The heat is (dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun) ON! Ending summer with a bang, the award-winning Lickers are discussing what they consider to be some of the most trusted record labels of all time. Even in the digital hellscape that is 2023, a reputable record label can be an important point of interest when discovering new bands, or music that may have been around a while but is new to you. Join the dysfunctional duo in a conversation built around the business entities that bring our favorite music onto our turntables and into our ears.

Sonic contributors to the thirty-second episode of Lightnin’ Licks Radio include:  Brothers Johnson, Lee Moses, Holland-Dozier-Holland, James Todd Smith, Height Keech, Drizabone, Kavinski, Khruangbin, Mark Mothersbaugh, Brian K., Paul Rubens, Chris Kline, Anthony Fantano, Damien Keyes, Joeski Love, Def Jeff, Dust Brothers, Tone Loc, Young MC, Masters of Reality, The Brand New Heavies, Nadia Davenport, Jimi Hendrix, The Pharcyde, De La Soul, The Strangeloves, The Music Machine, The Ramones, Yaz, Madonna, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Ruzillos, The Human League, Pavement, H.P. Zinker, Beck, Helium, Liz Phair, Peach Kelli Pop, Death Valley Girls, Ty Segall, Habibi, The Summer Twins, Cherry Glazerr, Easy Love, Cursive, Bright Eyes, The Faint, Desaparecidos, Tomberlin, 764-HERO, Modest Mouse, The Paranoyds, The Gun Club, Peanut Butter Wolf, madlib, Jay Dilla, OH NO, Homeboy Sandman, Jonwayne the producer, and John Wayne the famous actor, Georgia Muldrow, Pheobe Bridgers, Stella Donnelly, Faye Webster, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band, Pale Jay, Kendra Morris, Black Market Brass, Durand Jones, Say She She, Monophonics, The Jive Turkeys, Okonski, Jacko Gardner, Alvvays, American Football, Xiu Xiu, Painted Palms, STRFKR, Adrian Quesada, Ikebe Showdown, robot Biden and The Clockers.

Labels We Trust mixtape

[SIDE ONE] (1) Painted Palms – Here It Comes [Polyvinyl Records] (2) Pale Jay – By the Lake [Karma Chief c/o Colemine Records] (3) Easy Love – I’ll Be Fine [Burger Records] (4) Yoko Ono – Hirake [Secretly Canadian] (5) Homeboy Sandman – America the Beautiful [Stones Throw Records]

[SIDE TWO] (1) The Coathangers – Sex Beat [Suicide Squeeze Records] (2) Liz Phair – Mesmerizing [Matador Records] (3) The Pharcyde – She Said [Delicious Vinyl] (4) The Rezillos – (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures [Sire Records] (5) Tomberlin – stoned [Saddle Creek Records]

R.I.P. PWH

For Ollie. <3

Your award-winning Lickin’ duo is back in action with another bonus episode filled to the brim with sonic recommendations from their personal collections. They also meet up for a pleasant Sunday afternoon conversation with super-special-secret friend Bryan Konieczka at Electric Kitsch to rap about what’s been on his turntable as of late. Gold stars all around.

Sonic contributors to the fifteenth bonus episode of Lightnin’ Licks Radio include:  random KPM archived K-Mart sounding shit, Brothers Johnson, Dave Matthews Band, Jurassic Five, DJ Nu-Mark, Zach Braff & Natalie Portman, I Alive, Come, The Posies, The Fugs, The Mugwomps, Iggy & The Stooges, Hank Williams, The Remains, Black Flag, The Undertones, Chris Keys, Billy Woods, Kenny Segal, Open Mike Eagle, Small Faces, Rod Stewart, 7apes, Peace Attack, Arc of All, Liz Phair, The Emotions, Living Colour, Guns-N-Roses, Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters, John Kricfalusi, Chris Reccardi, Jim Smith, Scott Humi, Public Enemy, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Murray Head, Don Cabore, Sammy Turner, J.D. Bryant, Jaye Kennedy, De La Soul, Height Keech…a lot of Height’s shit is in the weeds actually…Business Midgets, Abraham Jefferson, M.M. Knapps, Moe Beaver, Bell Biv Devoe, Joe Ely, Black Milk, Simon & Garfunkel, Gary Farmer, David Murray, Ray Angry, ?uestlove, WYNC’s Radiolab archive, Charles Bukowski, Johnny Depp, and friend of the pod and enemy of Joe Rogan, Spotify, and hippie-hatin’ neocons unnumbered…Neil Young.

Jay – Urge Overkill (for Blackie), Earth Girls, Faces, Sam Taylor, Jr.

Deon – The Godz, Quelle Chris, Bloodstone, Another Nashville Coma

Bryan – Generationals, Bully, Sebadoh, Michael Penn

Bonus #15 mixtape:

[SIDE A] (1) Filled With Confidence (2) Bully - Day Moves Slow (3) Faces - That's All You Need (4) Quelle Chris - Alive Ain't Always Living (5) Michael Penn - Brave New World (6) Bloodstone - Natural High (7) Urge Overkill - What's This Generation Coming To? (8) It Works! [SIDE B] (1) Sweet Delight (2) Earth Girls - Wrong Side of History (3) The Godz - May You Never Be Alone (4) Generationals - Dirt Diamond (5) Soul of Jesus Christ Superstar / Sam Taylor, Jr. - Heaven On Their Minds (6) Sebadoh - Flame (remix) (7) Another Nashville Coma - Cold. Cold. Cold. (8) Endless Night [end]

Our favorite vinyl records from bands or artists filed under "G". And...GO!

In the early 1970s, legendary collaborator and self-proclaimed non-musician Brian Eno famously designed a deck of 115 cards containing elliptical imperatives to spark in the user creative connections unobtainable through regular modes of work. He called his creation "Oblique Strategies." For nearly one half of a century, countless artists and professionals across the globe have benefited from utilizing the oblique strategies technique when attempting to overcome a lull in creative output. In 2022, idiot basement-dwelling, award-winning* hobby podcasters and self-proclaimed Lightnin' Lickers Jay and Deon found themselves uninspired when contemplating the potential themes of their upcoming thirty-first episode. Together, they decided... to default back to the alphabet. Because they have a reasonably good handle on the alphabet. They had previously utilized the letters A thru F, so naturally, they went with G.

Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang mixtape:

[SIDE G1] (1) Game Theory - Erica's World (2) Grant Green - We Have Only Just Begun (3) Grazia - Soyle Beni (4) Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy (5) Glitterhouse - I Lost Me a Friend [SIDE G2] (1) Guru featuring Roy Ayers - Take a Look at Yourself (2) Grandaddy - Hewlett's Daughter (3) Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man (4) Guadalcanal Diary - 3AM (5) The Goon Sax - Sweaty Hands [END]

Sonic contributors to episode thirty-one of Lightnin’ Licks Radio include:  Lee Moses, Brothers Johnson, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Cal Tjader, Craig Mack & Co., DJ Evil Dee, The Nonce, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre & Snoop, Lee Hazelwood, J. Geils Band, some classic Sesame Street ABC bits, White Wedding String Quartet, Milkbone, Geto Boys, The Goon Sax, The Go-Betweens, Guadalcanal Diary, Don Dixon, Marti Jones, L.L. Cool J., Rick Rubin,  DJ Premier, Gang Starr, Roy Ayers, Branford Marsalis, Donald Byrd, Guru, Nena Cherry, The Velvet Underground, Game Theory, The Loud Family, Scott Miller, Let’s Active, Goodie Mob, Rob Harvilla, Outkast, Gnarles Barkley, Cee Lo Green, Witch Doctor, The Dungeon Family, Grandaddy, The Alan Parsons Project, Chicago, Grant Green, Rudy Van Gelder, The Jackson Five, The Carpenters, Roger Nichols, Paul Williams, Mozart, Glitterhouse, Slowdive, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terell, The Funk Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Grazia, Marko Buchar, Murray Head, Andrew Doggett, Andrew Llyod Webber, Tim Rice, The Deviants, The Clockers.

*2023 REVIEW magazine fans’ choice award for best live-streaming production.

Episode 31 is back after being banned from all streaming platforms. New (the same) and improved (still mid) with certain sonic elements removed (as to not get sued). It’s time to find out which LPs and/or 12” singles filed under the letter “G” from Jay & Deon’s collections they love most, then rap about the artists behind the beloved vinyl. GO!

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In the early 1970s, legendary collaborator and self-proclaimed non-musician Brian Eno famously designed a deck of 115 cards containing elliptical imperatives to spark in the user creative connections unobtainable through regular modes of work. He called his creation "Oblique Strategies." For the past half century, countless artists and professionals across the globe have benefited from utilizing the oblique strategies technique when attempting to overcome a lull in creative output. In 2024, idiotic, introverted one-time award-winning* hobby podcasters and self-proclaimed Lightnin' Lickers Jay and Deon found themselves uninspired when contemplating the potential themes of their upcoming thirty-first episode. Together, they decided... to default back to the alphabet. Because they have a reasonably good solid grasp of the alphabet and how it works. They had previously utilized the letters A thru F, so naturally, they went with G.

The “G” mixtape:

(A1) Game Theory – Erica’s Word (A2) Grant Green – We’ve Only Just Begun (A3) Grazia – Soyle Beni (A4) Goodie Mob – Cell Therapy (A5) Glitterhouse – I Lost me a Friend (B1) Gure featuring Roy Ayers – Take a Look (at Yourself) (B2) Grandaddy – Hewlitt’s Daughter (B3) Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man (B4) Guadalcanal Diary – 3 AM (B5) The Goon Sax – Sweaty Hands

Sonic contributors to the thirty-first episode of Lightnin’ Licks Radio, the letter “G” redux, include:

Prince Paul, Brothers Johnson, James Todd Smith, Arc of All and The Source of Light and Power, J. Geils Band, Geto Boys, The Goon Sax, The Go-Betweens, Guadalcanal Diaries, Let’s Active, Guru, Roy Ayers, Gangstarr, Donald Byrd, DJ Premier, MC Solar, Game Theory, Loud Family, Goodie Mob, Cee-lo Green, Dungeon Family, Gnarls Barkley, Grandaddy, Jason Lytle, Mercury Rev, All Smiles, Grant Green, Rudy VanGelder, The Carpenters, Glitterhouse, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Young-Holt Unlimited, Grazia, Marco Bachir, also Bachir Attar with Elliot Sharp, Cervo, Radio Trip, Jimmy Buffet, and The Clockers.

 *2023 Review magazine readers' choice; best live streaming production

Bonus episode fourteen features the award-winning Lightnin’ Lickers* Jay and Deon sharing what they’ve been sonically f#@%ing with as of late. A field trip to their record store of choice, Electric Kitsch, finds them seated in conversation with super special not-so-secret friend Trevor. Trev discusses then submits a LLR all-time record of FIVE (5) choice cuts to this month’s mixtape. Five? You give an inch…

Sonic contributors to the fourteenth bonus episode of Lightnin’ Licks Radio include:

Townes Van Zandt, the Jesus and Mary Chain, James Todd Smith, Supertramp, Wolf Alice, Jordana, Ohio Players, Arthur Brown, Liquid Mike, Arc of All, Jay Dilla, De La Soul, Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest, Flea, Nada Surf, Illuminated Hotti, Bonnie Hayes, Nic Cage & Deborah Foreman from Valley Girl, The Payolas, The Plimsouls, Yard Waste, John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotton, Sandy Bull, Bert Janache, Davy Graham, Quelle Chris, Aceyalone, Christopher Cross, Dave Coulier, Pesky Kid, The Meters, Elton John, The Neville Brothers, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Adrian Young, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Chico Hamilton,

For the mix…Jay brought to the dining room table the musical stylings of:  FAZERDAZE, Pom Pom Squad, Gary Myrick, The Bambi Slam, and Gion Piero Reverberi.

Deon suggested cuts from:  Slum Village, Suitcase, and Jenny Lewis.

Our super special not-so-secret friend Trevor likes:  Leo Nocentelli, Gary Bartz, Thundercat, Neil Young, and Scott Walker.

The wait is over, here’s your gawl dang mix tape:

[SIDE A] (1) The Bambi Slam – Long Time Coming (2) Thundercat – Friend Zone (3) Pom Pom Squad – Second That (4) Leo Nocentlli – Your Song (5) Slum

*Review Magazine's Reader's Choice 2023. Thanks to whomever nominated and voted. You are appreciated. Coziness :)

Hi. Our name is Lightnin’ Licks Radio podcast. Song titles that are also a person’s name is the theme of episode thirty. “Name” that tune. Get it? Join Lickers Jay and Deon as they discuss some of their favorite name songs and the artists responsible for them. Stay healthy out there, Podcast America. Also, check your sump pump(s).

Sonic contributors to episode thirty of Lightnin’ Lick Radio podcast include:  Lee Moses, Holland-Dozier-Holland, James Todd Smith, Labi Siffre, Seth McFarlane, Shirley Ellis, Lincoln Chase, Charles Calello, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Parliament Funkadelic, Soul Doctors, Carson Williams, Harry and Roberta Salter, Johnny Oliver Orchestra, Tom Kennedy, Iggy Pop, The Prodigy, War Games, Rare Earth, Timbaland, Joyner Lucas, Bob Edwards, BJ Leiderman, Stuart McLean, Garrison Keillor, Tom Newman, Andrew Bird, Gillian Welch, William Prince, The Undertones, The Specials, That Petrol Emotion, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Nick Lowe, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs, Dwight Twilley Band, Genesis, Drugdealer, Kate Bollinger, Weyes Blood, Masters of Reality, Chris Goss, Kyuss, Little Beaver, Chocolate Clay, Squeeze, Red House Painters, Mark Kozalek, The Cars, Sun Kil Moon, Hot Chocolate, Urge Overkill, George McCrae, Isaac Hayes, Geto Boys, The Clockers, Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon.

“Name” That Tune mixtape:

Judy, Joey, Julie Ocean, (4) Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Nadja, Vicky Verky. Madison, Kavita, Emma, Goldie Hawn, John Brown.

RECORDED: 04/30/2023 RELEASED 05/07/2023  SPECIAL THANKS: Blue Chair Bay

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13. Unlucky? Who’s to say? Either way, hosts Deon and Jay are more than happy to sip some Blue Chair Bay and share sonic sunshine with all the Lickers out there in Podcast America. Longtime pal Cody Maresec of crackin' power punk/pop rock outfit Liquid Mike joins the conversation and adds a few slammin' tracks to the mixtape. What a dang treat.

Sonic (non-mix) contributors to the thirteenth bonus episode of Lightnin’ Licks Radio  include: Prince Paul / De La Soul / Eddie Murphy / Zack Braff / Natile Portman / Slick Rick / Pink Floyd / Cat Power / The Replacements / Husker Du / Goo Goo Dolls / Psychedelic Furs / Jawbox / The Adverts / August Is Falling / Mouth Stuff / Hand Stuff / The Partridge Family / Todd Rundgren / The Crystals / Utopia / David Bowie / Wendy & Carl / Jesus Jones / Majesty Crush / Jazzless / Miss Bliss / King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / Jimi Hendrix / Pipe Eye / Q-Tip / ROME / Red Hot Chili Peppers / The Roots / Danger Doom / Pavement / Midnight Reruns / Superdrag / The Rentals / Hayley Williams / Disq / Beck / Phoebe Bridgers / Taylor Swift / Neal Francis / Okonski / David Spade / NAS / Plug 2.

Jay brought to the dining room table  – Sean Cassidy, Tropical Fuckstorm, MorMor, Muna 

Deon is currently fucking with – Quiet Slang / Beach Slang, loveliescrushing, Beastie Boys, Danger Mouse & Black Thought featuring MF Doom 

Super special secret friend Cody suggested – Paramore, My Bloody Valentine, Graham Hunt, Liquid Mike 

bonus mixtape #13 

[side one] (1) Liquid Mike - God Bless The World (2) Shaun Cassidy - Rebel, Rebel (3) loveliescrushing- youreyesimmaculate (4) Muna - Kind Of Girl (5) Danger Mouse & Black Thought featuring MF Doom - Belize (6) Graham Hunt - Atwood [side two] (1) Paramore - Figure 8 (2) MorMor - Chasing Ghosts (3) Quiet Slang/Beach Slang - Throwaways {mix} (4) My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep (5) Tropical Fuckstorm - The Golden Ratio (6) Beastie Boys feat. Q-Tip - Get It Together {Buckwild remix} *thank you, Dave*

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Recovering from another Valentine’s Day hangover, the lovesick Lickers return to once again to play the alphabet game in episode twenty-nine. This time they’re discussing their favorite bands and/or artists that are filed away in the “F” section of their vinyl collections. Hot s#!t!

In the early 1970s, legendary collaborator and self-proclaimed non-musician Brian Eno famously designed a deck of 115 cards containing elliptical imperatives to spark in the user creative connections unobtainable through regular modes of work. He called his creation "Oblique Strategies." For nearly one half of a century, countless artists and professionals across the globe have benefited from utilizing the oblique strategies technique when attempting to overcome a lull in creative output. In 2022, idiot basement-dwelling hobby podcasters and self-proclaimed Lightnin' Lickers Jay and Deon found themselves uninspired when contemplating the potential themes of their upcoming twenty-ninth episode. Together, they decided... to default back to the alphabet. Because they have a reasonably good handle on the alphabet. They had previously utilized the letters A thru E, so naturally, they went with F. Fan-f#@%ing-tastic.

The ”F” mixtape:

[SIDE F1] (1) Radio Fuzz Intro #1 (2) Fay Ray – (Waiting For The) Heatwave (3) The Friends Of Distinction – And I Love Him (4) Lupe Fiasco – MS. MURAL (5) Fifty Foot Hose – Rose (6) Michael Fennelly – Easy To Love [SIDE F2] (1) Radio Fuzz Intro #2 (2) Fuzzbox – Love Is The Slug (3) First Aid Kit – Wild Horses II (4) Weather Report (5) The Fatback Band – Love (6) Fetchin’ Bones – Steamwhistle (7) Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings (8) The Segregator Official Motion Picture Trailer [END]

Sonic Contributions to Episode 29 of Lightnin’ Licks Radio podcast include: Lee Moses / Holland-Dozier-Holland / James Todd Smith / The Nu’rons / Dixie’s Land / King Geedorah / The Basement Khemist / Tobe Nwigwe / Diamond Jim / Cookie Monster / Fetchin’ Bones / Guadalcanal Diary / The United States of America / Fifty Foot Hose / Jefferson Airplane / Fay Ray / The Police / Mattiel / The Rutts / Flight Of The Conchords / Tenacious D / Fuzzbox / Norman Greenbaum / Wet Leg / Roxy Music / First Aid Kit / Leonard Cohen / The Rolling Stones / Graham Parsons / The Flying Burrito Brothers / Gotye / Kimbra / Anna Ternheim / Michael Fennelly / Crabby Appleton / The Millennium / Sagittarius / The Fatback Band / The Blackbyrds / Neil Sedaka / Hugh Masekela / The Friends Of Distinction / The Five Stairsteps / The Beatles / Celeste Legaspi / Lupe Fiasco / DJ Evil Dee / G Herbo / King Von / Nayirah / Arc Of All / Todd Louiso & John Cusak (High Fidelity) / APM stock trailer score / Tucker Carlson / Alex Jones / The Clockers.

Recorded 02/19/23. Released 02/26/2023. LLR Cover Art by Bryan Konieczka. Episode Art by M.M. Knapps. ***please consider leaving us a voice message*** Lightnin' Licks Radio does not condone the historical social policy of segregation. Vinyl records can, however, be segregated by the race of the artist or band to more easily reorganize them into genres and subgenres. Again, segregation is not good. Deon is not a segregationist. But he is "the Segregator". RATE US! TELL A FRIEND! BE KIND & REWIND!

Contains segments from Valentine’s Day-themed Lightnin’ Licks Radio podcast episodes #’s 6 (“Heartache”), 13 (“Teenage Love Story”), and 20 (“Love Is…”).

Sonic contributors to this supplementary bonus episode include: Eddie Holman / Beastie Boys / Luther Ingram / Ponderosa Twins + One / Dream City Film Club / Father John Misty / George Peppard & Audrey Hepburn ("Breakfast At Tiffany’s") / The Cure / Cortney Love (the person)’s band Hole / Courtney Love (the band) / Snail Mail / AIR / Common / J Dilla / Bobby Caldwell / Huey Lewis & The News / Eazy E / Violent Femmes / Book Of Love / Matt Pond PA / Oasis / Lou Reed / The Velvet Underground / L.L. Cool J / Outkast / UGK / Marvin Gaye / Gram Parsons / The Byrds / Emmy Lou Harris / Big Star / Chris Bell / Sufjan Stevens / The Merry Go Rounds / Emitt Rhodes / Will Oldham / Bonnie “Prince” Billy / The Sylvers / Lafayette Afro Rock Band / Lushus Daim & The Pretty Vain / The Time / Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam / Bobby Womack / The Valentinos / The Rolling Stones / The Flight Of The Concords / J.J. Johnson / Lenny Kravitz / James Taylor / Dave Hamilton & His Peppers / Tom Petty / The Heartbreakers / Max Julien & Sandra Brown ("The Mack").

Valentine’s Day MegaMix:

[SIDE 1} (1) Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Careless Love (2) Sufjan Stevens – All Of Me Wants All Of You (3) Emitt Rhodes – You Should Be Ashamed (4) Courtney Love – The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl In The World (5) Lou Reed – I Love You (6) Matt Pond PA – Specks (7) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The Wild One, Forever [SIDE 2] (1) UGK featuring Outkast – Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You) (2)  Book Of Love – You Make Me Feel So Good (3) Bobby Womack – That’s The Way I Feel About ‘Cha (4) Lushes Daim and the Pretty Vain – The One You Love (5) Chris Bell – I Am the Cosmos.

HAPPY VALENTIMEZ DAY WEEKEND, LICKERS!