WSLR's InTransition: 2021.01.05

Live stream begins @ 9 PM Eastern // Archived playback for two weeks begins shortly after 11 PM


Playlist to follow after broadcast...

0101 Rosehip Teahouse - A Million Times
0102 Through Sand - New Ways

0201 Hoodoo Gurus - Get Out Of Dodge
0202 The Luxembourg Signal - 2:22

0301 Hey, Chels - You've Got You
0302 atmos bloom - just another day

0401 Working Men's Club - John Cooper Clarke
0402 Peace Chord - Empty In This House

0501 cEvin Key - Night Flower (with Edward KaSpel)
0502 Annsofie Salomon - Soft Dreams

0601 Classic Yellow - Friend of a Friend
0602 HAMBURGER - Supersad

0701 spill tab - Name
0702 brian jonestown massacre - open face

0801 TALVI - Victim Mentality

0901 Comatose - Spread
0902 Ex:Re - Crushing

1001 SPC ECO - A Love Like Ours
1002 Dave Vettraino - Benton Harbor

1101 Holiday Sidewinder - The Real Tea
1102 Mike Viola - We May Never Be This Young Again

1201 Magic Wands - Honeymoon
1202 RUBY - Kind

1301 Guy Blakeslee - Sometimes
1302 Kirty - This Year's Been Hell

1401 The Besnard Lakes - Feuds With Guns
1402 Palm Reader - A Bird And Its Feathers

1501 Elvis Costello - Farewell, OK

Well 801, if your show is any indication, 2021 will be a great year for music. That said, I guess most of the tracks you played were from that awful year we just ended.

Outstanding beginning with the two tracks from Rosehip Teahouse and Through Sand (which I promptly add to my list of bands to check out), although the show was great from start to finish. I also liked Hey, Chels in spite of the terrible name, and Comatose among the bands I was totally unfamiliar with. Hoodoo Gurus sound like they haven't missed a beat since the late 1980s and I was really surprised at the Elvis Costello song that ended the show, as he sounded like the E.C. I used to like and which had similarly disappeared into the ether since 1990 or thereabout.

Can't wait to receive the new Besnard Lakes double album. I'm checking my mailbox everyday (although I guessed it probably hasn't shipped as the official release date is still a couple of weeks away).

Very nearly the entirety of this week’s show featured the last promotional dregs of 2020, leaving behind only six or seven unused songs that still need to be heard. Next week begins the rollout of 2021 in earnest and it’s already sounding pretty darn good.

If those three singles from The Besnard Lakes are anything to go by, their new album is gonna be well worth the wait...