Fireball XL5 Indie-Pop Podcast
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Fireball XL5 Indie-Pop Podcast
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Moving the podcast
After many years of doing this podcast using the name Fireball XL5 I have decided to change the name to the one I use for my DJ nights: The Coolest Th...
Best albums of 2017
Fireball XL5 Best albums of 2017
Listen to a song from each album using the links below:
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Best singles of 2017
Fireball XL5 Best singles of 2017
Listen to each song using the links below:
1. Forever - Falling
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December 22, 2017
Trying to get through some songs from 2017 during this the last show of the year. Starting off with yet another great song that I found out from the...
November 17, 2017
The first song of the show by Morly is a great down-beat, haunting tune that started a set that went together well. The next set featured a song by M...
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October 27, 2017
I started out with a dreamy song by Yumi Zouma and continued down the indie pop path for the first 2 sets. I ended with a set inspired by the recent...
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September 22, 2017
I finally got around to spotlighting the great festival called Indietracks which takes place each year in a historical train station in England. I ha...
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August 25, 2017
Three sets of differing music, I stole a lot of the music for the first electro set from from the great Satellite radio show/music blog Gorilla vs. Be...
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July 21, 2017
Lots of great indie pop, but of course as of late I have been focusing on more of the electro side of the equation starting with my top song from Anna...
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June 23, 2017
As promised last time a more indie-pop centered show, made all the easier by finding out about a great compilation of recent great music from a Scotti...
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May 26, 2017
Lots of funky sounds in this edition, starting with a band that is coming to Toronto in the next couple of months that I hope to see. I promise more...
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April 21, 2017
An indie pop set, a kind of strange set, and a downbeat set pretty much sums up this show. Note that when introducing the Random Ending I couldn't th...
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March 24, 2107
My first show of new songs in a while, I really like how the first three songs of the first set went together. I also talk about meeting Jens Lekman...
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February 24, 2017
My best albums of 2017 counted down from 15 to 1, sorry about the music being a bit disjointed but that's the way the list went.
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January 27, 2017
Simply my favourite singles from 2016.
Best song I heard since the last show: Golden Age of Reason - Summer Days, see the v...
December 23, 2016
Again burning through some songs I've had around for a while, that's why the last set is a bit disjointed.
Be...
Best albums of 2016
Fireball XL5 Best albums of 2016
Listen to each song using the links below:
1. Red Sleeping Beauty - Kr...
Best singles of 2016
Fireball XL5 Best singles of 2016
Listen to each song using the links below:
1. Golden Age of Reason -...
November 25, 2016
Trying to get through a lot of releases from this year that I'm considering for my best of lists for 2016, some of them will likely make, some will no...
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October 21, 2016
I can't stress enough that everyone should watch the video for the Shamir song linked below, I know it is an ad for Ray-Bans but it is still great.
September 20, 2016
As much as I tried to keep within Indie Pop I have to admit it got back to electo pop pretty quickly.
Best song I heard sin...
August 26, 2016
This may have ended up being the longest podcast I have done in a while as those funk songs in the last set really are a lot longer than the typical i...
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July 22, 2016
Back to the indie pop after last show's summer-like feel, starting with Christmas in July with my top song by Red Sleeping Beauty (although the song w...
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June 24, 2016
After the heavily indie pop focused based last podcast, this one has a summer feel that as a lot of the songs came from the summer song list that is l...
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May 27, 2016
My recap of this year's NYC Popfest ( http://www.nycpopfest.org/ ) which, as always, was great. As usual it was a mix of great band starting out as w...
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