Dandelion Radio have helped fill the gaping John Peel shaped hole in the musical landscape since 2006. This compilation is unpredictable and irrational. We think he’d have approved.

Don’t Forget To Vote In Dandelion Radio’s Festive Fifty
Just a quick reminder that our friends over at Dandelion Radio are continuing to keep John Peel’s annual listeners poll (The Festive Fifty) alive and kicking.

World International John Peel Day – Bloomsbury Lanes 9/10/10
John Peel celebrations in London offer a noisy and fitting tribute to the broadcasting legend.

A World Without John Peel – 6 Years On
In a world drowning in media is the guiding light that John Peel offered missed even more than ever? Adrian Mules searches for the batteries and serves up a thirty track Peel-centric Podcast.

John Peel Day celebrations planned for October the 9th
Come and celebrate John Peel’s life and legacy with an awe inspiring collection of over thirty bands and DJ’s.

Various Artists – Kats Karavan (The History Of John Peel On The Radio)
If you were a fan of the John Peel radio show, then Kats Karavan is a must have nostalgia item according to Chris Marling.

The history of John Peel on the radio, released in CD form
Announced today is the release of Kats Karavan a 4-CD deluxe set charting the history of John Peel’s iconoclastic shows spanning 5 decades from the late 1960s until his sad and untimely death in 2004.
A Word To The Wise Guy #1
David Laurie; label boss, radio plugger and chinese food expert joins TLOBF for a brand new monthly column. Balls of steel, eyes full of wonder and dreams of a better world – this month we’re talking Pete Wylie.
Belle And Sebastian – The BBC Sessions
To be precise, fourteen tracks from five sessions spanning their first five years. Simon Tyers journeys from Tigermilk to Trevor Horn.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










