Sunday, December 27, 2020

Festive 50 2020 Pt.2! Show tracks for Sat. Dec. 26/20

  • pulp - countdown
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    #39 do nothing  - contraband
    #38 thousand yard stare - it sparks!
    #37 cabaret voltaire - the power (of their knowledge)
    #36 pillow queens - a dogs life
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    #35 bitch falcon - gaslight
    #34 mystery jets - history has its eyes on you
    #33 jarv is - house music all night long
    #32 juliper sky - magnetise
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    #31 the wolfhounds - stand apart
    #30 blossoms - if you think this is real life
    #29 tim burgess - yours, to be
    #28 james dean bradfield - without knowing the end (joan's song)
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    #27 cornershop - st marie under canon
    #26 whyte horses - want you to know
    #25 halloweens - my baby looks good with another
    #24 shopping - initiative
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    #23 the cribs - under the bus station clock
    #22 andy bell - love comes in waves
    #21 stats - on the tip of my tongue
    #20 jehnny beth - we will sin together
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    #19 gorillaz - aries (feat. peter hook and georgia)
    #18 pins - set me off
    #17 wire - the art of persistence
    #16 tiña - new boi
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    #15 porridge radio - sweet
    #14 jetstream pony - trapped in amber
    #13 the psychedelic furs - don't believe   
    #12 sports team - here's the thing
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    #11 sinead o'brien - fall with me
    #10 mush - eat the etiquette
    #9 dream nails - kiss my fist
    #8 working men's club - teeth
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    #7 bdrmm - push/pull
    #6 the orielles - 7th dynamic goo   
    #5 dream wife - validation
    #4 the big moon - why
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    #3 idles - grounds
    #2 fontaines d.c. - i was not born
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    #1 doves - prisoners
    #1 doves - cycle of hurt
    #1 doves - carousels (the comet is coming remix)
  • Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/577-Cowboys_and_Indies-20201226-2100-t1609016400.mp3

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2020 - December

  •  The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene

    1. THE CRACK  ...  Goat Girl  (Rough Trade)
    2. THE PATRON SAINT OF HEARTACHE  (LP)  ...  Candy Opera  (A Turntable Friend)
    3. TELL ME YOUR MIND AND I'LL TELL YOU MINE EP  ...  King Hannah  (City Slang)
    4. COMPERSION PT.1  ...  Arab Strap  (Rock Action Records)
    5. MY BODY IS A GLASSHOUSE (A THOUSAND STONES AGO)  ...  Glasvegas  (Go Wow Records)
    6. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING  ...  Maxïmo Park  (Prolifica/[PIAS])
    7. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?  (LP)  ...  Nile Marr  (Oldham Street)
    8. SHORTCUMMINGS  ...  Sleaford Mods  (Rough Trade)
    9. BURN THE HEATHER  ...  The Lounge Society  (Speedy Wunderground)
    10. I DON'T RECOGNISE YOU  ...  NewDad  (Fair Youth)
    11. IN QUIET MOMENTS EP  ...  Lost Horizons  (Bella Union)
    12. CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO STOOLS  ...  Headshrinkers  (H.S x Records)
    13. LIKE EVERYDAY  ...  Saccades  (Fuzz Club Records)
    14. COUNTY LINES  ...  Ventrelles  (Ventrelles)
    15. MOTIONLESS / CHELSEA  ...  Pale Blue Eyes  (Broadcast Recordings)
    16. FAULT LINES  ...  Geneva  (Fall Apart Records)
    17. CURIOSITY (DAWN)  ...  Dead Naked Hippies  (Dead Naked Hippies)
    18. GET A GRIP  ...  Feral Five  (Primitive Light)
    19. BLUSH  ...  Beach Riot  (Alcopop! Records)
    20. BE HERE NOW  ...  Wings Of Desire  (WMD Recordings)

    Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for December 2020

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Festive 50 2020 Pt. 1! Show tracks for Sat. Dec. 19/20

  • the futureheads - christmas was better in the 80s
    saint etienne - i was born on christmas day
    the long blondes - christmas is cancelled
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    fontaines d.c. - i'm a man you don’t meet every day (pogues cover)
    desperate journalist - the fear (pulp cover)
    inhaler - fade into you (mazzy star cover)
    the orielles - son of a preacher man (dusty springfield cover)
    hatchie & the pains of being pure at heart - sometimes always (jesus and mary chain cover)
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    the vaccines - lack of understanding
    field music - a shot in the arm
    depeche mode - shake the disease
    the cure - give me it
    the telescopes - the perfect needle
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    blanketman - harold
    the riptide movement - turn on the lights   
    hearse pileup - we’re all going to hell
    tom vek - guilty pleasure
    bull - love goo
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    the undertones - true confessions
    stiff little fingers - suspect device
    rudi - 14 steps
    starjets - any danger love
    electro-motive force - spidermen
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    tacsidermi - sunday morning (velvet underground cover)   
    adwaith - femme fatale (velvet underground cover)
    los blancos - lisa says (velvet underground cover)
    silent forum - the murder mystery (velvet underground cover)
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    kirsty maccoll - turn my motor on
    rip rig + panic - you're my kind of climate
    yazoo - winter kills
    we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it - xx sex
    talulah gosh - don't go away
    the primitives - crash (demo)
    the fizzbombs - sign on the line   
    -----2020 festive 50 pt.1   
    #50 sonic boom - the way that you live
    #49 sorry - right around the clock
    #48 ist ist - night's arm
    #47 the luxembourg signal - mourning moon
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    #46 paul weller - walkin’
    #45 catholic action - people don't protest enough   
    #44 bloxx - coming up short
    #43 cabbage - i was a teenage insect
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    #42 i like trains - patience is a virtue
    #41 a certain ratio - berlin
    #40 king of the slums - posh town witchcult
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    rose gray - same cloud
    pulp - countdown
  • Listen - http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/577-Cowboys_and_Indies-20201219-2100-t1608411600.mp3

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Dunce Disco Anthem! Show tracks for Sat. Dec. 12/20

  • tiña - closest shave
    king hannah - crème brûlée
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    it's immaterial - kind words
    the blue nile - tinseltown in the rain
    bored at my grandmas house - skin
    pale blue eyes - motionless   
    team picture - quit reading
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    glasvegas - my body is a glasshouse (a thousand stones ago)
    the psychedelic furs - wrong train
    the ninth wave - everything will be fine
    white flowers - you caught me
    murmur - shame
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    gorillaz - chalk tablet towers (feat. st vincent)   
    sleaford mods - shortcummings
    asain dub foundation - new alignment
    lost horizons - i woke up with an open heart (on-u sound dub mix)
    liam bailey - cold & clear
    -----lp session - emperor of ice cream 'no sound ever dies'   
    emperor of ice cream - sunflower
    emperor of ice cream - again and again
    emperor of ice cream - grow as you are
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    goat girl - the crack
    shame - snow day
    saint agnes - this world ain’t big enough
    dead naked hippies - curiosity (dawn)
    foot squeaker - specimen
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    home counties - will bod
    sissy space echo & the invisible collaborators - the day the earth caught fire   
    the cool greenhouse - the end of the world
    gentle stranger - dunce disco anthem
    nightshift - make kin
    tacsidermi - gwir
    -----lp session - are we static 'accepting the universe'   
    are we static - rollercoaster
    are we static - baeleric
    are we static - heart stops   
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    nancy - pleasure pen
    longview - further
    silvermash - rompecabeza
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    the telescopes - mesmerised
    harold budd & cocteau twins - eyes are mosaics
    harold budd & brian eno - foreshadowed
    robin guthrie & harold budd - forever changed 
  • Listen - http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/577-Cowboys_and_Indies-20201212-2100-t1607806801.mp3

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Roller State Disco! Show tracks for Sat. Dec. 5/20

  • nadine shah - trad
    dan lyons - thin black duke
    the woodentops - get it on
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    arab strap - compersion pt.1
    ian mcnabb - no one tells a lie like a dude with a tie
    the waterboys - dennis hopper
    wendy james - cancel it… i’ll see him on monday
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    spotlight kid - roller state disco
    newdad - i don't recognise you
    r.a. downie - the waterfall
    beach riot - blush
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    maxïmo park - i don't know what i'm doing
    the lounge society - burn the heather
    gengahr - you're no fun
    ventrelles - county lines
    -----northern soul spotlight   
    retta young - my man is on his way
    crown heights affair - every beat of my heart
    shelly black - no turning back
    silent majority - something new about you
    -----lp session - candy opera 'the patron saint of heartache'   
    candy opera - start all over again
    candy opera - rise (if that's what people want)
    candy opera - there is no love
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    pva - sleek form
    cabaret voltaire - night of the jackal
    tricky - doorway (all the way mix) feat. mars blackbird
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    halçyon days - palisades
    mumble tide - love thing
    bored at my grandmas house - showers
    midnight alleys - sick clown
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    drug store romeos - jim, let's play
    dutch criminal record - 00's nostalgia
    the wild swans - bringing home the ashes
    desert wolves - november
    -----lp session - nile marr 'are you happy now?'   
    nile marr - goes down slow
    nile marr - soft sculptures
    nile marr - perfect crimes
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    regent - no going back
    about bunny - special
    youth sector - teeth
    tv face - new anatomies
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    suede  - heroine
    the autuers - show girl
    emperor of ice cream - it's alright to show yourself
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    ozric tentacles - blooperdome 
  • Listen - http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/577-Cowboys_and_Indies-20201205-2100-t1607202000.mp3

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2020 - November Albums

  • The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene

    1. POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH MUSIC  (LP)  ...  Tiña  (Speedy Wunderground)
    2. STARING AT CLOCKS  (LP)  ...   Bitch Falcon  (Small Pond Records)
    3. POWYS 1999  (LP)  ...  Stats  (Memphis Industries)
    4. ANOTHER STATE  (LP)  ...  Tourists  (Modern Sky)
    5. NIGHT NETWORK  (LP)  ...  The Cribs  (Sonic Blew)
    6. SHADOW OF FEAR  (LP)  ...  Cabaret Voltaire  (Mute)
    7. THREE MILE DITCH  (LP)  ...  The Wytches  (Cable Code Records)
    8. THE FOUR FIVE THREE  (LP)  ...  The Jacques  (Modern Sky)
    9. TUNNG PRESENTS…DEAD CLUB  (LP)  ...  Tunng  (Full Time Hobby)
    10. HOME FOR NOW  (LP)  ...  Babeheaven  (AWAL)
    11. MOTORIK  (LP)  ...  Ghostlawns  (SUB Records)
    12. AUTOMATIC TENDENCIES  (LP)  ...  Firestations  (Lost Map Records)
    13. DEEPER  (LP)  ...  Jody & The Jerms  (JATJ)
    14. IN MEMORY OF MY FEELINGS  (LP)  ...  Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler  (Needle Mythology)
    15. SAUSAGE STUDIO SESSIONS  (LP)  ...  The Nix  (Moshi Moshi)
    16. POCKET MELODIES  (LP)  ...  The Moons  (Colorama Records)
    17. MENTAL HOME RECORDINGS  (LP)  ...  Philip Parfitt  (A Turntable Friend)
    18. IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN AND THIS IS WHY  (LP)  ...  Spectres  (Little Cloud Records)
    19. HOW CAN I HELP YOU WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO HELP YOURSELF  (LP)  ...  Gareth Sager  (Creeping Bent)
    20. LOVE AND OPTIMISM  (LP)  ...  Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans  (A Turntable Friend Records)

    Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for November 2020

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2020 - November Singles

  • The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene

    1. HOME  ...  Teenage Fanclub  (Merge)
    2. GLOWING IN THE DARK  ...  Django Django  (Because Music)
    3. GLUELAND  ...  Do Nothing  (Exact Truth)
    4. SORRY  ...  Liines  (Reckless Yes)
    5. SCRATCHCARD LANYARD  ...  Dry Cleaning  (4AD)
    6. BLUNT INSTRUMENTS  ...  Mush  (Memphis Industries)
    7. WHAT CAN I DO  ...  Heartworms  (Permanent Creeps Records)
    8. MANIFESTO  ...  Sprints  (Nice Swan Records)
    9. 23, NEVER ME  ...  Dead Pony  (LAB Records)
    10. POPSHOP!  ...  Courting  (Nice Swan Records)
    11. TAKE ARMS  ...  Low Hummer  (Dance To The Radio)
    12. PEANUTS  ...  Yard Act  (Zen F.C.)
    13. THE TIN MAN  ...  Thrillhouse  (Flawed Design Records)
    14. HALL OF MIRRORS  ...  Cross Wires  (Culture War Records)
    15. TABLE MANNERS  ...  Public Body  (Public Body Recordings)
    16. 23RD MARCH  ...  Genn  (Everything Sucks Music)
    17. TELETEXT EP  ...  Threads  (Alphaville Records)
    18. FIBRES  ...  Holy Drone  (Petty Management)
    19. WITHIN A DREAM  ...  White Flowers  (Drift Records)
    20. WHY I LEAVE  ...  Floral Image  (Floral Image Records)

    Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for November 2020