Happy New Year and stuff! So, after all that, we are left with one last podcast featuring what I was listening to in November and December of last year, yup, that's last year. It's gone. Over. Time for a new one. What 2013 holds for us I can't even pretend to know, but there will be at least another 6 of these hopefully with some new music that you wouldn't have otherwise listened to. This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST 01 The Heavy - Can't Play Dead 02 Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs - I Watch You 03 Menomena - Pique 04 Born Blonde - Light On 05 White Denim - Gas On F 06 The Mostar Diving Club - Voyage Of Starlings 07 Martha Tilston - More 08 Minnesota - Hitchhiker 09 Flint Eastwood - The River 10 You Can't Win, Charlie Brown - Over The Sun/Under The Water 11 Foals - Inhaler 12 Balthazar - The Oldest Of Sisters 13 All We Are - Cardhouse 14 The Oh Hellos - The Valley 15 City Riots - Catch The Sun 16 Fidlar - White On White You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and visit their merch stall. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

Got there in the end, so here's what I was listening to during September & October this year. I'll get the last one up up next week, promise :) Enjoy. This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST 01 Sarah Blasko - I Awake 02 The Neighbourhood - Female Robbery 03 The Heavy - What Makes A Good Man 04 Communist Daughter - Ghosts 05 The Mystery Jets - Radlands 06 Villagers - The Waves 07 Husky - Forever So 08 Toby Martin - Postcards From Surfers 09 Blitzen Trapper - Hey Joe 10 King Charles - The Brightest Lights 11 Lawrence Arabia - The 03 12 A Night Underwater - Hollow Me 13 One Little Plane - She Was Out The Water 14 Wintersleep - In Came The Flood 15 Youngblood Hawke - Stars (Hold On) 16 Toy - Dead & Gone You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and visit their merch stall. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

Still playing catchup, so here's what I was listening to during July & August this year. I'll get September & October up next week, promise :) Enjoy. This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST 01 Sudaikistan - El Movimiento 02 Tame Impala - Elephant 03 Hookworms - Form & Function 04 The Cast Of Cheers - Loose Talk At A Party 05 Wishbone (Wish, Wish, Wish) - Hey Sholay 06 Lord Huron - Time To Run 07 First Aid Kit - Wolf 08 Sam Lee - the Ballad of George Collins 09 Alt-J - Tesselate 10 Louise Quinn & Kid Loco - Oh Jackie 11 The Acorn - Crooked Legs 12 Cuts - The Worst Is Behind Us 13 Vera Flash - Hustle 14 Tigercats - Coffin For The Isle Of Dogs 15 Lightouts - All I Want/Heroes 16 Race Horse  - My Year Abroad You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and visit their merch stall. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

Wow! What happened there? Apart from a bout of pure laziness and the (so called) Summer getting in the way, I've managed to go a whole 5 months without a post or a podcast, sorry about that. I have been building up playlists, but just haven't got round to recording and posting them. So, here is the first in a series of four new podcasts coming over the next couple of weeks, starting with stuff that I was listening to in May and June of this year. This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST 01 Sleepy Sun - Martyr's Mantra 02 Richard Hawley - Leave your body behind you 03 We are Animal - 1919 04 Pontiak - Lions of Least 05 Pond - Moth Wings 06 League - How Do I Know? 07 Dr. Dog - Warrior Man 08 Amadou & Miriam ft. Santogold - Dougou Badia 09 Firehorse - She's a river 10 The once - Your My Best Friend 11 The Lumineers - Ho Hey 12 Alex Winston - The Fold 13 Pet Clinic - Stop Wasting My Precious Time 14 Delta Spirit - Tellin' The Mind 15 Yukon Blonde - Stairway 16 We Are The Physics - Goran Ivanisevic 17 Jonathan Boulet - You're An Animal You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and visit their merch stall. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

I think it was Jimmy Carr that said "If this drought carries on, we'll run out of umbrellas." Kind of sums it up really! Normally, at this time of year, I'm starting to look forward to those long Summer days (and nights!), but looking out of the window right now at a grey and damp London, Summer seems a long way off. I'm starting to get on Anna's nerves with my constant weather bitching and I long for Carol on the BBC Breakfast news to give me a good forecast, but alas, her recent predictions have only been good for the ducks and the farmers. Apparently, there's a break from the rain this weekend, which will be nice as we have a wedding to go to and I do hope that the sun shines on the happy couple as they have had a tumultuous year and thoroughly deserve a dry day. So that's me, a typical Brit, constantly on about the weather. An Australian mate once told me "At least you get weather", while that's true, I must admit that I do prefer theirs. If you see the sun, do tell it to pop out over here for a bit. Please. So, with that in mind, if I haven't drowned, I'll catch you in a couple of months. This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST Motoring - Toy Blackout - Secret Connection Starlight, Starlight - Exlovers Do it again - Guards Force a smile - Sleeper Agent Immigrant Song - Karen O Animals - The Cast Of Cheers In A Groundfloor Apartment - Scarlet Chives Southside - Tokyo Police Club They Call Me Coco Rushdie - Favourite Sons The Lion's Roar - First Aid Kit Gold - Wake! Owl The Wicked & The Blind - The Do Dead Letter Office - King's Daughters & Sons My Bones - Tom Williams & The Boat Lesson No. 7 - Clock Opera 2012 - Young Circles Thousand Colors - The Poison Control Centre Show Me - Team Me Numb Bears - Of Monsters And Men You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and buy a T shirt. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

For some reason, the iTunes podcast directory only updates itself with one podcast when you add two, so this is just to get the second one in there. How strange? Download link (Schizophonica Sessions #14). (Right Click, Save As) Rob xxx

Yeah, I know, I know...promises promises :) Two podcasts for you this time, though. The first one (Schizophonica Sessions #13) is the usual mix of new stuff that's been in my ears over the last couple of months and a bonus one (Schizophonica Sessions #14) of a track from each of my favourite 20 albums of 2011. So there. Two for for price of one, cheaper at half the price, BOGOF etc :) Enjoy and I'll be back soon. Schizophonica Sessions #13 tracklist is as follows. Click the links for more band info. # TITLE / ARTIST Let Her Go - Sissy & The Blisters 3,4,5 - Spokes Medicine - We Were Promised Jetpacks Breakin - Baby Baby Lion - Eugene McGuinness I'm His Girl - Friends Rock On - Love Inks It's Real - Real Estate Stinging Nettle, Honeysuckle - Blessed Feathers This Fall - Big Tree The Shakes - Atlas Sound Dark Into Light - AM & Shawn Lee Hold On - Alabama Shakes Street Fighting Sun - Blitzen Trapper Rainbow Colors - Wonderful What You Wanted - Spector New Direction - The Black Lips Convict - French Films City - The Medics Love Will Save Your Soul - Grouplove Schizophonica Sessions #14 tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST/ ALBUM TITLE The Birds - Elbow (Build A Rocket, Boys!) The Lighthouse Will Lead You Out - Cashier No. 9 (To The Death Of Fun) Blood Gets Thin - Pete & The Pirates (A Thousand Pictures)* Whirring - The Joy Formidable (The Big Roar) Satellite - The Kills (Blood Pressures) Liiines - Ghostpoet (Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam) Aka... What A Life! - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds) If I Had a Boat - James Vincent McMorrow (Early In The Morning) Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes (Helplessness Blues) Salinas - Laura Marling (A Creature I Don't Know) Father - Cocos Lovers (Elephant Lands) 24 - Tom Williams & The Boat (Too Slow) Surrender - The Duke Spirit (Bruiser) Don't You Put Your Hands There - Scarlet Chives (Scarlet Chives) The Struggle - Scroobius Pip (Distraction Pieces) I Can See Through You - The Horrors (Skying) White Knight Position - Chapel Club (Palace) Into The Sky - Howling Bells (The Loudest Engine) Lonely Boy - The Black Keys (El Camino) Souvenir - Agesandages (Alright You Restless) * Album of the year, without any shadow of a doubt! You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download them direct from here (Schizophonica Sessions #13) and here (Schizophonica Sessions #14). (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and buy a T shirt. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

So, where were we? Ahhh, I remember now. When I last left you in September, there were just the two of us. Me and Anna. Now we are three, with our beautiful daughter Seren Rose joining us in October, so most of my time since then has been spent getting to know her, generally supporting Anna and just being a dad :) Fear not though, the music has kept coming, I just haven't had the time to get the podcasts done and up for your ears. I've got this one and the next two to get done in the next couple of weeks, then get back into the bi-monthly episodes from February. I hope! Happy New year all and thanks for your support :) This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST Prisoner - The Jezabels Is and Is and Is - White Denim Faith Unfolds - S.C.U.M. Slippery Slope - The Do Noche Nada - Givers A/S/L - Steve Grady How Come You Never Go There - Feist Leave the Riches - Son Lux Oh Pity - Cashier No. 9 Monkey (You Can Go Home Now) - Dear Reader Woods - The Rosebuds Don't Fall Apart - Driver Drive Faster Old Volcanoes - Warm Brains I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl - Wavves Heartattack - Lovett Midnight Brown - The Two Koreas You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two, or even go and see them live and buy a T shirt. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

Well, Summer's back apparently. Looking out of the window today, there is a beautiful blue sky, it's warm and it's as if that weather we were holding out on for the last couple of months is back. For a couple of days at least. Aaanyway, been a bit of a hectic couple of months since the last one as getting ready for our impending parenthood is the number one priority. We seem to be ready - we've got all the kit, the nursery is decorated, birth plan is completed and we've finished our ante natal classes, so all we need now is a Little Person in our lives to share it and we'll be laughing. No movement at the moment though, so it's down to good old patience. So, PJ Harvey won the Mercury prize then. I was a bit disappointed with the nominations - same story every year really - as I was expecting the see Skying by The Horrors and/or One Thousand Pictures by Pete & The Pirates which are easily the two albums by British artists that were eligible I like best. Ho hum, there's no accounting for taste, is there? If Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces isn't in the list next year, then I know for definite that something's wrong somewhere. It's a great album, backed up by a phenomenal live show that I got to witness at a tiny gig last month. It's also the first album since the Pete & The Pirates one that I had genuine pre release flutters, just like the old days, while counting down the days to release. When it dropped on the proverbial (mouse) mat and I got to hear it, I was wowed good & proper. Definitely my album of the year so far. And while a lot of the world has recently commiserated each other over the split of R. E. M., I'm a little bit heartbroken at the demise - for the second time, I may add - of The Middle East. Some of you might remember their track 'Blood' from a previous episode and in memory or their passing, I've slipped one of their more recent tracks into this one. Shame really, but while one Australian band leaves, another enters. Watch out for Nantes. I predict big things. So, what else have I got for you to listen to this time? This episode's tracklist is as follows # ARTIST / TITLE Scroobius Pip ft POS & Sage Francis / Let 'em come The Fair Ohs / Baldessari Russian Red / The Sun The Trees Mister Heavenly / Bronx Sniper Library Voices / Generation Handclap Falcon / Say Goodbye Hooded Fang / Tosta Mista Priory / Wait Ghostpoet / Lines Waines / Time Machine Hugo / 99 Problems The Middle East / Land Of The Bloody Unknown Admiral Fallow / Squealing Pigs Nantes / Fly Eleanor Friedberger / My Mistakes BOAT / Forever In Armitron My Goodness / Blackout Baby You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two or even go and see them live. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx

Well, I'm a bit late this time but I think I have a reasonable enough excuse. For the last couple of months, I've been helping out some old friends at Planet Angel by coordinating the music for the *Chilled* In A Field festival that was held last weekend in a field in Sussex. It's been great to get back on the horse as it were and despite some typical British summer weather - rain, wind, thunder - we pulled it off with a great lineup of DJs and live acts. As a result of that, I've managed to get hold of a load of new music from people I previously hadn't had the pleasure of listening to, so expect to hear some of that in the near future. Look out for the festival next year, it really is a nice, family friendly couple of days in a field with great food, excellent choice of ales & ciders, several music, performance and workshop areas and an incredibly happy vibe. In a previous missive, I bemoaned the fact that because of some strange twist of fate - read inter EU beauacracy - I couldn't get hold of the Scarlet Chives album, but Brian from the band got in touch and as a result, I am now the happy owner of a copy. You can download yours from the Sureleaf Records website. Go on, take a punt. If you like the music on the podcasts - The Horror featured earlier in the year - I guarantee this is one of the best albums of the year so far and could well be one of those hidden treasures that you see in end of year lists. Cheers Brian, you are a true gent and I wish the band and the label much success in the future. If only other labels had the same positive attitude to customer service and satisfaction, the music world would be in a much friendlier state. So, what have I got for you to listen to this time? This episode's tracklist is as follows # TITLE / ARTIST Yes! - Colourmusic Family Tree - Black Lips Surf Hell - Little Barrie Send Them Kids To War - The Burns Unit Iron - Woodkid I Need Your Mind - Singing Adams The Honest Truth - Typhoon Helen - The Loom Desire - Anna Calvi The Mountain - Les Jupes United - Pete And The Pirates The Coming Days - Hello Echo The Wishbone - The Veils There's Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight - Cloud Control Top Drop - Secret Music Drops - Jookabox Still Life - The Horrors No Nostalgia - Agesandages You can either subscribe to the podcast using the links at the top of the page, through the iTunes podcast directory or download it direct from here. (Right Click, Save As) As is usual, if there is anything on this podcast you like, please remember to support the artist(s) by buying a track or two or even go and see them live. If you are an artist that has a track on this podcast that you would like removed, please get in touch with me and it shall be done without prejudice. Until the next time.... Thanks for listening. It's good to listen. Rob xxx