This week’s Twaddle has brilliant new sounds from Sparkle*Jets U.K.; Barbara; Sir Bobby Jukebox; Marc Jonson & Ramírez Exposure; The Anderson Council; The Hannah Barberas; U.S. Highball; The Spires; Alex Pester; The Holdens; Les Clopes; Asher White; C Turtle; Station 17; Rob I. Miller; The Salt Collective; Chiens de Faïence; Sumos; Memorials; Euromilliard; John Southworth; Frank Schmiechen; Tough Age; Bar Italia; Rahill; BC Camplight; Fatoumata Diawara; Pozi; Sarabeth Tucek; Nakibembe Embaire Group; Melenas; La Femme; MD Pallavi & Andi Otto; The Lemon Twigs; Good News; Hard Femme; The Reds, Pinks & Purples; Blur; and Mandy, Indiana.

There’s also a previously unreleased demo taken from the just-out 25th anniversary edition of the first Pernice Brothers album.

From the past: Dollar, Nico, and Sonny Sharrock.

This week’s Twaddle has new sounds from Vanity Mirror, Photon Band, The Salt Collective feat. Peter Holsapple, Ne Galaktiset, Party Milk, Bill Pritchard, Nijuu, The Bordellos, Mathilda Brink, Herr Wade, BBBBBBB, Florina, Let 3, Sumos, The Toads, Doe St, House Of All, Bandit Voyage, The Happy Somethings, Pipiolas, Rahill, Loopsel, Fatoumata Diawara, Poppy Patica, Who Do You Love, Memorials, Sofie Royer, Ryan Wong, John Southworth, Good Looking Son, Busdriver, Stella Kola, The Lemon Twigs, Adele & The Chandeliers, BC Camplight, Sparks, Jeanines, and Sweeping Promises.

There are also previously unreleased tracks from The Fall and Grandaddy, a newly compiled selection from The Particles, and a cut from the newly just-reissued second Heavenly LP.

From the past: Peter Hammill, Rita Lee (RIP), Benjamin Schoos feat. Lætitia Sadier, and Dalek I.

This week’s Twaddle has enthralling new sounds from Corvair, Gregory Jones, The Bordellos, Jeanines, Herr Wade, Sepä Juuri, The Happy Somethings, Neutrals, Panic Pocket, Immaterial Possession, Shangri-Lass, The Orbiting Human Circus, Johnnie The Bulgaria, Special Friend, House Of All, Catch Rabbit, Avatar, The Lemon Twigs, The Caroline's, SUMM ER, Tim Lea-Young, Daniel O'Sullivan, Holiday Ghosts, Modern Cosmology, Police And Pea, Tough Age, Sweeping Promises, Domenico Lancellotti, Pure Material, Bebel Gilberto, The Ekphrastics, Lifeguard, TEKE::TEKE, Elizaband, Nighttime, Trevor Sloan, BC Camplight, Shirley Collins, Tiny Ruins, Cornershop featuring Pinky Ann Rihal, and Spencer Cullum.

There’s also a track that will be on an upcoming collection of material from The Particles.

From the past: Plastics, Gordon Lightfoot, The McTells, Marconi Notaro, Snowy Red, Die Egozentrischen 2, and Trash Kit.

This week’s Twaddle has 50 top-notch tracks in its three hours, including new selections from The Hannah Barberas, Firestations, Wireheads, The Anderson Council, Bri Dominique, Die Katapult, Air In The Lungs, The Clientele, John Monroe & Field Music, Black Thumb, Deuce, Vorderhaus, Hayden Besswood, Maxine Funke, Quite Quiet, Dropkick, Soup Activists, Trevor Sloan, CV Vision, Rex Tycoon, Monde UFO, Elizaband, Brenda I Funky, The National Honor Society, Tiny Ruins, House Of All, LoOn, The Roves, Guardian Singles, Nicole Yun, Terry, Life Strike, Richard Olson & The Familiars, The Whiffs, Holiday Ghosts, The High Water Marks, Withered Hand, PJ Harvey, New Man, Snowy, Pearl & The Oysters, Constant Smiles, The Sprouts, and Wesley Gonzalez.

There’s also a cut from the soon-to-be-reissued 1985 debut LP from Ramuntcho Matta.

From the past: Cherry Twister, Honeybunch, The Aluminum Group, The Brinsleys, and The Canterbury Music Festival.

This week’s Twaddle includes new sounds from House Of All, Big Blood, The National Honor Society, April March & Staplin, Greg Brady And The Anchors, Daisy Clover, Monde UFO, Rob & Jay, Snowy, Hairband, Loopsel, John Southworth, Bar Italia, Terry, Pearl & The Oysters, The Sprouts, Linda Smith & Nancy Andrews, Holiday Ghosts, Beach House, Everything But The Girl, Billy Tibbals, and Sparks.

There’s also a track from the newly issued LP of Apartment Life demos by Ivy.

From the past: Nervus Rex, The Pop Group, Merv Griffin, RTX, The Sugarplastic, George Jones, Elf Power, Birdie, Unwound, Don Meehan Project, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, The Happy Birthdays, Minisnap, Frank Gorshin, The Housekeepers, Darlene McCrea, Able Tasmans, Genesis, Tages, Riders Of The Mark, Liverpool Echo, Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends, Cake On Cake, Tyvek, Algebra Mothers, Hank And Carol-Leigh, Broadcast, and The Skinnies.

Twaddle no. 291 has exciting new sounds from Expensive Music Band, The Toads, Hairband, The Miami Dolphins, Giorgio Tuma, Philippa Nihill, Vanity Mirror, Las Los, The High Span, Withered Hand, New Estate, Ben Copperhead, Hulubalang, Braake, Martin Frawley, The Sprouts, Flasher, Terry, Divorcer, Nicole Yun, Brenda, SUMM ER, Lael Neale, Dan Melchior Band, The Lemon Twigs, Spencer Cullum, Hamish Hawk, Audiobooks, Nicholas Krgovich, Lachlan Denton, James Howard, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Pure Material, Cindy, Why Bother?, Girl Ray, and Water From Your Eyes.
 
 There are also tracks that are, respectively, previously unreleased, newly reissued, and newly compiled from Pel Mel, The Hidden Cameras, and The Aaltos

From the past: Birmingham Sunday, John Cunningham, Naffi, Earth And Fire, and Cat’s Eyes.

This week’s Twaddle has dazzling new sounds from Gregory Pepper & His Problems, Sir Bobby Jukebox, Barbara, Emma Tricca, Asher White, Eyelids, theCatherines, Mt. Misery, Alex Fleuris, Paul F Cook And The Happy Somethings, Bruiser And Bicycle, Worriers, Martha Ffion, The Half-Cubes, Yfory, Kevin Robertson, Bantu Spaceship, Monde UFO, Yo Kinky, Blue Bendy, Koleżanka, Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21, Sarabeth Tucek, Snowy, Tomato Flower, Eggs On Mars, The Bug Club, Jana Horn, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Fly Ashtray, Silver Synthetic, Connections, XV, A Certain Ratio, PACKS, Teleman, and Cola.

There’s also a track from Olmedo Torres y Polibio Mayorga taken from the latest Analog Africa compilation.

Also, a tribute set with selections from Kostars (RIP Vivian Trimble), Yellow Magic Orchestra (Ryuichi Sakamoto), The Jam (US) (Seymour Stein), and Scott Johnson.

This week’s program is a good one – possibly the best Mawkish Twaddle of the 289 I’ve done thus far. If you haven’t listened in a while (or ever), you should start with this episode!

The 53 (!) songs include outstanding new tracks from The Vaxtones, The Sprouts, Yo Kinky, Vanity Mirror, Herr Wade, Kevin Robertson, Cousines Like Shit, Smashing Red, Yfory, Those Pretty Wrongs, Alison Eales, Terry, Divorcer, Pierre Vervloesem, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Pam Risourié, Deerhoof, Murray A. Lightburn, The Photocopies, Cisser Mæhl, Das Phaedrus, The No Ones, Massage, Gidnim'Rém, Special Friend, HANN, New Man, Billy Tibbals, Eyelids, Dick Stusso, PACKS, April Magazine, Nicholas Krgovich, Pure Material, Connections, Mathilda Brink, Leighton Clark, The Explorers Club, The New Pornographers, Blues Lawyer, TEKE::TEKE, Kosaya Gora, Fly Ashtray, and Cindy.

From the past, acrostically: Eggnyet, The Moon, Ovens, The Merrymakers, The Fall, Ernest Tubb, The Primitives, Milky Wimpshake, and The Bicycles.

This week’s Twaddle has captivating new sounds from The Sprouts; Alison Eales; Super Hit; Tough Age; The Half Cubes; Strange Neighbors; Teenage Tom Petties; Von Korf; Connections; Cisser Mæhl; Tomten; Barrio Colette; Think About You; The Salt Collective; Brian Bordello; Eggs On Mars; The Hepburns; Eyelids; CVCC; Ben Copperhead; Kosaya Gora; The Lost Days; Kreuder; April Magazine; Oliver Flanagan; The Reds, Pinks And Purples; Weird Numbers; Triptides; Deerhoof; Holiday Ghosts; Nicholas Krgovich; Surf Friends; Linda Smith & Nancy Andrews; Dazy; Modern Cosmology; Novelty Island; Cindy; BC Camplight; The Bug Club (from the better of the two new-songs-recorded-in-live-performance-by-a-British-band LPs issued this week); En Attendant Ana; The New Pornographers; PACKS; and Death And Vanilla.

There’s also a track by John Three Sixteen taken from the latest Swedish Jesus rock compilation on Subliminal Sounds. 

More from the past: Millie Jackson, Godley & Creme, The Orange Peels, The Free Design, and Tommy Faia And The True Blue Facts.

This week’s Twaddle includes nine artists from Northern California, seven from the Antipodes, four yet-to-be-released songs, 13 songs under two and a half minutes, Rick Wakeman (believe me, I’m as surprised as you are), and, probably for the first time in a while, nothing from Scotland.

There are excellent new sounds from Tugboat Captain, Planet Birthday, The Morning Star, Debt Rag, Fly Ashtray, Motorcycle, Brian Bordello, Sam Wrangle, Andy Bopp, Watch Paint Dry, The Toads, The Hepburns, Das Phaedrus, Surf Friends, Pam Risourié, Oliver Flanagan, The Lost Days, Eyelids, Parker Allen, Linda Smith & Nancy Andrews, Rat Paws, The Ballet, Novelty Island, Wendy Martinez, The Decibels, Jonathan Richman, XV, Whitney’s Playland, Death And Vanilla, Constant Smiles, Vorsicht Kinder, Deerhoof, Weird Numbers, Shana Cleveland, Dan Melchior Band, Summer Flake, The Lemon Twigs, Cindy, Hot Coppers, En Attendant Ana, Feist, and Purling Hiss.

You’ll also hear tracks off a new collection from Najib Alhoush & The Free Music, and from the newly reissued expanded version of the first LP from The Toms.

From the past: Poppy Factory, Happy End, the aforementioned Rick Wakeman, Eternal Summers, and Ivy.