SF0161 Boredom
An uplifting episode - though ironically the tracks are about boredom.
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Sombrero Fallout
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Episodes
SF0160 Song for Europe, or Sombr-Euro Fallout - The Return
Alternative songs about Europe and European cities to celebrate Euros 2024.
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min
SF0159 Songs For, Songs Against ... and simply "Songs"
A multi-genre selection united by all containing the word "Song" in their title.
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min
SF0158 Family Life
An episode featuring fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, grandmothers, half sisters, little sisters and the family tortoise.
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 5 min
SF0157 Steve Albini Tribute
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.
May 23, 2024•1 hr 7 min
SF0156 Pedal Steel Special
A celebration of alternative bands incorporating the pedal steel guitar into their sound.
May 09, 2024•1 hr 8 min
SF0155 Female bass players
A tribute episode to the iconic female bass players - and also some you may not have heard of.
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 5 min
SF0154 Fame, Fame, Fatal Fame
When will I be famous? Me, probably never, which is fine because, as these tracks show, it is very much a double-edged sword.
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 9 min
SF0153 Tiring, Sleeping, Dreaming
You snooze, you lose, or so they say. Not on this episode though. Alternative tracks about sleeping and dreaming.
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 7 min
SF0152 The Enduring Legacy of The Kinks
Hundreds of groups have been influenced by The Kinks. Here's a few of them plus some original tracks themselves.
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min
SF0151 - Money: Too much or not enough
An episode about the perils of either striving after too much money or not having enough of it.
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 6 min
SF0150 - 150th Retrospective Episode
A cherry picking exercise from the archives on the occasion of the podcast's 150th episode.
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 20 min
SF0149 Music about music
An episode about music itself - the songs, the singers, the radio, the ballroom, the dances.
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 6 min
SF0148 Those we lost in 2023
We lost some fine musicians in 2023. Here's an episode paying tribute.
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 9 min
SF0147 Festive Forthy 2023, #14-1
The final countdown of the best tracks in 2023, according to Sombrero Fallout.
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 12 min
SF0146 Festive Forthy 2023, #27-15
The second of three shows rounding up some of the best alternative tracks from 2023.
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 5 min
SF0145 Festive Forthy 2023, #40-28
The first of 3 episodes dedicated to the best tracks of 2023. Well, some of them.
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min
SF0144 - Neutral Milk Hotel 25 years later
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.
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 9 min
SF0143 Same band, same song, different version
What happens when artists first demo a familiar song or re-imagine it years later.
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min
SF0142 Lanes, Ways and Automobiles
The thrill of the open road. An episode about cars, roads and motorways.
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 9 min
SF0141 Sibling Bands
Ending up in the same band as your sibling. Here's some of the best tracks that combination can produce.
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min
SF0140 Talking Heads 40 Years On
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.
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min
SF0139 Lovers of Today
An outstanding selection of alternative love songs from the 2020s.
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 8 min
SF0138 Guest Host, Gideon Haigh
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.
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min
SF0137 False Endings
Tracks with false endings, codas and late changes of direction from a variety of genres.
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min
SF0136 Chicago Now
There's a brand new alt-scene in 2020s Chicago and here's some great examples of what's happening there.
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min
SF0135 On returning
Refreshed and back from its holidays, Sombrero Fallout wants to share some classic alternative tracks about returning with you.
Jul 30, 2023•1 hr 5 min
SF0134 Over the Oceans
An Ocean's Eleven of songs. Well, an Ocean's Fourteen, to be accurate.
May 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min
SF0133 Simon Reynolds, Guest Host
Renowned music critic and author Simon Reynolds joins the podcast to choose some of his favourite tracks.
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min
SF0132 Remembering Tom Verlaine
Paying tribute to the great Tom Verlaine and some of the groups his band Television influenced.
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 11 min
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