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.