The Perlich Post

Monday, May 25, 2026

Nichol Robertson's Country Flash @ The Bell & Beacon, Monday

Guitarist Nichol Robertson is joined by Kelly Sloan, Vivienne Wilder & Mike Belitsky in Country Flash. Starts at 9:30 pm.

Beck joins forces with the Meridian Bros & Mexican Institute of Sound

Colombia's Meridian Brothers & the Mexican Institute of Sound got Beck to voice their single "Ritmo Babilonia" – check the clip.

Here's the scoop...

Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) and Meridian Brothers join forces on Ruido Tovar, a cross-border collaboration that reimagines the tropical traditions linking Mexico and Colombia. Drawing inspiration from icons like Rigo Tovar and the psychedelic Mexican cumbia era, the project blends danzón, son, cha-cha-cha, and experimental electronics into a vibrant new language. MIS’s genre-bending electronic tropicalism meets Meridian Brothers’ avant-garde eccentricity, resulting in a sound that is both reverent and playfully distorted. Together, Camilo Lara and Eblis Álvarez pay tribute to decades of musical exchange while pushing tropical music into unexpected territory.

Get a copy of Ruido Tovar via Bandcamp right here here. Check out Mateo Rivano's animated clip for "Ritmo Babilonia" featuring Beck following the album tracklisting below.

Ruido Tovar by Mexican Institute of Sound & Meridian Brothers

1. Cumbia del lobo 03:56

2. Ritmo Babilonia feat. Beck 03:57

3. Ira (IA) 03:24

4. El campeon (Bienes funerarios) 03:34

5. Cumbia fantasia 03:58

6. Concorde 04:02

7. Cumbia Beckiana feat. Beck 04:32

8. Danzón 8bits 02:50

9. Cumbia de los estudiantes 03:50

10. Perdi mis ojos 03:14

Collector Dick Spottswood turns back the clock with "1925 Songs" archival comp

The Dick Spottswood-curated 2CD archival comp 1925 Songs documents a the beginning of commercial electronic recording.

Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square present '1925 Songs'

A New Archival Set. Out June 19th

PRE-ORDER via Bandcamp right here or ask your local indie store for it.

1925 marked the advent of electrical recording, the dawn of the "Jazz Age", a pre-"big bang" country recording session in Asheville, and a few landmark blues recordings. Tompkins Square's new compilation brings it into focus.

Dick Spottswood is a legendary musicologist with deep knowledge of early jazz, blues, international, and vernacular American music from the first half of the 20th Century. He has contributed notes and transfers of records from his collection to hundreds of influential reissue albums on many labels over the decades. Spottswood teams up with Tompkins Square to offer a selective view of our favorite 78 rpm sides from 1925, a pivotal year in the development of jazz, blues and early country music. Extensive notes by Grand Ole Opry photo archivist, guitarist and writer of books, Cameron Knowler. Digital restoration by Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Jessica Thompson. Design by Clay Conder.

Various Artists – 1925 Songs: Blues, Country, Jazz & More

1. Dora Carr - Cow Cow Blues

2. Rosa Lee Carson - The Drinker's Child

3. Wheat Street Female Quartet - Go Down, Moses

4. Wm. B Houchens & J. M. Houchin - Fisher's Hornpipe and Opera Reel

5. Old Southern Jug Band - Hatchet Head Blues

6. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Sherman Valley

7. Tweedy Brothers - Cripple Creek

8. Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag

9. Brownlee's Orchestra of New Orleans - Peculiar

10. Charlie Jackson - Drop That Sack

11. Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Hot Hot Hottentot

12. Hersal Thomas - Suitcase Blues

13. Deacon L.J. Bates - All I Want is That Pure Religion

14. Seminole Syncopators - Sailing on Lake Pontchartrain

15. Osey Helton - Cacklin' Hen

16. Ernest Helton - Royal Clog

17. Dr. James Roach - Gue Gue Solingaie

18. R.B. Smith & S.J. Allgood - American and Spanish Fandango

19. Hitch's Happy Harmonists - Washboard Blues

20. Lonnie Johnson - Mr. Johnson's Blues

21. Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs - Grandpa's Spells

22. Ida Cox - How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim

23. Bix & His Rhythm Jugglers - Davenport Blues

24. Clifford's Louisville Jug Band - Struttin' The Blues

25. Homer Davenport & Young Brothers - The Fox Chase (Reel)

26. Lem Fowler's Washboard Wonders - Salty Dog

27. Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra - Jambled Blues

28. Land Norris - Dogwood Mountain

29. New Orleans Owls - Stomp Off - Let's Go

30. Sylvester Weaver - Mixing Them Up in "C"

31. Mound City Blue Blowers - Gettin' Told

32. Chauncey C. Lee - Banjo Rag

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Four more classic Deja Voodoo albums being reissued on vinyl!

Long overdue reissues of Deja Voodoo's Too Cool To Live, Too Smart To Die, Swamp Of Love, Worst Of and Big Pile Of Mud are in the works.

Here's the scoop from Gerard Van Herk...

"An update on the reissues of the Deja Voodoo albums: Cemetery is already out, as you probably know. The next four albums -- Too Cool to Live, Swamp of Love, Worst of, and Big Pile of Mud -- should be out late this summer. I signed off on the album cover art a few days ago. Maybe I should do a couple of relaunch gigs, or listening parties, or something.

"Too Cool will be mastered from vinyl, like Cemetery was. But the other three will be mastered from the original two-track tapes. These are the actual tapes that those albums were recorded live onto, with no mixdown from multi-tracking. The RTA folks say the tapes were in really good shape, for something that old. I'm looking forward to hearing them again!"

You can get the reissue of Deja Voodoo's Cemetery album right here. Listen to 1985's "Too Cool To Live, Too Smart Too Die" and 1986's "Swamp Of Love" followed by a recent performance by Gerard Van Herk at The Horseshoe in Toronto and another in Vancouver below.

Don't miss Gerard Van Herk in Hamilton at Ooey Gooey's (107 George St.) with the always entertaining Night Chill on Friday, May 29th! Doors at 8 pm. Tickets are $20 at the door.