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A preview to a big two hour special this Friday as Ghost Funk Orchestra maestro Seth Applebuam joins us for a two hour tag team special on the day the NYC-based group releases their latest album, and Dan Lloyd right as rain but wrong as a toothache is in once again to polish things off properly with our AMPED rock feature.
"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.
Oct 27, 2022
The Drop with Danno
The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
Jaylib – The Message
Maston & L’éclair – Souvenir
Ironsides – Sommer
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Quiet Soul
Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Song for Paul
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Slow Down
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Cost of Living
Letta Mbulu – Pula Yetla
Tito Rodriguez & His Orchestra – Exodus
The Rugged Nuggets – The Wait Is Over
Joe Bataan – Ordinary Guy (Jazzanova Rework)
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It is 20 hours past midnight as we start to get ready for the weekend, and it is thus time to get out the funk and soul along with the sack of rocks to throw for our Sampled & AMPED Thursday night, with this one pre-ghosted into the ether as October 27, 2022. Danno here and of course we can only thank you heartily for being with us prior to anything happening, we do so appreciate it. So tomorrow night we have a very special guest on the show in Ghost Funk Orchestra mastermind Seth Applebaum who’s making his third appearance on the gig AND releasing a new album A New Kind of Love, which drops via Colemine Karma Chief. To celebrate this record’s release (and man, no hyperbole, one of the best this year), Seth and I are doing a two hour special tag team and talk the album and some of our favorite inspirations. Tune in tomorrow night, it’s gonna slam. Now of course for tonight’s 2nd hour we have Dan Lloyd dropping his rock grenades, but before anything happens we gotta mark today in history as Lou Reed returned to eternity, and we’ll discuss this further after Venus swerves. THIS is The Drop.
The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
Our Sampled & AMPED Thursday night funhouse has officially commenced on all Ghost Funk’s Eve. Big event on the show tomorrow night with Seth Applebaum of Ghost Funk Orchestra joining us for a special two hour game of freeze tag on the selections as we celebrate the famed metastasizing group’s latest album A New Kind of Love, out via Colemine Records, so don’t miss it!
That was Lou Reed and his first love The Velvet Underground with Venus In Furs off their self-titled debut from 1967. It was 9 years to the day that the Velvet frontman left this realm, passing away from liver disease at his home in Southampton, NY at 71.
If ever the music industry has produced a person that truly did it their own way, it was Lou Reed. A career that spanned 5 decades saw him ping pong back and forth from the very heights of stardom to moving back home to work for his old man and back to the top. Both with The Velvet Underground and as a soloist, Reed inspired so much that came later and with him as his own career progressed.
Rest in power Lou Reed, a man who truly forged his way in life, no apologies whatsoever.
Just a quick reminder…#9870 (50/100)…stream
Okay, so as mentioned tomorrow we have a very special showcase of the new Ghost Funk Orchestra album releasing tomorrow, so we’re going to give you a taste of what’s on tap for this very special event, and we’ll go with Jaylib to start the madness, then it’s Maston & L’éclair followed by Ironsides to complete the three sides. We’ll talk about some stuff but not reveal too much side opposite the sonics, but for now the record spins. THIS is The Drop on your A New Kind of Love Thursday peekaboo.
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The Drop is back and we are into the verbosities of the first quarter before the buzzer does what it does and takes us to the jump. What is crackalackin, Drop Gangsters (Korean)? Danno here and glad you’re with us for our funk punk soul rock Thursday session, a very special preview of Ghost Funk Orchestra mad scientist Seth Applebaum making his third appearance on the show tomorrow, the same day the NY-based group’s latest LP A New Kind of Love drops via Colemine Karma Chief, so mark it. Trust me, you are not ready for this record it is CHOICE. Anyway, let’s read out the first triangle orb’s damage report as we preview tomorrow’s selective insanity…
Jaylib – The Message (… a little sampler’s taste on this cut from the legendary Jay Dilla Madlib team up from the early aughts. Can you name that guitar riff? No cheating. We’ll get to it during the show tomorrow night. Interestingly, this was just a 7” single the group released, and was not part of the Champion Sound LP, just fyi.)
Maston & L’éclair – Souvenir (…a brilliant album from last year and despite the quick-hitting nature of the tune is in fact the title track. A bit of a Swiss-Angelino team up here, with L’éclair being based in Geneva and Maston doing it in LA.)
Ironsides - Sommer (…gotta shout out Colemine on the eve of Ghost Funk’s new album. This is a standalone from 2020 initially, later put out by the label on their very timely Brighter Days Ahead compilation to pick up spirits in a year ravaged by COVID’s peak throes.)
Quick …#9870, social media.
Okee, so we got a couple tunes from our guest artist selectors tomorrow night from their past two albums and we’ll do the same side opposite the jump to part 2, but slower. Up next is a tune we actually premiered here on The Drop last year when Seth joined us to showcase An Ode To Escapism, their last LP, and then we’ll rock the title track to the band’s 2019 LP, a song dedicated to Seth’s father who passed, which is A Song for Paul. Stay tuned more ghostly previews side opposite the quantum leap to the molasses pool, but for now THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday night.
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Quiet Soul
Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Song for Paul
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Back at it here in part 2 on our Sampled funk & soul first hour, a preview of a very special show on tap for tomorrow with Seth Applebaum from Ghost Funk Orchestra joining us for a tagteam with yours truly to celebrate the band’s latest album out tomorrow as well, that is A New Kind of Love, dropping via Colemine Records & Karma Chief. Don’t miss it. Anyway, this is Danno here, giving a bit of a preview to the festivities and we just heard a couple selections from the last two Ghost Funk LP’s to start the slow burn, that was...
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Slow Down (…on Seth’s first appearance on the show, he discussed how difficult it was to get this song right, as it’s a real doozy for the drummer to get right. Amazing tune though, definitely worth the frustration in the end.)
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Cost of Living (…this was the final tune from the group’s last album An Ode To Escapism, our #2 ranked LP from last year. As great as that record was, I’m telling you right now, A New Kind of Love is something else. This band just gets better and better and better, and it’ll be fun to talk production with Seth when he joins us tomorrow.)
Now let’s raise a little more curtain on tomorrow’s selection special. Up next we got Letta Mbulu with a heavy swing even though leading off, then it’s Tito Rodriguez and The Rugged Nuggets doing their thing to draw all the lines in the air. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop is back for our final nibble at the trough of verbosity as far as the first half is concerned. Danno here, readying for the arrival tomorrow night of Seth Applebaum from Ghost Funk Orchestra. The band’s latest album A New Kind of Love is out then, and we have a two hour tag special with Seth & I on the selects for an exclusive album drop day interview. As to what just went up into and back down from the cosmos, that was…
Letta Mbulu – Pula Yetla (…I don’t think we’ve gotten through any Ghost Funk appearances on the show without getting to some David Axelrod, and tomorrow’s no different. That’s all I’m gonna say about that.)
Tito Rodriguez & His Orchestra – Exodus (…this is a record from 1961 playing the themes of popular movies of the day called Motion Picture Themes Cha Cha Cha. Tito was a fixture of NYC’s famed Puerto Rican music scene far beyond this record though, known to fans as El Inolvidable or The Unforgettable One.)
The Rugged Nuggets – The Wait Is Over (…another great album right here off the Colemine imprint. This tune appeared on the Odds & Ends LP from the band, who are headed up by Judson McDaniel, more famously part of Jungle Fire.)
Moving along to halftime, we’ll get back to Tito and go with a Jazzanova rework of Joe Bataan’s Ordinary Guy to close things, and then it’s time to rock out with Dan Lloyd after we return from…wherever it that we go while the PSA’s and ads play. This is The Drop and we are through with the early view.
Joe Bataan – Ordinary Guy (Jazzanova Rework)
III & IV AMPED
Quicksand - Feliz
Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back
Wilco – One More Hour (Sleater-Kinney)
Garbage – Witness to Your Love
LS Dunes – Bombsquad
Fran – Limousine
Town Liar – Style and Title
Pile of Love – Over & Out
The Damned – Wait For the Blackout (Live)
Television Screams – Uncomfortably Numb
Rolling Quartz – Sing Your Heart Out
Jimmy Eat World – Place Your Debts
Quicksand – Feliz
Since reuniting, Quicksand have made two more albums — the same number that they released back when they were a band in the first place. Right now, they’re on tour with fellow ’90s survivors Clutch and Helmet. And today, they’ve got an extremely sick new song.
A couple of months ago, Quicksand released their single “Giving The Past Away.” The song came from the same sessions as the band’s 2021 album Distant Populations, but it didn’t sound like a leftover. It rocked with serious purpose. The same is true of Quicksand’s new track “Feliz,” a towering rager with some colossal riffs and an impassioned vocal performance from leader Walter Schreifels. The song works within Quicksand’s long-established sonic template, but it’s got the energy that you might expect from a brand-new band.
Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back
Title track from Martha’s fourth album, out this week.
Martha have always tried to shine a little light into the dark, and Please Don’t Take Me Back represents another attempt to do that. The title is a pretty heavy hint, but they’re keen not to fall into the trap of longing for the good old days (indeed, as the album’s title track reminds us, “The old days were bad”). Nathan clarifies the context: “We need to try and somehow envisage a future that is better and imagine and try to build the world we wanna see in the wreckage that we’re living in. It’s about not romanticising the past which we shouldn’t just accept as good enough, ‘cos the more things get worse, the more it feels like ‘oh if we could just go back to that’… But actually, no, since bloody forever, things haven’t been good enough and they need to get better.”
Wilco – One More Hour (Sleater-Kinney)
Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out tribute album — celebrating the seminal record’s 25th anniversary — is finally out. Announced earlier in the year, Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album features lots of different artists — Wilco, St. Vincent, Low, Courtney Barnett, the Linda Lindas, and more — covering a bunch of songs from the original.
Among the tracks being covered are: Wilco taking on “One More Hour,” Low are doing “Dance Song ’97,” the Linda Lindas are (rightly) covering “Little Babies,” Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires are getting together for “Not What You Want,” Sleater-Kinney collaborator St. Vincent is doing the title track, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe covers “The Drama You’ve Been Craving,” NNAMDÏ covers “Jenny,” Margo Price takes on “Turn It On,” and Courtney Barnett recorded a version of “Words And Guitar.”
Ahead of album’s release, Carrie Brownstein shared a video message on her Instagram, where she name-drops a few tribute album artists, calling each one “my favorite.”
Garbage – Witness to Your Love
This week Garbage are releasing Anthology, a greatest hits collection spanning the band’s entire career from their 1995 debut to last years return to form No Gods No Masters. This song was originally released in 2008 and was written during sessions prepping the band’s first Greatest Hits collection but was not included in the track listing. A music video for this song was recently made and will be released alongside the collection tomorrow.
LS Dunes – Bombsquad
L.S. Dunes, the new band featuring members of MySpace all-stars Thursday, Circa Survive, My Chemical Romance, and Coheed And Cambria, will release their debut album Past Lives next month. They’ve already shared singles “Permanent Rebellion” and “2022,” and today they offer a third.
“Bombsquad,” debuted during the band’s Riot Fest set, arrives today along with a live performance video. Singer Anthony Green says it was inspired by his disgust with Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol:
The lyrics for “Bombsquad” came from a poem that I wrote around the time of the January 6th insurrection. In the midst of the pandemic, people were trying to take down the government because a ConMan politician couldn’t admit that he had lost the election, not for any legitimate grievance or protest. The song is a rage against society’s depressing and destructive forces.
Fran – Limousine
Last month, the Chicago musician Maria Jacobson released “So Long,” her first new single as Fran since their debut album A Private Picture came out in 2019. Today, Fran is announcing their follow-up, Leaving, which will be out in January with the simmering “Limousine,” the album’s opening track that unfurls into a swirling conclusion.
“‘Limousine’ is a call to be together in the face of collective anxiety and doom,” Jacobson said. “We try to tap history, religion, or mythology for some intel into how we should live, but we find ourselves in the same place over and over. I find that comforting! It allows us to acknowledge that we are not alone in these difficult feelings, that we’ve never been alone.”
Town Liar – Style and Title
Jason Shevchuk of Kid Dynamite and None More Black has formed a new band called Town Liar. The band also includes Heath Saraceno, Nick Remondelli, and Benny Horowitz. The band has released an EP called Lies: One Through Seven .
Pile of Love – Over & Out
Last year, a bunch of members of bands like Drug Church, State Champs, and the Story So Far got together to form a new power-pop band called Pile Of Love, and they did it without telling anybody. In fact, Pile Of Love didn’t inform the world of their existence until their self-titled debut album was already out. That’s not the way bands usually do it! Now, Pile Of Love are planning to follow that album with a new EP next month, and they’re letting the world know about it in a less unconventional way.
Pile Of Love’s new EP Flake On The Future is coming out next month, and it’ll feature a cover of the Guided By Voices classic “Game Of Pricks.” Pile Of Love have just dropped a video for “Over & Out,” one of the three non-cover songs from the EP. “Over & Out” is a propulsive, fuzz-drenched hookfest about being “just another shadow in a cave” — that classic sad-lyrics/happy-music dichotomy.
The Damned – Wait For the Blackout (Live)
THE DAMNED announce the official premiere of upcoming concert film, A Night of A Thousand Vampires, as part of FrightFest Halloween on Thursday 27 October.
This exclusive preview screening will be held at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, tickets on sale now.
Following the premiere screening there will be a Q&A with band members Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Paul Gray, Monty Oxymoron, and also director Martin Gooch.
Back in October 2019, The Damned took the stage at London’s prestigious Palladium for a very special, immersive musical and theatrical experience.
Now, three years later, this unique event will be released as a live album and also a concert film. A Night of A Thousand Vampires: Live in London is due for release on 28 Oct on earMUSIC .
A Night of A Thousand Vampires teams the band with the cast of The Circus of Horrors for an evening of shock, awe, and a fierce live rampage through their 40-year rich catalogue.
A true event from showmen supreme, it was a historic night in the history of a storied band and a special evening for fans and band alike. It was also a fond farewell for drummer Pinch, his final gig with The Damned after 20 years.
Television Screams – Uncomfortably Numb
UK based Television Screams have released a new song called "Uncomfortably Numb". The song is their third single and follows 2021's "Don't Ghost Me" and 2020's "Break Your Legs".
Rolling Quartz – Sing Your Heart Out
Rolling Quartz formed as a five member rock group in August 2019.[2] They were originally two separate bands, under the names "Rolling Girlz" and "Rose Quartz", but they merged into a single group, merging their names to be "Rolling Quartz".[3] For the first year of their career, Rolling Quartz performed primarily in clubs, especially in the Hongdae region of Seoul. However, they turned to more heavily relying on their social media presence in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
In June 2020, they featured on the single "Random" by the producing duo 015B.[5]
Rolling Quartz officially debuted on December 30, 2020 with the single "Blaze", which was accompanied by the release of a music video.[6] The music video was directed and produced by Zanybros.[7] All of the members participated in the production of the song, including lyrics, composition, and arrangement.[8]
On January 10, 2021, the band was part of a livestream event Ambitious Girls Rock 1 alongside other female Korean and Japanese rock bands, including Vincit, Velvet Sighs, and Brats.[9] In January, Rolling Quartz released their single "Blaze" as a single album, which included the instrumental version of the track.[10] In February, the band made their first music show appearance, making their debut on M Countdown.[11]
In August, the band collaborated with AleXa, arranging a rock version of her single "Xtra", which the band performed with AleXa on MTV Asia.[12]
In February 2022, the band released their first EP Fighting, which made it into the top 5 US rock albums chart on iTunes, the first Korean indie band to do so.
Jimmy Eat World – Place Your Debts
Jimmy Eat World released an awesome new rocker called “Something Loud” at the dawn of summer, and now that fall is entering its dreary run-up to winter, they’re back with something a bit more patient and atmospheric.
“Place Your Debts,” the band’s new single, is a graceful slow-building ballad that expands into a truly beautiful surging climax. If “Something Loud” was like the best of Bleed American, this is closer to a Clarity deep cut.