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The brilliant Bill Callahan is back
Song of the Day: Resonant, poetic, moody, profound, the acclaimed American singer-songwriter returns with a song exploring feelings of a life that was lived and one that's meant to be, heralding his latest album, My Days of 58, out on 27 February 2026 via Drag City Records.
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Tyler Ballgame’s debut album, For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: Some voices are once in a generation. The likes of Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley. And now here’s the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter, his truly tremendous tenor soaring supremely on this soulful indie-Americana rock number about how love makes glorious fools of us, and heralding his upcoming debut album For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade
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Midlake’s sixth album, A Bridge Too Far, is out on 7 November via Bella Union
Song of the Day: A stirring, soulful new work by the acclaimed Denton, Texas pastoral psych-folk band, and a track singer-songwriter Eric Pulido describes as being about “the temptation to demonize the realities or challenges that exist and yet to face them head on and create something extraordinary”. It heralds their upcoming sixth album, A Bridge To Far, out on 7 November, via Bella Union
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Neko Case’s upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green
Song of the Day: Catchy, piano-based rolling pop and Americana by the US singer-songwriter in a song inspired by her late friend and collaborator Dexter Romweber of the band Flat Duo Jets, and heralding Case’s first album for seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, out on 26 September via ANTI Records
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Whitmer Thomas
Song of the Day: A catchy, shuffle-beat indie-blues-rock number by the American musician and comedian, from his new gambling-themed EP, Tilt, due out September 5 via Saddle Creek’s Document Series
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Flock of Dimes aka Jenn Wasner
Song of the Day: Beautiful gentle bittersweet acoustic single by the Baltimore indie musician and singer-songwriter aka Jenn Wasner heralding her upcoming new album, The Life You Save out on 10 October, via Sub Pop Records
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Whitney - Dandelions
Song of the Day: Delicate, poignant, vivid indie-folk and Americana with a sensitive falsetto and 70s feel by the Chicago band formed by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, in this latest single heralding their forthcoming album, Small Talk, out November 7 via AWAL
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Jeff Tweedy’s upcoming album Twilight Override
Song of the Day: This eclectic, cross-rhythmic but beautiful evocative folk-rock single by the Wilco frontman is whimsical tale of a man who trips over a flower and dies, yet also celebrates the power of nature, and heralds his upcoming triple solo album, Twilight Override, out on 26 September via dBpm Records
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Cass McCombs’ upcoming new album Interior Live Oak
Song of the Day: A beautiful, warm, rich, acoustic embrace of a song about a farewell word from the California singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Interior Live Oak, out on 15 August 2025 on Domino Records
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Ethel Cain’s upcoming album, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Song of the Day: Liltingly gentle, and textured by guitars, pedal steel, fiddle and banjo, this achingly beautiful love song by the Tallahassee, Florida singer-songwriter Hayden Anhedonia, is the first single from the sophomore album Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You, out on 8 August via Daughters of Cain
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Wednesday - Elderberry Wine
Song of the Day: A Wednesday for a Wednesday. Beautiful, bittersweet country and creek rock by the band from Asheville, North Carolina, their first new music since their breakthrough 2023 album Rat Saw God, out on Dead Oceans
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Lana Del Rey - Henry, Come On
Song of the Day: The enigmatic American singer-songwriter returns after a two-year absence with a beautiful country-inflected new single, heralding her forthcoming next album, The Right Person Will Stay, out on Polydor/Interscope/Universal
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TORRES and Julien Baker
Song of the Day: A witty, droll but also beautiful, bittersweet country number with TORRES, aka MacKenzie Scott, on the lead vocal, with lyrics about a girl she had a crush on in her youth and the resulting conflict with her mother, and heralding the LP Send A Prayer My Way, out 18 April on Matador Records
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Perfume Genius and Aldous Harding in the striking new video for No Front Teeth
Song of the Day: Another extraordinary folk-rock-baroque-pop single by the genre-hopping American artist Mike Hadreas, and an arresting, sexually interesting video, joined by the equally enigmatic New Zealand singer-songwriter, and heralding the seventh album, Glory, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last
Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress
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Youth Lagoon ‘s upcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream
Song of the Day: A mesmeric new banger with the whispering voice of Trevor Powers, the shapeshifting, innovative Idaho-based songwriter and producer, taken from his forthcoming new album, Rarely Do I Dream, out Fat Possum Records on 21 February
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Lucy Dacus
Song of the Day: A beautiful string-laden, tactile love song new single by the singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia and one third of the trio Boygenius, taken from her from forthcoming new album, Forever Is A Feeling, out on 28 March, via Geffen Records
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Perfume Genius’s forthcoming album, Glory
Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records
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New Year’s fireworks? The recent collaborative Angel Olsen album featuring this Camp Saint Helene song
Song of the Day: A profound, philosophical and ethereally beautiful final SOTD for 2024, by the band from the Catskill Mountains, New York, taken from Angel Olsen's recent collaborative album, Cosmic Waves Volume 1, out on Somethingscosmic and Jagjaguwar
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TORRES and Julien Baker. Photo: Ebru Yildiz
Song of the Day: Beautifully crafted country about bittersweet love-sickness by two acclaimed singer-songwriters inspired by their experiences of growing up queer in the southern states, here sharing vocals and playing banjo and guitar in their first single together, out on Matador Records
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