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"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.
Sampled & AMPED 09/07/2023
Sampled Funk & Soul: Low Rider Latin Soul Special
Part 1 & 2
Sunny & The Sunliners – Give It Away
New Holidays – Maybe So Maybe No
Thee Sineers – What’s His Name
Thee Sacred Souls – Will I See You Again?
Los Yesterdays – Who Made You You?
Sly Slick & Wicked – Sho’ Nuff
The Devonns – Long Goodbye
Aaron Frazer – Bring You A Ring
Durand Jones & The Indications feat Y La Bamba – Cruisin’ to the Parque
Thee Lakesiders – Parachute
Bobby Oroza – Maybe, Maybe, Maybe
Lizette y Quevin – Grow Forever
125th Street Candy Store – Silent Heart
Francisco Aguabella – Fantasy
AMPED with Dan Lloyd
Part 3 & 4
Royal Blood – Shiner in the Dark
Gaslight Anthem – Little Fires
Maneskin – Honey (Are U Coming?)
Sprints – Up and Comer
Angel Du$t – Racecar
Smash Mouth – Walking on the Sun
Perennial – Dissolver
Doom Scroll – Anoxic
’68 – Removed Their Hooks
Geese – Jesse
Bad Rabbits – Garden of Eden ft Rou Reynolds
Rid of Me – Gutted
Part 1
Sunny & The Sunliners – Give It Away
New Holidays – Maybe So Maybe No
Thee Sineers – What’s His Name
Thee Sacred Souls – Will I See You Again?
Los Yesterdays – Who Made You You?
Sly Slick & Wicked – Sho’ Nuff
The Devonns – Long Goodbye
Facts
Sunny & The Sunliners – Give It Away
- When it comes to living legends in the Texas and Latin Music pantheon, few have been at it longer and are more revered by their fans and peers than soul vocalist and Mexican-American songwriter and ban-dleader Sunny Ozuna. Born and raised in San Antonio, where he still resides, Sunny became a star right out of high school in the late ‘50s and hasn’t looked back in the six decades since.
- One label that’s been instrumental in bringing Ozuna to a new generation, Latin or otherwise, is Big Crown Records, who’ve done several compilations of Sunny’s work in recent times.
- Like Ebo Taylor highlighted yesterday, a living legend, Sunny Ozuna, bless up!
New Holidays – Maybe So Maybe No
- This is a classic that recently got the repressing treatment from another label that has huge respect for the elders of our collective audio past, that is Athens of the North.
- This tune was originally put out in 1969, and never got the respect it deserved. Great to see the past, especially tunes like this, brought to a new generation, and letting the past live in its colorful glory.
Joey Quiñones & Thee Sineers – What’s His Name
- One of the current exponents of the Latin or Chicano Soul sound out of the famed barrio of East LA, this tune was put out by Big Crown in that auspicious year of 2020.
- Latin soul originates from LA, and is the Spanish-speaking community’s take on the funk & soul sounds coming out of the African-American areas of LA & The US in the 1960s.
Thee Sacred Souls – Will I See You Again?
- Heading down the coast to San Diego, we find this trio consisting of Josh Lane, Sal Samano, Alex Gar-cia.
- This joint dropped in 2020, courtesy of Penrose Records and Audiotree.
Los Yesterdays – Who Made You You?
- Another band that appears courtesy of Penrose, this is a quartet that started as a garage project between two mad geniuses, as the label puts it.
- Said geniuses would be founders Gabriel Rowland and Victor Benavides, and this is the band’s latest piece of space silk, released earlier this year.
Sly Slick & Wicked – Sho’ Nuff
- Now, for anyone out there not familiar or not totally fluent, sho nuff would be Ebonics for sure enough, just to be clear.
- This is a band founded in Cleveland back in 1970, with this tune getting released on a 7” single via Peo-ple in 1973.
The Devonns – Long Goodbye
- I don’t know what it was about the pandemic, but lots of good stuff happening in the low rider soul cate-gory during that year, this being another example from our part 1 playlist tonight.
- This was the final tune on Chicago-based soul quartet’s self-titled debut, which dropped on June 5 of that year, pandemic be damned.
Part 2
Aaron Frazer – Bring You A Ring
Durand Jones & The Indications feat Y La Bamba – Cruisin’ to the Parque
Thee Lakesiders – Parachute
Bobby Oroza – Maybe, Maybe, Maybe
Lizette y Quevin – Grow Forever
125th Street Candy Store – Silent Heart
Francisco Aguabella – Fantasy
Facts
Aaron Frazer – Bring You A Ring
- An amazing new release from the Durand Jones & The Indications drummer and falsetto vocalist, with this solo tune coming on a brilliant translucent grey heart-shaped record.
- The vinyl will be available tomorrow, and the tune just dropped last night. Aaron Frazer is doing some amazing things in the studio, in the booth, and everywhere else.
Durand Jones & The Indications feat Y La Bamba – Cruisin’ to the Parque
- This is an adaptation en español for all the Latin crowd that dug the band’s original, which didn’t feature on the band’s breakout American Love Call LP, but was released as a standalone in August of 2019 just months later.
- This version featuring Y La Bamba was released later on in February 2021.
Thee Lakesiders – Parachute
- Not sure what it is with all of thee determiners in the Cali soul outfits, but this is another example after a handful in part 1 tonight.
- The band put this beauty out in 2018 via Big Crown, and are the duo of Izcalli Marie and Necalli del Lago.
Bobby Oroza – Maybe, Maybe, Maybe
- A man you might suspect is from So Cal or even further south given the moniker, but indeed this is Finn-ish crooner Bobby Oroza, who’s deeply influenced by the low rider Latin soul aesthetic.
- This was on Oroza’s debut album This Love, also released on Big Crown, and Bobby just put out his sophomore LP Get On The Otherside earlier this year.
Lizette y Quevin – Grow Forever
- This is an interesting duo, as Lizette is actually a ceramics artist while Quevin is Brainstory lead singer Kevin Martin.
- This tune came out on a 7” single from March 2020.
125th Street Candy Store – Silent Heart
- This is a 45 or 7” single as the kids nowadays call them put out by trailblazing Latin soul label Fania in 1967.
- The band were early examples of the so-called Nu Yorican sound, with Spanish speakers all over NYC creating a new area of distinctively Latin soul in the Big Apple.
Francisco Aguabella – Fantasy
- Francisco Aguabella was an Afro-Cuban percussionist whose career spanned folk, jazz, and dance bands. He was a prolific session musician and recorded seven albums as a leader.
Part 3 & 4 AMPED with Dan Lloyd
Royal Blood – Shiner in the Dark
Gaslight Anthem – Little Fires
Maneskin – Honey (Are U Coming?)
Sprints – Up and Comer
Angel Du$t – Racecar
Smash Mouth – Walking on the Sun
Perennial – Dissolver
Doom Scroll – Anoxic
’68 – Removed Their Hooks
Geese – Jesse
Bad Rabbits – Garden of Eden ft Rou Reynolds
Rid of Me – Gutted
Royal Blood – Shiner in the Dark
The UK Official Albums Chart midweek results are in, and Royal Blood are currently on course for their fourth consecutive Number One.
The duo’s ace new 4/5-rated LP Back To The Water Below is impressively outselling its nearest competitor (The 1975) by two-to-one, following in the footsteps of their 2014 self-titled debut, 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark? and 2021’s Typhoons in sitting at the top spot.
Elsewhere, Biffy Clyro men Simon Neil and Mike Vennart are also enjoying Top 10 success with Empire State Bastard’s crushing Rivers Of Heresy, which is at Number Seven in the midweeks.
Gaslight Anthem – Little Fires
At the end of October, the Gaslight Anthem are releasing their first new album in almost a decade, History Books. They’ve shared two singles from it so far, “Positive Change” and the Bruce Springsteen-featuring title track, and today they’re back with another single, “Little Fires.”
“‘Little Fires’ is like the opposite end of the spectrum from the frustration you feel in ‘History Books,’” Brian Fallon said in a statement. “It’s an empowerment song, about refusing to play along with the kind of people who always seem to be throwing a grenade into the room for no particular reason.'”
Though not credited up top like the Boss, “Little Fires” does feature guest vocals from a boss: PUP’s Stefan Babcock.
Maneskin – Honey (Are U Coming?)
Following plenty of teasing, Måneskin have just released a brand-new single, Honey (are u coming?).
The track arrives ahead of their RUSH! world tour, as well as a performance at the MTV VMAs later this month (where they’re nominated in the Best Rock category).
Says bassist Victoria De Angelis of how Honey (are u coming?) came about: “We wrote the song right after the tour, we still had a lot of energy from the touring and the travelling. We wrote it in between London and LA. We're really happy with the result and we think it’s something quite new for us.”
“It’s the story of someone who has no gender or anything, you decide whoever it is,” adds singer Damiano David. “Find someone else and they can see in their eyes that there’s some sadness that they feel out of place and it’s an invitation from one person to another to join them into this new adventure without knowing what they’re actu-ally going to find, but just enjoy the adventure.”
Sprints – Up and Comer
The Dublin band Sprints have been around for a few years now, gaining traction in the UK with a string of sin-gles and EP that stretch back to their start in 2019. Today, they’re announcing their debut album, Letter To Self, which will be out at the very beginning of 2024.
They shared “Adore Adore Adore” from it a few months ago, and now they’re back with the snarling “Up And Comer,” in which bandleader Karla Chubb reflects on being labeled as a rising star: “I wear a smile like it’s a runner, your despise like a badge of honor/ They say she’s good for an up and comer.”
“‘Up And Comer’ is a pretty dry take on a fear and self consciousness that has been ruminating in me since I picked up an instrument,” Chubb said in a statement. “This innate fear that maybe I would always be ‘good for a girl’, but would I ever actually be great? It’s an invisible narrative that has been constructed by the doubts and negativity I’ve been fed by others, as well my own imposter syndrome.”
Angel Du$t – Racecar
A little more than a week ago, Baltimore hardcore legends Trapped Under Ice reassembled in classic-lineup form, with Turnstile leader Brendan Yates back on drums, to headline LA’s massive hardcore festival Sound And Fury. Videos from that set look absolutely insane. Now, TUI leader Justice Tripp is back to business with his other band Angel Du$t, whose forthcoming album Brand New Soul is shaping up to be something special.
We’ve already posted the Brand New Soul tracks “Love Slam,” “Very Aggressive,” and “Space Jam,” and now Angel Du$t have also shared a righteous new song called “Racecar.” It’s a fast, giddy banger that exists at the largely-unexplored border between hardcore and power-pop, and it’s got guest vocals from Fizzy, singer for the New York band Loosey. It’s hard to even describe a catchy, melodic pummel like this one, so I’ll stop trying.
Smash Mouth – Walking on the Sun
Steve Harwell, the former lead singer of the rock band Smash Mouth, which was best known for its 1999 hit “All Star,” died on Monday. He was 56.
His death, at his home in Boise, Idaho, was confirmed by the band’s manager, Robert Hayes, who said the cause was liver failure.
Smash Mouth was founded in 1994 in San Jose, Calif., and was made up of Mr. Harwell, the guitarist Greg Camp, the drummer Kevin Coleman and the bassist Paul De Lisle. Its first success came with the song “Walkin’ on the Sun,” from the band’s debut album, “Fush Yu Mang” (1997).
An upbeat track with a dark undertow, calling to mind both the Doors and contemporary ska-punk, “Walkin’ on the Sun,” with songwriting credits going to all four band members, went into steady rotation on MTV and topped Billboard’s alternative chart.
Perennial – Dissolver
Art-punk trio Perennial have announced their newest EP and offered up its explosive first single “Dissolver.” The Leaves of Autumn Symmetry, out September 1, is an in-studio reworking of the group’s 2017 debut The Sym-metry of Autumn Leaves. Five of the group’s first songs have been polished and perfected, brought back to life with an even sharper sonic edge under producer Chris Teti. “We really took time to cut these songs up into col-lage material and see what new angles we could find,” explains guitarist Chad Jewet, “splashing paint on them, replacing instruments and making the whole thing a bit more modernist, a bit more impressionistic.”
“Dissolver,” a biting, acerbic high point on the record, sees Perennial at their best. Mountainous guitar licks and energetic, delinquent lyrics rise and then fall, building to a final minute of lilting, screechy excellence.
Doom Scroll – Anoxic
Doom Scroll are an acoustic punk band who release their second album Pyrrhic Victory in October on Fat Wreck Chords. There’s not a ton of info about the band online but their sound is best described as NOFX or Blink-182 but with acoustic guitars and washboards instead of power chords and drums. It’s an interesting, novel take on the genre.
’68 – Removed Their Hooks
The mighty ’68 have just announced details of their “heaviest” album to date, entitled Yes, And…
Due out on September 29 via Pure Noise, the album follows 2021’s Give One Take One, and according to vo-calist/guitarist Josh Scogin, it’s a bit of an accident that it ended up this way…
“This is by far the heaviest album ’68 has ever done,” he teases. “It wasn’t on purpose, it just sort of evolved into what it is. As soon as we could see the full gravitas of the album, we just leaned into it. Many of the bluesy tracks didn’t find a home and some of the parts that were on the fence, we doused with gasoline.
“For us, the pendulum has never been extended so far, in one direction. This is exciting because it was obvious how this album needed to turn out and it pretty much solidifies how the next album will end up as well.”
Geese – Jesse
Earlier this year, Geese released their album 3D Country. (This is the Brooklyn indie rock group Geese, not the very-popular jam band. That’s Goose.) Today, the band has announced plans to follow that album with a new EP called 4D Country, which will include a few songs from the same sessions. They’ve also shared one of those songs.
The new track “Jesse” has been a part of Geese’s live shows since last year, but it’s only just coming out now. The band co-produced the song with James Ford, and it’s got the same lackadaisical, pseudo-ironic country-rock feel as the 3D Country album. The “Jesse” video, directed by Charlotte Tampol and Grace Watts, has fun with occult imagery.
Bad Rabbits – Garden of Eden ft Rou Reynolds
Following July tune Goin’ Up, Bad Rabbits have just unveiled another excellent new single, and announced their next album.
This time around, the trio have teamed up with none other than Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds for the song Garden Of Eden, which is also the title-track from their upcoming record (October 20).
“I remember meeting Bad Rabbits on Warped Tour back in 2011,” says Rou. “I think, they, like us, felt a little like outliers on that line-up. Neither of us played generic pop-punk or metalcore, of which the bill was saturated, and both were combining different styles in new exciting ways.
“As someone who grew up on soul music – on account of my dad being a DJ in that world – I feel a real kinship with their music, and it never fails to put a smile on my face every time I put it on.
“It’s a real honour to be singing on this track. It’s an absolute belter and I hope we get to play it live together soon! It’s such a joy to have them back with a stunning new album. Long live Bad Rabbits.”
Rid of Me – Gutted
On Halloween, the great Philly noise-punk band Rid Of Me will release their sophomore album Access To The Lonely, and I fully expect it to be awesome. We’ve already posted the early singles “Rid Of Me” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Die.” Today, the band has shared two more tracks that appear back-to-back on the LP. “Gut-ted” and “Hell Of It” are both churning, clangorous songs, but they work in different ways. “Gutted” glimmers and roars in ways that are sometimes almost pretty, while “Hell Of It” is a fast 96-second lurch.
Both songs deal with very heavy subjects. On “Gutted,” singer/bassist Itarya Rosenberg says:
I suffer from pretty severe depression. I am often suicidal but consistently persevere. I think about being a tree and dying among them when I focus on taking my own life. I also think about my friends, the people I love, and music, which is what helps me maintain. I am very, very lucky to love and be so loved, and to be able to create and play music with my best friends. It really helps keep me going. “Gutted” is inspired by all of this.