Song of the Day: Continuing with more Scottish-flavour collaborations, more exquisite songs, here by Fife's Kenny Anderson joining forces with the English electronica musician and producer from the 2011 album Diamond Mine
Read moreAidan Moffat & RM Hubbert (featuring Siobhan Wilson) – Cockcrow
Song of the Day: After yesterday's duo with Bill Wells. another link to Aidan Moffat alongside two other Scottish artists in a beautiful dialogue song between two ex-lovers talking about past and present
Read moreBill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Copper Top / Bliss
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Malcolm Middleton songs, let's dip into two by his old Arab Strap friend Aidan Moffat, here joining with Bill Wells, fellow songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with two dark and humorous numbers
Read moreMalcolm Middleton – The Ballad of Fuck All / Somebody Loves You
Song of the Day: After yesterday's tribute to Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, let's move to another great Scottish singer-songwriter who mixes dark matters with wry humour but also deep emotions
Read moreFrightened Rabbit – Floating In The Forth / Death Dream / Die Like A Rich Boy
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a three-song tribute to Scott Hutchison, frontman and sublime songwriter of the band from Selkirk and Glasgow, who sadly passed away this week aged just 36
Read moreReggie Watts – Fuck Shit Stack
Song of the Day: Following Childish Gambino's laceration of American history and culture, let's move into loopier acerbic perspective with the comedian, rapper and singer from his 2010 album Why Shit So Crazy?
Read moreChildish Gambino – This Is America
Song of the Day: Continuing our ongoing edgy theme, this time on a different plain – a super-sharp, ironic cultural commentary with one of the most talked about videos in years by the US rapper, actor and comedian, aka Donald McKinley Glover Jr.
Read moreIDLES – Stendhal Syndrome / Mother
Song of the Day: Continuing a threshold-crossing theme, let's go over into a different edginess, moving from LCD Soundsystem's ironic music lists to amusing art anger and disturbing grief from the Bristol punk band
Read moreLCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge / Killing Joke – Change
Song of the Day: After our previous Eric B. and Rakim number, Know The Ledge, it's a different, double-edged song, and a debut by Brooklyn's James Murphy and co satirising the fear of not staying in vogue
Read moreEric B. and Rakim – Juice (Know The Ledge)
Song of the Day: After Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's The Message, another hip-hop classic, varying the topic around the edges of violence, but this track tells the tale of a young man who falls off it
Read moreGrandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
Song of the Day: Next episode on our edgy mood songs is one of the most influential of all time, a brilliant 1982 pioneering hip-hop number that captures the stress and flashpoints over inner city poverty in the Bronx
Read moreThe Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Fast Fuse by Kasabian, a track that also quickly fires up passions, and is highly influential – recorded 50 years ago during an unprecedented period of demonstrations and riots
Read moreKasabian – Fast Fuse
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Parquet Courts number about an edgy temper, another about inflammatory anger by the Leicester indie rockers from their 2009 album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Read moreParquet Courts – Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience
Song of the Day: Yesterday's Bodega song was a cri de coeur against passivity, today's by another great New York band is the opposite - capturing the reactionary side of our fractious times in a two-part number
Read moreBodega – How Did This Happen?
Song of the Day: It's a question many ask in the current state of world affairs, but this terrific song by the New York band manages to pose political questions and still be enormously engaging in both music and lyrics
Read moreFlat Worms – Pearl
Song of the Day: After the exuberant joy of The Damned's New Rose, we move four decades forward to an equally blistering sound from the LA post-punk trio with a song that has a similar theme
Read moreThe Damned - New Rose
Song of the Day: Today let's go back to 1976, and one of the flowering moments of punk, with the first single by the London band, a declaration of love, perhaps not just for a girl, but for the music genre itself
Read moreLouis XIV – Finding Out True Love Is Blind
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Arctic Monkeys after sun-down, sleazy sex-industry number, we cross the Atlantic again to go down and dirty with with the band from San Diego from their 2005 album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Read moreArctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down
Song of the Day: Following the Libertines and the Strokes, this Anglo-American sequence now brings us to the young Sheffield quartet's second single from their debut album of 2006: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Read moreThe Strokes – Hard To Explain
Song of the Day: After yesterday's sun-related song by the Libertines, we move to the Strokes - but the connection is less a play on words, more of a musical one, and how influential the New York band on their contemporaries with this first single from 2001
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