Cars and Trucks is the name of a band that takes children’s lyrics and sets them to indie pop tunes. Very cool. Then Brainwaves heads to stranger territory with a long stranger set featuring bands you love like Modest Mouse, American Music Club, Loal Marsh, Boy and Bear, David Johansen and even Neil Young.
Visit the Brainwaves page on andHow.FM for times to listen live or on-demand.
| Band | Song |
| Cars and Trucks | Animal Exercise |
| Cars and Trucks | Flying Squirrel and Bat |
| Shortstraw | Youthless |
| Lola Marsh | Stranger to My Past (live) |
| Modest Mouse | Strangers to Ourselves |
| The Rebel Light | Strangers |
| American Music Club | Restless Stranger |
| Boy and Bear | Stranger |
| Red Sun Project | Stranger |
| David Johansen | She Loves Strangers |
| Porcupine Tree | Stranger by the Minute |
| Kevin Gilbert | When Strangers Part |
| Fine Young Cannibals | Like a Stranger |
| Neil Young and Crazy Horse | Wayfarin’ Stranger |
| Keane | We Might as Well be Strangers |
| American Analog Set | The Kindness of Strangers |
| Blitzen Trapper | Don’t be a Stranger |
| Jonathan Coulton | Don’t Talk to Strangers (cover: Rick Springfield) |
| Supertramp | Goodbye Stranger |
| Mary Hopkin | Goodbye |
| Midge Ure | Goodbye to Love (cover: The Carpenters) |
| Idan Haviv | Now or Never |
| Daughter | Get Lucky (cover: Daft Punk) |
| Pale Saints | Fine Friend |
| Our Daughter’s Wedding | Lawnchairs |
| Life in Film | Alleyway |
| Neon Trees | Teenager in Love |
| Psapp | Mister Ant |
| The Vaccines | Maybe I Could Hold You |
| Watsky | Tiny Glowing Screens |
| Yael Naim | Toxic (cover: Britney Spears) |
| David Gray | Babylon |
