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Music site, all genres: blues, rock, indie, country, jazz, folk ... Top 10s galore, passionate writing, new contributors welcome. Rock 'n' roll. It will stand. https://www.toppermost.co.uk/
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Toppermost @toppermost.bsky.social · May 27
Toppermost relaunch today - a brand new look after 12 years.

1,148 posts from 160 contributors on this popular communal website.

Fancy compiling a top 10 of your favourite band/artist?

DM with suggestions - many bands conspicuous by their absence!

(photo Esther Bubley)

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Esther Bubley photo of young people listening to records in a booth in the 60s
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NEW post: The Bothy Band -

"The most important Celtic band of the rock era.”

@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks his top 10 #BothyBand tracks

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Photo of the Bothy Band
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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stevemiller.bsky.social
Listening to Mew ahead of the big London gig later this week - reminded of the piece I wrote about them for @toppermost.bsky.social

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Mew - Toppermost
There’s a dichotomy at the heart of Mew, a series of questions that seem impossible to understand, but that are core to appreciating them.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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NEW post: “By the second album ‘Old Hag You Have Killed Me’ (1976) the Bothy Band’s ‘big’ sound and electrifying live performances were winning them a large international audience.”

@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of the #BothyBand

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The Bothy Band album cover Old Hag You Have Killed Me
February 3, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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NEW post: The Bothy Band - “a vital role in the folk music revival and one of the greatest groups of any kind to have emerged from Ireland”

@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of the #BothyBand

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The Bothy Band album cover Out Of The Wind Into The Sun
February 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM
toppermost.bsky.social
This week’s Book Choice:

“Live Aid: The Definitive 40-Year Story spans the four decades since, exploring global politics, corruption & the ongoing humanitarian work. This is a mind-blowing story of goodness, persistence and humanity overcoming adversity."

Full review at:
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January 30, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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johnynocash.bsky.social
Here’s a Toppermost - not by me, for a change!

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Midnight Oil - Toppermost
Few rocked as hard or as passionately as the great Midnight Oil. Fronted by the tall, bald, non-practicing lawyer, untrained vocalist, Peter Garrett, the Oils pricked Australia's conscience...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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NEW post - Vulfpeck: 3 on E, a track from 2020's 'The Joy Of Music...' "By the end of this you’ll be dancing. A masterclass in groove. Great Antwaun Stanley vocals. Joe Dart in his happy place."

@dlew919.bsky.social picks 10 top #Vulfpeck tracks.

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Vulfpeck 'The Joy Of Music' album cover
January 27, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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NEW post - Vulfpeck: Birds Of A Feather, We Rock Together - on 'Mr Finish Line' (2017) - think Earth, Wind & Fire meets modern indie funk – joyful, communal, hard to sit still.

@dlew919.bsky.social picks 10 top #Vulfpeck tracks.

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Vulfpeck 'Mr Finish Line' album cover
January 27, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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rusky.bsky.social
One night some years ago I went down a Vulfpeck wormhole after discovering them track after track. This reminds me how amazing Joe Dart is on bass. Wow.

This was where I started….
1612

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January 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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NEW post:  Vulfpeck isn’t just a band, it’s a movement, proving that funk can be smart, silly, sublime all at once - dive into their world …

@dlew919.bsky.social picks 10 top #Vulfpeck tracks.

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Vulfpeck 'The Beautiful Game' album cover
January 27, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Reggae drumming legend Sly Dunbar dead at 73
Reggae drumming legend Sly Dunbar dead at 73
The drummer half of the influential duo Sly & Robbie, Dunbar, a two-time Grammy winner, helped shape modern reggae for decades.
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January 26, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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johnynocash.bsky.social
I forget how much music writing I used to do. I’m always very grateful to Toppermost for giving me the platform to write about some of my favourite bands.
January 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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We are the grateful John.
johnynocash.bsky.social Johny Nocash/John Hartley @johnynocash.bsky.social · 10d
I forget how much music writing I used to do. I’m always very grateful to Toppermost for giving me the platform to write about some of my favourite bands.
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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fourfoot.bsky.social
A) Toppermost is amazing
B) Tindersticks are amazing.
And c) I’m quite proud of this piece, surely the only Tindersticks article to mention Des Walker and Bryan Adams.
January 25, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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The Tindersticks Toppermost from @fourfoot.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/tindersticks/
Tindersticks - Toppermost
Tindersticks music is cinematic yet intimate, the sound of exquisite dreams being interrupted by terrible reality. It’s losing your trousers at Monte Carlo, cheating on Miss World with a Roly Poly, or...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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The House of Love Toppermost from @johnynocash.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/house-of-lov...
The House of Love - Toppermost
Much is often made of the importance to The House of Love’s sound of Chadwick and Bickers, and inevitably this is right. However, the importance of their rhythm section – Pete Evans on drums and Chris...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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NEW post: "I came to Wild Beasts on the back of second album 'Two Dancers' (2009) and in particular All The King’s Men, a song that truly deserves its status alongside other indie disco staples - uncontrollably catchy."

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Wild Beasts 'Two Dancers' album cover
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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rusky.bsky.social
Great little band for a while there. Good live, and some solid songs - most picked here (I’d swap out Devil’s Crayon for The Old Dog, but hey ho😉).
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toppermost.bsky.social Toppermost @toppermost.bsky.social · 16d
NEW post: Wild Beasts … “a band to cherish amid the hubbub and shoutiness of the past two decades of independent music”

Rob Langham picks his top 10 by #WildBeasts … #haydenthorpe #tomfleming

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Wild Beasts 'Present Tense' album cover
January 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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NEW post: Wild Beasts … “a band to cherish amid the hubbub and shoutiness of the past two decades of independent music”

Rob Langham picks his top 10 by #WildBeasts … #haydenthorpe #tomfleming

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Wild Beasts 'Present Tense' album cover
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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marcfagel.bsky.social
And in a weird bit of fortuity, today's pick as my song of the day is a rare single from Gabriel-era Genesis. Must be something in the air...
2000 Great Songs #1212: Happy The Man
Music-obsessed retired lawyer, sharing a few thoughts on some choice cuts from my obscenely oversized music collection each day.
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January 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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ineeddirection.bsky.social
Busman's holiday for you perhaps, but did you read this wonderful Toppermost post by @rusky.bsky.social?

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toppermost.bsky.social Toppermost @toppermost.bsky.social · Sep 18
NEW post: "The East River Pipe sound – a dreamy synth wash in the background, a gentle jangle of guitar, simple yet cinematic sounding beat - and the lost souls and troubled characters that inhabit his songs"

@rusky.bsky.social picks his #EastRiverPipe 10

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East River Pipe album cover 'Garbageheads On Endless Stun'
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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"When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench,
I can always hear them talk.
Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk"
January 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Orange crate art was a place to start
Orange crate art was a world apart
Home for two with view of Sonoma
Where there's aroma and heart
Memories of her orange crate art
(Brian & VDP)
January 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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'Twice Around The Houses' contained what is Jonathan Kelly’s best known song, The Ballad of Cursed Anna - he wrote his own songs and was often described as an 'Irish Bob Dylan'.
January 16, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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daveamitri.bsky.social
Which one is Dave doing 🤔😅
toppermost.bsky.social Toppermost @toppermost.bsky.social · 19d
Coming Soon - to the music site with a difference ...

Wild Beasts, Vulfpeck, Bothy Band, Chris Judge Smith, Dollar, Joe Pass, Peter Case, Nerina Pallot, Lucy Kaplansky...

"That's (not) all Folks"

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January 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM