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A happy although belated birthday to Sam Moore from Sam & Dave to get things bumpin, then it's a ton of new tunes from big names for the full two hours as another big Friday beckons in the funk punk soul rock worlds, with Dan Lloyd throwin' the rocks.
"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 13, 2022
The Drop with Danno
Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Coming (King Most remix)
Carmy Love – Together Again
Surprise Chef – Bakery Pledge of Allegiance
Nick Hakim – M1
L’Imperatrice feat Rejjie Snow – Everything Eventually Ends
Kraak & Smaak feat Durand Jones – All for Love
Kendra Morris – This Life (Live)
Yellow Days – Why?
Allen Stone – 5 Minutes
Say She She – Fortune Teller
Adrian Quesada – Noble Metals
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives (Thundercat remix)
Garrett Saracho feat Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Sabor del Ritmo
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It is 20 hours past midnight as the beat goes on and the thirst is strong here in Gwangju during a VERY active week, and it’s time to once again quench it with our Sampled & AMPED Thursday serving of ice cold soul and piping hot rock, with this particular moment on the spacetime continuum being forever written in the stars as October 13, 2022. Danno here with the usual unusual and all the funk punk soul rock that we can smoosh into roughly two hours of broadcast freedom, coming at you but not necessarily for you from studio 2 in downtown Gwangju, how do you do? Both hours tonight are absolutely rammed with quality artists and big news whether the funk & soul steelo is your thing or it’s the rock you are after. But before anything happens it all starts by going back and we start with Sam & Dave bumpin a little harder courtesy of King Most. We’ll talk about all there is to know about after the knock about, but for now THIS is The Drop.
Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Coming (King Most remix)
Our Sampled & AMPED Thursday night roller disco has truly gotten going for this week ladies, gents and non-binaries, Danno here in studio 2 GFN HQ in downtown Gwangju, and our Sampled funk & soul first hour has hit the rails marking the birthday of a legend for our TIGHT (or) feature tonight.
That was Sam & Dave with what might be their greatest single although there are definitely some very strong alternate candidates in that category, and that was of course Hold On, I’m Coming, the original of which was released in 1966, with the remix done by San Francisco’s King Most.
Samuel David Moore who is of course the Sam in our equation here, was born yesterday in Miami way back in 1935, and is still kickin’ at 87 years old. Sam & Dave was formed in 1961 and of course had their heights in the 1960’s with what are now early soul classics, but the band stayed together until 1981. Sam Moore is now of course a member of the Rock n Roll HOF, and Grammy Hall of Fame as well.
Happy birthday to Sam Moore, and may there be more candles in the future, no pun intended.
Just a quick reminder…#9870 (50/100)…stream
Okay, so now that we have the ever-important historical context and abject shameless self-promo in the rear view mirror, let’s get back to now. Up next are new joints from Carmy Love, Surprise Chef, along with Nick Hakim. Naturally, we’ll let the audio magic do it’s thing before our pointless words so let’s hit play. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop is back and we are into the final verbal joust of our first fourth this evening. What is crackalackin, Drop Gangsters (Korean)? Danno here and glad you’re with us for our funk punk soul rock Thursday session whether it’s here live on the radio or later with the streaming magic, and we just completed the first triangle so let’s ask Isocoles for the details…
Carmy Love – Together Again (…a rather new artist on the UK soul scene, this being the A side to Love’s 2nd 7” single on London’s independent Big AC Records. Keep an eye out for this artist, both this and the previous Rebel 7” single are very good stuff.)
Surprise Chef – A1 Bakery Pledge of Allegiance (…out tomorrow is the Melbourne band’s debut LP on their new label Big Crown Records. Education and Recreation is the title of album, and the band are celebrating with a pair of shows in NYC to kick off the album tour, and that is the first cut on the record. Good luck to the instrumental boys from Down Under, now on one of our favorite imprints.)
Nick Hakim – M1 (…this is the third single off the upcoming album from Hakim due out October 21 called Cometa or Comet. This tune is co-produced by DJ Dahi, who has made some smashing beats for the likes of Drake and Kendrick Lamar amongst others.)
Quick …#9870, social media.
Okee, so we have a couple more very good new tunes from some of our favorites, both of which are rather surprising collabs. Up next is L’Imperatrice with Everything Eventually Ends, which features Irish rapper Rejjie Snow, and we’ll finish with Durand Jones without The famed Indications but with Kraak & Smaak on a brilliant soul dance joint called All for Love. We’ll let those two take us to the jump tonight in emphatic but tastefully strong fashion, and we’ll slow it down in part 2. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday night.
L'Imperatrice feat Rejjie Snow – Everything Eventually Ends
Kraak & Smaak feat Durand Jones – All for Love
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Back at it here in part 2 on our Sampled funk & soul first hour. Danno here, letting the stank waft as always until part 3 on the solo tip, and we shall be joined by Gwangju’s bam bam rock guru Dan Lloyd after the jump tonight in hour 2. As to what just went up in the space elevator, let’s get to the liner notes...
Kendra Morris – This Life (Live) (…this was recorded just before Morris dropped her 9 Lives LP with Colemine Records. The original of this tune which you hear bumping away below me was what ended up being the lead single to album, and this stripped down version features some beautiful work on the Wurlitzer from Colemine’s Whitney Pelfrey.)
Yellow Days – Why? (…for those not familiar, this is the (mainly) solo project of George Van Den Broek, and I say mainly because he tours with a band in tow. This is the 5th tune on the artist’s new album which dropped September 23 called Inner Peace.)
Now heading forward we have more new & recents on the way with Allen Stone batting leadoff, and we have heavy swings from Say She She & Adrian Quesada to follow that, and we’ll discuss after the magic floats and drops but for now 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 ruckus of rock coming up with our AMPED feature shortly, but we gotta summarize what just happened to your ears for now, so let’s do that…
Allen Stone – 5 Minutes (…a bit of tragic background to this standalone single all about savoring the moments and slowing them down. Stone and his wife recently had their 2nd child but simultaneously Stone lost his mother to cancer. Our condolences to everybody in the Stone family.)
Say She She – Fortune Teller (…can’t get enough of Prism, which is the debut album from the 7 piece crew fronted by Piya Malik, Nya Gazelle Brown, and Sabrina Mileo Cunningham. Just lovely work on this LP, do not miss it if you dig the harmonies.)
Adrian Quesada – Noble Metals (…out November 18 is the latest album called Jaguar Sound from the Black Pumas co-founder and Grammy nominated Quesada. The album is dedicated to some of the inspirations behind the super soul sounds that transcended cultural boundaries in Latin America during the 1960’s & 70’s.)
Moving along to halftime, we have two more recents that are just extra clutch. Thundercat is out with a remix of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Thousand Knives, the original of which was the title track to the famed Japanese artist’s debut album from 1978, and this is a very proper tribute. To finish we have the latest from Jazz Is Dead featuring Garrett Saracho called Sabor del Ritmo or Taste of Rhythm, and that’s gonna close it for our first 57 tonight. This is The Drop and that is halftime.
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives (Thundercat remix)
Garrett Saracho with Jazz Is Dead – Sabor del Ritmo
III & IV AMPED
Blink 182 – Anthem
Boston Manor – Passenger
Willow – curious/furious
Enumclaw – 10th and J 2
Sparta – Until the Kingdom Comes
The Real McKenzies – Scotland the Brave
Anti-Flag – Modern Meta Medicine (Ft Jesse Leach)
MSPAINT – Acid
Ginger Wildheart and the Sinners – Footprints in the Sand
Weeping Icon – Pigs, S*** and Trash
Say Sue Me – Season of the Shark (Yo La Tengo cover)
Blink 182 – Anthem
Blink-182 are getting back together for the kids: Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker are reuniting for their first tour together in nearly 10 years. What’s more, they’ve announced the release of a new single called “Edging,” set for release on October 14th.
The massive tour includes stops in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand starting March 2023 through February 2024. For the North American leg, Blink-182 will be joined by Turnstile. The trio is also set to headline Lollapalooza’s Latin American festivals in Argentina, Chile, and Brasil, as well as the return of When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas. Check out the full schedule below.
Tickets go on sale starting Monday, October 17th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. For North American audiences, a Live Nation pre-sale is set for Thursday, October 13th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use access code PUMPKIN).
DeLonge departed Blink-182 in 2015, making way for Matt Skiba, who performed on the band’s two most recent albums: 2016’s California and 2019’s NINE. In the meantime, DeLonge has tended to his other band Angels & Airwaves and tried to prove aliens do exist; Barker has recorded with everyone from Avril Lavigne to Young Thug and tied the knot Kourtney Kardashian; Hoppus spent the better part of 2021 successfully battling lymphoma.
Oddly enough, the silver lining to Hoppus’ diagnosis is that it apparently prompted him and DeLonge to re-connect. Hoppus reflected on his cancer treatment in a recent interview with People, saying that the trio had spent some time together before his chemo began, and they were in “a really great place right now.” The bassist added: “I keep writing music, and I’m open to whatever the next phase of Blink is… I’m hopeful for the future. I’m just damn glad to be here.”
Boston Manor – Passenger
4th album Datura is out this week. Boston Manor are a rock band from Blackpool who started out playing Jimmy Eat World / Menzingers style emo rock but over the years and albums have sadly (for me at least) caved to the current trends and now sound a bit like Bring Me the Horizon’s little brother. Still, they write decent tunes and behind the modern rock production tropes there’s a talented band.
Willow – curious/furious
If first impressions are everything, Willow made a big one on her debut solo performance as Saturday Night Live's musical guest last night, Oct. 8, with host Brendan Gleeson.
Willow started with her softer side, offering up the R&B-rock fused song "curious/furious," that showed off her pitch-perfect vocals with a bit of edge as well as her impressive guitar skills. But it was the 21-year-old artist's second song on the broadcast that turned heads as she ripped into the rager track, "ur a stranger," screaming into the microphone and ending the performance by smashing the guitar she was playing into a TV screen prop on the stage. See videos of both performances below.
The two songs come from Willow's new album Coping Mechanism that came out Friday, Oct. 7 and has been hailed as "boundary pushing" by NME and "powerfully dynamic" by The Guardian while Rolling Stone says she "thrillingly mashes up rock history."
Coping Mechanism is the followup to 2021's Lately I Feel Everything, that featured guest spots from Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne. This time around, Willow let her music speak for itself with her only guest spot being from indie act Yves Tumor on her latest album.
Willow posted about the SNL appearance just hours before she went live on the show, sharing a photo of her and her fully leather-clad band on Instagram with the caption, "It’s called historybeingmade.com." She also appeared on the late-night weekend show last season as part of Camilla Cabello's set to perform their collaboration song, "Psychofreak."
Willow recently made news for calling out "older, white men" gatekeepers of metal, noting she's a fan of bands like Deftones, Lamb of God and Crowbar in an interview with Metal Hammer.
Enumclaw – 10th and J 2
This week, the Tacoma Band To Watch Enumclaw are releasing their debut full-length, Save The Baby. We’ve already heard a good chunk of songs from the album — “2002,” “Jimmy Neutron,” “Cowboy Bepop,” and “Park Lodge” — and today we get one more, the shimmering and sentimental “10th and J 2.” “”You should have it quoted/ Say it all the time,” Aramis Johnson sings in its subtly rousing chorus. “I will be I will be/ Who i’m destined to be.”
“10th and J 2 is about the apartment I wrote the album in and how I felt inside of it. I spent more time inside of that apartment than maybe anywhere else in my whole life,” he said in a statement, continuing:
It’s such an important place to me. I spent most of my time in that space trying to come up with this plan to get out of my situation, to try and “make it out” as they say. It took a lot of self reflection and hard work but I knew I could do it. This song is me trying my hardest to be the person I know I’m destined to be.
Sparta – Until the Kingdom Comes
Sparta's new self-titled album is out this Friday, and the latest single is "Until The Kingdom Comes," which Jim Ward says "began as an improv bass line in the late night jam with my friend David Garza at the hallowed grounds of Sonic Ranch many years ago- it would cycle through every now and then but never found a home until this record. I found the most sparse guitar worked and set up a bombastic chorus - all edges smoothed and improved by Jeff Goldsmith and his brilliant soundscape. This track definitely benefited from the isolation period of creativity."
The Real McKenzies – Scotland the Brave
The Real McKenzies will be releasing a new album. It is called Songs of the Highlands, Songs of the Sea and will be out November 18 via Fat Wreck Chords and Stomp Records. The album features covers of sea shanties and traditional Scottish songs that were written by Robert Burns. A video for "Scotland The Brave" has also been released. The Real McKenzies released Beer & Loathing in 2020.
Anti-Flag – Modern Meta Medicine (Ft Jesse Leach)
Anti-Flag have shared the new song “Modern Meta Medicine” featuring guest vocals from Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach. The track arrives ahead of Anti-Flag’s forthcoming album, Lies They Tell Our Children, out January 6th.
The song and its accompanying video take aim at big pharma and the American healthcare system. As images of pill bottles race across the screen, the band supply an angry yet catchy — per Anti-Flag’s signature sound — punk tune with an hooky chorus: “On and on and on and on / We’re never right, we’re never wrong.”
“‘Modern Meta Medicine’ looks to trace back the origins of capitalism’s takeover of our health as global citizens, the Reagan era policies that allowed for billionaires to flourish off of the suffering of so many,” said Anti-Flag in a press statement. “Healthcare is a human right, and we need to steal our rights back from a machine that sees us as commodities and profit margins, however we can.”
The band added: “Let’s be honest, in a world and cultural climate that reaps division and sows a void of nuance in our conversations, writing a record that challenges a healthcare system that puts profit before people can be scary. But an opioid crisis, miracle cures for our weight, our skin, the hair on our heads, a limp dick, and then the simultaneous denial of access to healthcare for the bodies of pregnant people, the poor, Black and immigrant communities is a stark contrast that must be discussed.”
Lies They Tell Our Children was recorded, produced, and mixed by Jon Lundin. In addition to Jesse Leach, the guest-heavy album also features notable appearances by Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath, Silverstein’s Shane Told, Bad Religion’s Brian Baker, and more.
MSPAINT – Acid
The Hattiesburg, Mississippi band MSPAINT have come up with a beautifully weird version of hardcore punk. MSPAINT are very much a hardcore band, and they play with all the bludgeoning energy that you’d expect, but they also have all sorts of weird synth textures and post-punk angles to their music. The band released a four-song demo in 2020, and they’ve just followed that with a brand-new single.
MSPAINT recorded their new song “Acid” with two producers: Militarie Gun/Regional Justice Center leader Ian Shelton and Taylor Young, the God’s Hate/Twitching Tongues member and hugely important heavy-music producer. If you’re a new band making your first proper record, those are the guys you want to work with. “Acid” is a more developed version of what MSPAINT did on their demo. It’s a nervous, buzzing attack of a song without any clear comparison points. It’s half early-’00s dance-punk, half circa-now hardcore. In a press release, bassist Randy Riley has this to say:
“Acid” is about being pushed to the edge and having to reevaluate your existence in order to survive. It’s the first song we wrote after releasing the demo in March of 2020. It was definitely a track that we felt created the template for the rest of the songs that came after. At the same time, it was a song that was constantly evolving or changing all the way up until we actually recorded it. It was one of those things where when we wrote a new song and it felt like we found a different element to our sound, we would go back to “Acid” and make little changes based on whatever we were currently figuring out at the time. Tonally, we wanted to ride the line between intensity and still trying to make it feel optimistic. The drums and bass are constantly moving, like they’re trying to escape the song structure. Large spacey synths help reign it all in and gave Deedee a lot of room to play with cadence and vocal rhythms.
Ginger Wildheart and the Sinners – Footprints in the Sand
The excellent self-titled debut from ex-Wildhearts frontman came out last week and is a welcome change of pace from the noise and anger of the last two Wildhearts releases. A country-rock album at heart, though the excellent songwriting and performances ensures it never feels trite or contrived.
Weeping Icon – Pigs, S*** and Trash
The New York group Weeping Icon made our list of the Best New Bands Of 2019 after releasing their self-titled debut album. Today, they’ve announced their first new material since then, an EP called Ocelli that’s due out next month. Lead single “Pigs, Shit & Trash” is scuzzy and claustrophobic and driving, and it comes with a music video directed by Alice Millar.
“This song was written in the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic,” the band’s Lani Combier-Kapel explained in a statement, continuing:
I was in NYC, where I was born and raised, and where my family still lives. As I watched transplants sneak away to their isolated farms or country houses, I was trapped in a crowded 4 bedroom apartment. Surrounded by death, I was confused, terrified for my aging parents’ health, and looking for any semblance of hope that things could turn around. Around that same time, uprisings and protests for Black Lives Matter were happening every day in NYC – I had good friends who were beaten by police officers and jailed for standing up for what was right. It became blatantly obvious that the government simply wasn’t working for the people and had no clue how to help. These government officials just feel so untouchable – like we can meme them and make jokes about them but at the end of the day, they get to go home to their wives and million dollar mansions and live in their own bubble, not be bothered by the troubles of the world that they created.
When the electoral debates came around, I thought it was very fitting that a fly landed on top of Mike Pence’s head, right when he was talking some bullshit about race in America. I loved that moment, that this fly just randomly shat and vomited on this guy’s head (as flies are known to do to everything they land on). I started imagining this fly as some kind of antihero, claiming one tiny bit of revenge on national TV – a heroic villain attracted to pigs, shit, and trash.
Say Sue Me – Season of the Shark (Yo La Tengo cover)
South Korean rock band Say Sue Me have released an EP of covers in honor of their 10th anniversary. The 10 EP features their renditions of tracks by Yo La Tengo, Pavement, Daniel Johnston, Silver Jews, Grandaddy, and Guided By Voices. Also included are retooled versions of "Bad Habit" and "Old Town," off their 2017 self-titled compilation and 2018 album Where We Were Together, respectively.
The EP is Say Sue Me's second release of the year, following LP The Last Thing Left in May.