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Election special! Express yourself: songs about freedom of speech and thought

July 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Don’t bin your vote … satirical parliamentary candidate Count Binface outside Westminster, today standing against the PM

In the light of today's UK and other forthcoming elections, let's sing out about freedom of expression through lyrics, whether political, personal, serious or silly – at least it's a right we still have left

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Playlists: easy does it – easy listening and lounge music

July 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Take a seat, sip a drink, and soak up the easy sounds …

From the becalming, serene and romantic – bars to hotel lifts, airports and shops with mood-affecting orchestral pieces of the 1950s and 60s, all the way to retro nostalgia in the 1990s and contemporary sounds, guest playlister pejepeine perfectly captures this broad genre topic from a huge wave of nominations

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In calypso, classical, comedy, easy listening, exotica, instrumentals, jazz, lounge, music, musicals, pop, prog, rock, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, film soundtrack, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Quentin Tarantino, Mantovani and Orchestra, Percy Faith Orchestra, Pete Drake and his Talking Steel Guitar, Martin Denny, Bert Kaempfert, Horst Jankowski, Sounds Orchestral, Henry Mancini, Dave Grusin, Ennio Morricone, Carole King, Bob Crewe Generation, Hugo Montenegro, Johnny Pearson, James Last, Gheorghe Zamfir, Stereolab, Saint Etienne, Khruangbin, MACINTOSH PLUS, Nouvelle Vague, Chambao, Unexpected Delight, Flying Lotus, Laura Darlington, Air, Laura Cantrell, Meanderthals, Ozric Tentacles, The Gentle People, Tony Hatch, Electronic Concept Orchestra, Orquesta Serenata Tropical, Piero Piccioni, pejepeine
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Soft furnishings and soothing sounds: easy listening songs and music

June 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sit back, suggest and fill the lounge …

Lounge to exotica, Les Baxter to James Last, tiki bars to the space age, it’s a broad genre that extends into jazz, Latin and electronica and pop, across hotel bars, lifts and film sounds, so this week let’s relax with a cocktail, a soft chair and see what makes us get into the mood …

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In calypso, easy listening, lounge, exotica, soundtracks, songs, playlists, pop, instrumentals, electronica, dance, classical Tags easy listening, lounge music, exotica, James Last, Les Baxter, The Gentle People, Martin Denny, Combustible Edison, Love Jones, Buster Poindexter, Pink Martini, Don Tiki, Pizzicato Five, Yasuharu Konishi, Jackie Gleason, Henry Mancini, Margo Guryan, Machito Orchestra, Ray Conniff, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, Patti Page, Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani, Lalo Schifrin, Nancy Sinatra, Gábor Szabó, Syd Dale, Herb Albert, Burt Bacharach, Raymond Scott, Stefano Torossi, The Tijuana Brass, John Tartaglia, Joe Torres, Walter Wanderley, Cal Tjader
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Playlists: songs featuring finger-clicking, toe-tapping and foot-stomping

June 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The fabulous Nicholas Brothers

Foot stomping and clogging to the click of fingers, flamenco and castanets, these playlists, picked by guest Marco den Ouden from last week’s topic, take a tour of the world from Canada to Mexico, Spain to Japan, with music that’s right on tap

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, dub, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, rock, showtime, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, dance, Billy Joel, Bonnie Milsap, Sudan Archives, The Dead South, Home Free, Embrujo Mestizo, Carmina Quartet, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Hello, The STRiPES, La Bottine Souriante, TEKEYÉ, Sofia Rei, Geri Allen, Timeline, Glenn Miller, Dorothy Dandridge, The Nicholas Brothers, Farru, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Flares, Dave Clark Five, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Bonnie St Clair, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, The Honeycombs, Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Diana Ross, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kak Channthy, Cambodian Space Project, Joe Henderson, John Lee Hooker, Rocio Molina, La Tremendita, Ibeyi, Clyde McPhatter, Lalela Cape Town Choir, Body Avlaia Group, Frederick Ashton, The Royal Ballet, Rosalia, Lancashire Wallopers, James Blunt, Duke Ellington, Don Dixon, Babukisi Arts Group, The Dovells, Wanda Richert, Herb Albert, The Tijuana Brass, Logreybeam, The Tymes, Doug and the Slugs, Selena Ryder, Riverdance, Marco den Ouden
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Make it snappy: songs featuring finger-clicking, toe-tapping and foot stomping

June 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Elvis snaps to it

Got that rhythm? This week, songs on which we hear prominently the body percussion rhythms of dexterous human extremities – of fingers, hands, feet and toes, snapping, tapping, and stamping, though not the more common hand-clapping which has been a separate topic

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional, trip hop Tags tap-dancing, finger-clicking, rhythm, Elvis Presley, Fred Astaire, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sammy Davis Jr, John Dryden, musicals, music, playlists, songs
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Playlists: songs featuring animal sounds

June 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Trumpet solo …

Trumpet solos, roar power to the sound of mew-sic, after a melodious menagerie of nominations from last week’s topic, nature-loving playlister Uncleben cleverly tracks down creatural participants for their own perspective on fabulous avine, bovine, elephantine, feline, galline, leonine, lupine, phocaenine and porcine contributions to the genre

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Zoomusicology: songs and music featuring animal sounds

June 13, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Three-part harmony …

It’s a vast sonic language, mostly beyond our understanding, but with a more subconscious appreciation, has been incorporated in different genres of music, from field recordings and samples, or even those mimicked by the human voice or by instruments

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, 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, trip hop Tags animal behaviour, animals, music, songs, playlists, primates, birds, insects, Carl Sagan, Frans de Wall
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Playlists: songs about D-Day

June 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Reflection on Omaha beach in the aftermath of D-Day battles on 6 June 1944

Following the 80th anniversary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century, guest playlister Maki picks poignant and powerful selections abuot that event as well as other do-or-die metaphors inspired by last week’s D-Day topic

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In blues, classical, country, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, jazz, metal, music, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, traditional, soundtracks, soul, songs Tags D-Day, history, war, second world war, Second World War, Maurice Jarre, Sabaton, Chumbawamba, Seth Lakeman, Chris De Burgh, Iron Maiden, Soulsavers, Dave Gahan, B-Squadron, Mavis Staples, The Charlesys, Sod's Opera, Tom Jones, Robert Wyatt, Nat King Cole, Dave Wright & The Midnight Ramblers, Woody Guthrie, Avett Brothers, Captain Beefheart, James Keelaghan, Bill Frisell, Spear of Destiny, Jim Bradford, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Benjamin Britten, Maki
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It's now or never: songs about D-Day (80th anniversary special)

June 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

To mark 80 years since that key day, this song topic is not only about those events – the landings, the battles, the individuals, the big stories, but also in a wider sense about the very idea of D-Day, of those moments where it's really do or die, or in some cases do and die, where necessity means you must be decisive and take action

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Playlists: 7-inch singles that differ from album versions

June 5, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Singularly different: The Undisputed Truth

Sometimes they were an inspiration improvement, sometimes an editing and style aberration. Picking out the differences from last week’s singular topic, guest playlister ParaMhor cleverly chooses the contrasts for better or worse

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A Tribute to George Boyland (aka webcore) 9/3/53 - 15/5/24

June 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Handsome George in his busking glory

A tribute to longtime Song Bar contributor George Boyland, also known as webcore, Liverpudlan storyteller, musician, Albert Docks busker and big family man. Regulars offer their favourite anecdotes, George posts and songs. Rest in Peace, George

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Singular differences: 7-inch releases that contrast with album versions

May 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Stack of 7-inches

Brutally, or mercifully truncated, radio-edited in musical mix or lyrical content, decorously tarted up with orchestra or other instruments, added or deleted solos, made dancier or more ethereal, it’s time to dig up some the contrasting versions that have surprised, delighted or frustrated you

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Playlists: songs about football

May 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Poetry in motion: Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka the great Pelé, 1968

Goals, glories, disasters, fanfare and failure, from the great players to local heroes, and all the ups and downs of the sport, after a superb game of nominations, guest manager Loud Atlas picks and pitches perfect formations with playlists inspired by last week’s topic, but who is on the teamsheet? Check it out …

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Tags songs, playlists, football, soccer, sport, Match of the Day, Barry Stoller, New Order, Wilson Simonal, Billy Bragg, Half Man Half Biscuit, I, I Ludicrous, C Tangana, Amy MacDonald, Matt McGinn, Grupo Fundo De Quintal, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Edric Connor, Vaudeville Smash, Les Murray, Manchester United, Zinedine Zidane, Giacomo Puccini, Luciano Pavarotti, Mike Vickers, The London Stadium Orchestra, The Bouncing Souls, Rodrigo, Richard Dawson, Don Fardon, Cockney Rejects, The Hitchers, Megson, UB40, Scientist, Neba Solo, On the Huh, The Fall, Ed Banger, The Lightning Seeds, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, Collapsed Lung, Dario G, Los Ramblers, Lana Del Rey, Loud Atlas
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Can you kick it? The score: songs about football and its culture

May 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Long player: A young Diego Maradona enjoying one of his other hobbies, 1980

At the zenith of the season, with tournaments ending and beginning, let’s pass our attention to the beautiful game, skill, artistry, eccentricity, but also history, culture, with metaphors, and hopefully avoiding the bad songs, the goal is dig deep into music from around the world …

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Playlists: songs about legs, trousers, pants and other coverings

May 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Trousers, pants, hotpants and other leggings, not to mention even a couple of legless numbers, from the beautiful to the bawdy, this week’s music definitely doing the talking and walking is picked by guest Marco den Ouden from last week’s topic

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Out on a limb: songs about legs, trousers/pants and other coverings

May 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Loose suggestions? Trousers have legs in this week’s topic

Human or animal, trousers or American pants, breeches, pantaloons, hose, stockings or simply fully exposed, it’s time for legs and their coverings to do the walking, or take a stand, in this week’s possibly lengthy topic …

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Playlists: songs about amphibians

May 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Who’s in this week’s lineup?

Frogs, toads, salamanders and axolotls all leap into view in this week’s musical menagerie of amazing amphibious numbers across a fabulous pond of genres from folk to hip hop, jazz and much more, stylishly chosen by guest Suzi from last week’s topic

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Ponder this: songs about amphibians

May 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Careful with that axolotl, humans …

Frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, caecilians, and not forgetting the amazing axolotl, in literal or metaphorical contexts, myth or fairytale, sounds or more, these amazing creatures seem to straddle that subjective line between cute, creepy and ugly. But how to they leap up in song?

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Playlists: songs about pockets and their contents

May 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Pocket money: The Gladiators

Metaphors, narratives, figures of speech and a whole selection of objects that carry stories and emotions. With a vast range of styles and contexts, they are all inside the pocket of these playlists, as skilfully picked by guest ajostu from last week’s topic

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Handy: songs about pockets and their contents

May 2, 2024 Peter Kimpton

More than change …

They’re everyday but also precious, the portal to possessions, they reveal much about ourselves and our daily lives, as well as being an opening for many idioms and metaphors. But what’s in them, and now are they expressed in song?

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Feb 9, 2026
Ulrika Spacek: EXPO
Feb 9, 2026

New album: Arresting, intelligent art rock and electronica, krautrock and psychedelia and a marriage of the analogue and electronic, all intermingle wonderfully different and intelligent new LP by the London band fronted by Rhys Edwards

Feb 9, 2026
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Feb 8, 2026
Beverly Glenn-Copeland: Laughter In Summer
Feb 8, 2026

New album: Delightful, charming, old-fashioned, touching, tender and timeless, this late-career LP from from 82-year-old American-born Canadian singer alongside partner Elizabeth is a love letter to their companionship, and an embrace of the inevitable

Feb 8, 2026
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Feb 6, 2026
Mandy, Indiana: URGH
Feb 6, 2026

New album: An extraordinary second album by the Manchester experimental noise and electronica quartet of the visceral and playful, protest and cartharsis, in a fierce, throbbing, shape-shifting, genre-bursting tour de force that’s responds to very challenging times

Feb 6, 2026
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Feb 4, 2026
Geologist: Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?
Feb 4, 2026

New album: The hurdy-gurdy never quite sounded like this before. Animal Collective multi-instrumentalist Brian Weitz is the final member of that experimental collective to release a solo album, and it’s a bizarre journey of oddball sounds and instruments looped through guitar pedal effects krautrock repetitive, meditational exploratory spirit, inhaled through the titular reference to his past as a smoker

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 4, 2026
Delaney Bailey: Concave
Feb 4, 2026

New album: A highly absorbing, potent, intense yet understated, ethereally sound-sculptured debut by the Indiana-raised Chicago artist who crafts intimate noir-goth dream pop across themes of vulnerability and mental health

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Cast: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Feb 3, 2026

New album: Liverpool’s John Power and co returns after 2024’s Love Is The Call with an eighth LP, packed with anthemic, catchy, voluminous indie rock bangers with P.P. Arnold adding classy backing vocals

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Toni Geitani: Wahj
Feb 3, 2026

New album: A truly magical, highly original, otherworldly landscape of experimental Arabic, electronica, avant-pop, dark ambient and industrial forms by the Beirut-born, Amsterdam-based musician, sound designer, producer, film-maker singer and composer

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Ye Vagabonds: All Tied Together
Feb 3, 2026

New album: Beautiful, evocative, poetic and profound original folk numbers with a traditional style by Irish brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn in their fourth LP, recorded live in a Galway house with acclaimed producer Philip Weinrobe (Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker), and vivid lyrical themes of home and memory

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 2, 2026
Plantoid: FLARE
Feb 2, 2026

New album: The nimbly inventive, experimental prog trio from Brighton return following their debut LP Terrapath, with an evolved, often catchier style of oddball riffs, licks, clever tempo changes, unusual rhythms, and unconventional chord progressions with a stirring of jazz inflections, dream pop, psych rock and shoegaze

Feb 2, 2026
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Feb 1, 2026
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost To Kindness
Feb 1, 2026

New album: A bolder, more strident, indie-rock urgency of style by the New Zealand quartet previously known more for dream pop, particularly front-loading this fifth LP with a pacier, spikier material in their decade-long career

Feb 1, 2026
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Jan 30, 2026
Tyler Ballgame: For The First Time, Again
Jan 30, 2026

New album: With that sublime, soaring, soulful voice, and echoes of Roy Orbison, the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter’s truly gorgeous debut LP captures all the range of of the love – warmth, longing, tenderness and heartbreak through classy and crafted retro sound of 60s and 70s rock

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026

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Feb 9, 2026
Song of the Day: Hungry - Cambridge Is On Fire
Feb 9, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, caustic, satirical and fun post-punk by the Manchester-based band fronted by charismatic singer Jacob Peck and with the latest of so-called “fenland gothic” preoccupation, and stylistic echoes of Sports Team and Deadletter

Feb 9, 2026
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Feb 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Majke Voss (aka Broken Twin) - Coming Down
Feb 8, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful, sparsely crafted, mesmeric new single with gorgeous haunting violin and vocals by the Danish, Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter who previously performed and recorded as Broken Twin, returning after a decade, and now out on Broken Records

Feb 8, 2026
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Feb 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sunburned in London
Feb 7, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmering, bright, insightful, double-edged indie by the five-piece band from indie, returning after 2022’s Endless Rooms LP, about the UK capital city and sensory overload, out on I OH YOU/Mushroom Music

Feb 7, 2026
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Feb 6, 2026
Song of the Day: Sunglaciers - Eye to Eye
Feb 6, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish psychedelia and indie postpunk with a racing, krautrock momentum and a mesmeric, old-footage video montage by the Canadian band from Calgary, heralding the upcoming album Spiritual Content out on 27 March via Mothland

Feb 6, 2026
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Feb 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Designer Citizen
Feb 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A sharp, catchy, witty and socially satirical new number about current American politics and society by the innovative, experimental, Manchester-based Californian folk singer-songwriter, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home due out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music

Feb 5, 2026
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Feb 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Broken Social Scene - Not Around Anymore
Feb 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A sparkling return by Toronto indie collective fronted by Kevin Drew with cleverly, catchy, upbeat rhythmic brass and sax-infused wistful track about disappearing possibilities, and heralding their first album in nearly a decade, Remember The Humans out 8 May via City Slang / Arts & Crafts

Feb 4, 2026
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Feb 3, 2026
Song of the Day: Modern Woman - Dashboard Mary
Feb 3, 2026

Song of the Day: An intriguingly experimental, eclectic, slowing unfolding number with a gently spooky video by the London art-rock band fronted by singer-songwriter Sophie Harris, heralding their debut album Johnny’s Dreamworld on 1 May via One Little Independent Records

Feb 3, 2026
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Feb 2, 2026
Song of the Day: Sego - Buy It Break It
Feb 2, 2026

Song of the Day: Punchy, sharp, witty super-catchy art-punk indie by the Los Angeles-based band from Utah, consisting of Spence (guitar/ lead vocals), Tom (drums), Derv (bass), and Kathleen (keyboards and guitar)

Feb 2, 2026
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Feb 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Chris Brain - Red Sun Rising
Feb 1, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful Nick Drake-reminiscent new folk number with intricate finger-picking by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, and the title track heralding his new album Red Sun Rising, out 1 May via Big Sun Records

Feb 1, 2026
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Jan 31, 2026
Song of the Day: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
Jan 31, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful brand new protest song by the Boss, tackling America’s controversial influx of ICE agents into Minneapolis and their recent murders of innocent bystanders Alex Pretti and Renée Good, released on Columbia

Jan 31, 2026
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Jan 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Robber Robber - The Sound It Made
Jan 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, dynamic, noisy stop-and-start, stylish experimental post-rock and post-rock by the band from Burlington, Vermont, fronted by Nina Cates, heralding their new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, out on 3 April via on Fire Talk

Jan 30, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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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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