Sunday, May 24, 2026

Coming On Strong! Show tracks for Sat. May 23/26

  • lime garden - 23
    the orielles - wasp
    dry cleaning - sliced by a fingernail
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    bloc party - coming on strong
    m.o.t.h.e.r. - real human
    theatre - you are
    ultrasound - floodlit world
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    hadda be - high noon
    jody and the jerms - grace
    heavenly - good times
    trashcan sinatras - melodramatic
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    graham coxon - alright
    u.s. highball - falling out of favour
    the heavenly bodes - faux pillars
    sunstack jones - make your own way out
    -----northern soul spotlight
    the flirtations - change my darkness into light
    lainie hill - time marches on 
    joey dee - good little you
    tina britt - the real thing
    the superiors 13 - i'd rather die
    -----lp session - bugeye     The Shape Of Things    
    bugeye - the best
    bugeye - this is what i want
    bugeye - are we still breathing?
    bugeye - vip
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    pete fij - don't bring me sunshine
    life - wild grasses
    johnny marr - the answer
    skylights - fever
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    basement - the way i feel
    kat five - emergency start
    gemma rogers - molly_1989 
    arctic monkeys - mardy bum
    conscious pilot - horatio burns
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    the bug club - a good day for dying
    bleech 9:3 - no surprise
    marsy - magic
    adult leisure - view from our window
    -----lp session - the covasettes     Honeymoon Forever     
    the covasettes - watching you
    the covasettes - outta here
    the covasettes - unhinged
    the covasettes - glow
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    underworld & ki/ki - arp12
    overmono - lockup
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    the healing power of horses - i wait, i sink
    richard barbieri - snakes and ladders
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    paul weller - these city streets (live at the bbc)
    super furry animals - tetrachromacy (cassette demo)
  • Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260523-2100-t1779566400.mp3 

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Put On A Record Tommy! Show tracks for Sat. May 16/26

  • burned as witches - hold your nerve
    super furry animals - hangin' with howard marks (demo 2026 redux)
    panda bear and sonic boom - lucky charm
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    y - generate the ohno
    1000 rabbits - cinema aisle
    bar italia - eyepatch
    modern woman - neptune girl
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    yard act - redeemer
    kneecap - smugglars and scholars
    rip magic - screwdark
    really good time - do it
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    rialto - the one you love
    elbow - powder blue
    the loft - 1955
    the loft - goodbye saturday night
    -----northern soul spotlight plus    
    mickey moonshine - name it, you got it
    the burning bush - keeps on burning
    frankie valli & the four seasons - i'm gonna change
    the hempolics - nothing more to say
    the hempolics - nothing more dub
    -----lp session - carla j. easton     I Think That I Might Love You     
    carla j. easton - red kites in the sun
    carla j. easton - pillars crash down
    carla j. easton - start it again
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    fat dog - go f___ urself
    tom a. smith - put a record on tommy
    la roux - cabin fever
    rosa walton - heart to heartbreak
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    modern nature - shasta
    family stereo - fault lines
    georgian - californian jeans
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    masal feat emma anderson - pause the rain
    rainsong- fifteen
    cutscene - concrete line
    tomber des nues - transcontinental
    -----lp session - dodgy    Hello Beautiful    
    dodgy - the likes of you and me
    dodgy - summer forever
    dodgy - out of time
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    paul weller - wildwood
    eugene mcguinness - meteor man
    the stanford family band - when lonesome
    the cribs - brothers won't break
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    new order - ruined in a day
    ladytron - sing
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    mystery jets - black sage
    walt disco - coup de foudre
  • Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260516-2100-t1778961600.mp3 

Sunday, May 10, 2026

I'm Always Getting Carried Away! Show tracks for Sat. May 9/26

  • the twilight sad - back to fourteen
    memorials - dropped down the well
    wildernesses - maintenance
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    loose articles - cringe of hinge
    bugeye - these walls will fall
    sexy tadhg - the slag of carlow town
    fever dream - a woman is a weapon of sass destruction
    anna calvi feat iggy pop - god's lonely man
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    radhika - since yesterday
    cusk - blu tac piano
    ffenest - anialwch gwyrdd
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    editors - call it in
    keeley - railway stations
    spaceacre - fail safe (tracking take 6)
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    hollie cook - night dub
    hollie cook - wolf dub
    dub colossus - dub conquers all
    -----lp session - modern woman     Johnny's Dreamworld    
    modern woman - offerings
    modern woman - fork-heart
    modern woman - blessed day
    modern woman - the garden
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    kidsmoke - i'm always getting carried away
    blur - m.o.r.
    the boo radleys - king budgie
    the boo radleys - this is the place
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    hard-fi - looking for fun
    swim deep - mud
    opus kink - the head tree feat the new eves
    cable boy - plcd
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    warm coat - feel it all
    overpass - is this real?
    holy coves - hole
    wifeswap - bosman ruling
    -----lp session - white flowers    Dreams For Somebody Else     
    white flowers - spinning
    white flowers - backseat
    white flowers - lamp
    white flowers - in the sky
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    kneecap - liars tale
    doss - bigfellafunk
    adam and the ants - stand and deliver
    casual drag - the talk
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    stone roses - this is the one
    chapterhouse - treasure
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    witch post - something to give
  • Listen -  stay close, I will post the link as soon as available 

Monday, May 4, 2026

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2026 - April Albums

  • The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene

    1. IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE  (LP)   ...  The Twilight Sad  (Rock Action Records)
    2. MAYBE NOT TONIGHT  (LP)  ...  Lime Garden  (So Young Records)
    3. BIRDING  (LP)  ...  Deary  (Bella Union)
    4. ALL CLOUDS BRING NOT RAIN  (LP)  ...  Memorials  (Fire Records)
    5. PAIN WILL POLISH ME  (LP)  ...  New German Cinema  (Felte)
    6. MY NEW BAND BELIEVE  (LP)  ...  My New Band Believe  (Rough Trade)
    7. GROWTH  (LP)  ...  Wildernesses  (Floodlit Recordings)
    8. A WAVE THAT WILL NEVER BREAK  (LP)  ...  WU LYF  (LYF Recordings) 
    9. THIS IS...THE BLUEBELLS  (LP)  ...  The Bluebells  (Last Night From Glasgow)
    10. IN A SPACE OUTTA DUB  (LP)  ...  Nightmares On Wax vs Adrian Sherwood  (Warp)
    11. I SURE AM GETTING SICK OF THIS BOWLING ALLEY  (LP)  ...  Mclusky  (Ipecac Recordings)
    12. DOUBLE EXPOSURE  (LP)  ...  Penny Arcade  (Tapete Records)
    13. THE ENTERTAINMENT  (LP)   ...  The Clockworks  (V2) 
    14. UNHOLY DRUM  (LP)  ...  Cult Of Dom Keller  (Fuzz Club Records)
    15. MURMURS  (LP)  ...  Butler, Blake & Grant  (355 Recordings)
    16. AD.UN.IAD  (LP)  ...  Rhydian Dafydd  (Rhydian Dafydd)
    17. DAPS IN A WASHING MACHINE  (LP)  ...  Stanways  (Stanways)
    18. BRONTËS  (LP)  ...  Brontës  (Last Night Glasgow)
    19. CASH RICH  (LP)  ...  Snake Eyes  (Alcopop! Records)
    20. SMILE  (LP)  ...  Thrillhouse  (Spirit Of Spike Island)

    Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for April 2026 

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2026 - April Singles

  • The Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene

    1. SLICED BY A FINGERNAIL ...  Dry Cleaning  (4AD)
    2. CULT OF CELEBRITY  ...  Lambrini Girls  (City Slang)
    3. TEARS WON’T LIE  ...  Brooke Combe  (Fontana Records)
    4. QUEENS OF HIGHGATE EP  ...  Gifthorse  (Fitzroy Square Recordings)
    5. SHE FLIES  ...  Waterpistol  (Waterpistol)
    6. IN THE MUD / FIRING LINE  ...  The Slow Country  (Heist or Hit Records)
    7. ONLY FREE WHEN SLEEPING  ...  Big Special  (SO Recordings)
    8. BOOTS ON THE GROUND  ...  Massive Attack feat Tom Waits  (PIAS Recordings)
    9. VENDETTA  ...  Temples  (V2 Records)
    10. ISLAND OF ONE  ...  Miki Berenyi Trio  (Bella Union)
    11. THE FALL  ...  Theatre  (ECHO)
    12. NOSEDIVE   ...  Man/Woman/Chainsaw  (Fiction Recordings)
    13. TAPE 05  ...  Boards of Canada  (Warp)
    14. TURNING IN  ...  Life  (EMI North) 
    15. CRASH LANDING   ...  Mary In The Junkyard  (AMF Records)
    16. I HAD A BABY NOT A LOBOTOMY  ...  The Anchoress  (Last Night From Glasgow)
    17. SNAPDRAGON  ...  Sandhouse  (Broke Records)
    18. DOG  ...  Grandmas House  (Brace Yourself Records)
    19. HOMECOMING  ...  These Sleeping Hands  (These Sleeping Hands)
    20. THESE THINGS TAKE TIME EP  ...   Goodbye  (Goodbye) 

    Compiled from playlists, listener requests and dj input for April 2026 

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Let's Make Plans For The Weekend! Show tracks for Sat. May 2/26

  • english teacher & graham coxon - parasite
    arlo parks - floette
    blood wizard - lucky life
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    good day father - carving bones
    winter gardens - adored
    sunday (1994) - silver ford
    gifthorse - stranger baby
    gently tender - wild in the uplands
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    morn - the standard model
    divil - thanks  a million
    basht. - perfume
    simple minds - chelsea girl
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    cq wrestling - finish line
    tooth - restless in bloom
    mouth ulcers - closer to you
    -----northern soul spotlight
    righteous brothers band - rat race
    bobby hebb - you want to change me
    charles wright - keep saying (you don't love nobody)
    the millionaires - never for me
    jamo thomas - i spy (for the fbi)
    -----lp session - martin carr      What Future    
    martin carr - canton rockers
    martin carr - in the hall
    martin carr - new brighton baths 1983
    martin carr - what future
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    beth orton - waiting
    the slow country - firing line
    brown horse - comeback loading
    jjerome87 - track and field
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    carla j easton - let's make plans for the weekend
    heavenly - skep wax
    brontës - thelma and louise
    the lilacs - girl behind the bar
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    night swimming - nothing safe is technicolour
    lotusbliss - animal
    so, reverie - days go by
    inspiral carpets - mermaid
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    blossoms - joke about divorce
    big truck - central reservation blues
    aka - it grows on trees (money)
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    panda bear and sonic boom - graveyard
    tricky - out of place feat marta
    heroic mr kemmer - horizon
    widget - what if phones but too much
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    a.a. williams - poison
    my new band believe - numerology
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    flea - traffic lights feat thom yorke
  • Listen -  http://cjamlog1.cjam.ca/mp3dirnew/11598-Cowboys_and_Indies-20260502-2100-t1777752000.mp3