An episode with track titles of just one syllable. A monosyllabic masterpiece, you might say.Ian Deeker Forth

Getting 2025 off to a depressing start with a selection of alternative songs about workIan Deeker Forth

The third - and Top 14 - in our trilogy of the best alternative tracks from 2024.Ian Deeker Forth

Episode 2 of a trilogy looking back on some of the best alternative music tracks from 2024.Ian Deeker Forth

The first of 3 episodes rounding up the best alternative tracks of 2024. Starting with #40-28.Ian Deeker Forth

A selection of day tracks with yesterdays, todays, tomorrows, weekdays - and starting with "This Perfect Day".Ian Deeker Forth

A celebration of the music of experimental pop artists Broadcast and some of the band they influenced.Ian Deeker Forth

Songs about water - murky, deep, still, treading, tables, coolers, edges and living adjacent to.Ian Deeker Forth

Steve Pringle, author of the definitive Fall chronicle "You Must Get Them All" takes us through his life in music.Ian Deeker Forth

Whether you believe individuals make a difference to history or not, here are some songs about history and the people in it.Ian Deeker Forth

The tentpole hits of Britpop are well established, but in this episode we take a trip down some of the B-roads and byways of the British music scene in the mid-90s.Ian Deeker Forth

A selection of tracks on the subject of feeling like an impostor, inadequate or out of our depth.Ian Deeker Forth

The subject is angels and ghosts but the mood ranges from visceral to joyous to reflective on these afterlife tracks.Ian Deeker Forth

A reassessment of 1974, 50 years on. An almost themeless era as music wondered where to go next after the 60s, psychedelia, heavy metal, glam rock and the golden age of reggae. (And before punk came thundering in.) A fascinating tracklist.Ian Deeker Forth

An uplifting episode - though ironically the tracks are about boredom.Ian Deeker Forth

Alternative songs about Europe and European cities to celebrate Euros 2024.Ian Deeker Forth

A multi-genre selection united by all containing the word "Song" in their title.Ian Deeker Forth

An episode featuring fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, grandmothers, half sisters, little sisters and the family tortoise.Ian Deeker Forth

A tribute to the legendary Steve Albini (RIP), featuring tracks from his bands Shellac and Big Black; and some of the myriad bands he audio-engineered.Ian Deeker Forth

A celebration of alternative bands incorporating the pedal steel guitar into their sound.Ian Deeker Forth

A tribute episode to the iconic female bass players - and also some you may not have heard of.Ian Deeker Forth

When will I be famous? Me, probably never, which is fine because, as these tracks show, it is very much a double-edged sword.Ian Deeker Forth

You snooze, you lose, or so they say. Not on this episode though. Alternative tracks about sleeping and dreaming.Ian Deeker Forth

Hundreds of groups have been influenced by The Kinks. Here's a few of them plus some original tracks themselves.Ian Deeker Forth

An episode about the perils of either striving after too much money or not having enough of it.Ian Deeker Forth

A cherry picking exercise from the archives on the occasion of the podcast's 150th episode.Ian Deeker Forth

An episode about music itself - the songs, the singers, the radio, the ballroom, the dances.Ian Deeker Forth

We lost some fine musicians in 2023. Here's an episode paying tribute.Ian Deeker Forth

The final countdown of the best tracks in 2023, according to Sombrero Fallout.Ian Deeker Forth

The second of three shows rounding up some of the best alternative tracks from 2023.Ian Deeker Forth

The first of 3 episodes dedicated to the best tracks of 2023. Well, some of them.Ian Deeker Forth

It's a quarter of a century since Neutral Milk Hotel effectively stopped. Here's a celebration plus some bands who owe a debt to their unique sound.Ian Deeker Forth

What happens when artists first demo a familiar song or re-imagine it years later.Ian Deeker Forth

The thrill of the open road. An episode about cars, roads and motorways.Ian Deeker Forth

Ending up in the same band as your sibling. Here's some of the best tracks that combination can produce.Ian Deeker Forth

As 'Stop Making Sense', the Talking Heads live concert film is re-released and given the IMAX treatment, we look back on the group and their legacy.Ian Deeker Forth

An outstanding selection of alternative love songs from the 2020s.Ian Deeker Forth

I was stoked when Gideon Haigh, one of the world's pre-eminent cricket journalists, joined me to share his love for alternative music. A brilliant on-brand tracklist inevitably resulted.Ian Deeker Forth

Tracks with false endings, codas and late changes of direction from a variety of genres.Ian Deeker Forth

There's a brand new alt-scene in 2020s Chicago and here's some great examples of what's happening there.Ian Deeker Forth

Refreshed and back from its holidays, Sombrero Fallout wants to share some classic alternative tracks about returning with you.Ian Deeker Forth

An Ocean's Eleven of songs. Well, an Ocean's Fourteen, to be accurate.Ian Deeker Forth

Renowned music critic and author Simon Reynolds joins the podcast to choose some of his favourite tracks.Ian Deeker Forth

Paying tribute to the great Tom Verlaine and some of the groups his band Television influenced.Ian Deeker Forth

Tara Emelye Needham, an integral mover within the Millennial Long Island music scene, introduces us to some tracks which have influenced her - and some of her own bands' tracks as well.Ian Deeker Forth

Young Marble Giants left a slim volume of work but a disproportionately large legacy. Here we listen to their music and its influence.Ian Deeker Forth

An open top bus tour around the best alternative tunes from Liverpool and MerseysideIan Deeker Forth

None of the smash hits, but some of the alternative tunes from 1993.Ian Deeker Forth

Alternative songs about friends and friendship from 1968 to 2022Ian Deeker Forth

Where folk meets electronics, that's folktronica, folks.Ian Deeker Forth