New music including Boygenius, The Libertines, Pip Blom and Chai on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from Slow Pulp, Yeule, Metric, Melenas, The Drums, George Clanton, a.s.o., The National, Mitski, Sufjan Stevens, Blonde Redhead and Deeper on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on some slightly challenging art-rock records from the ’90s, in honor of the recent 30th anniversary reissue of the British band Moonshake’s stunning debut album, “Eva Luna.”

New music including Sufjan Stevens, Sleater-Kinney, Health and Debbie Friday on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued delving into recent releases from Slowdive, Yeule, The Hives, The National, Deeper, Melenas, Romy, Blur, a.s.o. and Glasser on the show this week, while the retro alternative set featured great tunes from the year 1985, including some Italo disco classics (Clio, Kirlian Camera), songs from Brazil (May East, Tetê Espíndola), France (Martin Dupont), Japan (Akina Nakamori, Taeko Onuki, Rajie) and Australia (The Church), and gems from legends like Kate Bush and New Order.

New music including U2, Slow Pulp, Melenas and Oneohtrix Point Never on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from The Hives, Deeper, Blonde Redhead, a.s.o., Mitski, The National, Romy, Animal Collective, Chai and Glasser on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on some killer dreampop tracks in honor of A.R. Kane, the underrated late ’80s duo who allegedly coined the term “dreampop” and who just issued a new box set of their classic releases, “A.R. Kive.” (Oh, there’s also a bonus mini-retro set featuring a trio of “cult artists” whose work was unappreciated in its time but has since found a more receptive audience, featuring Beverly Glenn-Copeland, William Onyeabor and Saâda Bonaire.)

New music including 070 Shake, Yeule, Diners and Daya on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from Deeper, The Drums, a.s.o., Romy, Alan Palomo, Olivia Rodrigo, The National, Slowdive, The Chemical Brothers, The Armed, Mitski and Blur on the show this week, while the retro alternative set was divided into two blocks: one featured a trio of songs from Talking Heads’ soundtrack album for their classic concert film “Stop Making Sense,” in honor of its re-release in theaters, as well as some other great tunes from 1983, while the second block contained three songs from the newly remixed “Let It Bleed” edition of The Replacement’s fourth studio album, “Tim,” along with more songs from 1985.

New music including English Teacher, a.s.o., Bar Italia and Wild Nothing on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from George Clanton, Mitski, Slowdive, The National, Olivia Rodrigo, Romy, Róisín Murphy, James Blake, The Armed, The Hives, Deeper and The Chemical Brothers on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on the “electronica” boom of the late ’90s, that brief period after the grunge wave had crested and modern rock radio had convinced themselves that a lot of instrumental and sample-based electronic acts were the wave of the future (they were mostly wrong, but it was a very fun time anyway!)

New music including Deeper, Blondshell, Chvrches and Sally Shapiro on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from Olivia Rodrigo, The Armed, The Hives, James Blake, The Chemical Brothers, Romy, Carly Rae Jepsen, George Clanton, Blur and Róisín Murphy on the show this week, while I debuted the “potpourri set” for this week’s retro alternative set (inspired by the frequent grab-bag category on “Jeopardy!”), with tunes from various eras and genres, including some ’60s French pop from Jacqueline Taieb and Françoise Hardy, ’80s synthpop from Taeko Onuki and P-Model, and ’90s indie rock from Sonic Youth and Low.

New music including Lauren Mayberry, Duran Duran, The Killers and James Blake on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued delving into recent releases from The Armed, Slowdive, George Clanton, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessy Lanza, Georgia, The Hives and Blur on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on music from the year 1993, in honor of Pitchfork’s recent Sunday Review of the Smashing Pumpkins’ classic sophomore album “Siamese Dream” (which of course was originally released in ’93!)

New music including L’Rain, Mannequin Pussy, The Armed and The Hives on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from Carly Rae Jepsen, Mitski, George Clanton, Georgia, Blur, Jessy Lanza and PJ Harvey on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on music from the year 1996, including international tunes from France and Hong Kong (Françoise Hardy, Faye Wong), classic Britpop (The Boo Radleys, Sleeper, Suede), excellent indie-rock (Stereolab, Sebadoh, Guided By Voices) and plenty of other gems.

New music including Cumgirl8, The Kills, The National and Death Cab For Cutie on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued delving into recent releases from Slowdive, George Clanton, Blur, Georgia, Alaska Reid, PJ Harvey, Jessy Lanza and Lifeguard on the show this week, while the retro alternative set looked way, way back to the ’60s and even the ’50s (including the oldest song I’ve ever played on West Of The Fields to date) for the origins of the punk movement of the late ’70s, with a bunch of influential garage rock and proto-punk acts who served as direct inspiration to the Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones and all the other original punk bands.

New music including Carly Rae Jepsen, George Clanton, Future Islands and Jacknife Lee, Budgie and Lol Tolhurst on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued exploring recent releases from PJ Harvey, Blur, Bar Italia, Georgia, Hannah Jadagu, Alaska Reid and Snõõper on the show this week, while the retro alternative set featured a tribute to the great Robbie Robertson of The Band, who passed away in August at 80, with some classic tunes from The Band as well as a selection of Robertson’s solo tracks. I also tacked on a couple bonus retro sets of some dance-friendly ’80s tunes from Captain Sensible and Yaz and a ’90s set of female-fronted bands including Lush and Elastica.