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Marking three years since Durand Jones & The Indications put out "American Love Call," with the debut of the visuals to "Morning In America" having dropped this week in 2019. Lots of new music both hours with Dan Lloyd kicking the door in for our AMPED rock weekly.
"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.
Apr 7, 2022
The Drop with Danno
Durand Jones & The Indications – Morning In America
Brainstory – Seasons
Holy Hive – Hypnosis
Bobby Oroza – Sweet Agony
Topher James & Biscuit Brigade – Tell Your Story
Shirley Davis & The Silverbacks – Keep On Keepin’ On
Adrian Quesada feat iLe – Mentiras Con Carino
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Love Age
Lizz Kalo – Transition
Dizzy Gillespie – Tin Tin Deo (Nerd Star remix)
Lucky Daye feat Alex Isley & vbrtns – Ego
Durand Jones & The Indications – How Can I Be Sure
I.
It is 20 hours past midnight after an absolutely pristine and sunny day here in our fair city of light and it is time to get funky punky here on The Drop. Hoping you’re having enjoying the sunshine because everybody loves it and this Thursday is sunshine clarity forever as April 7, 2022. This is Danno, of course, doing what I do studio 2 in downtown Gwangju, how do you do? Lots of new stuff to go over in both hours tonight, with new cuts out from Bobby Oroza, Lucky Daye, and our main local girl Lizz Kalo to look forward to. And of course, for our AMPED feature Day Lloyd has a LOT of stuff to showcase as last week was dedicated to the dearly departed Taylor Hawkins, and our weekly AMPED rock showcase takes off in the 2nd hour as per usual to close the gig. But before any of that takes place it’s time for our TIGHT (or) feature to open the circus tent for tonight, as we mark three years since Durand Jones put out their sophomore LP American Love Call, and it was this week that the band dropped an inspirational video for dark times. THIS is The Drop.
Durand Jones & The Indications – Morning In America
The Drop has departed for tonight’s audio adventure for this week’s Thursday funk punk soul rock showcase that we call Sampled & AMPED. This is Danno doing the funky stuff for hour 1, and who better to open with than the Indiana boys made into stars with $425 and a case of Budweiser? That was Morning In America by Durand Jones and The Indications for our TIGHT (or) opener tonight.
The band now based in New York dropped their sophomore album three years ago in mid-March titled American Love Call. Freshly signed with Dead Oceans, the album proved a solid hit for the band, upping their profile immensely.
This week marks the video release of that lead single to the LP, a protest anthem filled with hope for the future, showing signs of everyday kindness on the streets of New York as the rest of the nation struggles.
For those who do not know of the band, they are undoubtedly one of the best funk & soul outfits out right now, and while they were still students at Indiana they had put out their debut self-titled LP which cost $425 and a case of bud for the production team.
The group most recently put out Private Space last year, their 3rd LP, and drummer/falsetto vocalist Aaron Frazer is doing amazing things in the production booth nowadays while also putting out his debut solo LP very early in 2021, that is titled Introducing so do check all of that if you liked what you heard there.
#9870, @gfnthedrop, pod.
So, we’re gonna keep it pretty chill for tonight with most of the new stuff veering in that direction sonically, so up next we have a couple tunes from Brainstory and Holy Hive that are not new, but then we’ll finish with the Finnish and Bobby Oroza whose latest single to his upcoming LP is out this week, and we shall of course delineate after we let the vibes flow through. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop is back at the verbosity this week, and it is our Sampled funk & soul Thursday night for here in the first hour. Danno checking in with you after our first block of cuts, and Dan Lloyd will be going through a busy docket of rock for tonight’s AMPED weekly in hour 2 of the show. As to the wave we just let swerve in the stellar realms, that was...
Brainstory – Seasons (…this one is from the band’s latest LP which dropped last year in June and is called Ripe. The band hails from the Inner Empire of California, one of two very good psychedelic soul outfits sported by Big Crown Records featured in the block. And that naturally brings us to…)
Holy Hive – Hypnosis (…this tune dropped in 2020 as a single in the lead-up to the Float Back To You LP dropping, which was so good. The group dropped their latest LP which is self-titled late last year on September 24, all of that also available via Big Crown Records.)
Bobby Oroza – Sweet Agony (…and to finish off the Big Crown triad in that block, that’s the latest single from Get Into The Otherside, which will be the Helsinki-based crooner’s sophomore LP out June 10. Bobby will be joining us on the phone for an exclusive playlist and interview on June 3 as our guest artist selector, and we’ll get a sneaky spin on an unreleased joint or two if we’re so lucky.)
Now we’re just about out of real estate here on the clock, so we gotta get a couple more joints in before the buzzer sounds on quarter one. Up next is the title track to Topher James & Biscuit Brigade’s new EP Tell Your Story, and congrats to the Ohio-based band on that. To finish we’ll go with something a tad more upbeat from Shirley Davis and The Silverbacks who are out with their new LP called…oh yes…Keep On Keepin’ On, and we’ll rock the title track to call time on our first fourth. This is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul first hour.
Topher James & Biscuit Brigade – Tell Your Story
Shirley Davis & The Silverbacks – Keep On Keepin’ On
II
Into the 2nd quarter with the sauteed platters for tonight’s Soul food feast first hour. Danno here keeping things at a reasonable temperature before Dan Lloyd knocks down the studio door and makes everything explode, but for now we just opened with a pair of cuts to start the 2nd stanza, so let’s read the scoresheet. That was...
Adrian Quesada feat iLe – Mentiras Con Cariño (…this is the latest from the producer and guitarist who co-founded the Grammy-nominated Black Pumas. On his own of late, Quesada has really been digging deep on the Latin soul tradition to be found in Texas and other areas of the US, and this latest one that dropped last Wednesday is no exception. For those not understanding the title, it means lies with love.)
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Love Age (…for those that missed it, we had Sure Fire maestro Tim Felten on the show, and the San Diego-based instrumental outfit has dropped their latest LP Step Down as of last Friday. We were honored to premiere this tune on the program March 25, and big up to Tim, the band and Colemine Records for the honor.)
#9870, @gfnthedrop, pod.
So, continuing forward, our very own Lizz Kalo is out with her latest single as of last Friday called Transitions, and we have a Dizzy Gillespie remix after that along with something new and very thick from Lucky Daye, all of which we shall discuss after we dive into the miasma. This is The Drop on your funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop gets with the mic spit for the final time here in hour 1 tonight. Danno here, keeping the funk wafting through the air as we prepare for Dan Lloyd and his overloaded bag of rock for this week starting shortly. As to what just went up and down in the space elevator, let’s recap the haps…
Lizz Kalo – Transitions* (…our main girl out of South Africa based right here in Gwangju is out with her latest single as of last Friday. The bigger news is she’s taking her Creative Social event that’s been happening monthly here in Gwangju to Busan and Seoul. Creative Social Busan is happening April 30, so do check local listings for where and when.)
Dizzy Gillespie – Tin Tin Deo (NerdStar remix) (…a tune that originally was put out in 1977 has gotten the treatment. For those of you not familiar with the remixer here, NerdStar has really gained a rep over the years for these kinds of remixes, previously having given the treatment to Chet Baker, Big Mama Thornton, and John Lee Hooker.)
Lucky Daye feat Alex Isley & vbrtns – Ego* (…this is off the latest LP from the New Orleans-based artist called Candydrip. This LP sees the artist taking a decidedly slow burn approach to the music on the LP, that cut being a prime example.)
Okay, so as we started tonight we’ll finish in 2019 with Durand Jones and The Indications on the American Love Call LP. We’ll finish the first 57 with How Can I Be Sure to let Aaron Frazer flex the falsetto, and THIS is The Drop at halftime.
Durand Jones & The Indications – How Can I Be Sure
III & IV AMPED
PUP – Relentless
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Here Ever After
Wet Leg – UR Mum
Jack White – Hi-De-Ho (ft. Q-Tip)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Magenta Mountain
Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
Foals – Looking High
Joyce Manor – Gotta Let It Go
Slipknot – Duality
Tree River – Journey Proud
Horsegirl – World of Pots and Pans
PUP – Relentless
Positive reviews across the board for the 4th record, The Unravelling of PUPtheBand, and deservedly so. It’s a really unhinged record, as the title would suggest, swerving wildly between some of the noisiest and the sweetest music PUP has ever recorded, all the while entertaining the listener with the humorous, self-deprecating lyrics that have become a trademark of the band. It’s an excellent album.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Here Ever After
Mixed reviews for the new Chili Peppers album Unlimited Love. Some critics seem to love it: Rolling Stone called it “vintage RHCP: a jammy, melodic effort that blends the wavy reflections of their 1999 triumph, Californication, with the expansive rock of Stadium Aracadium.”. Others are not so impressed with the new release; the Independent said “it’s safely on-brand. It’s just smoother, and slower, and sloppier than before.”. I’m more in the former camp. It’s not a perfect record by any means, but it’s great to have Frusciante back in the fold and there are some real late-career highlights on this album.
Wet Leg – UR Mum
On Friday, Isle of Wight’s Wet Leg will release their eagerly anticipated self-titled debut album. Since unleashing their first single in June last year, things have moved at lightning speed for Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – from selling out all their live shows in minutes, performing on US TV three times, being crowned number 2 in BBC’s Sound of 2022 to racking up 40M global streams and 9M YouTube views as well as been touted, most recently, by Dave Grohl, Lorde and Jack White. Before all twelve tracks from Wet Leg are revealed, today the duo share new song “Ur Mum”.
“Ur Mum” opens with a spectacular insult lobbed in the direction of an ex-boyfriend: "When I think about what you've become, I feel sorry for your mum" but the song also nods to outgrowing the slow pace of life and small town energy of the island: “When the lights go down on this fucking town, I know it's time to go" and results in Rhian letting out her “longest and loudest scream” for 11.02 seconds. Teasdale says of the song: “I was pretty angry at way things had gone in this particular dynamic. It’s just a diss song I wrote to make myself feel better. It worked.”
Jack White – Hi-De-Ho (ft. Q-Tip)
From new album Fear of the Dawn, out tomorrow. I’m warming to this track, it has a much more experimental feel than the other singles from the record, more like his excellent previous solo outing Boarding House Reach. Hoping to hear him push the envelope more on the rest of the album.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Magenta Mountain
Earlier this month, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard announced a new album called Omnium Gatherum by sharing the single “The Dripping Tap.” Now, the Australian rockers are ready to share more details about the forthcoming LP, starting with another new song, “Magenta Mountain.”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard previously referred to Omnium Gatherum as their own White Album. After making three records during the pandemic entirely remotely, the LP was the first time the band recorded together in two years, and in their reunion excitment, they created a sprawling, genre-hopping double album. Track two of 16, “Magenta Mountain,” shimmers with vibrant keys and compressed drums, a candy-coated pop song swaddled in a few extra minutes of psychedelic experimentation.
KG multi-instrumentalist Ambrose Kenny-Smith discussed the origins of “Magenta Mountain” in a statement. “You know when you have a really weird vivid dream and it sticks with you like glue? One day I came into the studio and Stu was trying to write one of them down,” Kenny-Smith said. “He kept banging on about this paradise called Magenta Mountain that he had seen but none of us believed him. Every day since then he’s been still trying to convince us all that it’s real and one day he will.”
Omnium Gatherum arrives in full on April 22nd,
Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
Liam Gallagher has released his latest single “C’mon You Know,” the title track off his upcoming third solo album.
The song follows the Dave Grohl-featuring “Everything’s Electric” as the second single off the iconic English rocker’s forthcoming LP C’mon You Know, which is scheduled to be released on May 27th.
Ahead of unleashing the studio recording to the world, Gallagher debuted “C’mon You Know” live during a March 26th concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the UK nonprofit organization Teenage Cancer Trust. At that show, he also dedicated “Live Forever” to the memory of the late Foo Fighters drummer — and self-described Oasis superfan — Taylor Hawkins, who tragically passed away last week in Bogotá, Colombia ahead of the band headlining Estéreo Picnic 2022.
Foals – Looking High
Foals have shared their latest single, ‘Looking High’ .The song is the latest preview of the trio’s upcoming new album ‘Life Is Yours’, which is set for release on June 17.
Having originated as a demo by guitarist Jimmy Smith, ‘Looking High’ came to life after Smith reunited with Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis and drummer Jack Bevan post-lockdown.
Produced by John Hill (and featuring co-production by Miles James and additional production by A.K. Paul), ‘Looking High’, Philippakis explains, “is looking back to a more hedonistic time in my life, and a more innocent time in society in general, pre-pandemic and before the existential threat of climate change”.
“It takes place in an alley in Oxford with two clubs – The Cellar and The Wheatsheaf – that all the city’s nightlife gravitated towards,” the singer added.
“It was before clubs started to close down and our cities started to change into more corporate, arid places. There’s an element of being haunted by nightlife that’s no longer there.”
Joyce Manor – Gotta Let It Go
Joyce Manor have announced their sixth studio album 40 oz. to Fresno, slated for release on June 10th. As a preview, they’ve also shared the lead single “Gotta Let It Go.”
Like many projects released over the past few years, 40 oz. to Fresno came to life when singer and guitarist Barry Johnson kept busy during quarantine by writing music. Reuniting the Northern Torrance band with Cody producer Rob Schnapf, the album was mixed by Tony Hoffer and features Motion City Soundtrack’s Tony Thaxton on drums.
As you might have guessed, the title was taken from an autocorrected text about Sublime’s 1992 debut 40oz. to Freedom. “This album makes me think of our early tours, drinking a 40 in the van on a night drive [while] blasting Guided By Voices and smoking cigarettes the whole way to Fresno,” Johnson shared in a statement. Check out the artwork and tracklist below the jump.
Clocking in at under two minutes, “Gotta Let It Go” features Joyce Manor leaning more punk than pop, as Johnson lets loose a cathartic yelp while screaming the lyrics.
Slipknot – Duality
Unfortunately the late, great Joey Jordison – who once won a GRAMMY with Slipknot – wasn't included in the GRAMMYs' annual In Memoriam video segment last night.
Though the drummer was mentioned in their long list on the website, Joey was seemingly excluded from the evening's proper televised video tribute, which featured the likes of Taylor Hawkins, Mark Lanegan, Dusty Hill, Meat Loaf and Charlie Watts.
As Rock Feed point out, Joey attended the GRAMMYs to collect Slipknot's Best Metal Performance gong for Before I Forget in 2006, while the band have also previously been nominated for the likes of Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Rock Album.
It's not the first time a rock or metal legend has been forgotten at the ceremony, either, with Vinnie Paul not making the cut in 2019, nor the likes of Keith Flint, Wayne Static, Kyle Pavone, Jeff Hanneman, Riley Gale, Dave 'Oderus Urungus' Brockie, or Nick Menza throughout the years.
Tree River – Journey Proud
Brooklyn’s Tree River play a poppy, expansive brand of emo that incorporates everything from rip-roaring pop-punk to twee blog-rock revivalism to twinkly, soaring TWIABP-style epics to late-’90s post-grunge radio hits to bold, breathy dream-pop. Time Being, their new album out today, is produced by Kevin Dye of gates and includes a guest feature from Say Anything’s Max Bemis on “Crossroading.” Its songs are impressively dynamic, building smartly until they overflow with vocal hooks and melodic riffs. Occasionally, they’ll hit you with a surprise flourish like the brass section that pushes “Thought Bubbles” to the heavens. If you don’t mind extremely earnest lyrics like “I’ll trace along your scars/ ‘Cause healing’s a work of art,” this band’s onslaught might just buoy you all the way through your next personal crisis.
Horsegirl – World of Pots and Pans
After an impressive South by Southwest where they won the Grulke Prize for
Developing U.S. Act, Chicago’s Horsegirl have shared a second single from their forthcoming debut album Versions of Modern Performance ahead of its June 3 release on Matador. “World of Pots and Pans” follows lead track “Anti-glory,” and is accompanied by a clever video in which the trio—Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals) and Gigi Reece (drums)—hand-animate the lyrics on an old-school overhead projector.
“‘World of Pots and Pans’ is the first love song Horsegirl has ever
written—or the closest thing to it,” Horsegirl explain in a statement. “We wrote it in Penelope’s basement while preparing to leave for our first-ever tour. The lyrics, inspired by the misinterpretation of a Television Personalities lyric, imagine a (possibly unrequited) romance unfolding through references to Tall Dwarfs, Belle & Sebastian, and The Pastels.”