Fresh Sounds Podcast
97 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -The Fresh Sounds Podcast takes you around the world in five songs. Short reviews, song samples and a fair share of banter. Your hosts Mark Berniker and Brendan Hasenstab are avid music zealots searching the domestic and global indie universe for their favorite songs. The Fresh Sounds podcast isn’t an algorithm, it’s two great old friends keen to share great music with listeners worldwide.
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Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 95, August 5, 2022
August 05, 2022 18:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBThis week's show covers new music from Catalonia’s Rosalía, from Malian guitarist and singer Vieux Farka Touré backed up by Houston’s Khruangbin, a new tune from Durham, NC’s The Mountain Goats, and Cambridge, England’s Anish Kumar. For the archive track this week, Brendan whips out a favorite from <checks notes> 14 years ago, from Melbourne’s Cut Copy. This is perhaps their signature song, “Lights & Music,” expertly produced by Tim Goldsworthy, then affiliated with DFA Records. While it c...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 94, July 29, 2022
July 29, 2022 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBThis week's show covers new music from Cambridgeshire’s SBTRKT, Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Kathryn Williams, London’s Jessie Ware, and West London’s George Riley. For the archive track this week, Mark breaks out of our recent ‘90s fixation with a tune from the aughts, 2007 in fact. Off to Paris for the Michael Jackson besotted “D.A.N.C.E” by the one and only Justice. (They soundtrack that electric Volvo XC 60 ad too, though with a different tune.) Yes, time is a flat circle and music from 2007 ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 93, July 22, 2022
July 24, 2022 18:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBThis week's show covers new music from London’s Hot Chip, Brighton’s Wax Machine, a collaboration between Chicago’s Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and the team-up of Paris’s Biche with the LA band Pearl & The Oysters. For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1992 for some mutant hardcore punk on the melodic side of that scene. This band was signed to Sub Pop Records at the time, which was about the best indie label on the scene in those days. The track in question is by the Tac...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 92, July 15, 2022
July 15, 2022 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBThis week's show covers new music from Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens, London’s Two Shell, Brooklyn’s Mice Parade, and Toronto’s Alvvays. For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1994 for a slice of what was called slowcore back in the day, from a California band who went as Idaho. The song in question is entitled “Sweep,” from the band’s This Way Out album. Not the happiest lyrics, but slowcore was generally known for that sort of somber songwriting. (Brendan considers this genre to ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 91, July 1, 2022
July 01, 2022 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBThis week's show covers new music from Nashville’s Soccer Mommy, Hamburg’s Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Detroit’s Omar-S with Supercoolwicked on vocals, and Brisbane’s Moses Gunn Collective. For the archive track this week, Brendan goes back to 1996 for a slice of melodic grunge track from Ash, a band from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. If you know of Ash, you will probably know this tune, as it was a Number 5 hit on the UK Top Ten that summer. It’s a quiet-loud-quiet 1990s tune; what’s n...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 90, June 24, 2022
June 24, 2022 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from Bristol’s Ishmael Ensemble, remixed by Medlar, London’s Sports Team, and while we are there, a new tune from Dry Cleaning, and similar from LA’s MUNA. For the archive track this week, Mark goes back to 1993 for a slice of electronic music from the Scottish act Finitribe. This song’s title is “An Unexpected Groovy Treat” and it sits right on the line between industrial music and the influence of early acid house. Sampling was primitive, but an integral...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 89, June 17, 2022
June 17, 2022 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBThis week's show covers new music from NYC’s Grace Ives, a new track from London’s Greentea Peng, some fusion electronics from The Range, and a new collaborative single between West London’s Lava La Rue and Cork, Ireland’s Biig Piig. For the archive track this week, Brendan takes us back to 1992 to the debut album from Aphex Twin, for what used to be called “ambient techno.” The song here is the undying “Xtal,” which one could argue put Richard D. James on the map as one of the key produc...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 88, June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from the French band Phoenix, from a new synthpop project from Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar, called Au Suisse, a track that blends Dap Tone retro with Bollywood and Turkish elements from the pairing of El Michels Affair and Piya Malik, and a soulful new reggae cut from Horace Andy. For the archive track this week, Mark is heading back to 1993 and the debut album by Porno For Pyros, and “Cursed Female.” This was Perry Farrell’s attempt to move beyond Jane’...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 87, June 3, 2022
June 03, 2022 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBThis week's show covers new music from a duet between the French producers Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, and LA R&B artist Sunni Colón. Next, some noisy dreampop from Ireland’s Just Mustard. We also feature a new track from London’s KH, which is Four Tet’s name when releasing dance bangers, and some spooky jazz from Britain’s The Natural Yogurt Band. For the archive track this week, Brendan honored Andy Fletcher, the recently departed member of Depeche Mode, with perhaps that band’s signature ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 86, May 27, 2022
May 27, 2022 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from a duet between Nigeria’s Obongjayar and British jazz musician Nubya Garcia, a new Daphni tune, a song from Morocco’s Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul, and a new song from Ghost Power, which features Tim Gane, a founder of Stereolab back in the 1990s. For the archive track this week, Mark selects a song from the New York City-based instrumental, post-rock act that goes as Mice Parade. Our song is entitled “Mystery Brethren” from the band’s refreshing 2004 ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 85, May 20, 2022
May 20, 2022 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis week's show covers new music from Athens, Greece’s Σtella from her new Redinho-produced album, London’s The Hics, Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers, and the team of Danger Mouse and Black Thought, of The Roots. Brendan took us back to November of 1980 for this week’s archive pick, an early blast from the goth rock cannon. Yes, a non-album single later added to In the Flat Field from Bauhaus—the original goth rockers, if you ask him. “Dark Entries” is the track. Of course, there a...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 84, May 13, 2022
May 14, 2022 01:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from Sydney’s The Lazy Eyes, LA transplant Carly Rae Jepsen, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and London’s Steak. Mark plucked this week’s jewel from the Fresh Sounds Music Archive. This time, it is another Aussie band: Empire of the Sun, from the hit album Walking On A Dream, which came out in 2009. Despite hit after hit on this record, they never really crossed over here in the USA. But the tunes still resonate, thirteen years later. Of course, there...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 83, May 6, 2022
May 07, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBThis week's show covers new music from Ghent’s Bolis Pupul, Aix-en-Provence’s Melody’s Echo Chamber, London’s Sault, and Oakland’s Hazel English. For the archive pick this week, Brendan went back to 1989 for the debut single from Inner City, the duo of Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey. Saunderson is, of course, one of the legendary Belleville Three, the originators of Detroit Techno, a still-vibrant and enduring sound that created a parallel to Chicago’s house music. Even 33 years later, te...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 82, April 29, 2022
April 30, 2022 00:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBThis week's show covers new music from Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo, Virginia Beach’s Pusha T, a Penelope Isles track remixed by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, and some new post-punk from Portland, Oregon’s Soft Kill. For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off an excellent mashup of the late Ranking Roger doing his thing over and with The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah.” Two great artists blended in a dubby, reggae-esque vibe. <Chef’s kiss> Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sig...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 81, April 22, 2022
April 22, 2022 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBThis week's show covers new music from Brisbane’s Hatchie, the excellent pairing of LA’s Mykki Blanco and Michael Stipe--of R.E.M. fame!--, a bit of techno from one of the two new albums from Stockholm’s Axel Boman, and some excellent music from Bremen’s Saâda Bonaire. For the archive pick this week, Brendan takes us back to 1978 for soul/funk gem from a band called Leo’s Sunshipp. We sample “Give Me The Sunshine,” a warm-weather jam that prefigures g-funk by a good fifteen years. Of co...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 80, April 15, 2022
April 15, 2022 22:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBThis week's show covers new music from London’s Jamie xx, Brooklyn’s Boyish, a film soundtrack by Pennsylvania’s Alex G, and a track from the debut album by London’s Walt Disco. For the archive pick this week, Mark dusts off a 1989 gem from the Glaswegian band Deacon Blue. This is Scottish uptempo soul pop from an ‘80s band, which is always a fun thing to find via the time machine. Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. I...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 79, April 8, 2022
April 08, 2022 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from Boston’s Cave In, London’s Kit Sebastian, Brisbane’s Confidence Man, and a great new single from Athens-based Σtella with an assist from London’s Redinho. For the archive pick this week, Brendan digs up some liquid fire from side one of Super Session. That record came out in the summer of 1968, and it features the work of keyboard ace Al Kooper and former Electric Flag guitar maestro Mike Blookfield. (On side two, Stephen Stills plays the guitars, but...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 78, April 1, 2022
April 01, 2022 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBThis week's show covers new music from LA’s Sudan Archives, a new single from Britain’s Yungblud, a great tune from Detroit’s Elzhi, produced by LA’s Georgia Anne Muldrow, and a hot tune from London’s Ibibio Sound Machine. For the archive pick this week, Mark digs up a lost gem from Berkeley, CA-based Darondo that was released in 1973, called “Didn’t I.” This is a bohemian soul number, with dynamite vocals and an unexpected lead violin melody. Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 77, March 25, 2022
March 27, 2022 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from Barcelona’s Rosalía, with an assist from The Weeknd, a new single from Amsterdam’s Weval, a deep cut from the new album by Christchurch, New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma, and a new single from London’s Robohands with vocals by Aleh. For the archive pick this week, Brendan sends us back to 1990 for a lost cut, that appeared right before Seattle turned into the grunge capital of the world. Mother Love Bone was the band, and the song in question is rockin’ rippe...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 76, March 18, 2022
March 18, 2022 20:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBThis week's show covers new music from an LA and NYC combo, of American Dance Ghosts and Baltra, a new dance banger from NYC’s Doss, a lounge-y new track from Austin’s Flyjack and London’s Scrimshire, and some new indie rock from Philly’s The Districts. For the archive pick this week, Mark is heading back to 1995, and to the second volume in the late rapper Guru’s Jazzmatazz series. This is the sort of jazz-infused rap that Guru and Gang Starr before Guru went solo were known for, which go...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 75, March 11, 2022
March 11, 2022 21:00 - 14 minutes - 9.83 MBThis week's show covers new music from Britain’s Tears For Fears, Brisbane’s Sampology, Stavanger, Norway’s Beachheads, and the pairing of Paris’s Janko Nilovic with backing by The Soul Surfers, of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. For the archive pick this week, Brendan is digging up a record that is two weeks older than he is: Kick Out The Jams, by Detroit noise rock legends the MC5; Duel-guitar frenzy, and more than a little revolutionary politics, too. Of course, there are six more bonus track...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 74, March 4, 2022
March 04, 2022 20:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBThis week's show covers new music from Glasgow’s Belle & Sebastian, Baltimore’s Future Islands, Boston’s Pixies, and Los Angeles’ Lo Moon. For the archive pick this week, Mark digs up a gem from 1998: Fatboy Slim’s undying “The Rockefeller Skank,” an actual hit back in the day, (#6 in UK; #21 in the U.S. Top 40, according to Billboard) and one of the opening salvos of the electronica revolution (What an ugly word that is!) Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sig...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 73, February 25, 2022
February 25, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis week's show covers new music from Sweden’s Sally Shapiro, London’s Babeheaven with an assist from the Brooklyn rapper Navy Blue, a new single from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever of Melboune, Australia, and a bopping new tune from the Bay Area DJ Space Ghost. For the archive pick this week, Brendan pays tribute to the late grunge icon Mark Lanegan with a track from his 1994 solo album, Whiskey For The Holy Ghost, a very fine record. We lost Lanegan this past week at the too-young age ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 72, February 18, 2022
February 18, 2022 22:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis week's show covers new music from Zurich’s Mano Le Tough, Philadelphia’s Empath, a great collaboration between Harvey Sutherland and Dâm-Funk, and some great indie rock from Toronto’s Georgia Harmer. For the archive pick this week, Mark hauls out a song from 1971. It’s a song entitled “Lady Day and John Coltrane”, which is from Gil-Scott Heron’s excellent album Pieces of a Man. It blends poetry and passion, politics and more. Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have t...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 71, February 11, 2022
February 11, 2022 22:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBThis week's show covers new music from NYC’s Caroline Polachek, a nu-Balearic track from Saint Petersburg, Russia’s A Vision of Panorama, a new climate change anthem from Durham, NC’s Superchunk, and a new dance single from London’s Seb Wildblood. For the archive pick this week, Brendan hauls out one of the best tunes from December 1966. It’s a song entitled “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”, which is probably the signature song from The Electric Prunes. West Coast Electric Psychedeli...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 70, February 4, 2022
February 04, 2022 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis week's show covers new music France’s Melody’s Echo Chamber, a collaborative bnager pairing Norway’s Röyksopp with Alison Goldfrapp, a fresh new single from London’s Nia Archives, and then a soulful new stomper from Ibibio Sound Machine--another London outfit. For the archive pick this week, Mark travels back to 1983 for a track from Aztec Camera’s debut album, High Land, Hard Rain. The still-mighty “Oblivious” is the song in question. Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 69, January 28, 2022
January 28, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week's show covers new music from the team of Fred again.., Romy (of The xx) with some mixing help from HAAi (dance banger!), some new music from Glasgow’s noiseniks The Jesus & Mary Chain, a deep house tune from Tokyo’s Soichi Terada, and some jazz/funk from Melbourne’s Surprise Chef. For the archive pick this week, Brendan digs up a track from shoegaze stars Catherine Wheel, from 1992. The specific track, a power ballad entitled “Black Metallic” is a love song from singer Rob Dickins...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 68, January 21, 2022
January 21, 2022 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBThis week's show covers new music from UK poet and rapper Kae Tempest, pairing up with Brockhampton alum Kevin Abstract, a new synthpop banger from Mitski, a soundtrack cut from Little Barrie and Tony Coote, and Cat Power’s devastating cover of the jazz standard “I’ll Be Seeing You,” originally made famous by Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday who both covered it in 1944. For the archive pick this week, Mark selects a choice track from DJ Shadow’s debut album, Endtroducing….., which came o...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 67, January 14, 2022
January 14, 2022 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBThis week's show covers new music from Sydney’s The Presets, a great new number from Robert Glasper with verses from Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid, and Big K.R.I.T., a new flamenco-pop number from Spain by Soleá Morente and La Casa Azul, and Seattle’s excellent Delvon Lamar Organ Trio. For the archive pick this week, Brendan picks a Cold War chestnut from Clan of Xymox, from their 1989 Twist of Shadows album, and “Obsession” –a prime slice of gloomy ‘80s dance music. Of course, there...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 66, December 17, 2021
December 18, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week: The Fresh Sounds Festive 50! That's Mark's and Brendan's Top 25s all mushed into one glorious countdown of their favorite songs from all twelve months of this year. That's not like any other "best-of" list you will see. This is indie music at its best, with very few name brand artists here, aside from Burial and Overmono. Sorry to say there are no bonus tracks this week, but since there are fifty tunes in this year-ender, I think that might be slightly absurd to add more. (Brend...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 65, December 10, 2021
December 10, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBThis week's show covers new music from Tame Impala, Oslo’s Mall Girl, the team of VANO 3000, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Samuel T. Herring. Next, a new song from the English troubadour Richard Dawson from a new album he made with backing from the Norwegian experimental rock band Circle backing him up. For the archive pick this week, Mark selects “Soon” from My Bloody Valentine’s landmark 1991 album, Loveless--a searing blaze of overdriven guitars and more than a little influence from the British da...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 64, December 3, 2021
December 04, 2021 01:00 - 13 minutes - 9.64 MBThis week's show covers new music from Guided by Voices, Mocky, Ibibio Sound Machine, and a team-up between Ancient Astronauts and Brazen Rule. Then Brendan uses the time machine to visit 2001, for a taste of “Gasoline,” from the debut album by The New Year --a bit of a lost indie classic. (For the '90s heads, The New Year features Matt and Bubba Kadane, of Bedhead fame.) Of course, there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsletter to get those. It's pre...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 63, November 26, 2021
November 26, 2021 21:00 - 16 minutes - 11 MBThis week's show covers new music from a UK collaboration between Anish Kumar and a fellow who goes as Barry Can’t Swim, then a new tune from the intercontinental duo who go as Hard Feelings, which is made up of Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and NYC-based singer Amy Douglas. Next, some indie rock from Montreal’s Cola, and off to Manchester for a winning new Elbow tune. Then Mark uses the time machine to sample 1986’s Skylarking, perhaps XTC’s finest album, with a bit of “Another Satellite.” ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 62, November 19, 2021
November 19, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week's show covers new music from LA's Lo Moon, London's Yunè Pinku, NYC's Doss, and Liverpool's King Hannah. All with great new tunes to sample. Brendan set the time machine's controls to the autumn of 1974 Los Angeles, where we hear "Bon Voyage" from Sparks, in their high Glam Rock era. It's a pretty and bombastic number sung from the perspective of those who couldn't book a seat on Noah's Ark. Of course there are six more bonus tracks, but you have to sign up for our email newsle...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 61, November 12, 2021
November 12, 2021 22:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBThis week we have new music from Ghost Woman, allegedly located in the Arizona desert, then off to Gothenburg, Sweden for a great new tune from Makthaverskan. Up next, an up-and-coming Israeli singer who goes as The Cloud of I, and then some fresh London funk from Foals. Mark has dug up a true gem with the time machine this week: Big Star's 1972 song "Thirteen," which has quietly become a standard of sorts in recent years with many, many cover versions to be found on Spotify! (It might giv...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 60, November 5, 2021
November 05, 2021 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week's show cover new music from Austin, Texas's Spoon, a great new tune from the duo of Swindle and Greentea Peng, from London, then an electronic composition of a sort from LA's Amon Tobin, and perfect pop song from Laetitia Sadier, of Stereolab fame. Brendan whips out a dance track from 1999 that would still fit into any modern DJ set: "Dreamin'" by Les Rythmes Digitales--the nom de rock of the British super-producer Stuart Price. Of course there are six more bonus tracks, but you...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 59, October 29, 2021
October 29, 2021 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBThis week, Mark and Brendan kick off the festivities with a great new single from Logic 1000 and Big Ever. Next, a single from Connecticut's Anxious in the punk-pop or emo genres. Third song this week is a heavily remixed jazz track by Australia's Surprise Chef, reworked by Harvey Sutherland and Masters at Work. The last new song of the week is from the Norwich, England-based Let's Eat Grandma. Mark focuses this week's archive track on the late Alan Hawkshaw, keyboard wizard and key player...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 58, October 22, 2021
October 22, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.3 MBWelcome to Episode 58 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have more upbeat party tunes, and a few moody ones, too. We began with a new single from Machester's Anz, with some production help from George Riley. Next, a wild brew of reggae and drum-and-bass music, with Peter Falk samples, to boot! Then an interesting bit of new music from Baxter Dury, of London. Prospa is a production duo from Leeds, back with a tune from their Rave Science Vol. 2 EP. Brendan is driving th...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 57, October 15, 2021
October 15, 2021 21:00 - 13 minutes - 9.61 MBWelcome to Episode 57 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have a fresh basket of groovin' tunes, beginning with a thumpin' new track from London's Overmono, then off for some Chicago indie-rock, from Girl K. Next, some fresh Detroit hip-hop, from the pairing of Illa J. and Atamone. (Illa J, for those who don't know, is the younger brother of the late superproducer J. Dilla.) Rounding out the new music, a taste of deep house from Tokyo's Soshi Takeda. Mark commands the ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 56, October 8, 2021
October 08, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBWelcome to Episode 56 of the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan have a new basket of great tunes, beginning with a spooky new single from Blood Moon--a collaboration between Kurt Ballou's Converge with Chelsea Wolfe. Next, a slinky new dance tune from the British DJ/producer who goes as Ross From Friends. Up next, a new single from Mitski is featured, followed by a great new song from Toronto's Ducks Ltd. Brendan twiddles the knobs of the Fresh Sounds Archive this week, focu...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 55, October 1, 2021
October 01, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBMark and Brendan are back with a fresh episode of the show, featuring new music from Lyon France, and Dowdelin, next to Dulth, Minnesota for a new song from Low, then over to Oxford, England for the debut single from Noah Yorke--Thom Yorke's son. Then, off to Melbourne from a rip-roaring rocker from Amyl and the Sniffers. For this week's Archive Track, Mark digs up a lost gem from Kitchens of Distinction, from their 1989 album, Love is Hell. This is proto shoegaze with a touch of Cocteau T...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 54, September 24, 2021
September 24, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBMark and Brendan are back with a fresh episode of the show, featuring new music from London's Saint Etienne, Dorset's Skinshape, Cairo's Hassan Abou Alam, and Phoenix's Kareem Ali. Then Brendan borrows a lost gem from documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, pulling from 1968's Fugi album entitled Mary, Don’t Take Me On No Bad Trip. (Could there be a more 1968 album title?)(Nah.) And as usual, we are keeping it tight. Running time this week is a slightly tubby 15:56. That's right, you get bits of ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 53, September 3, 2021
September 03, 2021 21:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBMark and Brendan are back with your weekly dose of indie goodness! This week, we start off with a new track from Ontario's Caribou, and then shift to an indie rock track from New York City's Lightning Bug. Then, off we go to Chicago for a new song from Circuit des Yeux, and our last new tune of the week comes from Ibiza-based Nightmares on Wax. And as usual, we are keeping it tight. Running time this week is a compact 14:34. That's right, you get bits of ten new songs plus a dab of music h...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 52, August 27, 2021
August 27, 2021 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBThis week, on the pod, Mark and Brendan has some sizzling new tunes for your playlists, and of course a tribute to the late Charlie Watts, of the Rolling Stones! To preview the content of the podcast episode, let's note Brendan began with a Metallica cover from none other than Chris Stapleton. Mark followed with a new single from Angus & Julia Stone. Up next, B. features a new, non-album single from Baltimore's Future Islands, while Mark previews a new song from New Zealand guitarist Roy Mon...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 51, August 20, 2021
August 20, 2021 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBWelcome to Episode 51 of the Fresh Sounds podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan feature new tunes from London's TSHA, from Croydon's Joy Orbison (with Léa Sen handling vocals) plus Brighton's Kit Sebastian and a new single from Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500 fame.) The archive track this week is the title track from Supergrass's 1997 masterpiece (in Brendan's opinion) in a fresh mix. Bonus tracks are the little prize for those who subscribe to our email newsletter, but those are as interesti...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 50, August 13, 2021
August 13, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBEpisode 50! (Yes, you read that correctly.) This week, Mark and Brendan feature the usual blend of melody, rhythm, and weirdness that you have come to expect. We start with a indie track from Laura Stevenson, from her new self-titled album. Next, to London for a solo single from Anna Prior, the drummer for the English pop band Metronomy. Next, a crunchy new tune from Hollywood super-composer Danny Elfman that pairs him up with Trent Reznor, on Nine Inch Nails fame. The final new track of t...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 49, August 6, 2021
August 06, 2021 19:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBAs we slide into the dog days of summer (here in the Northern Hemisphere) Mark and Brendan are keeping the tunes fresh and hot. In the pod this week, we have new music from Dundee, Scotland's Andrew Wasylyk, Seoul, South Korea's Didi Han, London's Joel Culpepper and Detroit's Robert Hood. The archive track this week is a track drawn from the sessions for George Harrison's solo masterpiece, All Things Must Pass. The bonus tracks in preview cover a number of styles, and breeze by in preview ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 48, July 30, 2021
July 30, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBMark and Brendan are back with perhaps their edgiest collection of tunes in a few months. Luckily, they are still drawn from all around the music world. (Lotta masked performers in this batch, for some reason.) Anyway, they start with a blast of London jazz from Emma-Jean Thackray. Next, a new single from the Snapped Ankles, as well as a singer-songwriter from Oakland who goes as Boy Scouts. The archive throwback is from 1999, and the Welsh psychedelic rockers Super Furry Animals. We also ...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 47, July 23, 2021
July 23, 2021 22:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBMark and Brendan are back with another wild mix of fresh sounds, hailing from all around the globe! (At least, as much as you can do that in five songs.) The geography lays out thusly: New York City, then Bamako, Mali, followed by Stockholm, Sweden and Melbourne, Australia. Find me a radio show that does that! Artists this week include Caroline Polachek, Gaspa and his pal Lil Boula, Swedish House Mafia, and 30/70, a band from Mebourne, remixed by the pair of Kiwi brothers who do remix work...
Fresh Sounds Podcast, Episode 46, July 16, 2021
July 16, 2021 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBWelcome back to the Fresh Sounds Podcast! This week, Mark and Brendan are back with some quality music to share. This week's show kicks off with a scorcher of a new single from Sam Fender. Then, a trans-Atlantic collaboration between Amen Dunes and (yes) Sleaford Mods. After that, a bit of quirky pop from the English band Teleman. Next, a stellar mishmash from Nevermen, which feature Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, Mike Patton of Faith No More, and Adam “Doseone” Drucker, of Anticon Reco...