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Playlists: basement and underground songs

May 3, 2022 Peter Kimpton

What’s at play below ground level? Walk this way …

There’s a whole other life going on underground, but what form does it take? Unearthed from last week’s nominations, guest ShivSidecar digs deep to present a wondrous otherworld of fabulous music choices

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In avant-garde, blues, African, classical, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, metal, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags basements, underground, transport, songs, playlists, Tom Waits, Mark Stewart & the Maffia, Flesh For Lulu, Sneaker Pimps, Elysian Fields, The Beautiful South, Elvis Costello, Robb Johnson and the Irregulars, Robb Johnson, Sopwith Camel, The Sundays, McLuhan, Peter Hammill, Josh Ritter, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Guru, Branford Marsalis, Joe Bataan, Mute Choir, The New York Dolls, Superchunk, The Queers, Tiger, Pavement, Girls Aloud, Manhattan Transfer, sir Was, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Flynn, Robyn Hitchcock, Nathan Hall & The Sinister Locals, Carolanne Pegg, Heron Oblivion, The Tickle, Denis Couldry, Klaatu, Sidecar Shiv, ShivSidecar
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Playlists: songs about perfection

February 22, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Chet Baker: in search of the ideal

Days, nights or settings, love, relationships, words, compliments or phrasing, sounds, singing and so much more, guest of the week Loud Atlas comes up with all the aces with series of immaculate playlist choices reflecting last week’s perfect topic

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In African, avant-garde, blues, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags Amen Corner, Julian Cope, Ella Fitzgerald, Fairground Attraction, The Saints, The Beautiful South, Toots and the Maytals, Ismael Rivera and Cortijo Y Su Combo, Bronski Beat, Run DMC, Chet Baker, The Hillside Singers, Paul Robeson, The The, Lou Reed, The Flour Blazes, Billie Holiday, Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, Eddie Palmieri, Chip Taylor, The New Ukrainians, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Badfinger, Indigo Girls, Dorothy Love Coates, The Undertones, Harry Nilsson, Paolo Nutini, Elizabeth & The Catapult, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Loud Atlas
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Playlists: songs about being or feeling fat

August 5, 2020 Peter Kimpton
The Banjo Players by Beryl Cook

The Banjo Players by Beryl Cook

Roll up, roll it up! Tired of Tinder? Bored with Bumble? Had it up to here with Grindr? Listen up, Blubbbr is where it’s at! Check out this week’s top ten profiles and a whole bevvy of musical beauties as chosen by guest philipphilip99

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In blues, comedy, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, indie, jazz, instrumentals, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, punk, reggae, rock, ska, songs, soul Tags songs, playlists, fat, Larry Williams, Jimmy Rushing, Carl Malcolm, The Commodores, Lee Pickett and The Screamers, Howlin' Wolf, Billy Stewart, Post Modern Jukebox, AC/DC, Katzenjammer, The Beautiful South, Sheppard, The Smiths, K.D. Lang, Bull Moose Jackson, Joe Tex, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Myren Lee and The Caddies, Ernest Tubb, Big Dee Irwin, Thin Lizzy, philipphilip99
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Playlists: songs about furniture

December 25, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales are furnished with inspiration by a certain room at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel

Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales are furnished with inspiration by a certain room at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel

Tables, beds and daybeds, chairs to desks, sofas and all sorts, this week’s playlists, not only have legs, but give us the full suite of emotions, moods, settings and styles, expertly chosen this week’s guest Marco den Ouden

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In blues, classical, country, disco, dance, electronica, funk, gospel, folk, indie, jazz, hip hop, music, playlists, musical hall, pop, postpunk, prog, rock, soul, traditional Tags songs, playlists, furniture, Guy de Maupassant, The Beautiful South, George Jones, Little Big Town, FKA Twigs, Rihanna, Dylan Scott, Jarvis Cocker, Chilly Gonzales, Zac Brown Band, James Keelaghan, Billy Storm, Tamia, Ruth Brown, Tarnation, Fangoria, Jonathan Coulton, Billie Jo Spears, Harry Nilsson, Dean Friedman, Mills Brothers, The Go-Betweens, Rick Springfield, Neil Finn, Paul Kelly, Alice Cooper, Mary Coughlan, Richard Thompson, Kate Rusby, John Denver, Courtney-Marie Andrews, Caroline Spence, Edith Piaf, Missy Higgins, Gene Watson, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Bob Dylan, Lorna Bennett, The Pale Fountains, Bette Midler, Marco den Ouden, Marconius
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Playlists: songs about substitutes

July 4, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Irreplaceable: The Modern Lovers

Irreplaceable: The Modern Lovers

Replacements for players, soldiers, husbands, lovers, even robot sex – it’s all going on this these superb playlists chosen by our guest lister Marco den Ouden, who also replaces some of his words with those by nominators

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In blues, country, dance, electronica, folk, gospel, hip hop, indie, jazz, music, metal, playlists, pop, postpunk, punk, songs, soul, rock, reggae, prog Tags Songs, playlists, substitutes, football, Jorge Ben, Richard Thompson, Sloan, Millie Jackson, The Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman, Beyonce, Dr John, Tom Odell, Melvin Bliss, Neil Young, Brad Paisley, Hatsune Miku, The Who, Clout, Gregory Isaacs, Strawberry Switchblade, Lenny Kravitz, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Everlast, Prince, Frank Sinatra, The Magic Numbers, Billie Jo Spears, FKA Twigs, Jacques Brel, Elvis Presley, Karla Bonoff, Jesse Fuller, Stevie Wonder, George Jones, Melba Montgomery, The Seekers, Estelle, Yes, Tarnation, Dee D. Jackson, The Beautiful South, Chumbawumba, Fountains of Wayne, Ry Cooder, Mark Lanegan, Isobel Campbell, Marco den Ouden, Marconius
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Playlists: songs about windows

November 22, 2017 Peter Kimpton
What strange sights might been seen through … the car window?

What strange sights might been seen through … the car window?

Aphex Twin's wet windscreen to Sonny Boy Williamson escaping out the bedroom window, it's all going on here. Guest playlister nosuchzone is pure glass – giving us stunning sights and sounds from last week's topic

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In playlists, music, rock, songs, soul, indie, folk, blues, dance, electronica Tags songs, playlists, windows, glass, Aphex Twin, Gentle Giant, Samaris, Eryka Badu, Sonny Boy Williamson, Arthur Russell, Annette Hanshaw, Roni Size/Reprazent, The Rays, Múm, Bessie Smith, Moodymann, PJ Harvey, Joan Armatrading, Dean Barlow, The Beautiful South, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Joe Cocker, The Four Tops, Guillemots, The Lightning Seeds, Joni Mitchell, Ann Peebles, Kinoko Teikoku, The Temptations, Weekend, Tony Joe White, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Surman, Howard Moody, Scritti Politti, David Bedford, Kevin Ayers, nosuchzone
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Playlists: songs about love songs

July 26, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Cat Power

Cat Power

Candi Staton to Cat Power, Camera Obscura to Cherry Smash, guest playlister Barbryn creates two beautifully reflective playlists inspired by many marvellous nominations on last week's meta-topic

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In music, playlists, songs Tags songs, love songs, The Glories, Candi Staton, The Stylistics, A House, Of Montreal, Margo Guryan, Dexys Midnight Runners, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Johnny Cash, Wings, Ben Folds, The Cherry Smash, Art & Dottie Todd, Billie Holiday, Toni Braxton, The Carpenters, Tullycraft, The Statler Brothers, Tim Minchin, Jillian Edwards, Paul Simon, The Stone Roses, The Beautiful South, Hello Saferide, Motown, soul, indie, The Divine Comedy, Barbryn, Aretha Franklin
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Playlists for this place: songs from and about Manchester

May 31, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Dr John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford

Dr John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford

Cabbage to Inspiral Carpets, John Cooper Clarke to a visiting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, guest writer treefrogdemon compiles humorous and moving lists from hundreds of songs for last week's tribute topic

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Tags songs, music, Manchester, Oasis, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Brian and Michael, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, John Cooper Clarke, Cabbage, Oceansize, Leyland Kirby, Inspiral Carpets, Children of Zeus, DRS, James, The Times, Richard Thompson, John Shuttleworth, The Salford Jets, Franco and the Dreadnought, Elbow, Courteeners, Kill Pretty, Ian Brown, Gomez, The Beautiful South, Joy Division, The Hollies, Manchester United, Naomi Rose, treefrogdemon, Salford
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Playlists: songs about renewal, rebirth and starting over

September 21, 2016 Peter Kimpton
Ibeyi, aka tempestuous sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz

Ibeyi, aka tempestuous sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz

From cleaning up to getting dirty, leaving the country to new life at forty, black eyes to old blues, this week's guest writer Marco den Ouden's playlists show brilliant breadth of perspective on ways to start again 

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In playlists, songs Tags songs, Marconius, starting over, rebirth, renewal, Ibeyi, Lavern Baker, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Shania Twain, Bruce Springsteen, Camera Obscura, Evanescence, Bright Eyes, Johnnie Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Frank Sinatra, Alter Bridge, Peter Gabriel, Nina Simone, Johnny Nash, Mel & Tim, Nat King Cole, Stranger Cat, Erik Turffaz, Sophie Hunger, Amy MacDonald, Bob Dylan, Two Door Cinema Club, Sandra Nkake, Timelords, Odyssey, Fastball, Beautiful South, The Beautiful South, Nilsson, Peter & The Test Tube Babies, Jethro Tull, AKB48, Ruth B, Marco den Ouden
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Playlists: songs about skin

August 24, 2016 Peter Kimpton
Bat for Lashes

Bat for Lashes

From Siouxsie's new skin to Eels's tattoo, guest writer takeitawayGuru takes surgically skilled multi-layered approach to create some silky smooth lists from last week's song suggestions

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Tags songs, skin, Buddy Guy, India Arie, Gregg Allman, Shemekia Copeland, Eels, Caravan Palace, Los Lobos, Bat For Lashes, The Beautiful South, Whitney Duncan, Tindersticks, Tori Amos, Covenant, Necro Facility, Little Feat, Vega, Larry Williams, Anouk, Bradford, Iggy Pop, Josh Homme, Phil Lynott, Alter Bridge, takeitawayGuru
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Playlists: Upbeat breakup songs

March 3, 2016 Peter Kimpton
Pete Doherty fronting Babyshambles. No shortage of breakup stories ... Photograph: Patrik Ragnarsson

Pete Doherty fronting Babyshambles. No shortage of breakup stories ... Photograph: Patrik Ragnarsson

Babyshambles to Beautiful South, ironic response to frantic fornication, this week's guest writer angryirishpunk puts the passionate past behind him with an equally powerful playlist

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In playlists, songs, music Tags Blink-182, songs, playlists, Rueben, Mike Scott, Sin Cos Tan, Babyshambles, Strawberry Switchblade, The Beautiful South, Queen, Cyndi Lauper, Crash Test Dummies, M-People, The Dandy Warhols, The Libertines, Washed Out, Van Der Graaf Generator, Bill Wells, Aidan Moffat, Richard Thompson, Brian, Noah And The Whale, Bob Dylan, Carrie Underwood, The Vaccines, Florence and the Machine, Squeeze, angryirishpunk, breakup songs
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New Albums …

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

new songs …

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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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