hooten Tennis Club “Kat-Anne Bellis” (Liverpool, U.K.)
*Jason Ryan Taylor “Feeling Me” (N.Y.)
*Miracle Flair “Soul Witness” (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
*Lee Fields & The Expressions “How I Like It” (Brooklyn, NY)
*Sky Between Leaves “Out Of Body Experience” (London)
*The Blet Project “A Love Of Sin” (Edinburgh, Scotland)
*Alice Cooper “Is It My Body” (new live 2016 version)
*Wildhart “Heal” (Göteborg, Sweden)
*Betontod “Freunde” (Rheinberg, Germany)
*Pepperhead “See Through You” (Sydney, Australia)
*Waconzy “Ogbono” (Nigeria)
*IAMEVE “Starman” (Los Angeles)
*Allusondrugs “Good People” (Yorkshire, England)
*Fauna Twin “Water On Mars” (Paris, France)
RAMONES SONG OF WEEK: “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”
*The Undivided “Satellites” (South Wales)
RAMMSTEIN SONG OF WEEK: “Du Hast” (live version)
*Screamin Rachel “My Main Man Chump Change…” (Chicago)
The Hamilton Mixtape records new versions of the songs from the ground-breaking Broadway play “Hamilton”.
Featuring a diverse range of artists from the Roots to Usher, Wiz Khalifa to Chance the Rapper, here Regina Spektor along with Ben Folds sing “Dear Theodosia”, a song that Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton sing to their newborn children, reflecting on fatherhood, their own lives as orphans, (Hamilton an immigrant), and promising to do everything possible to make it a better country for them.
Prescient today…
“Dear Theodosia” Regina Spektor (featuring Ben Folds)
Honeyblood is the Scottish female duo with the wonderfully named Stina Marie Claire Tweeddale on vocals and guitar and Cat Myers providing additional vocals and drums.
Babes Never Die is their 2nd album. Listen to “Sea Hearts” and “Cruel”.
“Sea Hearts”
“Cruel”
Jonathan L discovers so much new music for us every Monday.
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*The Inconsistent Jukebox f/Marie Fontaine “LikeyNike” (Leeds)
*Michael Resin “Vicious Minds Project” (Bex, Switzerland)
*The Interrupters “She Got Arrested” (Los Angeles)
*The Sunjays “Konnichiwa” (Hamburg, Germany)
*Placebo “Jesus’ Son” (London, England)
*Hubert Kah “Niemand Ist Wie Du” (Germany)
*The Mission “Blood On The Road” (Leeds, England)
*Vonny & Clyde f/Terri Bjerre “Higher” (Hamburg, Germany)
*Rachel Mason “Tigers In The Dark” (Los Angeles)
*Wax Tailor “Ecstasy” (France)
*Waconzy “True Story” (Nigeria)
*Louis Berry “Restless” (Liverpool, England)
*Ben Ford-Davies “Vitruvian Man” (Adelaide, So. Australia)
*Tensnake “Desire” (Hamburg, Germany)
*The Souls “Run Baby Run” (Switzerland)
*Darkhause “Feel My Pain” (Livingston, Scotland)
*Moby & The Void Pacific Choir “Hey Hey (New York)
*Miracle Flair “The Unfulfilled” (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
RAMONES SONG OF WEEK: “My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down”
*Martin Nocun “80s Kids” (Bournemouth, U.K.)
*Michael Sweet (Stryper) “One Way Up” (Whittier, CA)
*Arash f/ Snoop Dogg “OMG” (Malmö, Sweden)
*Kieran Robertson “Wizard” (Glasgow, Scotland)
*Novelists “5:12 AM” (Paris, France)
*So-Star f/Que Da Wiz “Spell Of Magic” (Manchester, England)
RAMMSTEIN SONG OF WEEK: “P*SSY (Radio edit)
*Hey Bulldog “Divide And Conquer” (Manchester, England)
Superlative singer/songwriter Laura Marling is preparing a new album, Semper Femina, for the new year.
Exploring intimacy and love of a woman toward women the song “Soothing” is an advance.
“Soothing”
Jonathan L with another edition of the SHE Show, female artists of note.
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*Delerium “Stay” (Canada)
*Sky Baby Siren f/ Elia) “Day By Day” (Sydney, Australia)
+ Chrissi Poland “Shaky Man” (New York City)
*Kate Tempest “Lionmouth Door Knocker” (Southeast London)
*Hirie f/ Nattali Rize “Woman Comes First” (Hawaii)
*Suzanna Van Moyland “Mind In Mind” (London)
*Jane Jensen f/M. Bisi “Cowboys Make Good Lover’s (Los Angeles)
*Double Françoise “Les French Chanteuses” (France)
*Goat Girl “Country Sleaze” (South London)
*Norma Jean Martine “No Gold” (Middletown, N.Y.)
*Saphira “5 Minutes” (Switzerland)
*Sunday Wilde “That Man Drives Me Mad” (Canada)
+Rykarada Parasol “Le Fils du Pere Noel” (Paris/SF)
*Lucy Dacus “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny…” (Richmond, VA)
*Jim Button “Keep Calm And Carry On” (Hamburg, Germany)
*Babeheaven “Moving On” (West London)
*Tamara Bubble “Break Yo Back” (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
*Katharina Busch “Try Try” (Zürich, Switzerland)
*Mandasue Heller “Crazy” (Manchester, England)
*Delta Omega f/Alyona Ivanova “All Right All…” (Russia)
*Elohim “Hallucinating” (Los Angeles)
*Charlee M. “No One Knows” (Germany)
*Forever Still “Miss Madness” (Copenhagen, Denmark)
*April Anne “Winding Road” (Phoenix, AZ)
*Icielani “Hands Up High” (Toronto, Canada)
*Just A Gent f/Melissa Ramsay “Loaded” (Newcastle, U.K.)
*Lights That Change “7 Union (For Louise)” (N.Wales/London)
*Go Satta “Go Dub” (Plymouth, England)
*Ilona “Love’s Out The Window” (London)
*Zoe Zac “Heartbreak And Scopolamine” (Hobart, Australia)
+Little Sparrow “I Found A Way” (Manchester, England)
Now more than ever. A song for this holiday from Massive Attack.
Thank you!
“Be Thankful For What You’ve Got”
Jonathan L, our Berlin connection.
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*La Bella Luna “Jim’s Big Hit” (London)
*Vonny & Clyde “Traum” (Hamburg, Germany)
+Karen Clercq “Questions réponses” (Brussels)
*Witchcraft “The Outcast” (Sweden)
*Spring King “Detroit” (United Kingdom)
*Waconzy f/ Ras Slick “Linda Ikeji” (Nigeria)
+We Used To Make Things “(The Google Song)” (London)
*Daniel Briegert & Kenny Laakkinen “Outta Space” (Hanover)
*Sleaford Mods “TCR” (Nottingham, England)
*Martin Nocun “Esta Loca” (Bournemouth, England)
*Pixies “Talent” (Massachusetts)
*Banks & Steelz “Anything But Words” (N.Y.C.)
*Blackberry Smoke “Waiting For The Thunder” (Atlanta, GA)
*D.D Dumbo “Walrus” (Australia)
RAMONES SONG OF THE WEEK: “We Want The Airwaves”
*French Horn Rebellion “The Right Time” (Brooklyn)
*Adam Harpaz “Waterslide” (Sydney, Australia)
*The Step “Stay Awake” (London/Rome)
*Saliva “Loneliest” (Memphis, TN)
*Vonny & Clyde & HSR f/Terri B “Show Me” (Hamburg)
*Overlord “Mission To Mars” (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
*B-Bless “Why” (N.Y.C.)
*New Model Army “Burn The Castle” (Bradford, England)
*Mozaics “Always Want You” (Channel Islands/York)
*Déjà Vega “Friends In High Places” (Winsford, U.K.)
*The Harlots “Umma Gumma” (Melbourne, Australia)
*The Mission “Tyranny Of Secrets” (Leeds, England)
*William Gray “Drops In The Ocean” (China/U.K.)
*Tyketto “Reach” (New York)
RAMMSTEIN SONG OF WEEK: Du Riechst So Gut” (Live)
The third album from The Orwells, rambunctious rockers out of suburban Chicago, is expected in early 2017.
From Terrible Human Beings, “They Put a Body in the Bayou” is an early taste.
Lucy Dacus is a new singer/songwriter based in Richmond, VA.
Her debut, No Burden, features the poignant song “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore”.
Jonathan L. We still have our music.
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*Chuck Roberts “In The Beginning” (C.Carmone Remix) (Italy)
*M.I.A. “Bird Song” (Blaqstarr Remix) (London, England)
*Saliva “Hand In Hand” (Memphis, Tennessee)
*Yannick Burky “Livin’ The Dream” (Switzerland)
*Grandaddy “Way We Won’t” (Modesto, CA)
*James Edge and the Mindstep “Four Two Four” (Kent)
*We Used To Make Things “Colin Is Unwell” (London)
*DGM “Animal” (Italy)
*Famp “Can You Remember” (Vienna, Austria)
*D’Opus & Roshambo “The Road” (Canberra, Australia)
*Benjamin Schoos “The Dragonfly Man” (Paris, France)
*Dalton Deschain & The Traveling Show “Freakshow” (N.Y.C.)
*Velvet Flare “6th Of June” (Brisbane, Australia)
*The Society “Begging” (Manchester, England)
+ Kids On Bridges “Something In The Water” (Liverpool)
*Mesh “The Last One Standing” (Bristol, England)
*The Controllers “You Think You Are…” (Melbourne, AU)
*Atmosphere “Like A Fire” (Minneapolis)
RAMONES SONG OF WEEK: “Howling At The Moon”
*The Tallest Man On Earth “Rivers” (Dalarna, Sweden)
*Oasis “Don’t Go Away” (Mystique Demo) (Manchester)
*Selahphonic “Easy” (Sunshine Coast, Queensland)
RAMMSTEIN SONG OF WEEK: “Benzin” (Live version)
*Valdaway “Beautiful View” (Perth, Australia)
*The Lion & The Wolf “Heaven Forbid” (Isle Of Wight)
*So-Star f/ Dying Seed “Getting The Signals” (Manchester)
*Twilight Force “Powerwind” (Borlänge, Sweden)
Leonard Cohen has died.
A poet and a dreamer with an unforgettable baritone, his last album, You Want It Darker, came out a few weeks ago.
The title track is a fitting epitaph.
“You Want It Darker”
