Mawkish Twaddle with Bob N.

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 Sege...

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, Ro...

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...

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...

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 under...

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,...

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 Plant...

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, Po...

Mawkish Twaddle is back after a monthlong break during which I visited Australia and New Zealand. This week’s program has exciting new sounds from The Cat’s Miaow, Sundae Painters, Watch Paint Dry, Extraa, Joe Ziffer, William William Rodgers, Red Pants, Hot Apple Band, Dark Tea, The Shna, Rachel Love, Thin Ears, Juniper, Bas Jan, Frog Power, ex.girls, Josephine Network, Wilding, Fortunato Durutti...

This week’s Twaddle is the last until November 25! What are you going to do for exciting new music during that time? I’d recommend just listening to WFMU all the time, but maybe you already do that. There are plenty of new sounds, exciting as always, in the program. They come from Annual Leaf, The Umbrellas, Gently Tender, Abstract Concrete, Trans-Canada Highwaymen, Chet Sounds, Victoria, Thomas W...

This week’s program proves, once again, that Mawkish Twaddle is the most whimsical radio program on the San Francisco dial – and maybe beyond. There are exciting new tracks from Jean Caffeine, Luces Negras, Smoke Fairies, The Klittens, Portable Radio, Herr Wade, Jonny Swift, Robert Rotifer, The Len Price 3, The Happy Somethings, EchoWave, Titanic, Joey Nebulous, The Photocopies, Hard Copy, Rat Col...

It was quite the week for new releases. There was so much quality stuff that I might never catch up – especially with a three-week break coming up in November. There are sparkling new sounds in this week’s Twaddle from Pencil, Dancer, Captain Starlet, The Evening Sons, Tar Of, Red Pants, Desoto Reds, Blue Ocean, Blue Bendy, Mirror Tree, Anna Hillburg, The Smashing Times, The Lunar Laugh, Rachel Lo...

I’m back after a one-week break to see Joe Pernice play a couple of backyard shows here in the Bay Area of Northern California. This week’s program included new gems from The Popguns, Dark Tea, The Suncharms, Gonzalez Smith, Oliver Marson, Freezing Hands, The Garment District, Cormac O Caoimh, Soft Covers, The Happy Somethings & Slovenly Boy, The Smashing Times, Anton Barbeau, The March Aftern...

This week’s Twaddle is perfect! There are 42 new songs and every one of them is a true gem and among the best tracks of 2023 thus far. Those new sounds come from Braake, Red Pants, Lulu Lewis, Trotski Nautique, The Garment District, Colored Lights, Duncan Reid And The Big Heads, Puppy Problems, Kodiak Island, Herr Wade, Spearmint, Robert Rotifer, Lower Plenty, Anselmus, The Doublejumps, Silk Cuts,...

This week’s Twaddle is musically exciting. It includes stellar new selections from Freezing Hands, Cuticles, Golden Apples, Extraa, Duncan Reid And The Big Heads, Spearmint, Luggage, Keichi & The Coconut Groove, The Blankettes, The Lunar Laugh, Rita Braga, Silk Cuts, Drop Nineteens, The Nova Fiends, Grand Drifter, Curling, Soft On Crime, Los Llamarada, White Town, Soft Covers, Wurld Series, Mc...

This week’s Twaddle has a truly excellent batch of new songs. The recording stars providing those tracks are The Fuzzies, Uni Boys, theCatherines, Portable Radio, Lower Plenty, The Fisherman And His Soul, Minerves, Lightheaded, Grand Drifter, Spirit Fest, Pretty In Pink, Soft Science, Melin Melyn, Swansea Sound, Bed Bits, Smile Too Much, Cama Rosa, Be Afraid, Seablite, Faith Healer, The Maureens,...

This week’s Twaddle was taped in front of a canine audience two days prior to its airing. Only 29 percent of its content is new, but the remaining 71 percent won’t be familiar to most listeners (human or canine).   From the present: Papernut Cambridge, Connie Lovatt, Soft Hearted Scientists, The Paranoid Style, Seablite, Late Cambrian, Who Is She?, The 1981, Kirschstein, Helpful People, Onesie, Ra...

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...

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 Scie...

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, Anni...

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, Usurab...

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 Ti...

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, Fires...

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 Stame...

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 Famou...