Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2026 - August Albums

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. IT GOES ON  (LP)  ...  Westside Cowboy  (Island)
  2. CANNONBALL  (LP)  ...  Man/Woman/Chainsaw  (Fiction)
  3. EVER THE OPTIMIST  (LP)  ...  Trashcan Sinatras  (TCS Recordings)
  4. RENASCENT  (LP)  ...  The Durutti Column  (Factory Too)
  5. SAME SUN/SAME SKY  (LP)  ...  The Darling Buds  (Cherry Red)
  6. EVERYTHINGNESS  (LP)  ...  Atmos Bloom (Spirit Goth Records)
  7. MASSIVE CHAMPION  (LP)  ...  Getdown Services  (Breakfast Records)
  8. JENIUS  (LP) ...  Paul Heaton  (EMI)
  9. THE THREAD  (LP)  ...  Family Stereo  (Bella Union)
  10. A HOLE TO SEE THE SKY THROUGH  (LP)  ...  Mystery Jets  (Fiction)
  11. THE SWEET GOODBYE  (LP)  ...  Opus Kink  (SO Recordings)
  12. AS WE ONCE WERE  (LP)  ...  The Anchoress  (Last Night From Glasgow)
  13. SUNSHINE  (LP)  ...  Jungle  (Caiola Records)
  14. HOPING AS A COPING MECHANISM  (LP)  ...  Mould  (5db Records)
  15. SHALLOW HITS  (LP)  ...  Ebbb  (Ninja Tune)
  16. AFFIRMATIONS  (LP)  ...  Really Good Time  (Twin Music Inc)
  17. THE CONFUSER  (LP)  ...  Robyn Hitchcock  (Tiny Ghost Records) 
  18. ALL AT ONCE  (LP)   ...  Tugboat Captain  (Tugboat Captain)
  19. EXPO, REMIXED  (LP)  ...  Ulrika Spacek  (Full Time Hobby Music)
  20. BERYL & RUFF GO SHOPPING  (LP)  ...   Cleaners From Venus  (The Cat Collects) 
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for August 2026 

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2026 - August Singles

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. TERRIBLE YEARS  ...  Desperate Journalist  (Fierce Panda Records)
  2. 7563  ...  Florence Road  (Fox Reach)
  3. TOM WILL SMACK UR ASS  ...  Sorry  (Domino)
  4. WAKE UP HONEY  ...  Pete Fij (Tip Top Records)
  5. BELIEVERS/OUR NEW LIFE BY THE SEA  ...  Cross Wires  (Culture War Records)
  6. CITY OF THE BEAST  ...  Gently Tender  (TODO Records)
  7. ODESSA ...  Feet  (Submarine Cat Records)
  8. LIE DOWN WITH DOGS, STAND UP WITH FLEAS  ...  British Birds  (Skep Wax)
  9. NOUS DEUX EP  ...  Foglights  (Skep Wax)
  10. GLUE  ...  HMS Morris  (Bubblewrap Records)
  11. LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR  ...  Fujiya & Miyagi  (Impossible Objects of Desire)
  12. THE BALLAD OF DCB  ...  Formal Sppeedwear  (Melodic)
  13. REPETITION / COMPULSION  ...   Black Doldrums  (Fuzz Club)
  14. WITHOUT A SOUND  ...  Tanzana  (So Recordings & Hideous Mink Records)
  15. NOTHING HAPPENS TWICE  ...  Gurriers  (Domino)
  16. ACT NATURAL  ...  Do Nothing  (Submarine Cat Records)
  17. BED BUG  ...  The Family Battenberg  (Stolen Body Records) 
  18. CARTE BLANCHE  ...  M. Woodroe  (Venn Records)
  19. INLAND EMPIRE  ...  Red Cavalry  (Red Cavalry Music)
  20. MOLOTOV MOCKTAIL  ...  Leechers  (RolaCola Records)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for August 2026 

Baby You're A Winner! Show tracks for Sat. Sept. 5/26

• antony szmierek - commune
  james ellis ford - this too shall pass
  working men's club - widow
  -----    
  johnny marr - it's time
  blossoms - additional driver feat declan mckenna
  the ninth wave - bitumen
  sennen - here it comes
  -----    
  black doldrums - compulsion
  black market karma - always faithful
  boo radleys - skyscraper (live session '26)
  oisin mod - canary
  -----    
  penelope isles - another kind of love
  tokyo tea room - hypnotised
  everything but the girl - don't leave me behind
  family stereo - silhouette on the hill
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  margie hendrix - one room paradise
  bobby hutton - come see what's left of me
  otis leavill - nobody but you
  little rose little - get a hold of yourself
  -----lp session - grandmas house     Baby You're A Winner    
  grandmas house - hurricane
  grandmas house - next big hit (choo choo)
  grandmas house - soaked
  grandmas house - how it is
  -----
  railcard - flannelette
  darling buds - oh no you don't
  lovejoy - hungry heart
  the junipers - in a maze
  -----    
  gently tender - don't sleep
  curbside lambsear - man the door
  san jose - oxycontin, the american dream
  -----    
  winter gardens - fragile boy
  los blancos - olew’r olewydd (olive oil)
  los bitchos - holding cell feat ambrose kenny-smith
  ian skelly - nickel and a dime
  -----lp session - spearmint    Chase Me    
  spearmint - the chase
  spearmint - first man on earth
  spearmint - falling
  spearmint - time to wake up
  -----    
  hazy waters - take me home
  rainsong - winter beach
  ghost patterns - mirror image
  matryrs - long goodbye
  -----    
  the wedding present - corduroy
  elastica - line up
  -----    
  yard act - talky talky people
  the undertones - when saturday comes (peel session)
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260905-2100-t1788638400.mp3 

You Could Have Died There On The Dancefloor! Show tracks for Sat. Aug. 29/26

• getdown services - cha cha slide
  tricky - because i don't know
  portishead - numb
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  echo & the bunnymen - the light that surrounds you
  pete fij - wake up honey
  palace - ohio
  atmos bloom - island
  -----    
  formal sppeedwear - the ballad of dcb
  sorry - tom will smack your ass
  arab strap - be a man
  ugly - marina
  -----    
  spearmint - i'm not ok
  foglights - the day the night stayed (longer than us)
  teenage fanclub - there was you
  xtc - grass
  the tubs - now and then
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  jimmy castor - magic saxophone
  the fashioneers - without you
  keanya collins - i'll get over it
  skip cunningham - have we met before
  -----lp session - paul heaton    Jenius    
  paul heaton - can't get next to you
  paul heaton - she ain't pretty feat rianne downey
  paul heaton - good for the bees
  -----
  desperate journalist - terrible years
  bleach lab - close to the flame
  succulents - work it out
  sundress - beach house baby
  -----    
  luft - the punch and judy man
  mystery jets - godrays
  blur - bad day
  -----    
  everything is recorded - cut off your nose feat jah wobble
  my new band believe - numerology (96 back and jennifer walton remix)
  daytime tv - creatures
  goldfrapp - slide in
  -----lp session - westside cowboy    It Goes On    
  westside cowboy - paperchains
  westside cowboy - well done kid, you did it
  westside cowboy - worried age
  westside cowboy - you could have died there on the dancefloor
  -----
  my vitriol - always: your way
  big red - mission st.
  world news - the way it goes
  bitw (tiny) - gaddo glaw (promising rain)
  -----    
  orchestral manoeuvres in the dark - almost (vince clarke remix)
  depeche mode - told you so
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  strawberry switchblade - jolene
  rainsong - [swifts]
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260829-2100-t1788033600.mp3 

Dirty Hotel Blues! Show tracks for Sat. Aug. 22/26

• trashcan sinatras - prisons
  trashcan sinatras - bloodrush
  trashcan sinatras - obscurity knock
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  django django - dirty hotel blues
  alexis taylor - i can feel your love
  everything but the girl - we walk the same line
  family stereo - fault lines
  -----    
  gurriers - nothing happens twice
  the family battenberg - bad bug
  wings of desire - a little low
  basht. - terror tv
  -----    
  memorials - i can't see a rainbow
  moderate rebels - some people count and some people don't
  the anchoress - throw over your man feat james dean bradfield
  the anchoress - as we once were
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  reggie lamont - how lonely (can one man be)
  the festivals - hey girl
  tommy duncan - let me take you out
  dee dee warwick - do it with all your heart
  the paramounts - i won't share
  -----lp session - getdown services    Massive Champion    
  getdown services - poor bannister
  getdown services - probiotic
  getdown services - what's on your mind?
  getdown services - stop living
  -----If The Pop Kids Unite, They Won't Be Divided    
  shopfires - we could fall apart
  assistant - flowers
  sunny intervals - one last day of the holidays
  dayflower - september gurls (live)
  -----    
  fujiya & miyagi - lowest common denominator
  adult dvd - rolling face
  really good time - on dublin bus
  -----
  la roux - lose myself
  vanishing twin - sugar stone
  temples - glimmer
  -----lp session - jungle    Sunshine    
  jungle - come back to me
  jungle - move like you do
  jungle - natural
  jungle - heavy on my soul
  -----Rough Trade Boxset Volume.02
  the fall - totally wired
  scritti politti - the sweetest girl
  aztec camera - oblivious
  the smiths - i want the one i can't have
  the sundays - can't be sure
  -----    
  fontaines d.c. - marianne
  bloc party - pigwig
  -----    
  felt - cathedral
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260822-2100-t1787428800.mp3 

Water From A Vine Leaf! Show tracks for Sat. Aug. 15/26

• william orbit - water from a vine leaf
  beth orton - she cries your name
  blur - no distance left to run
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  florence road - 7563
  los bitchos - hang up (pt 2) feat Sinkane & Adrian Quesada
  gently tender - city of the beast
  the healing power of horses - so-perfect (combing)
  -----
  railcard - unstable neighbour
  rachel wood - silent madman
  the wedding present - why are you being so reasonable now?
  fuzzbox - love is the slug
  -----    
  hms morris - glue
  pva - enough (dream edition)
  nightbus - false prophet (ashnymph remix)
  -----northern soul spotlight
  phillip mitchell - keep on talking
  the fads - just like a woman
  the ambers - another love
  the honey bees - she don't deserve you
  jimmy norman - i'm leaving
  -----lp session - man/woman/chainsaw    Cannonball    
  man/woman/chainsaw - only girl
  man/woman/chainsaw - lighter
  man/woman/chainsaw - flick of the wrist
  man/woman/chainsaw - the thing
  -----    
  westside cowboy - dobro
  m. woodroe - carte blanche
  leechers - molotov moktail
  the boo radleys - does this hurt?
  -----    
  the big moon - fun
  blood red shoes - don't say a word
  dogviolet - daughter
  yard act - cherophobe rock
  -----
  babyshambles - delivery (live at koko)
  truthpaste - never gonna give
  the bug club - my uncle warren drives a passat
  robyn hitchcock - wasted
  -----lp session - opus kink    The Sweet Goodbye    
  opus kink - peckham nocturne
  opus kink - i have to shine my sunday shoes
  opus kink - crucify
  -----    
  moderate rebels - once was a key...now is a lock (alternate version)
  jo from school - release
  long blondes - guilt
  bau cat - traposphere
  -----    
  the beatles - i want to tell you
  pink floyd - lucifer sam
  the who - my wife
  -----    
  ebbb - come alive
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260815-2100-t1786824000.mp3 

The Associated Funk! Show tracks for Sat. Aug. 8/26

• sinead o'connor - marcus garvey
  hollie cook - dubbing on
  the coral - shame
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  the big moon - gravity
  bugeye - this is what i want
  toyah - victims of the riddle
  british birds - lie down with dogs, stand up with fleas
  feet - odessa
  -----    
  cross wires - our new life by the sea
  red cavalry - inland empire
  do nothing - act natural
  tugboat captain - all at once
  -----    
  swell season - stuck in reverse
  mojave 3 - some kinda angel
  saccades - slacker
  robyn hitchcock - i am this thing
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  big frank and the essences - i won't let her see me cry
  herman griffin - dream girl
  kenny carlton - lost and found
  lonzine cannon - quit while i'm ahead
  danny woods - 90 days in the county jail
  -----lp session - trashcan sinatras     Ever The Optimist
  trashcan sinatras - ever the optimist
  trashcan sinatras - a view from nowhere
  trashcan sinatras - the associated funk
  trashcan sinatras - learning to love your ghost
  -----    
  tanzana - without a sound
  siouxsie and the banshees - happy house
  ebbb - shallow hits
  -----    
  tokyo tea room - always in the sun
  artmos bloom - soft spot
  the durutti column - vapour in a matchbox
  the durutti column - all they see is fire feat lucas elliot
  -----    
  television personalities - glittering prizes
  cleaners from venus - scenes from smalltown england
  family stereo - waiting on nina
  family stereo - dlr
  -----lp session - the darling buds    Same Sun/Same Sky    
  the darling buds - jump in
  the darling buds - cut me dead
  the darling buds - pretenders
  the darling buds - paper planes
  -----
  black doldrums - repetition
  black market karma - lead laces
  ulrika spacek - a modern low (cj calderwood remix)
  hmltd - blitzkrieg
  -----    
  roxy music - do the strand
  the associates - even dogs in the wild
  -----    
  bivouac - dragging your weight around
  death cult - ghost dance
• Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260808-2100-t1786219200.mp3