Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2025 - March Singles

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. THE WORLD`S FAIR EP  ...  Swervedriver  (Outer Battery Records)
  2. ETERNAL EP  ...  The Waeve  (Transgressive)
  3. IN THE CUT  ...  The Bluetones  (Brainhole Records)
  4. DEPENDENT EP  ...  Overpass  (Communion Records)
  5. IT'S AMAZING TO BE YOUNG  ...  Fontaines D.C  (XL Recordings)
  6. TOTAL EUPHORIA  ...  Caroline  (Rough Trade)
  7. LEFTOVERS  ...  King Hannah  (City Slang)
  8. THE TEST  ...  Billy Nomates  (Invada)
  9. REMEMBERING TO FORGET  ...  Rialto  (Fierce Panda)
  10. DOOMSDAY  ...  Sunday (1994)  (Arista)
  11. DM:AM  ...  M(h)aol  (Merge)
  12. HEAVEN  ...  Swim School  (LAB Records)
  13. PROBLEM  ...  The Pill  (Lilot Records)
  14. DESPAIR WILL MAKE ME A MODERN MAN   ...  Permanent (Joy)  (Coastal Sound Recordings)
  15. PLAN 75 EP   ...  The Orchestra (For Now)  (The Orchestra (For Now))
  16. IS IT SUMMER  ...  Wylderness  (Wylderness)
  17. THE SUPERMARKET  ...  Pynch  (Chillburn Recordings)
  18. MALADY  ...  Sister Wives  (Libertino Records)
  19. SHADOWS  ...  Goddess  (Bella Union)
  20. WATTO ...  Mucksavage  (Folly Records)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for March 2025

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2025 - March Albums

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. CONSTELLATIONS FOR THE LONELY  (LP)   ...  Doves  (EMI North)
  2. MICROTONIC  (LP)  ...  bdrmm  (Rock Action)
  3. DRIVE TO GOLDENHAMMER  (LP)  ...  Divorce  (Gravity)
  4. NEW PLACE  (LP)  ...  Pale Blue Eyes  (Broadcast Recordings)
  5. NIGHT LIFE  (LP)  ...  The Horrors  (Fiction)
  6. LUST FOR LIFE...  (LP)  ...  Courting  (Lower Third)
  7. ALL IN THE GAME  (LP)  ...  Moreish Idols  (Speedy Wunderground)
  8. BLINDNESS  (LP)  ...  The Murder Capital  (Human Season)
  9. BIG IN THE SUBURBS  (LP)  ...  Welly  (The Vertex)
  10. NATION SHALL SPEAK UNTO NATION  (LP)  ...  Edwyn Collins  (AED Records)
  11. EVERYTHING CHANGES, EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME  (LP)  ...  The Loft  (Tapete Records)
  12. YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK  (LP)  ...  Bradford  (Foundation II Records)
  13. CONVALESCENCE  (LP)   ...  Stephen Hero  (Last Night From Glasgow)
  14. PARALLEL  (LP)  ...  All Seeing Dolls  (A Recordings)
  15. MATTER DOES NOT DEFINE  (LP)  ...  The Lathums  (Modern Sky)
  16. HOT SHOCK  (LP)  ...  HotWax  (Marathon)
  17. FUN’S OVER  (LP)  ...  Keg  (Alcopop! Records)
  18. COTTON CROWN  (LP)  ...  The Tubs  (Trouble In Mind)
  19. THE NAUGHTY STEP  (LP)  ...  Dragon Welding  (Dimple Discs)
  20. OUT OF A DREAM  (LP)  ...  The Slow Readers Club  (Slow Readers Club)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for March 2025

Our Lost Words! Show tracks for Sat. Mar. 29/25

• Limited airing due to station malfunction
•  divorce - karen
  moreish idols - pale blue dot
  the murder capital - moonshot
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  das koolies - white star
  worldcub - exploding
  red telephone - leave me be
  canned pineapple - jessie met jane
  red cavalry - democracy died
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  chapterhouse - see that girl
  bdrmm - goit
  pale blue eyes - our lost words
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  snapped ankles - smart world
  humour - neighbours
  keg - plain words
  keg - ferrywan
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  the jesse davis band - hang on in there girl
  the antellects - love slave
  troy dodds - try my love
  jesse james - are you gonna leave me?
  the hytones - you don't even know my name
  -----lp session - welly   Big In The Suburbs
  welly - home for the weekend
  welly - knock and run
  welly - pampas grass
  welly - it's not like this in france
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  rialto - remembering to forget
  pencil - street corners
  the joshua motel - easy feeling
  gruff rhys - y gwenan gorn
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  the cure - primary
  the horrors - silent sister
  the horrors - la runaway
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  the smiths - shakespeare's sister
  lone striker - cursed like roy
  cud - only (a prawn in whitby)
  l'objectif - burbank
  the pill - problem
  -----lp session - dragon welding   The Naughty Step
  dragon welding - start believing start loving
  dragon welding - chase the space
  dragon welding - pensive echo ponderer
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  goddess - shadows ft ex_re
  witch post - the wolf
  baroness homme - the pilot (demo)
  shoun shoun - work
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  caroline - total euphoria
  the moonlandingz - roustabout (feat nadine shah)
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  lauren mayberry - sorry, etc, etc feat Idles’ Joe Talbo
  ash - kung fu
  lowmoon - cathedrals

Rhythm Is My Own World! Show tracks for Sat. Mar. 22/25

• the verve - sit and wonder
  mogwai - hi chaos
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  the waeve - it's the hope that kills you
  low island - spit it out
  the mushroom club - superstars
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  overpass - dependent
  automotion - circles
  doves - in the butterfly house
  wu lyf - dirt
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  mclusky - people person
  kikker - destroy
  courting - stealth rollback
  courting - eleven sent (this time)
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  the soul brothers - later for you
  paul smith - i’ll run
  brooks o'dell - the heartless one
  eddie & ernie - indication
  the tiara's - love's made a connection
  -----lp session - edwyn collins   Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
  edwyn collins - strange old world
  edwyn collins - sound as a pound
  edwyn collins - a little sign
  edwyn collins - rhythm is my own world
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  factory floor - between you
  new order - shell shock
  depeche mode - a question of time
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  florence road - heavy
  search results - wrinkle
  witch fever - dead to me!
  hotwax - hard goodbye
  hotwax - in her bedroom
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  cloth - stuck
  turin brakes - spacehopper
  the mekons - the western design
  shack - lend's some dough
  -----lp session - the loft   Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same
  the loft - storytime
  the loft - do the shut up
  the loft - somersaults
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  life coach - cringe
  shrag - tendons in the night (marc riley session)
  the vultures - good things  (liz kershaw session)
  ex-vöid - pinhead
  the tubs - freak mode
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  idlewild - these wooden ideas
  radiohead - black star
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  lexytron - kiss me quick
  david bowie - fascination
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250322-2100-t1742673600.mp3

Best Laid Plans! Show tracks for Sat. Mar. 15/25

• the beta band - dry the rain
  andy bell - space station mantra
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  the damned - new rose
  the fall - jet boy
  chalk - leipzig
  möney - poisoned again
  high vis - deserve it
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  billy nomates - the test
  anika - walk away
  freak slug - killer
  m(h)aol - dm:am
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  swervedriver - pack yr vision
  black foxxes - where have you been
  escape goats - best laid plans
  dutch mustard - dreaming
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  lee 'scratch' perry, peter harris & fritz catlin - whale fisherman
  om unit - usurper
  joe goddard x ibibio sound machine - progress
  the streets - how to win at rock paper scissors
  -----lp session - moreish idols   All In The Game
  moreish idols - railway
  moreish idols - all in the game
  moreish idols - acid
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  primal scream - innocent money (pet shop boys remix)
  sea fever - breaking out
  atticOmatic - wait
  -----lp session - pale blue eyes   New Place
  pale blue eyes - scrolling
  pale blue eyes - travel day
  pale blue eyes - half light
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  the orchestra (for now) - the strip
  permanent (joy) - save my life
  wylderness - is it summer
  -----lp session - divorce   Drive To Goldenhammer
  divorce - lord
  divorce - fever pitch
  divorce - jet show
  divorce - where do you go
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  the nightingales - the men, again
  the painkillers - silence
  the tubs - illusion
  the tubs - one more day
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  panic shack - gok wan
  congratulations - get 2 me
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  the psychedelic furs - sister europe
  noel gallagher's high flying birds - pretty boy (robert smith remix)
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250315-2100-t1742068800.mp3

Stellar Cast! Show tracks for Sat. Mar. 8/25

• soundwire - shake the fever
  kestrels - thorn
  heartworms - jacked
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  peter doherty - calvados
  the ting tings - good people do bad things
  prima queen - oats (ain't gonna beg)
  nina cristante - break
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  edwyn collins - the heart is a foolish little thing
  jetstream pony - the relativity of wrong (feat eleni poulou)
  montjuic - let's change
  cloth - golden
  adwaith - sanas
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  the slow readers club - boy so blue
  cut glass kings - big dreams
  the lathums - stellar cast
  the lathums -until our bitter end
  -----northern soul spotlight
  frankie vance - can't break the habit (of your love)
  z.z. hill - don't make promises (you can't keep)
  charles drain - stop and think about it baby
  the gillettes - the same identical thing
  frank dell - baby you've got it
  ann hodge - you're welcome back
  -----lp session - doves   Constellations For The Lonely
  doves - the butterfly house
  doves - a drop in the ocean
  doves - stupid schemes
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  the jam - funeral pyre
  kaiser chiefs - i predict a riot
  the vapors - hit the ground running
  skunk anansie - cheers
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  porridge radio - i've got a feeling (stay lucky)
  pj harvey - down by the water
  daughter - dandelion (session)
  lambrini girls - love
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  miki berenyi trio - big i am
  dose - parallelogram
  winter gardens - anthropocene
  huaranami - girl i know
  -----lp session - bdrmm   Microtonic
  bdrmm - snares
  bdrmm - microtonic
  bdrmm - sat in the heat
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  y - hate
  the moonlandingz - give me more
  fat white family - polygamy is only for the chief
  my fat pony - the universe expanded and we stayed here
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  black country, new road - happy birthday
  pynch - the supermarket
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  the smile - don't get me started
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250308-2100-t1741467600.mp3

Hooch And Happiness! Show tracks for Sat. Mar. 1/25

• the jam - don't tell them you're sane
  the jam - to be someone (didn't we have a nice time)
  the jam - the dreams of children
  the jam - carnation
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  the family cat - tom verlaine
  house of all - a creature came slinking
  fontaines d.c. - it's amazing to be young
  manic street preachers - late day peaks
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  sunday (1994) - doomsday
  jody and the jerms - hooch and happiness
  the primitives - sweet sister sorrow (symphonic dream pop version)
  oslo twins - i wake up slowly
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  swim school - heaven
  night tapes - television
  all seeing dolls - sirens echo in an iron lung
  all seeing dolls - what do dolls dream
  -----northern soul spotlight
  originals of sight and sound - long boots
  the flowers - got to get to know you
  pat powdrill and the powerdrills - together forever
  the servicemen - connie
  tommy smiley - i won't cry
  -----lp session - bradford   You Are Stronger Than You Think
  bradford - sun ray cathedral
  bradford - used to say
  bradford - saving it for best
  bradford - it gave me life
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  the tubs - chain reaction
  keys - what flavour?
  evan walters - kindred sin
  lovejoy - tender moments
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  the horrors - ariel
  the murder capital - words lost meaning
  the murder capital - swallow
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  the utopiates - evanescent
  mucksavage - watto
  mien - empty sun
  trinkets - end is near
  -----lp session - stephen hero   Convalescence
  stephen hero - hard mask
  stephen hero - leave to be gone
  stephen hero - blind minotaur
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  king hannah - leftovers
  honeyglaze - safety pins
  witch post - dreaming
  sister wives - malady
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  spiritualized - lord let it rain on me
  tricky - hell is around the corner
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  ex-vöid - nightmare
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250301-2100-t1740862800.mp3