Dream Babes Volume 4
Go Girl
(2003)
320
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02 April 2026
Lyres – On Fyre At The Rusty Nail 1985 (2025) 320
** The Rusty Nail was a throwback to an earlier time, a wayward roadhouse/live music venue in the wilds of Western Massachusetts, located 15 minutes up the road from the University of Massachusetts, in the woodsy hill town of Sunderland, population 3400. The wood hewn hole in the wall featured an eclectic variety of touring acts, who would bypass the bigger college towns in favor of playing at the Nail. I saw James Brown and the Buzzcocks there, to name a couple. However, for my money, the greatest show ever staged at the Rusty Nail was Lyres’ performance on March 29, 1985.
The band was road-tested and on top of their game, having toured the US and Europe relentlessly in the months prior, in support of their 1984 album On Fyre. They tore through a fast and furious set, an hour and change of non-stop rock 'n' roll, pausing only for Jeff Conolly to tell the audience, "This is a one o'clock club, which means you have to drink twice as fast."
As Lyres closed the show with "What a Girl Can't Do," the audience was left awestruck, buzzing, and sweaty.
Exactly four months after this show was recorded, the Rusty Nail burned to the ground.
Some said the fire was caused by faulty wiring, while others alleged an insurance bust-out scheme. My favourite theory is that it was burned down by local residents who were sick and tired of Rusty Nail patrons parking, pissing, and/or puking on their lawns.
I consider this album to be the finest Lyres live recording in existence. It has been pitch-corrected, remixed, and remastered from the original two track soundboard recording. On Fyre at the Rusty Nail 1985 is a testament to Lyres as not just one of the greatest bands from Boston, but one of the greatest bands from anywhere. **
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01 April 2026
Jeff Beck - 1991 - Beckology
Jeff Beck - 1991 - Beckology
The next 15 tracks represent the core of the Yardbirds' output during Beck's tenure, which lasted from March of 1965 through the summer of 1966 -- anything here could justify a place on a Yardbirds best-of set; the makers have rounded this disc out with four live cuts by the band from the BBC archives, including Beck's extraordinary homage to Elmore James' guitar playing on "The Sun Is Shining" and the unheralded group original "Love Me Like I Love You", and finish the platter with Beck's first three solo single sides, two of which, "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and "Tally Man," comprise the guitarist's brief, achingly beautiful virtuoso digression into trippy psychedelic pop, before he broke through to the more fertile field of what came to be known as heavy metal. Disc two is all of that, made up of the core of his output with the Jeff Beck Group and Beck Bogert & Appice, the latter filled out with a pair of previously unissued tracks: a live version of "Blues Deluxe/BBA Boogie" and "Jizz Whizz."
Disc three skips across Beck's instrumental sides off of Blow by Blow, Wired, and There and Back and his tour with the Jan Hammer Group from the later 1970s, and wraps up with ten songs from Flash and Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop, sandwiching some key odd singles and Beck's contributions to the soundtracks of the movies Twins and Porky's Revenge. There are flaws in this set, to be sure; originally conceived as a four-disc retrospective, it was reduced to three, over Beck's wishes that some proposed cuts be omitted and Sony Music's timidity over the sales prospect of the four-CD set. But it is a good package within those boundaries, with fairly thorough annotation accompanied by great photos and a Pete Frame family tree, and, above all, excellent tape research -- not only were the right masters (i.e., the mono masters) used on "Hot House of Omagarashid" and "Lost Woman," but this is also the only CD package to combine the Yardbirds' 1965 catalog material with their 1966 tracks (owned by separate parties who will not get together). The mastering of it all is so clean that it put most of the older versions of this material to shame at the time. (AllMusic)
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James Ray And The Performance / James Ray's Gangwar – Best Of James Ray's Performance & Gangwar (1996) 320
* Tracks 1 to 5 by James Ray And The Performance *
*Tracks 6 to 14 by James Ray's Gangwar *
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Various Artists
Dream Babes Volume 3
Backcomb 'N' Beat
(2001)
320
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31 March 2026
2020 - Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One Strange Timez (Deluxe)
2020 - Gorillaz - Song Machine, Season One Strange Timez (Deluxe) @320
Gorillaz started the year with Episode 1 - ‘Momentary Bliss ft. slowthai and Slaves’ - of Song Machine, a whole new concept from one of the most innovative bands around. Now, six episodes in, Noodle, 2D, Murdoc and Russel have visited Morocco and Paris, London and Lake Como, as well as travelling all the way to the moon, and Gorillaz is ready to bring you the full collection titled Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez, out on 23rd October 2020.
Song Machine is the ongoing and ever-evolving process which has seen Gorillaz joined by an expanding roster of collaborators captured live in Kong Studios and beyond. The result is an expansive collection of tracks embracing a myriad of sounds, styles, genres and attitudes from a breath-taking line-up of guest artists including Beck, Elton John, Fatoumata Diawara, Georgia, Kano, Leee John, Octavian, Peter Hook, Robert Smith, Roxani Arias, ScHoolboy Q, Slaves, Slowthai, St Vincent and 6LACK, as well as CHAI, EARTHGANG, Goldlink, Joan As Police Woman, JPEGMAFIA, Moonchild Sanelly, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Skepta and of course Tony Allen.
Virtual band Gorillaz is singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, guitarist Noodle and drummer Russel Hobbs. Created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. (Amazon)
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Various - Slitherama - Teen Trash From Psychedelic Tokyo '66 - '69 Vol 3 (1991) 320
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The Sences – Better Than Before (2024) 320
* Garage rock band from Thessaloniki, Greece. *
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Various Artists
Dream Babes Volume 2
Reflections
(2001)
320
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30 March 2026
CosmasMix 196
Here's my latest monthly mix to catch you up on all the new and newly re-released indie gems that have been coming out this past month. Another mix with 59 tracks for your listening pleasure.
Exclusively new (and newly reissued) indie releases from mid February to mid March 2026, featuring: Nothing, Wavves, Dika Bagja, Cola, Memorials, Prism Shores, Salt Lake Alley, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sister Ray Davies, Happypills, Soft Kill, Castlebeat, Mute Swan, lowsunday, Velvet, Beach Vacation, Slow Crush, SPC ECO, Youth Valley, Sun Shines Cold, Seefeel, Deary, Lucid Express, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, "Gorillaz, Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda, Black Thought", Bomb the Bass, Cabaret Voltaire, A Place To Bury Strangers, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Television, The dB’s, Talking Heads, Wall of Voodoo, Talk Talk, Re-Flex, New Order, Follytechnic Music Library, The Cairn String Quartet, The Cure, The Smiths, Andy Partridge, Arctic Monkeys, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, The Early Years, The Wave Pictures, Fort Not, Victoryland, New Candys, Stone, TV Sound, MX LONELY, Sunday Mourners, GHOSTWOMAN, Juliana Hatfield and Eric Payne, Liz Cooper, Kim Gordon, Rachel Love, and The Kitchenettes.
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