Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2025 - January

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. LOUDER, PLEASE  (LP)   ...  Rose Gray  (Play It Again Sam)
  2. THE HUMAN FEAR  (LP)  ...  Franz Ferdinand  (Domino)
  3. VOLUME CONTROL  ...  Swervedriver  (Outer Battery Records)
  4. 8TH DEADLY SIN  ...  Miki Berenyi Trio  (Bella Union)
  5. EXTRAORDINARY WINGS  ...  Heartworms  (Speedy Wunderground)
  6. WHO LET THE DOGS OUT  (LP)  ...  Lambrini Girls  (City Slang)
  7. BUILDING 650  ...  Squid  (Warp)
  8. SIGN OF A MAN  ...  The Moonlandingz  (Transgressive)
  9. NO ONE LEAVES THIS DISCOTHEQUE ALIVE  ...  Rialto  (Fierce Panda)
  10. SOULS IN MOTION  (LP)  ...  Pastel  (Spirit Of Spike Island)
  11. DUMB ...  Da Googie feat Cara Tivey  (Tiny Global Productions)
  12. KNOWLEDGE  ...  Edwyn Collins  (Edwyn Collins)
  13. WHY   ...  Y  (So/Hideous Mink Records)
  14. LOOKING BACK AT THE WORLD  (LP)  ...  The Gentle Spring  (Skep Wax Records)
  15. COLD DREAMING  ...  Doves  (EMI)
  16. SHIRKING CLASS HERO  ...  Bradford  (Foundation II Records)
  17. I WANNA GO HOME  ...  Overpass  (Coastal Sound Recordings)
  18. PILL  ...  Divorce  (Gravity/Capitol)
  19. THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES  ...  The Nightingales  (Invada)
  20. LOVE LOVE LOVE  ...  The Painkillers  (Spader Records)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for January 2025
   

No One Leaves This Discotheque Alive! Show tracks for Sat. Jan. 25/25

• pebbledash - soak
  swervedriver - volume control
  f.o. machete - skeletor
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  rialto - no one leaves this discotheque alive
  overpass - take it or leave it
  chalk - afraid
  moreish idols - dream pixel
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  edwyn collins - knowledge
  peter doherty - felt better alive
  travis - avalon
  sister envy - swallowed by the ground
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  bradford - shirking class hero
  fairground attraction - miracles
  white magic for lovers - the book of lies
  porridge radio - don't want to dance
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  jimmy 'bo' horne - i can't speak
  the voice masters - two lovers
  janice christian with johnny & the charmers - just a bad thing
  jennifer wells - dining in chinatown
  the angels - you got what you want
  -----lp session - rose gray   Louder, Please
  rose gray - just two
  rose gray - tectonic
  rose gray - hackney wick
  rose gray - everything changes (but i won't)
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  courting - after you
  the nightingales - the emperor's new clothes
  the painkillers - love love love
  vincent's last summer - motorway
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  the horrors - more than life
  bloodworm - back of a hand
  floodhounds - near-life experience
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  young knives - cause & effect
  hotgirl - on the brink
  lambrini girls - company culture
  false heads - cracked
  -----lp session - pastel   Souls In Motion
  pastel - heroes' blood
  pastel - running on empty
  pastel - leave a light on (velvet storm)
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  seefeel - multifolds
  soundcarriers - the city was
  ulrika spacek - wave to paulo, he's not there (live)
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  the moonlandingz - the sign of a man
  y - why
  index for working musik - 2x1
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  the verve - life's an ocean
• Listen - http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250125-2100-t1737838800.mp3
   

Volume Control! Show tracks for Sat. Jan. 18/25

• the chesterfields - hangover eve
  jetstream pony - captain palisade
  the supernaturals - the day before yesterday's man
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  heartworms - extraordinary wings
  divorce - pill
  pillow queens - the bars closed
  king hannah - new york, let's do nothing
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  squid - building 650
  courting - pause at you
  sports team - bang bang bang
  paul molloy - luxury bunker
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  pale blue eyes - rituals
  andy bell feat dot allison and michael rother - i'm in love
  all seeing dolls - that's amazing grace
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  the fashionettes - losin' control
  joe tex - i wanna be free
  eddie campbell - contagious love
  bill bush - i'm waiting
  the extremes - how i need your love
  -----lp session - franz ferdinand   The Human Fear
  franz ferdinand - everydaydreamer
  franz ferdinand - tell me i should stay
  franz ferdinand - cats
  franz ferdinand - the birds
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  doves - cold dreaming
  manic street preachers - people ruin paintings
  the amazons - my blood feat royal blood
  shallow honey - lightweight
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  bdrmm - infinity peaking
  permanent (joy) - i wanna go home
  pebbledash - slowly slowly
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  the loft - dr clarke
  dragon welding - up and away
  sunspells - daisy chain
  freak slug - get away
  -----lp session - lambrini girls   Who Let The Dogs Out
  lambrini girls - bad apple
  lambrini girls - no homo
  lambrini girls - nothing tastes as good as it feels
  lambrini girls - love
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  swervedriver - volume control
  miki berenyi trio - 8th deadly sin
  ulrika spacek - ultra vivid (live)
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  the waterboys - hoppers on top
  bar italia - the only conscious being in the universe
  honeyglaze - cold caller
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  inspiral carpets - beast inside
• Listen - http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250118-2100-t1737234000.mp3
   

The Way Of The Crowd! Show tracks for Sat. Jan. 11/25

• doves - renegade
  the murder capital - words lost meaning
  ten hail marys - i had a dream
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  dubstar - window pain 2025
  rose gray - party people
  julia-sophie - i was only
  kelly lee owens - time to
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  the cure - it will never be the same (live)
  qlowski - praxis
  calva louise - feast is over    
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  franz ferdinand - hooked
  adwaith - miliwn
  beach riot - meltdown
  the  wombats - blood on the hospital floor
  -----northern soul spotlight    
  dan folger - the way of the crowd
  the joytones - this love that i'm giving you
  audrey matthews - i have no choice
  the magicians - (just a little) faith and understanding
  ty karim - you just don't know
  -----lp session - the gentle spring    Looking Back At The World    
  the gentle spring - untouched
  the gentle spring - looking back at the world
  the gentle spring - the reason why you lie
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  mekons - mudcrawlers
  prima queen - the prize
  shapes like people - ambition is your friend
  laura-mary carter - eagle on water
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  mogwai - fanzine made of flesh
  witch post - rust
  hex girlfriend - as we sleep
  low lying sun - get well soon
  -----Irish Choice Music Prize Shortlist    
  fontaines d.c. - favourite
  sprints - heavy
  silverbacks - spinning jenny
  kneecap - sick in the head
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  newdad - nightmares
  orla gartland - everybody needs a hero
  a lazarus soul - the flower i flung into her grave
  gurriers - top of the bill
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  primal scream - circus of life
  underworld - techno shinkansen
  hifi sean & david mcalmont - sun come up
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  fat dog - peace song
  high vis - mind's a lie
  kasabian - g.o.a.t.
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  mary in the junkyard - bear walk
  ugly ozo - remains
  the pill - woman driver
• Listen - http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20250111-2100-t1736629200.mp3
   

All Kinds Of Everything! Show tracks for Sat. Jan. 4/25

• simple minds - your name in lights
  the cure - warsong
  qlowski - surrender
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  saint etienne - alone together
  robin guthrie - a most remarkable woman
  sinéad o'connor & terry hall - all kinds of everything
  the gentle spring - severed heads
  october drift - blame the young
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  mumm-ra - washout
  circa waves - like you did before
  fickle friends - dream
  the ventrelles - we all fall down
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  stephen hero - imagine me gone
  blueboy - deux
  the attendant - machine for living
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  peter harris, fritz catlin & lee "scratch" perry - reggae poison
  adrian sherwood & lee "scratch" perry - hot dready
  j. spaceman & john coxon - back up william
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  section 25 - move on
  transmission suite - driving rain
  heavy weather - lfc
  idles - pop pop pop feat danny brown
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  formal sppeedwear - bunto
  hank - angel says
  ugly - sha
  man/woman/chainsaw - the boss
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  maruja - one hand behind the devil
  mary in the junkyard - goop
  lobby - in the wall
  flip top head - weightlifter
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  deary - the moth
  night tapes - drifting
  yassassin - way out way in
  wu-lu - daylight song
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  da googie - dumb
  seadog - tidal wave
  beach riot - meltdown
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  stereolab - laissez faire (bbc radio session)
  electrelane -  i want to be the president (bbc radio session)
  beak> - secrets
  jamie xx - all you children feat the avalanches
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  the orchestra (for now) - wake robin
• Listen - https://www.mixcloud.com/CowboysAndIndies_ExtraTime/cowboys-indies-show-sat-jan-4-2025/
   

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2024 - December Albums

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT  (LP)  ...  Yassassin  (Yassassin)
  2. THE NIGHT  (LP)  ...  Saint Etienne  (Heavenly Recordings)
  3. POST-KINO LIVE AT SCALA  (LP)  ...  John  (Brace Yourself Records)
  4. OH MY GOD... I'M SO ALONE  (LP)  ...  Spinn  (Modern Sky)
  5. STREET HARDWARE  (LP)  ...  Soft On Crime  (Eats It)
  6. BECAUSE, EVERYONE IS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME  (LP)  ...  Lo-Fi Melancholia for Kids  (Astrodice Records)
  7. I BLOW OUT BIG CANDLES  (LP)  ...  Freak Slug  (Future Classic)
  8. FOREVER IN A GLANCE  (LP)  ...  Hann  (Wooden Records)
  9. LOVE IN MIND  (LP)  ...  Mt. Misery  (Prefect Records)  
  10. NO SOUVENIRS  (LP)  ...  Fightmilk  (Fika Recordings)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for December  2024
   

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2024 - December Singles

• The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene
  
  1. POLAROID  ...  Cloth  (Rock Action Records)
  2. MILIWN  ...  Adwaith  (Libertino Records)
  3. LOTUS EATER  ...  The Horrors  (Fiction)
  4. GOSSIP  ...  Goat Girl  (Rough Trade)
  5. NOM NOM / CAT BURGLAR  ...  Sleaford Mods & Hot Chip  (Domino)
  6. PIECES OF YOU  ...  Pale Blue Eyes  (Broadcast Recordings)
  7. CAPTAIN PALISADE  ...  Jetstream Pony  (712550 Records DK)
  8. SANTA CRUZ  ...  Melys  (The Orchard Enterprises)
  9. BIG IDEA  ...  Wylderness  (Wylderness)
  10. DR. CLARKE  ...  The Loft  (Precious Recordings)
  11. BREAK MY HEART (FOR FUN)  ...  Slaney Bay  (Slaney Bay)
  12. SHAKE THE SLACK  ...  Avalanche Party  (AMK/Kartel)
  13. REMAINS  ...  Ugly Ozo  (Strong Island Recordings)
  14. (I WANNA WEAR A) MIRRORED HAT LIKE SLADE  ...  Swansea Sound  (Skep Wax)
  15. DIFFERENT SKIES  ...  Jody And The Jerms  (JATJ Records)
  16. FALL INTO THE LIE  ...  Saint Sappho  (Optimo Music Rocks)
  17. REIGN  ...  The Rolling People  (LAB Records)
  18. FERAL  ...  Fickle Friends  (Palmeira Music)
  19. 10K  ...  Sunken  (Boxset)
  20. DEPRESSED BEYOND TABLETS  ...  Gallus  (Marshall Amplification)
  
  Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for December  2024