This week’s Twaddle is certain to hold your attention for all three hours. There are cracking new tracks from Panic Pocket, Big Girl’s Blouse, Hot Coppers, Robbing Millions, Ger Eaton, Eyelids, Homework, Guardian Singles, Benedict Benjamin, Hairband, Bar Italia, Classic, The Hepburns, Nicholas Krgovich, Gareth Sager, Tiny Ruins, Any Version Of Me, Silver Biplanes, Whitney’s Playland, The Telephone Numbers, Constant Smiles, Vorsicht Kinder, Sharp Pins, Citron Citron, Teini-Pää, Dan Melchior Band, The Long Ryders, King Khan, The Laughing Chimes, Protomartyr, Lachlan Denton, Shana Cleveland, H. Hawkline, Benoît Pioulard, Dutch Uncles, Blues Lawyer, Cindy, En Attendant Ana, Jonathan Richman, Sleaford Mods, and U.S. Girls.

From the past: The Sundae Train, Chris von Sneidern, Pizzicato Five, Anita Kerr And The Anita Kerr Singers, P.M. Dawn, and Clifford T. Ward.

The 50 tracks in this week’s Twaddle include stimulating new sounds from Eggs On Mars; Lemon Pitch; Emma Tricca; Running Club; Sharp Pins; Eyes Of Others; Me Lost Me; The Hepburns; Ryan Wong; Pure Material; Herr Wade; Goliath; Nervous Systems; Proto Tip; The Laughing Chimes; Gloop Unit; The Whiffs; EternA; The Lost Days; Discus; Vorsicht Kinder; Terry; Floral Portrait; Weird Numbers; Murray A. Lightburn; Whitney’s Playland; Constant Smiles; PACKS; E. Björklund; The Photocopies; TEKE::TEKE; Chime School; Silica Gel; The Kitchenettes; Alice; Blues Lawyer; Water From Your Eyes; Jonathan Richman; Gina Birch; The Reds, Pinks & Purples; Cindy; and En Attendant Ana.

There are also heretofore unissued selections from Playthings and The First Class.

From the past: Eggstone, R. Stevie Moore, Larry Williams & Johnny Watson With The Kaleidoscope, Hideki Kaji, My Bloody Valentine, and Orlane Paquin.

This week’s Twaddle is, I think, the best one in the nearly six years I’ve been presenting the program. Every song is a total gem. I mean, that’s pretty much always the case, but it’s especially true this time around. If you only ever listen to one Twaddle – but why would you do that? – it should be this one.

There are new tracks from Watch Paint Dry, Captain Starlet, Summer Flake, The Decibels, Gerard Love, The High Water Marks, Vanity Mirror, The Whiffs, Linda Smith & Nancy Andrews, Fran Ashcroft, Tiny Ruins, Weird Numbers, Any Version Of Me, Goo, En Attendant Ana, Dancer, K. Campbell, Aksak Maboul, Whitney’s Playland, Vorsicht Kinder, Chime School, The Happy Somethings, RVG, Gina Birch, Blod, Floral Portrait, appleseeds!, Cindy, Billy Tibbals, Tierney Greene, Blues Lawyer, Miss Tiny, @, Burnout Ostwest, Gruff Rhys, Belle And Sebastian, Meg Baird, Yo La Tengo, Quasi, and U.S. Girls.

From the past: The Sure Cure, The Chrysanthemums, George Harrison, Ana Da Silva, and The Cherry Slush.

I don’t think there’s ever been a better Twaddle than this one. I mean, look at this lineup of recording artists whose new selections were played:

Cinéma Lumière, Blues Lawyer, Irma Krook, Yalla Miku, Hairband, Surf Friends, theCatherines, appleseeds!, Cliff Hillis, The Hepburns, Evening Pines, Plastic Palms, Hansan, Polobi & The Gwo Ka Masters, Marlody, Nicholas Krgovich, Vorsicht Kinder, The Storm Bugs, Dead Anyway, TV Star, The Medium, OOF, Teini-Pää, Death And Vanilla, Laure Briard, @, Dina Ögon, João Selva, BRRDS, New Man, Index For Working Musik, Shonen Knife, John Andrews & The Yawns, Koleżanka, Receptacles, Steady Holiday, Dancer, Mozart Estate, Anna B Savage, The Lemon Twigs, Yo La Tengo, Deerhoof, and Quasi.

Right?

From new collections, there are tracks from Laurie Styvers and The Gynaecologists.

Also: a selection to celebrate Yoko Ono’s 90th birthday.

This week’s Twaddle is certain to please with its mellifluous blend of tracks that few ears have heard before. You’ll find (and maybe even hear) new sounds from Surf Friends, BRRDS, Dina Ögon, The Black Watch, Herr Wade, Salem Trials, The Happy Somethings, appleseeds!, Dead Anyway, Hamish Hawk, Schwund, Alpaca Brothers, Daily Worker, Girl Ray, Ibex Clone, Orval Carlos Sibelius, The High Water Marks, Darksoft, The Tubs, Robert Forster, The Whiffs, King Ayisoba, Mozart Estate, Objections, Dancer, Soft On Crime, Picot, Simon Rowe, Clémentine March, Lil Yachty, Belle And Sebastian, Smug Brothers, Ducks Ltd., The Men, Nighttime, King Tuff, The Go! Team, Meg Baird, Guided By Voices, and The WAEVE.

There are also newly issued recordings from the past from The Orchids and Najib Alhoush & The Free Music.

More from the past: Ballboy, Bee Gees, Pugwash, and The Yellow Balloon.

The 280th edition of Mawkish Twaddle includes compelling new sounds from House Of All, Meadow Argus, The Telephone Numbers, Air In The Lungs, SUEP, The Drin, babybaby_explores, The Shang Hi Los, Mozart Estate, appleseeds!, YOCTO, Silver Biplanes, Drroomgordijnen, The Early Mornings, Terry, Papernut Cambridge, Anona, Whitney's Playland, Brook Terrace, Pozi, Cots, The Primitives, Meg Baird, Holiday Ghosts, PACKS, Storm The Palace, Nighttime, The Tubs, Spice World, Gruff Rhys, Belle And Sebastian, Guided By Voices, and King Tuff.

There are also tracks from newly reissued albums from Engürdetz and White Heaven.

The first 30 minutes are a tribute to the great Tom Verlaine, who left this world hours before the program aired.

This week’s Twaddle has wild new sounds (almost all of them released in the still shiny and fresh-smelling calendar year 2023) from Index For Working Musik, Alpaca Brothers, Pleasure Principle, Steady Holiday, Emma Tricca, Kacimi, Silver Biplanes, Dutch Uncles, Teen Angst, Storm The Palace, Peter Hall, The John Sally Ride, Calvin Johnson, Juniper, Laure Briard, Italia 90, Lachlan Denton, The Tubs, Spice World, H. Hawkline, Slug, Murray A. Lightburn, Sarabeth Tucek, Insólito UniVerso, Abracadabra, Planets Are On It, Mentrix, Gemma Rogers, Lucas Santtana, Ada Oda, Nighttime, Pieuvre, Tulpa, Alice, Belle And Sebastian, The Murder Capital, Superchunk, Deerhoof, Guided By Voices, and John Cale.

In the new collections and reissues department, there are tracks from Beauty Pill, The Rabbits, and Heavy Metal.

From the past: Steve And Stevie, Wire, Brown Recluse, and The Moon.

The musical floodgates opened this week! A wealth of amazing new sounds are in this edition of Mawkish Twaddle. You’ll hear from Ibex Clone, Married FM, Spiral XP, Tugboat Captain, Peter Hall, Apollo Ghosts, Sex Clark Five, The Owl Service, Purling Hiss, The Roves, The Happy Somethings, Blues Lawyer, Cameronoise, Papernut Cambridge, Dot Dash, Arts & Leisure, The Whiffs, Dignan Porch, 2 Square Y?, Daily Worker, Marlody, Juniper, Helvetia, Brower, Dippers, Portabella, Galore, Quasi, Balk, Gemma Rogers, Wet Kiss, Billy Tibbals, Constant Smiles, Ghost Woman, The New Pornographers, Silicone Values, Rozi Plain, Julian Never, Dina Ögon, Yo La Tengo, BMX Bandits, Mira Cook, U.S. Girls, Shana Cleveland, Belle And Sebastian, and Everything But The Girl.

From the past: Hypnolovewheel, Bogshed, Flash And The Pan, The Boy Hairdressers, and Sandy Posey.

This week’s Twaddle is an interesting one. An atmospheric waterfall that took place in the middle of the three hours short-circuited the station’s stream. The end result is that this program is nine and a half minutes shorter than the usual Twaddle.

But don’t despair. There are excellent new tracks from Eyelids, The Hepburns, Papernut Cambridge, Marlody, The Happy Somethings, Big Blood, The Cowsills, Jonny Swift, Hutch Harris, Alison Eales, Cousines Like Shit, Herr Wade, Ada Oda, Brower, Silver Biplanes, Hack-Poets Guild, Poor Performer, Ben Reed & Miranda Reed, Légumes Sex, Euros Childs, Memorials, Galore, Danny Arakaki, Paranoid Americans, The Lemon Twigs, Balk, Nighttime, Mira Cook, Sad Eyed Beatniks, DUFDUF, Non Bruises, En Attendant Ana, Mélanie, Death And Vanilla, and Rozi Plain, 

There’s also something new from The Reds, Pinks And Purples. He/they are listed separately here because I didn’t want to have to use semicolons instead of commas in the above paragraph. The price of semicolons is prohibitive these days!

From the past: Terry Hall (RIP), The Fall, Yoko Ono, The Mekons, Bread (David Gates apparently is still alive), and The Frogs.