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Playlists: songs about ice cream

August 7, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Serving now …

Seductive servings, unusual flavours, and mystery men and women. This week’s musical serving has got it all, packed with colours and innuendo, it’s a delicious combination put together by guest skilful scooper EnglishOutlaw from last week’s topic

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In blues, avant-garde, calypso, comedy, country, dance, disco, easy listening, electronica, exotica, experimental, folk, funk, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, rock, reggae, songs, soul, traditional Tags ice cream, dessert, Metronomy, Louis Prima, The Bedroom Philosopher, Paolo Conte, Tom Waits, Lorraine Bowen, Raye, Holy Fuck, James Lee Stanley, Peter Tork, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Sarah McLachlan, Doris Day, Ellis Paul, Eliseo Román, Art Brut, Kelis, The White Stripes, Delta 5, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Wilco, EnglishOutlaw
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Playlists: songs about teeth

November 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Open wide: the great Dinah Washington makes a trip to the dentist, but might she receive more than a filling?

Draculas to dentists and dentures, smiling to biting, gnashing, chattering, grinding and chomping, there’s no shortage of wonderful music to chew over with these tasty, pearly-white playlists picked by guest Nicko from last week’s topic

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, colours, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, metal, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags teeth, dentists, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Dinah Washington, Lorde, The Mighty Diamonds, Tindersticks, xiangyu, Tools You Can Trust, Genesis Owusu, Eaglebear Singers, Tanya Tagaq, Lady Gaga, Working Men's Club, Free, Roky Erickson, John Williams, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Spike Jones, Weird Al Jankovic, Screaming Lord Such, Timothy, Devon Irons, The Upsetters, Scientist, The Hollies, Witch, Sparklehorse, PJ Harvey, Wilco, Stew & The Negro Problem, Lotte Lenya, Jackie Orszaczky & The Grandmasters, Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Duke, Sugar Minott, Weed Out Vampires, Busy Signal, Madder Lake, Skin Of Out Teeth, Nicko
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Playlists: songs about the impossible

July 5, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Impossibly bending the rules: Television’s landmark LP Marquee Moon

Can it be done? Can we only dream? It’s time to bend the rules through the incomparable prism of the Song Bar theme process – and see what happens. With a vibrant vortex of wonderful nominations last week, guest playlister Maki presents the amazing choices

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Tags impossible, songs, playlists, Wilco, NoMeansNo, television, Champion Jack Dupree, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, The Grateful Dead, The Honeybus, Carmen McRae, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Lalo Schifrin, Blancmange, Wire, Simple Minds, Radiohead, Tony Joe White, Jack Bruce, Maya de Vitry, Jeffrey Lewis, Jackie Leven, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris, Carlos Cano, Maki
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Playlists: songs about eternity

January 18, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Round and round: a timeless track coming up from Signs of Life by Penguin Cafe Orchestra …

Space, time, the rhythms of life, expressions of the divine, love? Eternity in its many permutations is to be found in these captivating playlists picked by guest ajostu, inspired by the near-endless nominations from last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs about refreshment and cooling down

July 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Very cool: The Main Ingredient

Very cool: The Main Ingredient

As the heat continues, where might we find refreshment? From cold water, drinks and more there’s no fresher breeze to bring a sweet shade of musical relief than playlists picked by Hoshino Sakura from last week’s many nominations

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In African, blues, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, rock, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags refreshment, playlists, songs, J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz, !!!, Chk Chk Chk, Garolou, Wreckless Eric, Kieran Kane, Main Ingredient, Gabor Szabo, The Zombies, The Beach Boys, Pavement, Wilco, Cheryl Wheeler, Doris Day, Leonard Cohen, Peter Hammill, Kinobe, Tricot, Tommy Heavenly6, Shonen Knife, De Press, Johnny Winter, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Saw Doctors, Christine Wheeler, Melon Kinenbi, Hoshino Sakura
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Playlists: songs about surprise encounters

March 9, 2021 Peter Kimpton
You never know who will turn up … Paul Robeson meets a fan or two in Moscow in 1958

You never know who will turn up … Paul Robeson meets a fan or two in Moscow in 1958

You never know who you might encounter on these playlists - lovers, angels, snake oil salesmen, spaceships, ghosts, brigands, the supernatural, the suicidal and the ecstatic - all artfully picked by guest Suzi from a week of nominations

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In blues, calypso, country, comedy, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, gospel, funk, indie, jazz, music, playlists, musicals, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, songs, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, encounters, meetings, Paul Robeson, The Pretenders, Paulinho da Viola, Nancy Wilson, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Parliament, Sparks, Bert Jansch, The Sugarcubes, The Louvin Brothers, Victor Wooten, The Book of Mormon, Andrew Rannells, Sonic Youth, Marshall Chapman, Half Man Half Biscuit, Rush, The Jolly Boys, Billy Bragg, Wilco, The Burning Hell, Mulatu Astatke, paul simon, The Boyoyo Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, The Dogs D'Amour, The Pogues, Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr
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Playlists: songs about stars

April 1, 2020 Peter Kimpton
David Bowie of course. Star from start to finish.

David Bowie of course. Star from start to finish.

An astronomically huge topic resulting in a galaxy of nominations. This week’s guest playlister Amylee not only listened to them all, but turned them into a stellar set of songs spanning the musical universe

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In blues, classical, avant-garde, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, gospel, indie, instrumentals, jazz, metal, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, stars, astronomy, Oliver, Jimi Hendrix, The Parisians, Prince, REM, Radiohead, Drugstore, Grinderman, Nick Cave, Rose Royce, Dub Syndicate, T Rex, David Bowie, Stan Tracey Quartet, Henry Purcell, Michael Askill, Primal Scream, Opal, Michel Polnareff, Kula Shaker, Van Morrison, The Chieftains, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Robb Johnson, Nina Nastasia, The Zephyrs, Bran Van 3000, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Freeheat, The Primitives, Superdrag, The New York Dolls, Andre Williams, The Art Attacks, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, The Cranberries, Iggy Pop, Ty Segall, Mushroomhead, Dark Lotus, Pras, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Mya, Counting Crows
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Playlists: songs about spiders

June 12, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Fiddling for arachnophobes

Fiddling for arachnophobes

How do songwriters face their arachnophobia? Spotting behavioural trends expressed through musical and lyrics, and weaving a beautiful and witty web, this week’s guest swawilg creates playlists from last week’s thread of song suggestions

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In avant-garde, blues, comedy, country, dance, disco, electronica, dub, experimental, folk, gospel, indie, instrumentals, jazz, metal, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, songs, ska, soul, traditional Tags songs, playlists, spiders, wildlife, biology, psychology, Slim Newton, Flanders and Swann, The Who, John Entwistle, Toy Dolls, Captain Beefheart, Dr John, The Handsome Family, Hoagy Carmichael, Tidal Waves, Ludovico Einaudi, Wilco, Joanna Newsom, Black Box Recorder, TISM, Herbie Hancock, Barenaked Ladies, Memphis Jug Band, Jean Luc Ponty, Ten Years After, Buckshot Lefonque, Fats Waller, Ike and Tina Turner, Jim Stafford, Robyn Hitchcock, Jef Neve, Pascal Schumacher, swawilg
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Playlists: songs about fractions and portions

September 26, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Creative halves: Two Kings In A Cipher - DOP (Deric Angelettie) and the Noble Ahmen-Ra (Ron Lawrence)

Creative halves: Two Kings In A Cipher - DOP (Deric Angelettie) and the Noble Ahmen-Ra (Ron Lawrence)

How do you separate so many great nominated songs into two playlists? This week’s guest, ParaMhor, divided and conquered hundreds of suggestions into two brilliant divisions, from Beatles to Steely Dan

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In blues, comedy, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, folk, gospel, hip hop, indie, jazz, music, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks Tags Songs, playlists, fractions, portions, The Beatles, George Harrison, Trash Can Sinatras, Rain Parade, Liza Minnelli, Definition of a King, Delaware, Mavis Staples, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Billy Fury, Madeleine Peyroux, Robb Johnson, David Boulter, Stuart Staples, Kurt Wagner, Augustus Pablo, The Dominoes, Gary US Bonds, ZZ Hill, Alternative TV, Monty Python, Jack, Gene Pitney, OV Wright, Bella Hardy, Thin Lizzy, dEUS, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals, Steely Dan, Jeff Tweedy, Wilco, ParaMhor, Drop Nineteens, Two Kings In A Cipher
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Song Bar 1st Birthday playlists: songs about the number one

February 15, 2017 Peter Kimpton
More cake?

More cake?

Inspired by a flood of celebratory nominations from last week's birthday topic, our guest writer treefrogdemon adds one to another to create singularly superb playlists 

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In playlists, songs Tags songs, numbers, treefrogdemon, The Monkees, Snarky Puppy, Malika Tirolien, Weaves, The Bangles, Sandy Denny, The Clovers, The Adverts, Gloria Sorchio, Mindy Smith, Otis Spann, Icons of Filth, Anti-Flag, Blondie, Bob Marley, Foo Fighters, King Crimson, The Platters, The Levellers, Folk Implosion, Gillian Welch, The Charlatans, Count Basie, Roy Harper, Billy Bragg, Wilco
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Playlists: positive songs for the new year

January 4, 2017 Peter Kimpton
How do you know it's really gonna happen? Because it's the Undertones

How do you know it's really gonna happen? Because it's the Undertones

Got a ticket to ride? This week's guest writer TatankaYotanka takes us on a lyrical, journey inspired by last week's topic. The bus is filled with hope for 2017. Where does it go? Hop in and find out

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Tags songs, Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Sounds of Blackness, The Undertones, Patti Smith, Brother D & The Collective, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Mischief Brew, Jimmy Cliff, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Thea Gilmore, Prahlad Tipanya, Queen, Bob Marley, Funkadelic, The Whites, William DeVaughn, Prince Jazzbo, Earl Jean, Oysterband, The Gladiators, Utah Saints, Three Dog Night, Redskins, Belle Perez, Louis Jordan, Willie Nile, James Maddock, Peter Hammill, TatankaYotanka, Earl-Jean McCrea, Kabir
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New Albums …

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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026

new songs …

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June 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Elanor Moss - Sarah Waiting in the Car
June 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Gorgeously delicate, finger-picking folk by the British singer-songwriter from York, heralding her upcoming debut album The Knife, The Needle, out on 21 August via Merge Records

June 21, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026

Word of the week

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

April 23, 2026

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