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MONDAY 28TH JULY 2025
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MONDAY 21ST JULY 2025
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MONDAY 14TH JULY 2025
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Tracklist 

Atlantis - Donovan (Barabajagal 1969)

Tombes Oubliées - The Brian Jonestown Massacre (The Brian Jonestown Massacre 2019)

The End - IDLES (Crawler 2021)

Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan (The Hurdy Gurdy Man 1968)

April Suzanne - Robert Lester Folsom (Music And Dreams 1976)

Let Me Sing Your Blues Away - Grateful Dead (Wake Of The Flood 1973)

The Great Pretender - Roy Orbison (Crying 1962)

Christmas Swing - Django Reinhardt, Michel Warlop

Just Love You - Paco Cathcart (Down On Them 2025)

Invasive Species - Paco Cathcart (Down On Them 2025)

Glassworks: VI. Closing - Philip Glass (Glassworks 1982)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Rock Bottomless Mimosas - Max DiRado

Awning - Awning

Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3

Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - Sparklehorse

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Shifting Sands Weekly Spotify Playlist

MONDAY 7TH JULY 2025
Shifting Sands

Tracklist 

Witch - Alex G (Rocket 2017)

Sensitive Kind - J.J Cale (5 1979)

Rapid Roy - Jim Croce (You Don't Mess Around With Jim 1972)

Live In Favour of Tomorrow - The Lemon Twigs (Songs for the General Public 2020)

Speak, See, Remember - Pavement (Terror Twilight 1999)

Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska 1982)

Free Ride - Nick Drake (Pink Moon 1972)

New Life - Ringlets (New Life 2024)

The News - Jack Johnson (Brushfire Fairytales 2001)

Drink The Water - Jack Johnson (Brushfire Fairytales 2001)

Across The Universe - The Beatles (Let It Be 1970)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

The Lord Is My German Shephard (Time For Walkies) - Ringlets

Street Desires - Gap Girls

Notes With Attachments - Pino Palladino, Blake Mills

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Listen On Spotify

 

Shifting Sands Weekly Spotify Playlist

MONDAY 30TH JUNE 2025
Shifting Sands (With Special Guest Ben Counsell)

Tracklist 

Rock The World - Third World (Rock The World 1981)

Samba Pa Ti - Santana (Santana's Greatest Hits 1994)

Persuasion - Santana (Santana's Greatest Hits 1994)

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms 1985)

The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra (Greatest Hits)

Once Upon A Time In The West - Dire Straits (Communique 1979)

Bodhisattva - Steely Dan (Countdown To Ecstasy 1973)

You Don't Love Me (No No No) - Dawn Penn, Bounty Killer (Ragga Jungle Anthems Vol. One 2010)

Words 2B Heard Meets Planetary Funk Alert - MC Conrad (Vocalist 01 2013)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Dos Styla - Ben Counsell

Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies

G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Into Your Ears - Pete Dello

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MONDAY 23RD JUNE 2025
Shifting Sands (With Special Guest Max White)

Tracklist 

Head Held high - The Velvet Underground (Loaded 1970)

Vampire in the corner - Magdalena Bay (Imaginal Disk 2024)

What in the world - David Bowie (Low 1977)

Circle Game - Joni Mitchell (Miles of Aisles (Live) 1974)

Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens (Illinois 2005)

My Little Corner of the World - Yo La Tengo (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 1997)

Daredevil - Fiona Apple (The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do 2012)

Jackie - Sinead O'Connor (The Lion and the Cobra 1987)

Heavy Focus - Adrianne Lenker (Songs 2020)

Reprise - The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967)

A Day In The Life - The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Happy Birthday, Daniel Johnston!!! Don't Be Afraid...<3 - Bunchy's Big Score

it'll all work out - Fazed on a Pony

Cada  - Internn

KIWANUKA - Michael Kiwanuka

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Shifting Sands Weekly Spotify Playlist

MONDAY 16TH JUNE 2025
Shifting Sands

Tracklist 

Red Shadows - T.S.O.L (Change Today? 1984)

Walking on My Grave - Dead Moon (Defiance 1990)

The Contenders - The Kinks (Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt.1. 1970)

Down On Me - Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin (Joplin in Concert 1972)

A Passing Feeling - Elliot Smith (From a Basement On The Hill 2004)

San Tropez - Pink Floyd (Meddle 1971)

Ventura Highway - America (Homecoming 1972)

Little Wing - Neil Young (Hawks & Doves 1980)

Nothing On My Mind - Brian D'addario (Till the Morning 2025)

Out in the Blue / Time Has Come Today - Dead Moon (What a Way to See the Old Girl Go 2017)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

24 Hour Revenge Therapy - Jawbreaker

Mala - Devandra Banhart

Long Season - Fishmans

Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements

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MONDAY 9TH JUNE 2025
Shifting Sands

Talent Show - The Replacements (Don't tell a soul1989)

Rock And Roll - The Velvet Underground (1969 Original Mix)

Bangla Desh - George Harrison (The Concert for Bangla Desh)

Bottleneck Blues - Paco Cathcart (Down On Them 2025)

To Whom It May Concern - Rodriguez (Coming From Reality 1971)

One of These Nights - Eagles (Their Greatest Hits 1971 - 1975)

Never My Love - The Association (Greatest Hits 1968)

Even on Bad Days - Flyte (Flyte 2023)

Wood Knot - Dutch Interior (Moneyball 2025)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away - Hayden Pedigo

Solid Air - John Martyn

There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone

Notes With Attachments - Blake Mills + Pino Palladino

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MONDAY 26TH MAY 2025
Shifting Sands (With Special Guest Lily Knowles)

How Can I Resist Her - Split Enz (True Colours 1980)

Sacred Cow - Crowded House (Afterglow 1999)

Cactus Cat - Look Blue Go Purple (Still Bewitched 1985)

Safe In The Rain - The Clean (Modern Rock 1994)

Gaskrankinstation - Headless Chickens (Body Blow 1991)

S.O.D.A - Roy Irwin (S.O.D.A 2016)

F(R)Iends - Avantdale Bowling Club (Avantdale Bowling Club 2018)

Fire of Love - Marlon Williams (Live at Auckland Town Hall 2019)

You Can Do Anything - Connan Mockasin (Jassbusters 2018)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Going to England - The Cleaners From Venus

Skylarking - XTC 

1000 Variations on the same song - Frog

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MONDAY 19TH MAY 2025
Shifting Sands (With Special Guest Leo Lilley)

Hard to Explain - The Strokes (Is This It 2001)

Games - The Strokes (Angles 2011)

I Can't Escape MySelf - The Sound (Jeopardy 1980)

Wake Up - Arcade Fire (Funeral 2004)

Can you get to that - Funkadelic (Maggot Brain 1971)

Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny (Long Walk Home 1958)

Divide Symbol (Feat, Church) - Soaked Oats (Working Title 2022)

Shadow of The Moon - Heavy Chest (Pre Heat 2017)

Heroin Chic - Revulva (Revulva 2024)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - The Unicorns

The Rainbow Goblins - Masayoshi Takanaka

Rolodex - French Cassettes

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MONDAY 12TH MAY 2025
Shifting Sands (NZ Music Month)

I sleep alone - Shakes and the trouble makers (shakes and the trouble makers 2024)

Tick Tock - Aldous Harding (Warm Chris 2022)

Make way for love - Marlon Williams (Make way for love 2018)

Holograms - Tiny Ruins (Olympic Girls 2019)

I'm the Man, That Will Fiind You - Connan Mockasin (Caramel 2013)

My brain is a vacant space - Hans Pucket (No Drama 2022)

Walking on my Grave - Dead Moon (Defiance 1990)

Down in splendour - StraightJacket Fits (Melt 1990)

Life (In Another) - The Audio Visual Drop Kicks (Greenhouse 2023)

English Rose - Sam Charlesworth 

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Take in the Sun - Bike

Spiel - Office Dog

Live II - Avantdale Bowling Club

Nineteen - J R Williams

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MONDAY 17TH MARCH 2025
Shifting Sands (with special guest Pearly*)

I don't belong - Fontaines D.C (A Hero's Death 2020)

Lucky - Radiohead (OK Computer 1997)

Rotten Pumpkin - Slothrust (Everyone Else 2016)

Dreams Burn Down - Ride (Nowhere 1990)

Spider in the corner - Pearly*

Limousine - Pearly*

Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen (Dirty Dancing 1987)

It's not that bad - Kane Strang (Two Hearts and No Brain 2017)

Not So Sweet - Pearly*

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

MoneyBall - Dutch Interior 

Sparkplug - Barney Connolly

Till The Morning - Brian D'Addario

All of Us - Nirvana

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MONDAY 10TH MARCH 2025
Shifting Sands (With Special Guest U-no Juno)

Tracklist 

The Queen and the Soldier - Suzanne Vega (1985)

 

Simulation Swarm - Big Thief (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 2022)

Fixture Picture - Aldous Harding (Designer 2019)

Let old dogs lie - U-no Juno

Slippery People - Talking Heads (Speaking in Tounges 1983)

Fin - Pavement (Brighten The Corners 1997)

Pumpkin Eater - U-no Juno

Keep on Knocking - Death (...For The Whole World to See 2009)

Blinding - Die Die Die (Promises, Promises 2008)

Catalogue - Julie (My Anti- Aircraft Friend 2024)

Mr Bassman - The Muppets

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Sex, Socialism, Science and Something Else - U-no Juno 

Sparkplug - Barney Connolly

Abstractor - Trap PS

Mutilator Defeated at Last - Thee Oh Sees

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MONDAY 3RD MARCH 2025
Shifting Sands (Songs for a cloudy day)

Tracklist 

Rainy Day Man - James Taylor and the original flying machine (1967)

At the chime of a city clock - Nick Drake (Bryter Layter 1970)

Tugboat - Galaxie 500 (Today 1988)

When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout (Steve Mcqueen 1985)

Close to me - The Cure (The head on the door 1986)

Satellite - Elliot Smith (Elliot Smith 1995)

Alphabet Town - Elliot Smith (Elliot Smith 1995)

Corner of my eye - The lemon twigs (Everything Harmony 2023)

Any time of day - The lemon twigs (Everything Harmony 2023)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Poetry for the beat generation - Jack Kerouac

Heavy Metal - Cameron Winter 

Kindergarten - Dutch interior 

Hannah - Lomelda

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MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY 2025
Shifting Sands (with special guest Kaia Jaimeson)

Tracklist 

Gloria: In Excelsis Deo - Patti Smith (Horses 1975)

Chewing Gum - Amyl and the sniffers (Cartoon Darkness 2024)

Violet - Hole (Live through this 1994)

Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream 1993)

Devil's Daughter - Marlon Williams, Kacy and Clayton (Plastic Bouqet 2020)

Pink Rabbits - The National (Trouble Will Find Me 2013)

Angelina - Pinegrove (Everything so far 2015)

Drivin' on 9 - The Breeders (Last Splash 1993)

Flyin (like a fast train) - Kurt Vile (Watch my moves 2022)

Where did you sleep last night - Nirvana (MTV Unplugged In New York 1994)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Betterland - The Audio Visual Drop Kicks (Kaia's band!)

Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1965)

The Los Angeles League of Musicians - LA LOM

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MONDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2025
Shifting Sands

Tracklist 

On Again / Off Again - The Clean (Anthology 2002)

Bastard John - Heatmiser (Cop and Speeder 1994)

Mod Lang - Big Star (Radio City 1974)

Suburban Streetlight Drunk - Telekinesis (Effluxion 2019)

How Can I Love Her More - The Lemon Twigs (A Dream Is All We Know 2024)

Magnolia - JJ Cale (Naturally 1972)

Easier Said than Done - Thee Sacred Souls (Self-Titled 2022)

Megumi the milkyway - Connan Mockasin (Forever Dolphin Love 2011)

it's Choade my dear - Connan Mockasin (Forever Dolphin Love 2011)

No Come Down - The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request 2008)

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 1972)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

I Trawl the Megahertz - Prefab Sprout

3D Country - Geese

At the Cut - Vic Chesnutt

Twelve Nudes - Ezra Furman

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MONDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2025
Shifting Sands (Music Post-2000's)

Tracklist 

Son of Sam - Elliot Smith (Figure 8 2000)

Come Back - Alex G (Rules 2012)

Behind Their Years - Soaked Oats (Working Title 2022)

Close your eyes - The Backseat Lovers (Waiting to Spill 2022)

What's Chasing You - Marlon Williams (Make Way For Love 2018)

Drink the Water - Jack Johnson (Brushfire Fairytales 2001)

Cureable Disease - Blake Mills (Heigh Ho 2014)

Alabama - Current Joys (A Different Age 2018)

Live for you - Thee Sacred Souls (Got A Story To Tell 2024)

Follow The Leader - Foxygen (Hang 2017)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

True Colours - SPLIT ENZ

Bird The Kid - School Fair

Party Clowns - Pulp

This is Music - Klark Sound

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MONDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2025
Shifting Sands (Songwriting)

Tracklist 

That'll be the day - Buddy Holly (20 golden greats:Buddy Holly Lives)

Oh! Darling - The Beatles (Abbey Road 1969)

One of us cannot be wrong - Leonard Cohen (Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967)

Jane S. Piddy - Rodriguez (Cold Fact 1970)

My Stove's on fire - Robert Lester Folsom (Music And Dreams 1976)

What's the Matter with You - Split Enz (True Colours 1980)

You are a light - Pavement (Terror Twilight 1999)

Lover you should've come over - Jeff Buckley (Grace 1994)

First day of my life - Bright eyes (I'm wide awake, it's morning 2005)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

Neu! - Neu!

>>>> - Beak>

What Makes a Man Start Fires? - Minutemen

Notes with attachments - Blake Mills, Pino Palladino

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MONDAY 27TH JANUARY 2025
Shifting Sands (The 80's)

Tracklist 

Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen (The River 1980)

Alice - The Naughty Sweeties (Chinatown 1980)

Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division (Closer 1980)

Gates of Steel - DEVO (Freedom of Choice 1980)

Point that thing somewhere else - The Clean (Anthology)

Flowers by the door - T.S.O.L (Change Today? 1984)

The Saturday Boy - Billy Bragg (Brewing up with 1984)

Bonny - Prefab Sprout (Steve Mcqueen 1985)

Just like heaven - The Cure (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987)

Ivory Past - Felt (The Pictorial Jackson Review 1988)

When will you come home - Galaxie 500 (On Fire 1989)

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

A Walk Across the Rooftops - The Blue Nile

Milk 'N' Cookies - Milk 'N' Cookies

Stan Getz With Carl Tjader - Stan Getz

Floating into the night - Julee Cruise

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MONDAY 20TH JANUARY 2025
Shifting Sands (With Special Guest Oliver Charlesworth)

Tracklist 

In the mouth a desert - Pavement (Slanted And Enchanted 1992)

Demon's Cave - Roy Irwin (S.O.D.A 2016)

Spanish Bombs - The Clash (London Calling 1979)

Splat - Bailter Space (Wammo 1995)

Gotta Getaway - Stiff Little Fingers (Nobody's Heroes 1980)

No Go (For Louis Macneice) - The Cleaners from Venus (Number Thirteen 1990)

I don't make mistakes - Pearly* (Pearly* EP 2024)

Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt,3 - Ian Dury (Do it Yourself 1979)

The Death of Johnny Plastic - Francis Sect 

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Albums you should check out this week;

 

The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Playing with Fire - Spacemen 3

Cure for Pain - Morphine

Tindersticks - Tindersticks

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