The Bottom Forty

The first new music from The Libertines in 9 years plus new found sounds from DJ Shadow and more!

Tunage!

New post punk from the UK band English Teacher plus a great project from the Faroe Islands, a '90s shoegaze nugget and more!

New music from This Is the Kit, Cheekface and a track from an LP released this week in 1987 that features R.E.M. as the "backing band".

Two more hours of new wave and post punk inspired tunes!

New music from Dutch band Pip Blom featuring Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand! Plus, a top ten power pop tune of all-time on my list and more!

The first new music in THREE DECADES from American shoegaze band Drop Nineteens, Ratboys, Wild Nothing and more! Plus, hear a UK #1 track from the The Jam released this week back in the year of Grey Poupon tv ads, Rubik's Cube and more!

The U.S. radio debut of a new London-based band signed to Island Records UK, some early '80s power pop from Atlanta and more!

Another lost (and found) issue that didn't upload! Christmas in July or something like that!

Modern Nature remind me of later period Talk Talk which makes me extremely happy. Plus, Binki with the catchiest track I've heard in ages that close in at a whopping 1 minute 43 seconds!

Q's music was described by the New York Times as "echoing the introspective-verging-on-depressive sides of Phil Collins, Prince and Michael Jackson" which is extremely fitting. You'll discover it on this issue plus we celebrate anniversaries of two classic albums from 1978 and 1986!

Discover an unsigned Portland band whose track has over 14 million views plus hear from one of my old school go-to albums from the '80s and more!

I think this issue features some of the brightest and most catchy songs of 'em all!

First new music in 5 years from Speedy Ortiz plus a track from what I claim is one of the most important albums of the last millennium!

A special hour-long Sire Records-centric issue honoring the life of the legendary Seymour Stein featuring an interview with Tommy Stinson (The Replacements, Bash and Pop, Cowboys in the Campire etc.)

I worked ahead for my loyal listeners then forgot to post while on vacation! Apologies!

My favorite song of the year (by far) is from an unlikely source plus some vintage shoegaze and more!

Fans of Parquet Courts should love this new track from Portland's Buddy Wynkoop! Plus, vintage Boston '90s alt from the great Buffalo Tom, Fever Ray and more!

A track from my fave hip-hop LP that features a sample from my all-time fave band! Plus, new music from Radiohead drummer Phil Selway, Aussie band Floodlights, Squid and more!

The first new music from Iceland's Emiliana Torrini in quite some time plus a band that got Bill Berry (ex-R.E.M.) back behind the kit for the first time in two decades and more!

New music from Philly's Mo Lowda & The Humble, Dream Wife and more! We'll also hear a track from one of the most acclaimed indie albums of all-time and celebrate its new deluxe box set!

A classic track from a "songwriter of the year" (Rolling Stone) during the '90s plus new music from Yves Tumor and more!

Discover a lost-then-found "gospel" album favored by the DFA label plus new music from The National plus the first new music in 24 years from Everything But The Girl!

Welcome back and happy 2023 to you! New music from a great indie band from Liverpool called The Shipbuilders plus some Bristol beat poetry-meets-rock from The Blue Aeroplanes and more! 

Shout out to my pals at Bloodbuzz in Portland for keeping me company over the holidaze!

Remember The Rakes? You should. They were my fave of the post-Strokes/Libertines mid 2000s! Discover or re-visit a track from them plus new music from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and more!

Some vintage early '90s Bay Area indie plus new music from Iggy Pop, Maps and more!

New music from Cuffed Up, Fantasy Camp and more! 

Bottom Forty faves Dutch Uncles return with their first new music in 6 years plus a Portland band fans of The Black Angels will love and more!

Iceland Airwaves issue! Discover great new music from Iceland featuring: Hrim, BSI, Pale Moon and more!

Philadelphia's Mo Lowda & The Rumble give me Gomez vibes that I sorely miss! Discover them plus new music from Drugdealer, Archers of Loaf and more!

Discover music from a relatively-unknown Athens, GA band from the early '80s that's just been reissued plus great new music from: U.S. Girls, Young Fathers and Portland's Underwater Cliffs.

We'll "freak out on Friday" with Frankie Cosmos, hear some early '80s funk from Ghana and more!

Angst in their pants riffs from Fat Trout Trailer Park plus a new band with a track that sounds like it could've fit alongside any other on Tom Petty's "Wildflowers" release! 

Kid Kapichi's track sounds like a less-cheesy and modern take on "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) meets Gorillaz or something like that. It should be a smash hit! Also a few lost gems plus new music from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, White Lung and more!

A duo that dress like Redd Kross hanging with Crispin Glover and sound like _____, a musician who wrote for Pink Floyd and more!

A couple of legends return with new music plus a track from an artist with "roots in India and hustle in Brooklyn". 

Greetings to our our friends in Reno! The podcast is now back on the radio there with KWNK 97.7FM hosting us (www.kwnkradio.org) Sundays 8-10PM local time. This week hear music from a band featured on the Killing Eve OST, a track from the "greatest bar band of all-time" and more!

Some tunes to get us all through the heatwave! New music from South London's PVA and Toronto's Tallies plus a band whose LP cover was adorned with the number of the beast!

New music from former Botch/Minus The Bear guitarist David Knudson, Dry Cleaning and a track from one of the most important indie albums.....................ever?

The first new music from The Big Pink in a decade and some not-too-subtle advice from Mr. Peter Perrett and more!

Back with the good stuff that radio doesn't play! Great new stuff from Day Wave, Ducks Ltd., a track from a country television icon from the Deep South and more!

Hear a beautiful score from Portland musician/composer Clyde Wooten who records as My Name Is Clyde plus some vintage Archers Of Loaf and more!

Interview with Dave Faulkner of the legendary Aussie band Hoodoo Gurus! Find out what musical talent his dad possessed, what went wrong just as they were about to break big in the States, whether he's made enough money to retire yet and more! 

New music from one of the best live bands I've ever seen (in Iceland?), a band described as a mix up of The Fall and Captain Beefheart and more!

Perhaps the heaviest track Afghan Whigs have ever released, a late '80s and early '90s band from Leeds I'd heard of but never heard and more! 

You'll open up this issue to find a "euphoric collision of post-punk, trance, and deconstructed opera" from Sky Creature and others. Plus, discover a band who were one of the first to play original music in their native country. Enjoy.

Hear a killer groove from a Seattle-based band who were only active from 1964-1965 plus a ton of great new music you most-likely won't hear anywhere else!

Great new tunes plus a surprise for fans of The Mighty Boosh™! Enjoy.