Andy's one-hour May show has a wide selection of music from Europe and Canada, including Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor from Denmark; Púah from Italy; Tired Cossack from Winnipeg, Manitoba; Killing Kind and Les Big Byrd from Sweden; and from the UK, Shelf Lives, Real Lies and Deary from London; Winter Gardens from Brighton; Pigeon from Margate; and The Twilight Sad from Glasgow.

Also stay tuned for news on the upcoming 20th anniversary of Dandelion Radio's first broadcasts, and how you can be involved in our special June shows marking the beginning of our third decade on air!

It's Brevi's favourite month of the year and he's got an energy-packed, nut-bar of a show for you to chew on because he thinks you'll need it – it's kicking off everywhere and people need to unite and get energised more now than ever to get through it. One positive thing the past has shown us though, is that some of the best music was born from hard times.
This months' show features some hard-hitting noise punk by the likes of Omniwhores, Arborists and Lacross Club.
Some other great discoveries this month include psych electronica by The Pots from Canberra, Australia and avant-garde drone metal by the excellent Silverdomes from Tampere, Finland.
A new track by Horse Lords bodes well for their forthcoming album and there'll be a couple of obscure gems from the archives thrown in the mix this month so enjoy and don't forget to chew every bite well!

Brownbutter is on drugs. Listen to see if you'll have what he is having. This month is light on new music, heavy on deep cuts, all over the place on vibe but somehow working with the flow, as you might expect from the Brownbuddsy. Expect a thief, angels, homosexuals, monkeys, and, oh, Have A Nice Life.

Greetings!
I recently acquired a nice, large stack of CDs from Latvia, so get ready for some amazing songs from our Baltic friends. I have new stuff from Zipper, Lambrini Girls, Layout, Rāde, Robber Robber, Suitor, Spiritual Law, Indikator B, Tiikeri, Pletyka, Pura Manía, and more.
I also have a song from the new album by Angine de Poitrine, and the hype they receive is justified. Finally, I have a cut from the 50th anniversary box set of the Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart album Bongo Fury.
I try to keep my in-show talking to a minimum to make more room for music, but I do have more to discuss about what I play, so check out my companion show notes over at http://davidondandelion.blogspot.com
Enjoy the show!

In my first show for Dandelion radio I attempt to introduce you to my varied musical world, with noise piano from Painist, lyrical guitar from Stuart Ironside, absurdist electronic pop from Toxic Chicken and glorious modern fado from Rita Braga.
We take our first glance at my local scene in Southend with The Tumbledryer Babies and Jellywolf and I gloat about discovering Indonesian noise pop band Bleeedrz before anyone else on Bandcamp.
I also beseech you to dance to NEO GEODESIA although I take no responsibility for injuries.
I'm thrilled to have joined the team and hope I can entertain you all for this frenetic hour.

This month's show might get you dancing around the maypole, with plenty of catchy new choons, ranging from the spaced-out sounds of Analogue Electronic Whatever to the brass-filled quirky alt-pop of They Might Be Giants. Meanwhile there's old music too including 'Secret Songs from the Sixties', with two cuts taken from the fourth volume in the psyche compilation series 'Up In My Mind', released by Mushroom Cloud Records. The 2nd hour's guest presenters are Sophie and Phil from Nottingham DIY Indie-Punk band No Peeling who will be taking part in 'Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue' to coincide with the release of their EP called 'EP 2', out May 1st on Wrong Speed Records (UK) and Feet It Records (US).

On this months show I've got some new music from Cult Of The Damned, Angine de Poitrine, Hannah Peel and a Tom Waits & Massive Attack collaboration amongst others.
Also a little tribute to the ladies of electronic music after watching the wonderful Sisters With Transistors this month.
I also have a couple of reissues I just couldn't resist playing from Connie Converse and Peel favourites Sultans of Ping.
Also, tune in to find out what the kids are listening to these days. More specifically my kids. I must say they have impeccable taste just like their old man!

Dandelion Radio is 20 next month! Wow! Look out for some special shows :-)

Bringing May back into focus, though, what have we this month? I've got a featured album from Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell and what a stunner of an album it is too! I've ALSO got a fabulous featured post punk EP from Man&Error which is no less than Lianne Hall and her two friends Clara and Arndt. There's also offerings from konradd, Jawbone, Breaka and sooooooo much more.

No sessions or featured compilations this month, just a whole load of great new releases, the usual inane ramblings and some Peeling back to tunes featured in session 50, 40 and 30 years ago this month. Among the new releases are yet more new singles from the recently prolific Royal Commission and My Best Unbeaten Brother, plus new albums from Dub Colossus, Dez Dare and yet another early contender for album of the year from Fikir Amlak & KIng Alpha.

There's also a cracking new cassette from Los Angeles' Ongo, a brilliant new Blue Tapes release from Cut A Lonely Figure, a 12" single from Terrain release and a live recording culled from the recently released expanded edition of Fall Heads Roll.

This months two hours is full of new stuff! Tracks from some show favourites like Dry Cleaning, Mouth Ulcers, Lifeguard and Jaguar. Plus emerging artists Truthpaste, Irked and Telehealth.
LP of the month is from the brilliant The Itch and there's a couple of tracks to help with this shows celebration of Dandelion Radio 20th birthday from Savages and The Lovely Eggs.
If that's not enough, there's fresh tracks from Augustin Bousfield, YT Reggae, Slift and House of All.
Did we mention upcoming LP tracks by Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed, The Dharma Chain and Slippers.
Do yourself a favour and make sure you give it a listen!

A two hour show from Rocker this month, featuring new tracks from The Bevis Frond; NoFX; Bramwell; Beau; Alan Sparhawk; West Country Tippers; The Just Joans; Sweetpool; Spiderhoney; Lande Hekt; and Wild Billy Childish And The North Kent Folkways Revival.
There's electronica from The Black Dog; and Max Cooper. Massive Attack team up with Tom Waits to make an unashamedly anti-war statement. Half Egyptian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros returns to  the show to provide further advice to the limited company Reform 2025.
This month's Rocker's Shellac Attack is a 1968 release from the undisputed queen of the Bollywood playback singers, while this month's Educating Elizabeth record is a new release out of Newbury, West Berkshire.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact: When Bristol, UK's Massive Attack released what has become their best known single, 1991's Unfinished Sympathy, they temporarily shortened their name to 'Massive', as the BBC had instructed their radio DJs not to play anything war-related during the US-led Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. (Bonus extra fact: BBC radio DJ John Peel responded to this instruction by opening his show on the eve of the war with June Tabor's entirely a capella version of Eric Bogle's anti-war anthem 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda'.)

There are two shows from me this month.
The special is called "Wreckers of Civilisation" and contains all things Coum, TG, PTV, C&C, Coil etc.

The regular Bottom of the Pops is back with another 2 hours of new tunes and a couple of oldies that have earwormed me this past month.
Everybody is going a bit potty about Montreal's Angine de Poitrine. Micro-tonal rock is the new thing (or it isn't really) that said I like what they are doing and if you have any inkling of love for the likes of Beefheart, King Crimson, Zappa , the Fall etc etc you'll find that this duo will snuggle up to you like and old new duvet you never knew you had.
There's also new tunes from Baxter Dury, Massive Attack, Get Down Services, Appleblim, Gurry Wurry and others.
In terms of new releases, I'm a big fan of an outfit called Badtime and their tune Polezei, I'd also recommend Hedgeburners from Melbourne, Carsie Blanton, Soweto's BCUC and my absolute favorite is the very noisy Trance Bill from Cirebon a small city on the north coast of Java.
Enjoy the show

It's the eve of Dandelion's third decade in existence and your host is more grateful than ever to be able to play you this sort of racket, be it the debut single from Ding Ding Ding, a blissed-out dub from Drifting Clouds, infernal sonic chaos from Guttersnipe or a previously unheard session track from Fugazi (released for charidee, mate).
The Blamers reinterpret a classic song about NYC to be about Sydney, Alice Skye dreams about getting out to country, while Buttress O'Kneel puts together a track that is now illegal in Queensland.
See you next month for the 20th anniversary celebrations!

This month X-Ray Moon completes his two-parter dedicated to The Velvet Underground and the spirals that circled around and beyond them.
This, in total (with last month's show: PART 1) two hour special is due to the fact that sixty years ago, in 1966, the Velvet Underground began recording tracks for what would become their first album: 'The Velvet Underground & Nico', released in 1967.
Such an important music group were they, that it would have felt incongruous to have let such a pivotal moment, anniversary, in music history to pass unmarked.
X-Ray Moon hopes everyone enjoys the show... and suggests that maybe people play this month's show along with last month's show, back to back... or even back to front... or even... upside down:
"What goes on in your mind makes me feel I'm upside down"

This is: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ETCETERA - PART 2

(other specials by X-Ray Moon include programmes on: CAN; Nirvana; Protest Songs; East German Music; The Jam, etc...)