Happy New Year, gals and pals! Looks like this will be my last episode posted here on the good ol’ GaragePunk.com blog. What?!?! Yes! Starting next month, you can still hear my show, you’ll just have to go to the GaragePunk Hideout to hear them as I’ll be posting them on my blog there, so be sure you’re subscribed (link below), or be my friend on the Hideout and I’ll keep you posted when new episodes are added. So to say goodbye to the old ways of doing things and to celebrate the new year and the changes coming with it, I’ve put together TWO HOURS of pure greatness in one show! It’s kind of a retrospective, if you will. A look back at the last three years of Mystery Action. Forty-Six songs sure to have you begging for more, not tired and bored. Only favorites. Too many bands to name off, but I’m playing mostly ’60s and modern garage with sprinkles of punk, country, surf, and white-boy R&B. In the new year I’ll donate an hour to nothing but soul and rhythm and blues, so hang tight! Punk’s not dead, he’s just resting.
Howdy! Believe it or not, this episode has a They Might Be Giants song in it. No joke. I’m not kidding. I’m totally being serious. It’s also filled with all kinds of garage and punk rock music, sewn together with Quintron instrumentals. It’s the perfect cure for a pre-holiday hump day.
We’ve got some new/semi-new goodies in this episode! Tracks by Shannon & the Clams, the Reigning Sound, the A-Bones, Johnny & the Limelites, Back C.C.s, and the King Khan & BBQ Show! PLUS old favorites by the Hentchmen, the Gizmos, Primates, Gun Club, Flat Duo Jets and… YES! YES! YES! MUCH, MUCH MORE! This episode could save you during a visit to your parents’ place for Thanksgiving.
It’s that time of year, again! My favorite holiday! HALLOWEEN! This isn’t exactly the spookiest show, but I sprinkled it with Halloween-ish songs like “Werewolf” by Southern Culture on the Skids, “The Creature From the Lava Lagoon” by the Bomboras, “A Hearse Is Not a Home” by Frankie Stein & His Ghouls, “You Can’t Get Him Frankenstein” by the Fleshtones, and more. Trick ‘r treat, beat your meat!
This episode is dedicated to the AMAZING chain of 1980s restaurants for children called Showbiz Pizza Place, and their robotic band The Rock-afire Explosion! Billy Bob, Fatz Geronimo, Beach Bear, Mitzi Mozzarella, and Looney Bird are your guides through an action-packed hour featuring the likes of the Small Faces, the Rolling Stones, Billy “The Kid” Emerson, Chuck Berry, the Flat Duo Jets, and the Gruesomes. Check out the new documentary on the band at: www.rockafiremovie.com
This episode is a part of your balanced diet. It’s chock full of old, new, rhythm, blues. Wau Y Los Arrrghs, Dead Moon, Flat Duo Jets, The Yardbirds… Open up and say, “AHHHHH!”
This episode of Mystery Action spotlights the Teenage Shutdown compilations (available through the fine folks at Crypt Records)! Tracks are taken from all 15 of the comps, including the Chob, the Heard, Monday’s Mondos, Dr. Spec’s Optical Illusion, and the Savages! Charles picks the cream of the crop from these comps just for you.
GODDAMN! If you jog—or run from the cops—on a regular basis, then this is the episode to keep handy. Ain’t nuthin’ but high-energy, high-impact, low-fidelity scorcher after scorcher. This is the kind of shit you hide from your ma and pa. None of that easy-breezy, hippy-dippy nonsense. This is the kind of music you lose your innocence to… again. Twenty five tracks of pure rebel music.
Charles got to see the Mummies and you didn’t! He also had his friend come over and make a podcast with him. All kinds of 45s were slung around that night, along with all kinds of beer and bacon. 100% Morrissey free!
OH, MAN! The weather is getting nice! It’s time for cookouts and road trips. Charles just recently went on two weekend road trips to Tennesee and North Carolina. Since the weather is so great, Charles decided to make this episode all surf and summer-time instro-mentals!
We’ve got a nice mix of OLD and NEW artists on this episode! Hear Mark Sultan, The Rantouls, Coconut Coolouts, Georgiana Starlington, Personal & the Pizzas, Hasil Adkins, the Blokes, Tommy Cassell, and MORE! 43 minutes of fist-fucking glory!
Well, Charles bought a nice, new microphone that’s all fancy pants and decided it’d be a great idea to break it in for this episode. Turns out the mic played a little April Fools joke on him and stopped working correctly midway through the show, causing weird static noises over the talking. Oh well… This show is still filled with tons of great music. Charles is joined by David and Frank from New York’s best band, The Above, DJ Shimmy (a.k.a. George), and Miss Christina Ginger. Four six-packs, a gallon growler, and some tall boys make for a fun night at Casa de Gaskins.
This episode, Charles is joined by his almost-wife, Masha. They both take turns playing music, and they both have very good taste in music so you can expect a bad-ass show. Lots of girl-group sounds, garage jangle and fuzz, and classic soul scorchers.
Rhythm & Blues, baby! Fifty-five minutes of straight-up titty shakers that’ll turn this mother out! Them! Bo Diddley! The Pretty Things! Edgar Alan & The Po’Boys! This has been a cold and wet winter and it’s been draggin’ me down, man. While making this I forgot just how shitty the weather is outside. Oh, I also included a track off the NEW Black Lips album that’s due to be released next Tuesday!
Better late than never! After a brief hiatus, Mystery Action is back with episode 40! You can’t go wrong with CCR, Dead Moon, Bad Manners, 13th Floor Elevators or The Wailers! 40 minutes of bad-assness!
Happy Holidays, fuck wads! This episode features some of my favorite tracks released during 2008 by bands like Cheap Time, The Oh Sees, and The Dutchess & The Duke. I get all bluesy and shit with Otis Rush, Jimmy Reed, T-Bone Walker, and more. Oh, I also play some classic new wave and post-punk from bands like Magazine, Television Personalities, DEVO, Gang of Four, and others. Check it out!!!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Here’s an episode that’ll save you from heartburn, annoying relatives, and diarrhea. With this combination of soulful stompers and suave instros, I’ve developed the cure for the Thanksgiving blues. The Ikettes, Betty Harris, Duane Eddy, Paul Bearer & the Hearsemen, Ko Ko Taylor… You can’t go wrong!
I was making this podcast while the news came in so I cut it short to celebrate. So this episode is just shameless, self-promotion for my new record label, Killer Diller Records. My first release is a 7″ with ten bands all doing songs about jenkem. It’s called WILD ABOUT JENKEM! You can find out more information here.
HANG TEN, DOUCHE NOZZLE!!! This episode is surf heavy! Summer is over, it’s true, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t be a listenin’ to beachy music! I grew up in Florida and only lived a short drive from the beach but I ended up, somehow, a hodad. You couldn’t get me in that water for all the Krispy Kreme in the world. I’m fine sittin’ in the sand with a pizza and a beer, but I can’t get enough surf rock music! Also! This episode is drippin’ with doo wop, glazed with garage, and slathered in soul. Do it to it!
The latest episode of Mystery Action only has one message, and that message is VOTE FOR OBAMA! If I have to hear another word about Palin or McCain I’m gonna stab my ears off with a broken light bulb. Tune in to unleash the Rock ‘n’ Roll Cancer!
