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Episodes
SF0156 Pedal Steel Special
A celebration of alternative bands incorporating the pedal steel guitar into their sound.
- Discussing music by:
- North Americans
- Songs: Ohia
- Mazzy Star
- Pavement
- M J Lenderman
- Hot Rod Circuit
- Camera Obscura
- Faye Webster
- The Lemonheads
- Joy Again
- Wednesday
- Sparklehorse
- Kara Jackson
- Ducks Ltd
- Mogwai
- Japan
SF0155 Female bass players
A tribute episode to the iconic female bass players – and also some you may not have heard of.
- Discussing music by:
- Sneaks
- Wombo
- Standard Fare
- Automatic
- Unrest
- Superchunk
- Bush Tetras
- ESG
- Cherry Glazerr
- Sunflower Bean
- Khruangbin
- Pixies
- Sonic Youth
- Talking Heads
SF0154 Fame, Fame, Fatal Fame
When will I be famous? Me, probably never, which is fine because, as these tracks show, it is very much a double-edged sword.
- Discussing music by:
- Scott Walker
- Folly Group
- J Dilla
- Neil Young
- The Mountain Goats
- The Popguns
- Black Box Recorder
- Altered Images
- Hop Along
- The Reds, Pinks and Purples
- The Damned
- Suicide
- Prince
- John Cale
- Belle and Sebastian
SF0153 Tiring, Sleeping, Dreaming
You snooze, you lose, or so they say. Not on this episode though. Alternative tracks about sleeping and dreaming.
- Discussing music by:
- Wombo
- Alvvays
- Allo Darlin’
- Moreish Idols
- Spirit of the Beehive
- Massive Attack
- Luke de-Sciscio
- Madder Rose
- Sebadoh
- Beabadoobee
- The Magnetic Fields
- The Chills
- Fugazi
- Shana Cleveland
- Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
SF0152 The Enduring Legacy of The Kinks
Hundreds of groups have been influenced by The Kinks. Here’s a few of them plus some original tracks themselves.
- Discussing music by:
- The Kinks
- Wednesday
- The Fountains of Wayne
- Wire
- Yo La Tengo
- Buzzcocks
- Temples
- The Auteurs
- Blur
SF0151 – Money: Too much or not enough
An episode about the perils of either striving after too much money or not having enough of it.
- Discussing music by:
- Fugazi
- Yard Act
- Private Banking
- Sprints
- The Toads
- Gillian Welch
- King Tubby
- The Slits
- Las Kellies
- The Cool Greenhouse
- The Jam
- Blood
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Horace Andy
SF0150 – 150th Retrospective Episode
A cherry picking exercise from the archives on the occasion of the podcast’s 150th episode.
- Discussing music by:
- Camera Obscura
- The Fall
- Broken Social Scene
- Gang of Four
- Tiny Ruins
- Jonathan Coulton
- Dry Cleaning
- Half Man Half Biscuit
- Lee Scratch Perry
- Brian Eno
- The Associates
- Pavement
- The Strokes
- Horsegirl
- Television
- Standard Fare
SF0149 Music about music
An episode about music itself – the songs, the singers, the radio, the ballroom, the dances.
- Discussing music by:
- Clinic
- Ibibio Sound Machine
- Crocodiles
- Ballboy
- Sons and Daughters
- Horsegirl
- Standard Fare
- King Tubby
- Swansea Sound
- Mr Teenage
- All Ashore!
- Caroline Martin
- Mogwai
- Joy Division
SF0148 Those we lost in 2023
We lost some fine musicians in 2023. Here’s an episode paying tribute.
- Discussing music by:
- The Pogues
- Television
- The Associates
- The Pop Group
- Pulp
- The Smiths
- Pavement
- The White Stripes
- The Byrds
- Sinead O’Connor
- Killing Joke
- Ryuichi Sakomoto
- Belle and Sebastian
SF0147 Festive Forthy 2023, #14-1
The final countdown of the best tracks in 2023, according to Sombrero Fallout.
- Discussing music by:
- NNAMDI
- Mandy, Indiana
- bar italia
- Sweeping Promises
- Lifeguard
- Lana Del Rey
- M J Lenderman
- Nabihah Iqbal
- Glittering Insects
- Free Range
- Cusp
- Wednesday
- Kara Jackson
- Squirrel Flower
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