Mawkish Twaddle with Bob N.: Recent Episodes
Bob N.
Mawkish Twaddle: Vexing musical purists of every stripe since 2017. It’s too twee and then it’s too abrasive. Rarely does it strike the right balance. Intrigued yet?
Mawkish Twaddle has returned after a week off, my first break since November 2019. The program includes spectacular new sounds from Feeling Figures, The Shivvers, Red Pants, Blue Ocean, Fuckleberry Hinn, Seablite, Fascinations Grand Chorus, Tamar Berk, Vasas Flora Och Fauna, The Radio Field, Sloppy Heads, Prewn, Freundliche Kreisel, Party Milk, Ahemaa Nwomkro, The Smashing Times, Equipment Pointed Ankh, The Flashcubes, Anna Hillburg, The Cowboys, The New Existentialists, Wreckless Eric, Muma Ganoush, Jazz Mags, Tony Jay, Fay Victor, Fievel Is Glauque, Ostseetraum, A. Savage, Hurry, The Prize, Raw Poetic Feat. Damu The Fudgemunk, Famous Mammals, Adiós Amores, Minor Conflict, The Clientele, Healing & Peace, Who Is She?, Titi Bakorta, Bebel Gilberto, Teleman, The Bug Club, The 1981, and Modern Nature.
The past is represented by just two tracks this time around, but what tracks they are. The artists: Suckle and The Fall.
This week’s Twaddle has excellent new sounds from Starcleaner Reunion, Hurry, Thomas Walsh, The Vapour Trails, Momus, The Flashcubes, The Half-Cubes, Vanity Mirror, Curling, The Spanish Amanda, Funeral Cake, Graeme Jefferies, Soft Science, Tiers La Familia, Birthday Girl, The Small Intestines, Onesie, Dexys, Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void, Spiral Dub, Laura Jean, Famous Mammals, Soft Hearted Scientists, The Cowboys, Kolb, EXEK, Blonde Redhead, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Nein Rodere, The Clientele, Tashkezar, Xian, Teenage Fanclub, Girl Ray, Rocky, Hollie Cook, Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo, The Intelligence, and Sheeplore.
There’s also a possibly previously unreleased track of indeterminate vintage from Satoshi Suzuki (鈴木慧), and a newly compiled selection from Xao Seffcheque Und Der Rest.
From the past: Improved Sound Ltd., Squeeze, Half Man Half Biscuit, I.Q. Zero, The Parcels, and Garden Gate.
No Twaddle next week. I'm taking a break for the first time in 197 weeks (my last break was November 9, 2019). Back on August 26!
This was a good one. Best Twaddle ever? I think it’s in the top 10! There are amazing new tracks from Water Machine, Tony Jay, Sheeplore, Soft Covers, The Upland Band, Spiral Dub, Östro 430, The Chickpea Darlings, Talking With Hands, Sydney Herds, Uni Boys, Onesie, Herr Wade, Belbury Poly, Charif Megarbane, Star 99, Onyon, Leo Robinson, Sofa City Sweetheart, Co-Pilot, Dippers, Famous Mammals, Annie Hart, Flowertown, The Prize, Good News, Podcasts, Bárbara Eugênia, Girl Ray, The Clientele, Activity, Lane Steinberg, Seja, Holy Wave, Ricardo Dias Gomes, Anna Erhard, Perch, Now, Salad, Cornelius, and Guided By Voices.
There’s also a never-before-released cut from Hydroplane, and selections from newly reissued LPs from Fun Boy Three and The Lucksmiths.
From the past: The Mockingbirds, Eden Kane, and Music For Pleasure.
This week’s Twaddle is chockablock with excellent new sounds. The artists providing these tracks are Spearmint, Now, The Smashing Times, Red Sleeping Beauty, Monnone Alone, The Clientele, Ìxtahuele, Candy Whips, Patio, CR And The Nones, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Colored Lights, 2m8o, The Cleaners From Venus, Bri Dominique, Co-Pilot, Helpful People, Famous Mammals, Charif Megarbane, Locate S,1, Usurabi, Brontez Purnell, Life Strike, Sally Anne Morgan, Isaac Birituro And The Rail Abandon Featuring Wiyaala, Rachael Lavelle, New Estate, Dexys, Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void, Landowner, Besouro Mulher, Rocky, Dot Allison, Cut Worms, Woods, and Animal Collective.
There’s also a heretofore unreleased cut from Air Miami, and newly compiled or reissued selections from Hans-A-Plast, Blue Dolphin, Antonio Infantino Ed Il Gruppo Di Tricarico, and Choirgirls.
From the past: Fantastic Something, The Resonars, Nick Lowe (marking Marie Provost Day), The Fiery Furnaces, and Jon.
I think this is one of the best Twaddles yet! There are new sounds from Famous Mammals; Animal Piss, It’s Everywhere; Cut Worms; The Bug Club; Perch; Hurry; Grand Drifter & The Cascarino; Body Double; The Flashcubes; Not Yetis; The Clientele; Keeley; Landowner; The No Colour Twins; Brontez Purnell; Non Plus Temps; Lost Ships; Bri Dominique; KIM; Soft Hearted Scientists; The Jack Cades; Miss Tiny; Oopsie Daisies; Stef + The Sleeveens; Who Is She?; Oliver Flanagan; Maija Sofia; Strange Ranger; Usurabi; Co-Pilot; Life Strike; Guided By Voices; Lane Steinberg; Blur; Lost Girls; and Youth Lagoon.
You’ll also hear tracks from the following artists, all taken from new compilations: Jody Reynolds & Bobbie Gentry, New Math, Werk In Uitvoering, Moment Of Truth, and Roter Stern Belgrad.
From the past: Bobby Sherman (happy 80th!), Jane Birkin (RIP), and The Go-Betweens (marking the release of Robert Forster’s Spring Grain muesli).
This week’s Twaddle has fancy and fun new sounds from Soft Science, Life Strike, The Garment District, Sloppy Heads, Helpful People, The Goods, Otherish, Sandra’s Wedding, Happy As You Like, The Flashcubes, The 1981, Spirit Fest, Charif Megarbane, The Spires, Le Couleur, Kwartet Niek Hilkmann, The Bleeding Allstars, Sir Bobby Jukebox, Braake, Kim, Hard Femme, Lane Steinberg, Current Affairs, Firestations, Discus, Lispector, Will Sprott, Vanishing Twin, Silicone Prairie, The High Water Marks, Beauty Pill, A. Savage, Sparks, PJ Harvey, and Lloyd Cole.
There are also cuts from newly reissued works by INU, The Particles, and Brenda Prescott.
From the past: Summer Fiction, Game Theory, Silver Scooter, The Rutles, and Il Reale Impero Britannico.
This week’s Twaddle is wild and exciting. It even includes a nearly seven-minute-long modern prog track! (That probably scared you away. Think of it as if contemporary prog were the new post-punk. Which it probably is.)
There are new sounds from Fort Not, Smug Brothers, Groovy Uncle Featuring Jane Wrangham, Children Maybe Later, The Wind Ups, Lars Fredrik Frøislie, Ci Gofod, Not Yetis, Chris Stamey, Lane Steinberg, Junior Mint Prince, Curling, Firestations, The Lentils, Die Liga Der Gewöhnlichen Gentlemen, The Future Dead, The Illness, The Radio Field, The Sound Of Pop Art, Juan Hundred, The Photocopies, Balint Brösel & Brannten Schnüre, Jeanines, Teenage Fanclub, Me Lost Me, Say Sue Me, Martyr Group, Special Friend, Dead Famous People, The High Water Marks, Birdpop, Gareth Sager, Sweeping Promises, Jim Bob, Big Blood, Cornelius, and PJ Harvey.
There are also newly reissued selections from The Particles, Joyama No Narazumono, and Hydroplane, plus a heretofore unheard recording from the earliest days of The Frogs.
From the past: The Negro Problem, The Pretty Things, Nagisa Ni Te, and Silver Jews.
This week’s Twaddle includes splendid new selections from Puppy Problems, Cat Box Room Bois, The Small Intestines, Grand Drifter, Usurabi, Martyr Group, Special Friend, Lost Ships, Ex Norwegian, Carnations, Life Strike, The Sound Of Pop Art, Not Yetis, The Spires, Colored Lights, SANAM, Modern Nature, Nana Benz du Togo, Bong Wish, Cornelius, Melenas, The Clientele, The High Water Marks, Dead Famous People, Buddhist Bubblegum, Georgia Hubley, Ergo Phizmiz, Lispector, Oopsie Dasies, AmovingmoviE, Big Blood, Swansea Sound, Present Electric, Podcasts, Cut Worms, Blonde Redhead, Grian Chatten, Sweeping Promises, and bdrmm.
From the past, in commemoration of Canada Day: The Heavy Blinkers, Zumpano, Pagliaro, Sloan, and The Staccatos.
Also from the past but not Canadian: Fist.
This week’s Twaddle marks both the sixth anniversary of the program and its 300th episode. That’s more episodes than William Demarest appeared in on My Three Sons!
There are brilliant new sounds from The Softies, Ergo Phizmiz, Sparkle*Jets U.K., Wobbly, Estranhos Românticos, The Misanthropes, Expensive Music Band, La Bibliothèque de la Bergerie, U.S. Highball, Dippers, The Invisible Hands, Colourway, Birdpop, Mason Lowe, Th Da Freak, Brenda I Funky, Tough Age, Co-Pilot, Titi Bakorta, JJ Band, The Paselines, Wireheads, Dead Famous People, Hot Coppers, BC Camplight, The Toads, Big Blood, Hand Habits, RVG, Swans, Jeanne Balibar, and Protomartyr.
There are also previously unreleased tracks from Sparklehorse and Pel Mel, and newly reissued or compiled selections from Pyrolator, Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret, and Folina E Vili.
From the past: The Pastels, Belmondo, The New Colony Six, Father, The Sneetches, Bobby Darin, Eric Matthews, and, in a special 80th birthday tribute, Barry Manilow, plus Featherbed Featuring Barry Manilow.
This week’s Twaddle includes exciting new tracks from Swansea Sound; Water Machine; French Cut; The Kingfishers; Dead Famous People; Y Dail; Headboy; CV Vision; Fairy Fross; jellyskin; BUSDRIVER; The Paselines; The Hannah Barberas; Vanity Mirror; Rob I. Miller; Birdpop; Good Looking Son; Life Coach; レンゲ renge; Natalie Rose LeBrecht; Anna St. Louis; Pog; John Monroe & Field Music; Guardian Singles; Jeanne Balibar; Sweeping Promises; RVG; Wesley Gonzalez; The Toads; Hot Coppers; Ricardo Dias Gomes; Wireheads; Panic Pocket; The Reds, Pinks And Purples; Big Blood; TEKE::TEKE; Sparks; Camille Thomas, Jane Birkin & Julien Brocal; and Baxter Dury.
From the past, and either previously unreleased or newly reissued: Sloan, The Particles, Air Miami, Folina E Vili, and Anadol.
Also from the past: The Deep Freeze Mice, The MFQ, and The Ravens.
This week’s Twaddle has enthralling new sounds from Ocelot, Rider/Horse, Dog Name, The Speedways, Hector Penalosa, The John-Pauls, Hollow Hand, Pepper Kings, Scott Robertson, Down Time, The Soft Hills, Gentle Stranger, Les Clopes, Trotski Nautique, Connections, Farewell Horizontal, Queasy Pieces, The Very Most, Martin Frawley, R. Ring, Non Plus Temps, Dead Roo, Gold Dust, Quasi, Mélanie, Burghers Orquestra, DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson, Children Maybe Later, Nick & The Nod, Moving Statues, Carina Messier, Nightshift, Richard Dawson, Zero Percent APR, 2nd Grade, The Cool Greenhouse, Mr Ben & The Bens, Fievel Is Glauque, and The Lightning Seeds, plus a previously unreleased 1987 recording from The Catburgers.
There are also tracks from newly reissued LPs by The Rabbits and The Lo Yo Yo.
Even more from the past: Passionate Winemakers, Atlanta Girl, Candidate, Helen Reddy, Ceramic Hobs, and Sprung Aus Den Wolken.
This week’s Twaddle has everything you could ever want in a radio program. Once you listen to it, no radio program you hear in the future will sound nearly as good (except for all future episodes of Mawkish Twaddle, of course). There are scintillating new sounds from Pepper Kings, Spice World, Model Shop, Swansea Sound, The Lunar Towers, Mellie, Field School, Silver Biplanes, Pretty Happy, Mr Ben & The Bens, Cliff Hillis, Bis, Dot Dash, Ruben Riley, Way Dynamic, Samba Peuzzi, The Laughing Chimes, Nah..., Children Maybe Later, The Smashing Times, Dungeon Of Skeletons, H. Hawkline, Die Weltraumforscher, Wau Wau Collectif, Jonathan Scherk, СОЮЗ / SOYUZ, Flash Amazonas, Arts & Leisure, Laure Briard, Non Plus Temps, The Cool Greenhouse, Fleur, Peel Dream Magazine, Exek, Richard Dawson, Matching Outfits, Fievel Is Glauque, Tim Burgess, Kilynn Lunsford, La Femme, and Weyes Blood.
There are also cuts from newly reissued LPs from Morio Agata and Tobari Daisuke.
From the past: Tages, Dump, Plebs, and Sun City Girls.
This week marked the 157th consecutive Saturday on which I’ve presented Mawkish Twaddle. That’s three whole years without a break! This episode includes spectacular new sounds from Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, Wau Wau Collectif, Soft On Crime, Dungeon Of Skeletons, Cormac O Caoimh, The Loch Ness Mouse, СОЮЗ / SOYUZ, Model Shop, Those Pretty Wrongs, Herr Wade, Almost Charlie, The Very Most, Fleur, Arts & Leisure, Dot Dash, Plates Of Cake, Ward White, Barbara, Kit Sebastian, Darren Hayman, Farewell Horizontal, People Skills, Zero Percent APR, Johnnie The Bulgaria, Martha, The Cool Greenhouse, Bird Streets, Non Plus Temps, Penkowski, Modern Studies, La Femme, Career, The Magic City Trio, Added Dimensions, Delivery, Anrimeal, Kilynn Lunsford, Smirk, and Weyes Blood.
There are also tracks from reissued LPs from Heavenly and Hallelujahs, and a newly compiled selection from The Snakes Of Shake.
From the past: Sexual Milkshake, Public Image Ltd. (RIP Keith Levene), and The Flower Pot Men.
You’re going to think this week’s Twaddle is the best episode you’ve ever heard, and you could be right about that! There are amazing new sounds from The Laughing Chimes; Non Plus Temps; Ward White; Dungeon Of Skeletons; Starry Eyed Cadet; Love, Burns; The Spanish Amanda; Arts & Leisure; Flash Amazonas; The Smashing Times; Marlody; The New Existentialists; Dot Dash; The GN Band; My Raining Stars; Otherish; Carla dal Forno; The Sylvia Platters; Y Dail; The Magic City Trio; EggS; Kilynn Lunsford; Children Maybe Later; Yo La Tengo; Mozart Estate; Heather Trost; Zero Percent APR; En Attendant Ana; Special Interest; Field School; Nightingales; Sharron Kraus; Librarians With Hickeys; MJ Hibbett; Pete Astor; Delivery; Sloan; Pozi; La Femme; Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection; David Brewis; and Class.
Old songs from new collections: Tresa Leigh, The Rabbits, and The Leaf Library.
Also from the past: Maher Shalal Hash Baz, The Action, and Focus.
This week’s Twaddle has envigorating new sounds from The Smashing Times, Dina Ögon, The New Existentialists, Summer Flake, The Loch Ness Mouse, Fascinations Grand Chorus, William William Rodgers, The Tubs, EggS, The Vat Egg Imposition, Kilynn Lunsford, Dazy, Sassyhiya, Kropp, Lulu Lewis, Anthony Rochester, Martha, Children Maybe Later, Class, Momus, Sea Moss, Carla dal Forno, I Was A King, Leah Callahan, Quasi, Findom, Gold Dust, Sloan, Parade, Legends Of Country, Nancy, Flex TMG, Benjamin Clementine, Delivery, Aoife Nessa Frances, Dutch Uncles, Luke Haines & Peter Buck, Free Time, Schapka, Fake Fruit, Ribbon Stage, Drugdealer, and The Bug Club, plus a heretofore unreleased Revolver sessions recording from The Beatles.
From the past: Greenfield Leisure, Orpheus (RIP Bruce Arnold), and Oh! Penelope.
This week’s Twaddle is all twaddling and no twiddling. How could you possibly need to twiddle when the program has bracing new sounds from Professor Yaffle, Schapka, Novelty Island, Rider/Horse, Kemi, Derrero, The Real Tuesday Weld, Usé, Martha, Primevère, Affiliate Links, Cozy Slippers, Kilynn Lunsford, Flex TMG, Wau Wau Collectif, Leah Callahan, Kulku, Otherish, Princess Chelsea, Sloan, Field School, Macula Dog, Heather Trost, Richard Öhrn, Citron Citron, Smirk, Kaoru Abe No Future 阿部薰没有未来, Alvvays, Robert Forster, Elaine Howley, Peel Dream Magazine, Disq, The Pen Friend Club, Lande Hekt, Ribbon Stage, The Happy Somethings, Bill Baird, Free Time, Liraz, Say Sue Me, and The Lightning Seeds? Is there a question pending?
From the past: Able Tasmans, Jon Brion, Pere Ubu, The Bobby Fuller Four, and Ludus.
This week’s Twaddle is comprised of nonstop interesting and appealing musical selections. There are new sounds from Silver Biplanes, Model Shop, Legends Of Country, Naked Roommate, Cozy Slippers, Pete Astor, Sloan (yes, new Sloan!), Brittle Brian, Otherish, Nightingales, Leah Callahan, The Cool Greenhouse, Lulu Lewis, Richard Öhrn, Laure Briard, Bad Spring, Shake Chain, Courtney and Brad, Lia Pamina, Macula Dog, Hans Pucket, Kaoru Abe No Future 阿部薰没有未来, The Bug Club, Fell, Citron Citron, MJ Hibbett, Aluminum, Librarians With Hickeys, The Paranoid Style, Meg Baird, Zero Percent APR, Chronophage, Jim Nothing, Ree-Vo, 路新配 Luxinpei, Peel Dream Magazine, The Lightning Seeds, Dungen, The Casual Dots, Die TV, Alvvays, The Black Angels, Ladytron, and Babe Rainbow.
There’s also a track from that excellent new collection of jingle medleys by The Cyrkle’s Tom Dawes.
From the past: Grab Grab The Haddock, The David, Beat Happening, and Beth Anderson.
This week’s Mawkish Twaddle is exciting throughout all 180 minutes. There are new sounds from Essential Logic, Frog Power, Penguins & Martingales, Cliff Hillis, Starry Eyed Cadet, Leah Callahan, The Smashing Times, EggS, Linda Smith, Almond Joy, Jim Nothing, Air Devi, Lulu Lewis, Aluminum, Nervous Twitch, The Orchids, バニーハウス ( Bunny House), Midwestern Medicine, Field School, Peel Dream Magazine, Fleur, Macula Dog, Disq, Liraz, Fievel Is Glauque, Die TV, Courtney And Brad, Florence Adooni, The Real Tuesday Weld, Class, Order Of The Toad, Kolb, The Casual Dots, Dungen, The Cleaners From Venus, Free Time, The Orielles, Able Noise, Telefís, Added Dimensions, Pete Astor, Todd Rundgren & The Lemon Twigs, Usé, Queasy Pieces, 2070, Alvvays, and Sorry.
From Japan, there’s a track from a new collection of material from The Rabbits, and a cut off a newly reissued LP from Tenniscoats.
This week’s Twaddle is the cat’s meow, and also a real humdinger and most likely a corker. There are new sounds from Plates Of Cake, Almond Joy, Kolb, The Airport 77s, Citron Citron, The Real Tuesday Weld, Future Conditional, Pony In The Pancake, Kilynn Lunsford, The Crystal Furs, Jim Nothing, The Chesterfields, Cozy Slippers, Librarians With Hickeys, Pixy Jones, Western Column, The Radio Field, Carpet Burn, Flathead, Martha, Herr Wade, Melin Melyn, The Sundries, Lande Hekt, Matching Outfits, Courtney And Brad, Best Move, Sofie Royer, James Marrs, 2070, The Gabys, The Black Watch, Aluminum, The Medium, Jjulius, Sixpeace, The Cleaners From Venus, Rush To Relax, 2nd Grade, Chuckie Fume, Honey Radar, Free Time, The Chills, and Tim Burgess.
There’s also another medley of commercial jingles from that new collection from Ginny Redington.
From the past: the most ferocious track in the Pharoah Sanders (RIP) oeuvre.
This week’s Twaddle has stimulating new sounds from The Chesterfields, Model Shop, Curha, Test Card Girl, Almond Joy, The Happy Somethings, Wau Wau Collectif, The Radio Field, Macula Dog, Pony In The Pancake, The No Ones, Field School, Kolb, Us And Them, Steady Holiday, Heaven For Real, Rob Clarke And The Wooltones, Best Move, Phat Dat, Librarians With Hickeys, The Pen Friend Club, Matching Outfits, The Umbrella Puzzles, Sloan, Live Do Nothing, Jim Nothing, Francis Lung, The Casual Dots, Old Moon, Lande Hekt, The Medium, Peel Dream Magazine, Shake Chain, Affiliate Links, Eerie Wanda, Sofie Royer, Added Dimensions, Julien Gasc, Tim Burgess, Mythical Motors, Renovator's Delight, Free Time, Order Of The Toad, Cindy, Ribbon Stage, and Alvvays.
You’ll also hear a selection from the new collection of ‘70s and ‘80s-era jingles by Ginny Redington.
From the past: Barbra Streisand and The Fall – not together, but wouldn’t that have been something?
This week’s Twaddle has sparkling new sounds from Pony In The Pancake, The Green Pajamas, Spice World, Best Move, 2070, The Sundries, Delifinger, Affiliate Links, The Umbrella Puzzles, Librarians With Hickeys, Pixy Jones, The Intelligence, The Flashcubes Featuring The Paley Brothers, Cozy Slippers, Jim Nothing, Heaven For Real, Los Imposibles, Delivery, The Same Same, Veps, The Sheaves, Dear Nora, Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters, Jockstrap, Guitar, The Cool Greenhouse, Au Suisse, Die Sterne, Mo Troper, Tyler Baum, わびさびくらぶ / Wabisabi Club, Sparky's Magic Piano, Robert Sotelo, The Orielles, Bonny Doon, The No-Yeahs, Biensüre, Telefís, The Black Angels, Weyes Blood, and The Beths.
There are also tracks taken from new collections of mostly previously unissued material from TwinArt and Tom Dawes.
From the recent past: The French Pop Dream. From the distant past: The Hit Pack, Roger Whittaker, and Francis Lai.
This week’s Twaddle crams 50 songs into its three hours. Of course, all of them are excellent and exciting. There are new sounds from The Pen Friend Club, Honey Radar, Plates Of Cake, Appleseeds!, Maestro Collage, The Smashing Times, TheCatherines, Mousefolk, I Was A King, Fleur, Grade School, Herr Wade, Terrain Vague, Cameronoise, Red Pants, Jeanines, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, Jane Doe Ensemble, Bed Bits, Liraz, Nervous Twitch, Zusammen Clark, Anna Erhard, Bis, Adele & The Chandeliers, Jockstrap, Florence Adooni, Laure Briard, Fever Moon, Air Waves, Mayumi Hozaki, Mo Troper, Amateur Hour, Jim Nothing, Gidnim'Rém, Carl Stone, Rush To Relax, Michael Simmons, Aoife Nessa Frances, Essen, Jeremy Warmsley, Pete Astor, The Chrysanthemums, Uni Boys, The Beths, and No Age.
There’s also a track from the recently reissued 2006 LP from The Variable Stars.
From the past: Half Japanese, Armando Trovajoli E La Sua Orchestra, and Lispector.
This week’s Twaddle contains what I think must be the most interesting batch of new tracks you’ll find on any radio program. I mean, what could possibly top it? Those tracks are from Red Pants, Pocket Pavilions, Mythical Motors, Bingo Harry, Michael Simmons, Herr Wade, The Orchids, Kulku, Macula Dog, Rusty’s Yard, Smug Brothers, Fruit LoOops, Living Hour, Flowertruck, The Vat Egg Imposition, Михаил Минерал, Non Plus Temps, Annual Leaf, The 1981, Mo Troper, わんわん / Oneone, The Spanish Amanda, Rush To Relax, Matching Outfits, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, Uni Boys, Renovator's Delight, The Orielles, Hitomi Moriwaki, Aluminum, Bailey Miller, Sophia Djebel Rose, Zusammen Clark, The Chrysanthemums, Jjulius, ゑでぃまぁこん / Eddie Marcon, The Fashion Weak, Yangfan, Zac Denton, Special Interest, Peel Dream Magazine, Ghost Funk Orchestra, and Weird Nightmare.
From the past: Bobby Sutliff (RIP), Linda Smith, and The Human Instinct.
This week’s Twaddle is the best one ever! I don’t know what happened. I was feeling more than a little uninspired up until the day before the show. But my all-day Saturday musical browsing led to one amazing discovery after another.
There are remarkable new sounds from Cozy Slippers, Annual Leaf, Sparky’s Magic Piano, Jane Doe Ensemble, fine., Lunar Bird, Horsebussy, Field School, Sorry Gilberto, Recitals, Let’s Whisper, Northern Portrait, Amateur Hour, Burghers Orquestra, Jim Nothing, The Gabys, Marie Klock, Shop Regulars, Fancey, Photon Band, Sleepyhead, Air Devi, One Man Bannister, ミレーの枕子バンド (Milet No Makurako Band), The Black Watch, Victoria, Die Weltraumforscher, Swim Ignorant Fire, The Cleaners From Venus, Yanna Momina, Gabriel Da Rosa, Renovator’s Delight, Johnnie The Bulgaria, Roswit, Erste Hilfe, Jjulius, Bill Baird, The Harriets, Comet Gain, Zac Denton, You’re The Best, Jonathan Personne, Hot Chip, and Bret McKenzie.
One song represents all of musical history prior to 2022, but it happens to be an excellent track from The Offset: Spectacles.
This week’s Twaddle is a wild one, with exciting new sounds from Sleepyhead, The Persian Leaps, Erste Hilfe, The Happy Somethings, Golomb, Zahnpasta Brothers, The Black Watch, Slum Summer, Mineko Fujishima, Lande Hekt, Spring Breeding, Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs, Nathan Hall And The Sinister Locals, The Spanish Amanda, God Told Me To, Martha, Renovator’s Delight, Die Welttraumforscher, Los Andes, Pretty In Pink, Free Time, You're The Best, The Cool Greenhouse, Rustbelt, Mo Troper, Half Hexagon, Jjulius, The Paranoid Style, Reverend Beat-Man & The Underground, Fenn Is Cool, David Liebe Hart, The Jansen, Fonteyn, Elaine Howley, The Mountain Goats, Franklin Gothic, Kiwi Jr., Ribbon Stage, and Freak Genes.
From the past: Clarence Reid, Edwina Biglet & The Miglets, Zeitgeist, Tall Dwarfs, Shirley & Jessie, The Wonder Stuff, Shane Martin, and Cola Jet Set.
This week’s Twaddle includes what is probably the most exciting batch of new tracks you’ll hear on any radio program. Of course, that’s true every week. Those tracks are from Mt. Misery; Nathan Hall And The Sinister Locals; Elaine Howley; Rachel Love; Sternpost; The Paranoid Style; Hitomi Moriwaki; Panssarijuna; Upupayāma; Bingo Fury; Die Weltraumforscher; Claude; Northern Portrait; Fonteyn; The Orchids; The Special Pillow; J4; Nell Davies; The Mellons; Franklin Gothic; Vic Godard; Pumice; The Humdrum Express; Tony Molina; Howl In The Typewriter; The Prize; Kamikaze Palm Tree; Oneida; Healing Potpourri; Disq; Tomato Flower; Kiwi Jr.; Zac Denton; Dungen; The Chrysanthemums; No Age; The Reds, Pinks & Purples; The Frowning Clouds; Osees; and The Bug Club.
From the past: The High Windows, The Ponys, The June Brides, Cinerama, The Macs, Liverpool Five, and The Originals.
This week’s Twaddle is an excitement-packed program with new tracks from Order Of The Toad, The Smashing Times, Ynys, The Orchids, The Chrysanthemums, Tomato Flower, Kamikaze Palm Tree, Rachel Love, Pete Astor, Hans Pucket, Staraya Derevnya, Amos Pitsch, Marxist Love Disco Ensemble, Loops & Loops, Healing Potpourri, Panssarijuna, Let’s Whisper, Puzzles y Dragones, The Special Pillow, Candymouse, Andrés Alcover, Slant Of Light, The Wife Guys Of Reddit, The Photocopies, Delifinger, Sofie Royer, Anna Erhard, Black Albino, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Peel Dream Magazine, Nick Frater, Eggy, CHAI, Mr Ben & The Bens, Cindy, and Osees.
From the past: Roger Nichols, Der Plan, Magic, The Magick Heads, Connie Stevens, The Posies, Rabi Nakayama, The Chants, Renato e Seus Blue Caps, Strapping Fieldhands, and Håkan Hellström.
This week’s Twaddle has envigorating (and possibly even invigorating) new sounds from Fish Magic; Almond Joy; Eggy; Chinese American Bear; Dodda Rivka; Healing Potpourri; Nick Frater; The Happy Somethings; Mo Troper; Bess Of Bedlam; The Chesterfields; The Reds, Pinks & Purples; The Wife Guys Of Reddit; Gwenno; Rush To Relax; Tony Molina; The Light Music Company; Steef; Bill Baird; Prairie Clamor; Marina Allen; Breakup Haircut; Hollie Cook; Blue Orchids; Liraz; The Doomed Bird Of Providence; Gardener's Delight; Florist; Dead Anyway; The Cleaners From Venus; and U.S. Girls.
There are also tracks off new compilations or reissues from First Floor Power, Communicant, Ferkat Al Ard, Asmus Tietchens, Staraya Derevnya, Yuko Kono, and Geylang Electric Phin Band.
From the past: Blueboy, Pugwash, Spearmint, Artful Dodger, Felt, Keith Colley, The Four Tops, and The Jay Vons.
This week’s Twaddle has new things you’ll want to hear right now from Jim Nothing, The Happy Somethings, Ribbon Stage, The Wife Guys Of Reddit, Free Time, Herr Wade, Fenn Is Cool, Chime School, JJULIUS, Dew Claw, Nick Frater, Eggy, Golden Burritos, The Berries, Svetla V, Jilted Jonas, Rustbelt, One Man Bannister, MISZCZYK, Thor Harris, Disq, The Prize, Alice Cohen, Tchotchke, YMCK, Flowertown, The Doomed Bird Of Providence, Per Och Olof, Kamikaze Palm Tree, Hideki Kaji, Die Sterne, Aoife Nessa Frances, Oneida, Catch Rabbit, Elf Power, Black Midi, Motherhood, and The Bug Club.
From the past and on new compilations: The Ugly Voices, Aggi, Derek Paul, and Conjunto Tipico Contreras.
From the past and not on new compilations: Black Box Recorder, Klaatu, The Chicks (NZ), Prinzhorn Dance School, Pipas, and Household.
This week’s Twaddle is one you’re going to want to listen to on repeat for the next few days. There are superb new sounds from Nick Frater, Breakup Haircut, Pixy Jones, The Wife Guys Of Reddit, Drab City, Bubblegum Lemonade, Chuckie Fume, Sloan, Key Out, Poster Paints, Martha, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, Penza Penza, Dew Claw, JayWood, Tchotchke, MISZCZYK, Fonteyn, Sick Thoughts, Trashcan Sinatras, Black Midi, Sababa 5, Elf Power, Gemma Rogers, Dead Anyway, Bruno Berle, Cosmic Analog Ensemble, The Doomed Bird Of Providence, Spiral Stairs, Telefís, Chris Brain, Ruth Tafébé, Kathryn Williams, Motherhood, The Beths, and Police And Pea.
You’ll also hear tracks from new collections of the works of The Cat’s Miaow and Jacques Charlier.
From the past: Perpetual Langley, The Warner Brothers, Scorched Earth Policy, Flo & Eddie, Euros Childs, Air Miami, Don Lennon, John Cale, and Spring.
This week’s Twaddle is comprised entirely of new sounds. You’ll hear 47 terrific tracks from Northern Portrait, Humour, Top Sound, Dew Claw, Eggy, Nick Frater, The Rotary Fifth, Old Town Crier, Zdrój, The Doomed Bird Of Providence, Spiral Stairs, Yanna Momina, Teenage Art Scene, Nelson Brandt, Kot Kot, Jérôme Minière, Lande Hekt, Star Feminine Band, Elf Power, Popstrangers, HANN, Todd Briefly, Dan Melchior, Wu-Lu, Neil Brogan, Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon, Romi O, Puppet Wipes, Bill Baird, Alice Cohen, Mejiwahn, Tau & The Drones Of Praise, The Birthmarks, Dividers, Police And Pea, The Chesterfields, Rogers & Butler, Lifeguard, Acácia Maior Feat. Danae Estrela e Berlok, Tomato Flower, Mush, The Caraway, Sessa, Artsick, M(h)aol, Alvvays, and Flowertown.
It’s the 250th installment of Mawkish Twaddle! You’ll hear corking new tracks from Blue Orchids, Post Office Winter, Healing Potpourri, Rush To Relax, Holt Bodish, Olivier Rocabois, Motte, Flowertown, Eerie Wanda, Silver Biplanes, The No-Yeahs, Ben Phillipson, Martha, Soft Estate, Thomas Bush, Pearl & The Oysters, Melin Melyn, Fernando Perdomo, Anna Erhard, Wireheads, Gwenno, The Photocopies, Dungen, Tess Parks, Jeanines, Them Airs, Say She She, Pascals, Naima Bock, Furrows, Police And Pea, Kathryn Williams, Long Odds, Pale Blue Eyes, Guided By Voices, Martin Courtney, and Vintage Crop.
From the past (but just as corking): Sambassadeur, Oranger, Cursive, The Innocence, Sloan, Capsule, Big Quiet, The Motifs, Heavenly, Mo-Dettes, and Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
This week’s Twaddle won’t bore you for more than 10 seconds. How could it, when there are exciting new sounds from Robert Sekula, BOAT, Rogers & Butler, Laundromat Chicks, The Barbarian Horde, Hatis Noit, Per och Olof, Liraz, Peel Dream Magazine, Ever Surf, Flowertown, The Umbrellas, Abel Natürlich, Gratin Carnival, Big Rig, Flasher, Tony Molina, Katie Alice Greer, Chronophage, Lithics, Martin Courtney, Kamikaze Palm Tree, Hollie Cook, Kelley Stoltz, The Bordellos, Maggie The Cat, Kiwi Jr., Diners, The Submissives, Young Guv, Lawn, My Raining Stars, Clea Vincent, and Mush. Wasn’t there supposed to be a question mark at the end of the last sentence? Well, at least there was one at the end of the last sentence.
There’s also a heretofore unreleased ca. 2000 track from Stereolab, plus something off a newly reissued 1978 LP from Ferkat Al Ard.
From the past: Deux, Alt-Ctrl-Sleep, Future Bible Heroes, Ivy, The Rumour, Yum-Yum, and Earth And Fire.
This week’s Twaddle, marking the fifth anniversary of the program, has wild new sounds from Library Card, Soup Review, Cloth, Let’s Whisper, Flowertown, Kot Kot, The Special Pillow, Germ House, Jockstrap, The Caraway, Hazy Sour Cherry, Slagheap, Class, Des Lions Pour Des Lions, Gabriel’s Dawn, Claude, Flasher, Ambassador Hazy, Chronophage, Vero, Gwenno, Dummy, Bess Of Bedlam, Cool Sounds, Buddhist Bubblegum, Kelley Stoltz, Touching Box, Marco Busato, Dimitriam, TROIE, Oneida, Music On Hold, Police And Pea, Long Odds, The Birthmarks, Perfume Genius, Gus Englehorn, and Black Midi.
From the past: The Duckworth Lewis Method, The Utica Club Natural Carbonation Band, The Clientele, The Beach Boys, Bergen White, Paul and Linda McCartney, and BC Camplight.
This week’s Twaddle has exciting new sounds from The Orchids, Zayaendo, Healing Potpourri, The Leaking Machine, The Paranoid Style, Kelley Stoltz, Grand Splendid, Gabriel's Dawn, Horseface, Baby?, Fonteyn, Soft Estate, Dummy, Helpful People, Oumou Sangaré, Horsegirl, Chronophage, Prairie Clamor, The Happy Somethings, Malka Spigel, David Westlake, Belle And Sebastian, Michael Rault, Laura Veirs, Regional Creeps, Katie Alice Greer, Tim Burgess, Dehidratált Fejek, Mathilda Brink, The Glass Picture, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, Long Odds, and The Dream Syndicate.
There are also tracks from Cheri Knight, Ndikho Xaba And The Natives , Go Sailor, and Meine Katze Und Ich that are on newly reissued LPs or collections.
From the past: Stackridge, Ex Cops, Roxy Music, Martin Newell, Björn & Benny, Trio Esperança, and Airbus.
This week’s Twaddle has captivating new sounds from Gabriel’s Dawn, The Umbrellas, Horseface, Horsegirl, Teenage Tom Petties, Chronophage, Long Odds, Invaderband, William William Rodgers, The Happy Somethings, Soft Estate, Henry Carlyle, Dehidratált Fejek, R.E. Seraphin, David Westlake, Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul, Flasher, My Raining Stars, Tony Molina, The Photocopies, Son Parapluie feat. Isobel Campbell, The Light Music Company, Shintaro Sakamoto, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, Jasmyn, Porridge Radio, Spygenius, Nancy Mounir, Blake, Acid House Kings, Emilie Vabre, Model Home, Chocolat Billy, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, La Femme, Supercrush, and Dehd.
There are also cuts off newly reissued LPs from Anthony Moore and Sophisticated Boom Boom.
From the past: The Great Unwashed, Joy Zipper, Blossom Dearie, Madeline Bell, Lida Husik, Nora Guthrie, and The Trouble Boys.
It’s an action-packed program this week as the Mawkish Twaddle Unique-Song Counter™ inches past the 10,000 mark. There are magnificent new sounds from Woog Riots, Marie Mathématique, Helpful People, Warm Currency, Martha, Spygenius, Turbo World, Gintis, LINN, Borben Dallas & His Filipino Cupids, The Aluminum Group, Touching Box, Herr Wade, The Birthmarks, Dave Berkham, Heavy Petting, Arlt, Constant Smiles, Hazy Sour Cherry, Afrorack, Pi Ja Ma, Lewis Goldmark, Just Mustard, Pale Blue Eyes, Stars, Blake, My Idea, The Happy Somethings, Cathal Coughlan (RIP), Porridge Radio, Dehd, Popolice, Blod, and Cut Worms.
You’ll also hear tracks off new reissues from The Cat’s Miaow, Hefner, The Frowning Clouds, and Hugo y Osvaldo.
From the past: The Styrenes, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Sandpipers, Bears, Microdisney, The Seashells, Jale, and Wendy & Bonnie.
This week’s Twaddle has fascinating new sounds from Bess Of Bedlam, John Tsung, The Mellons, The Light Music Company, R.E. Seraphin, Oneida, MISZCZYK (feat. Lætitia Sadier), Alex Izenberg, The Flashcubes (feat. The Spongetones), Boris Maurussane, Kevin Robertson, Adiós Amores, Blod, Jason Whatley + Anthony Rochester, SAVAK, Pharmacy Keys, Pi Ja Ma, Famous Logs In History, Marco Busato, Porridge Radio, The Wedding Present, Modal Melodies, Seth Swirsky, Belle And Sebastian, Weird Nightmare, Interior Geometry, Horsegirl, Jonathan Personne, Kiwi Jr., Turbo World, Mura, Cola, and The Stroppies.
There are also tracks taken from new reissues and collections from Ferkat Al Ard, Aunt Sally, BMX Bandits, Model Home (feat. NAPPYNAPPA & Michael R Bernstein), and Impossible Tymes.
From the past: Yachts, Aphrodite’s Child (RIP Vangelis Papathanassíou), Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Hurrah!, Jimmy Cliff, Toy Love, and Chuck & Joe.
This week’s Twaddle has scintillating new sounds from The Submissives, Rose Mercie, Terje Torkellsen, Lewis Goldmark, Kevin Robertson, R.E. Seraphin, Turbo World, Asta Rangu, My Raining Stars, Tchotchke, Herr Wade, Carwyn Ellis, Scout Gillett, C Duncan, Best Bets, The Sylvia Platters, Say Sue Me, The Stroppies, Ghost Power, Los Fresones Rebeldes, The Perfect Trip, Oumou Sangaré, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, Gwenno, Adam Walton, Daily Worker, Parlor Hour, Belle And Sebastian, Peaness, Aoife Nessa Frances, Helen Love, Mandarina, Peace De Résistance, and Mura.
There’s also a track from the newly issued “lost” fifth album from Faust.
From the past: Birdie, Spriguns, The Associates, The Searchers, Half Japanese, Weekend, The Looking Glass, Talking Heads, Lightships, and Faron Young.
This week’s Twaddle has cracking new sounds from TV Star, Slack Times, Lawn, Spacemoth, Ger Eaton, Peaness, The 1981, Famous Logs In History, Belle And Sebastian, The Stroppies, Buddhist Bubblegum, C Duncan, The Sound Of Science, Adam Walton, Ghost Power, Pete Galub & Matt Kanelos, The Aluminum Group, Chronophage, Mura, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Boyracer, Ex Norwegian, Diane Coffee, Jens Lekman, The Musical Chairs, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Otoboke Beaver, HTRK, The Jazz Butcher, Porridge Radio, My Idea, Holiday Ghosts, Sunflower Bean, Helen Love, Luke Lover, U.S. Highball, Popolice, Guided By Voices, and Kikagaku Moyo.
There are also newly reissued tracks from Impossible Tymes and Pinky Ann Rihal.
From the past: The Pale Fountains, Minisnap, Pilot, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Peter Sarstedt, and His Name Is Alive.
This week’s Twaddle has amazing new sounds from Ghost Power, Mura, Best Bets, Dungeon Of Skeletons, Sinaïve, Diane Coffee, Terje Torkellsen, My Idea, The Bordellos, Naja Naja, The Aluminum Group, Popolice, Jeanines, Pharmacy Keys, Seth Swirsky, Gregory Jones, The GN Band, Fabritius, Astrel K, WEMA, The Flashcubes with David Paton, Legends Of Country, Rose Mercie, Andy Partridge, Oumou Sangaré, Halfheads, Scout Gillett, Martin Courtney, Luke Lover, Jane Inc., Melody's Echo Chamber, The Linda Lindas, Jerry Paper, flinch., Local Tourist, and Dana Gavanski.
There are also previously unreleased selections from Vox Populi! and Jens Lekman, and newly reissued songs from Sparks and Howl In The Typewriter.
From the past: Judy Henske (RIP), Pretty & Nice, R. Stevie Moore, The Poppy Family (RIP Susan Jacks), John Shuttleworth, The Letters, The Homosexuals, Arthur Verocai, and ワイカーズ (Waikars).
This week’s Twaddle has exhilarating new sounds from Pharmacy Keys; The Bordellos; Orkan; Eve's Twin Lover; The Toms; Exotic Girlfriend; Oort Clod; Herr Wade; The Aluminum Group; Chewy She; My Idea; Tamar Berk; Axons; The Stroppies; Flasher; Seth Swirsky; The Real Distractions; M Ross Perkins; Simon Love; Flaming Top Hat; Jeanines; Young Guv; The Klittens; Chocolat Billy; Touching Box; Noelia Recalde; Terje Torkellsen; Squiggles; Momus; Doug Tuttle; Halfheads; Freezing Hands; Rose Mercie; Jane Inc.; Love, Burns; C Duncan; Guided By Voices; Beachheads; and Wet Leg.
There’s also a track from the previously bootlegged collection of 1977-78 Wire demos, which got an official release for Record Store Day on the very day the program aired.
Also from the past are songs from The Commercials, Holiday, Plastics, Lysett, Camera Obscura, Tugboat, Pulsars, The Carrolls, and Zen.
This week’s Twaddle has exciting new sounds from SAVAK, Prairie Clamor, Christian Blunda, Emperor Penguin, The Aluminum Group, Tamar Berk, Mordecai Smyth, Alyssa Gengos, Jeanines, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, Doug Tuttle, Gordon McIntyre, Planets Are On It, Mo Troper, John Charles, Donna Blue, The Musical Chairs, Nape Neck, Don Leisure, Wet Leg, Nyokabi Kariuki, Verity Susman & Matthew Simms, Jess Scott, Ex-Vöid, Seth Swirsky, Half Man Half Biscuit, Freezing Hands, Sault, Mick Trouble, Superchunk, Şatellites, Guided By Voices, The Bug Club, Clea Vincent, and Otoboke Beaver.
There are also newly reissued selections from fine., Ned Collette, and Butcher Boy. From new compilations there are tracks from Eman El Bahr Darwish, Mission Possible, and Hugo Blanco Y Su Arpa Viajera.
From the past: The Clientele, The Lucksmiths, The Humblebums, Frank Sinatra, Dolly Mixture, Po!, The Hostiapaths, and Janko Nilovic.
This week’s Twaddle is full of exciting new sounds. There are tracks from Chronophage; Popstrangers; Tamar Berk; The Aluminum Group; Rome 56; Red Sleeping Beauty (feat. Amelia Fletcher); Sapphire & Steel; Teenage Fanclub; The Photocopies; Kid Chameleon; theCatherines; Verity Susman & Matthew Simms; Ema And The Ghosts; Seth Swirsky; Ex-Vöid; Bart Davenport; Horsegirl; Stephen’s Shore; Melody’s Echo Chamber; Jeanines; Toilet Rats; Young Guv; Porridge Radio; Jill Lorean; Elf Power; Simon Love; Mick Trouble; Delivery; Leah Senior; Papercuts; Joseph Airport; The Reds, Pinks & Purples; Otoboke Beaver; Horace Andy; Golden Apples; Dodda Rivka; The Crooner; Destroyer; Peach Kelli Pop; Jess Scott; Dana Gavanski; Wet Leg; U.S. Highball; and Aldous Harding.
There’s also a selection from the new collection of Broadcast’s BBC sessions, and cuts off newly reissued LPs from Camp One and Omeed & The Natural Scene.
This week’s Twaddle is three hours of nonstop excitement. Every track is brand new and brilliant. You’ll hear selections from Silver Biplanes, Freezing Hands, Tuff Sunshine, Gemma Rogers, Jonny Swift, Amoeba Teen, Ex-Vöid, The Vat Egg Imposition, Bart Davenport, Fontanarosa, Cinema Engines, Glue Factory, Whelligan, Subterfuge, Jess Scott, Kwartet Niek Hilkmann, Dennis Diken With Bell Sound, HANN, Astrel K, Papercuts, Nicolas Zullo, Jill Lorean, Treasury Of Puppies, Lisasinson, Y Dail, U.S. Highball, Mo Dotti, Kelley Stoltz, Apollo Ghosts, Seatbelts, Weird Nightmare, Aldous Harding, Mick Trouble, Sam Kogon, Lightning In A Twilight Hour, Bellows, Diane Coffee, The Stroppies, C Duncan, Sondre Lerche, Uni Boys, Renata Zeiguer, Destroyer, Heaven For Real, Jane Weaver, and Fievel Is Glauque.
From the past: nothing!