The Underground of Happiness

We kicked off with some more from The Kinks this week. I saw a documentary about Ray Davies on BBC4 recently and Dead end street stood out. In 1966, Swinging London, that was like a fucking bombshell. I’ve paired it with some lovely contemporary garage rock sounds from Seattle’s The Soft Hills . More as well from Julia Kent, Olof Arnalds, Apricot Rail and Amor de Dias (pictured), four very fine albums this month. (There’s a full review of the Amor de Dias album coming shortly.) Then as well, artists playing in Ireland soon – K-X-P, Mark Eitzel, Yo La Tengo, Grizzly Bear , plus Unknown Mortal Orchestra who are playing TV on the Radio’s ATP in May. And some great archive, 1960’s Shangri-La’s singing a Greenwich/Barry classic, and from the 1990’s The Grays , featuring one of the best male pop voices of recent decades, Jason Falkner . Sweet. Feb 19 2013 Show w/ Julia Kent, Olof Arnalds, KXP, Amor de Dias, Shangri-Las, YLT, Soft Hills++ by Theundergroundofhappiness on Mixcloud ...