This week’s Twaddle, the second-to-last one on KXSF, is action-packed from start to finish. There are cracking new tracks from The Umbrellas, Pernice Brothers, Misty Lanes, theCatherines, Action Painting!, Straight Skirt, 心椒椒 PAPPER HEART, Savak, Tenniscoats, Grand Public, Bigott, Teini-Pää, Astrel K, Dent May, Les Amazones d'Afrique, The Maureens, Hannah Everingham, Andreas Dorau, Spencer Segelov & Great Paintings, Mr Ben & The Bens, Cosmic Analog Ensemble, J. McFarlane's Reality Guest, HANN, Bill Baird, PACKS, Kenji Kariu / 狩生健志, Petit Bureau, A Certain Ratio, Meril Wubslin, Holiday Ghosts, Orchard, Tomato Flower, Victoria Hume, Jordan Jones, The High Llamas, Rustbelt, Vitesse X, Jane Weaver, Keichi & The Coconut Groove, The Asteroid No.4, Rosali, Bolts Of Melody, and Sleater-Kinney.

There’s also a selection from a collection of heretofore unreleased 1977-78 material from Terminal Intensity.

From the past: The Lucksmiths, Bruno Nicolai, and two songs from The Shangri-Las (RIP Mary Weiss).

Next week: the last Mawkish Twaddle on KXSF. I plan to resurface somewhere else this coming spring. Watch @mawkishtwaddle on Instagram for news of that!

This week’s Twaddle has new sounds – all released in 2024, with just a few exceptions – from Rock Band, Library Card, Dancer, Pete Astor, Jordan Jones, The Infinites, Lupo Cittá, Ffenest, Volksempfänger, Spencer Segelov & Great Paintings, The Plastic Cherries, Station Sleeper, The Pheromoans, The Lovely Basement, Jungle Breed, The Umbrellas, Dana Gavanski, The Paranoid Style, Euros Childs, Roy Montgomery & Friends, Bill Ryder-Jones, Wurld Series, Nailah Hunter, PACKS, Julia Holter, Omni, Gruff Rhys, Lætitia Sadier, Arrested Development, Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, Anja Huwe, Marika Hackman, @, and MGMT.

There’s also a selection from the just-reissued 2007 LP from The Hermit Crabs, plus older tracks from The Artwoods, Felt, The Triffids, Genesis, Flying Color, and Pulp.

The first Twaddle of the nascent year includes dazzling new sounds from The Lovely Basement, Red Sleeping Beauty, SAVAK, Lupo Cittá, The Half-Cubes feat. Rob Bonfiglio, Svenssen, Herr Wade feat. Mark Monnone, Camille Bénâtre, The Happy Somethings & Slovenly Boy, Maria T, The Lemon Twigs, House Of All, Zenxith, Cynthia Nelson Band, group_inou, Ducks Ltd., Minhwi Lee, Sundae Painters, The Bevis Frond, Mary Timony, Schwund, and David Nance & Mowed Sound. Less than a week into 2024 and there’s no paucity of excellent releases thus far this year!

There are also tracks from new collections from The Bordellos and The Motifs. And from newly reissued LPs there are selections from Santa Sprees, Blue Orchids, and Strapping Fieldhands.

Older but every bit as exciting: The Yellow Balloon, Modular, The Thought Criminals, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Paley Brothers, Marie And The Atom, The Quasars, Euros Childs, The Orange Humble Band, Gayle Haness, Razorcuts, Go-Kart Mozart, Chris Gunning, and Beulah.

The final Twaddle of 2023 includes new sounds from Zenxith, The Spatulas, Flora, Ergo Phizmiz, Thomas Walsh, Finlay Clark, and Sleaford Mods.

From 1956 through 2016, there are selections from The dB's, Rudy Ray Moore, Gary Lewis And The Playboys, The Pearly Gatecrashers, Velvet Monkeys, Momus, The Upsetters, Shaun Cassidy, The Tuna Helpers, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Leisure Process, Trixie's Big Red Motorbike, Pet Shop Boys, Everyone Involved, Terry Hall, American Music Club, Lawrence Arabia, Gwenn Stacey, Sven Libaek, Orange Juice, Billy Nicholls, Tools You Can Trust, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, April March, Lucia Rango, Arthur Doyle Plus 4, John Stammers, Knife Pleats, The Fall, Cinerama, Home Blitz, Freddie & The Dreamers, Annie, The Cuff Links, Magazine, Jonathan Richman, Fapardokly, The Apartments, and UJ3RK5.

This week’s Twaddle includes arguably the best Knickerbockers pastiche, a song produced and co-written by Leon Russell that no one knows, back-to-back tracks featuring prominent mallet instruments, possibly the most prominent harpsichord in a Guess Who song, a Roger Nicholls cover but no James Brown or Kraftwerk covers, examples of US bubblegum and Italian prog, my favorite cut from the most underrated Belle & Sebastian album, a very small number of tracks recorded this year (just 22 percent), and one Christmas tune.

New: Cynthia Nelson Band; Search Results; Baumarkt; The Half-Cubes; Keichi & The Coconut Groove; Schwund; Gabriel da Rosa; Soft Covers; The Reds, Pinks And Purples; Bory; and Brenda I Funky.

Previously unreleased: Primal Scream.

Newly reissued: Meat Joy.

Newly compiled: Omertà.

From sometime between 1956 and 2017: Ray Conniff And The Singers, Lollipop Train, The Dentists, Pain Teens, Stuart Moxham, The Yummies, Daryll-Ann, Fat Tulips, Hartley C. White, The Sundowners, Those Lovely Hula Hands, Gerry Morris, Jon Brion, Starbuck, The Chesterfield Kings, Blank Statements, Frank Sinatra, Frank Chickens, Belle And Sebastian, Pink Military, The John Merricks, Christmas, Delirium, Orlie And The Saints, Vivian Weathers, The Guess Who, The Birthday Party, Jo Bisso, Le Cirque, The Charade, The Boyfriends, Jonathan King, The Associates, Stew Lane & The Untouchables, and George Torrence & The Naturals.

This week’s Twaddle includes new sounds from The Special Pillow, The Infinites, Ryan Power, Hygiene, Pine Point, Erik Voeks & The Ghosters, Charlène Darling, H31R, Co-Pilot, Finnoguns Wake, Astrid Sonne, Comet Gain, Fenn Is Cool, My Fat Pony, Witching Waves, Kombu Nori, The Beefields, Club 8, Bory, Cut Worms, The Smashing Times, Charif Megarbane, Trans-Canada Highwaymen, Julian Cope, Melenas, Uni Boys, Emma Anderson, and Lewsberg.

There’s also a heretofore unreleased track from The Wot Nots, a newly compiled one from The Mumbles, and a recently reissued one from INU.

From sometime between 1957 and 2012, there are selections from Deaf School, Northern Picture Library, The Concretes, The Kinks, Chris Cohen, Bog-Shed, Julie London, Archie Shepp, Sigh, The La’s, Jane & Bob Henley, Nice, and The Aislers Set.

We’re now well into the annual deceleration of the new release schedule. That was just the excuse I needed to sprinkle more than the usual number of older selections into this week’s Twaddle.

But there was no dearth of new tracks in the program. Far from it, as I spun enticing new sounds from The Small Square, Half Hexagon, The Maureens, Jim Nothing, Water Machine, The Jasmine Minks, Large Plants, Blue Orchids, Lavender Blush, The Spatulas, Zenxith, J. McFarlane's Reality Guest, Ian M Bailey, Pop Filter, Bory, The Quarterlies, Misophone, Primer Infant, Daily Worker, Cuticles, Überspannung, Seablite, Harp, Bill Ryder-Jones, Wurld Series, Hochzeitskapelle & Eddie Marcon, David Christian, Helen Infam, Novelty Island, Pop Crimes, The Bug Club, and Ducks Ltd.

There was also a newly compiled selection from Soft Location, and newly reissued gems from Saint Etienne and Peter Gutteridge.

From the past: Pezband, The Yummy Fur, Al Stewart, Barbara Manning, Lilys, The Sorrows (UK), Watoo Watoo, and Jim Noir.

Also from the past, but listed separately to avoid irksome semicolons in the preceding paragraph, a weird and wild paean to LSD from Babs, Marina & De Hippe Vogels.

This week’s Twaddle contains three hours of relentlessly exciting, mostly new musical things. Specifically, there are sounds from Alluvial Nuggetts, The Treasures Of Mexico, Micko & The Mellotronics, The High Llamas, Mister Baby, Start Together, Discreet Charms, Red Pants, Herr Wade, Misophone, Bruno Berle, John Dunbar, Gonzalez Smith, Rocketship, David Christian, Sachet, Noth, Sandy Pylos, Pop Crimes, Dumb Things, Spearmint, The Umbrellas, Mo Troper, Soft Covers, Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet, The Smashing Times, Extraa, Lætitia Sadier, The Lemon Twigs, Wurld Series, Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, Sundae Painters, Juliana Hatfield, Golden Apples, Bas Jan, Guided By Voices, and Harp.

There’s also a newly unearthed 1981 track from Model Workers and a newly compiled 2018 selection from Brabrabra.

From the past: Citrus, Karen Carpenter, The Nips, The Fall, and The McTells.