Sombrero Fallout

Synthpunk has a glorious heritage, but these are the synthpunk artists who are bringing it today

After 200 episodes, our Readers' Poll episodes and the sad demise of the podcast spaniel Toby, it's time to start al over again.

Interviewing the legendary Dave Kelly, ex The Blues Band, who's played with all the blues greats. Special focus on the slide guitar.

We live in the Digital Age - and here are some tracks about what's that like.

A shout-out to some of our generous patrons, friends and sponsors with their choice of tracks that didn't make our Bicentennial Poll.

At last! The Top Ten Songs of All-Time, as voted by you, the podcast listener.

The penultimate tranche of songs in our Listeners' Poll 2026.

Into the Top 40 we go on our All-Time Listeners Poll.

So we reach the halfway stage of our All-Time Poll, as voted for by listeners to the Sombrero Fallout podcast.

The third episode in the Top 100 rundown of listeners' favourite tracks

The second in our tranche of listeners' all-time choices from music played on the Sombrero Fallout podcast.

The first episode in our All-Time Listeners Poll Top 100 tracks

Ignore the rest, settle only for these 14 best tracks of 2025!

SF0200 Festive Forthy 2025 Pt 2, #27-15 by Ian Deeker Forth

It's the most wonderful time of the year when we start to unleash this year's Festive Forthy (Best of 2025).

Pulp are back in 2025 but their heyday was the 90s when they influenced the artists featured in this episode

Songs with the title or the content about the band who are singing it.

Co-hosting with Paul Howarth and Tony Harris, my friends over at the Twilight Turntable podcast: they choose some tracks to reflect the story of their musical lives.

Tracks from bands signed to the doyen of US indie labels, Merge

All eyes on this collection of tracks about watching, looking and seeing