Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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

Sunday, March 23, 2025

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

Sunday, March 16, 2025

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

Sunday, March 9, 2025

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

Sunday, March 2, 2025

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