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Greentea Peng - Prisoners Round
Song of the Day: Following March 2025’s acclaimed album, Tell Dem It’s Sunny, the south-east London artist (aka Aria Wells) returns with another smoky, dark, track with hues of blues, dub and soul and Portishead-esque trip-hop, focusing on the trappings and challenges of modern life
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Flea - A Plea
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
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Fatoumata Diawara enjoys some studio time
Song of the Day: A fabulous, agile, upbeat, energetic blend of jazz, afrobeat, soul and funk as the Leeds-formed London collective join forces with the legendary Malian singer-songwriter on this new single, both a celebration and a lament, out on Strut Records
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Pan Amsterdam - KIMCHI
Song of the Day: A tasty groove and food theme by the New York rapper and trumpeter aka Leron Thomas, joined by the French DJ and producer in this this droll, witty, slick and stylish new single, following May’s album, Confines, released on Heavenly
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Momoko Gill
Songs of the Day: A beautiful free-flowing fusion of jazz and groove soul by the Japan- and US-raised, London-based drummer, producer, singer-songwriter and keyboard player with two songs heralding her forthcoming debut album Momoko, out on 11 January 2026 via Strut Records / K7 Music
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Song of the Day: A beautiful, moving, gently old-fashioned new version of an older song by the veteran US-born Canadian trans singer with that distinctive, charming voice, heralding the forthcoming album, Laughter In Summer, out on 6 February 2026 via Transgressive Records. Let Us Dance was previously released as a synth-based version on the 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies
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From the video by Mikel Patrick Avery for Layered Presence by Tortoise
Song of the Day: Instilling a sense of simultaneous calm and yet unease, a mesmeric, cinematic-feel instrumental by the legendary Chicago experimental, eclectic, improvisational jazz-funk-pyschedelic-prog-electronica band, heralding their first album for nine years, TOUCH, out on 24 October via International Anthem / Nonesuch Records
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Maruja’s single Trenches is the latest to herald their debut album Pain To Power
Song of the Day: Influenced by Rage Against The Machine, a seething, menacing new track by the Manchester jazz-punk band, one they describe as “a call for revolution in the face of the oppressive,” with searing, combative lyrics by vocalist Harry Wilkinson and interweaving sax by Joseph Carroll, heralding their debut album Pain to Power, out on 12 September via Music For Nations
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Hannah Frances’s upcoming album Nested In Tangles
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, vocal-echoing, hauntingly strange, beautiful and woozily wondrous mix of avant-folk and jazz by the acclaimed Chicago composer, vocalist, guitarist, and poet, heralding her upcoming new album, Nested In Tangles, out on 10 October by Fire Talk Records
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Racing Mount Pleasant - Your New Place
Song of the Day: The Michigan-based band formerly known as Kingfisher herald their upcoming debut album under the new name with this unusual, passionately stirring and sprightly chamber-pop-jazz-indie-pop single with added strings and brass
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corto.alto - DON'T LISTEN
Song of the Day: The latest brilliantly original, experimental, eclectic cross-pollinated jazz-funk by the band led by Glasgow’s multi-instrumentalist producer Liam Shortall, with twisting, turning basslines, sax, percussion, fuzzy vocals and strings, out on Ninja Tune
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McKinley Dixon’s forthcoming album, Magic, Alive!
Song of the Day: Dynamic, stylish, clever hip-hop with agile notes of jazz and gospel and guests, by the American rapper and singer from Richmond, Virginia, heralding his forthcoming fifth album, Magic, Alive!, out on 6 June via City Slang
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Emma-Jean Thackray - Black Hole (featuring Reggie Watts)
Song of the Day: A fabulous fusion of P-funk, jazz, pop and more about seeking refuge from the winter or any darker times, in this recent release by the Leeds-born British singer and multi-instrumentalist joined by the American comedian and musician and out on Brownswood Recordings
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Unknown To Known
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic experimental and engaging jazz featuring woodwind, percussion, sitar and bass by the London quartet of Idris Rahman, Jihad Darwish, Tamar Osborn and Yusuf Ahmed from their debut album, Lightship, out on Maps For Getting Lost
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Echolalia: Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical, adventurous psychedelic folk with eclectic Robert Wyatt echoes come all aswirl in this first single by a new Nashville group featuring Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends heralding a self-titled forthcoming album, out on 28 February via Full Time Hobby
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BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Tim Bernardes - Poeira Cosmica
Song of the Day: The Toronto instrumental trio of Chester Hansen, Alexander Sowinski, and Leland Whitty return with a fabulous jazz-Brazilian poetic fusion with the smooth, tender, soaring voice of singer-guitarist of the São Paulo band, O Terno
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Summer Pearl - The Creator
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Greentea Peng, another stylishly cool London singer-rapper brings spiritual and political lyrics and female power in hip-hop-jazz-soul number that reminds us that music is a healer and out on Kitto Records
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Greentea Peng is back
Song of the Day: With a distinctive new fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, neo soul, dub, reggae, jazz, and psychedelia, south London artist Aria Wells returns after two years with a stylish number with a dark bassline, tinkling piano, and something of a manifesto about pure expression
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Geordie Greep’s forthcoming solo album, The New Sound
Song of the Day: The Black Midi frontman’s first solo release is a fabulous, frenetic swirl of guitar rock, jazz, prog, funk, pop and Latin, recorded Sãu Paulo, channelling Frank Zappa, Scott Walker, Broadway musicals, with a punchy horn section, his distinctive voice, clever lyrics, it heralds his forthcoming LP, The New Sound out on 4 October via Rough Trade
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Kit Sebasian’s new album New Internationale is out in September via Brain Feeder Records
Song of the Day: Stylish, clever, eclectic new single by the French-Turkish London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem about the difficult immigration experience and fusing the influence of Azerbaijani music with an old Italian analog synth
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