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Lava La Rue
Song of the Day: The latest single by the London singer-songwriter is punchy, powerful psychedelic rock number with tearing riffs and lyrics about damage from troubled relationship, abuse and self-harm, from the forthcoming EP Do You Know Everything?, out on BMG
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Huarinami - Carried Away
Song of the Day: Explosive, stylish, gritty, restless indie-psychedelic punk with angular, angry guitars, driving bass and wonderfully arresting vocals by Pauline Janier (aka Cody Pepper) fronting the French London-based four-piece in this single fuelled by the frustration of big-city life, and heralding their sophomore EP Nothing Happens, due for release on 6 June
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SPRINTS - Trickle Down
Song of the Day: The feisty, ferociously fun Dublin post-punk band return with a punchy, on-point angry new number about the flawed economic term, watching systems fail in slow motion, housing crisis, rising costs, culture wars, climate collapse, and frustratingly being told to stay patient while everything burns
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Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy
Song of the Day: A snarling banger with a striking, fiery punk edge and lyrics about disposability by the veteran Californian rockers fronted by Dave Grohl in this title track to the upcoming 12th album, out on 24 April via RCA / Roswell Records
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Montreal’s La Sécurité
Song of the the Day: A quirky, sharp, clever, jerky, catchy nod to disco punk of the early-2000s by the Montreal art-punk collective with a a mix of hooky riffs, pacy drums and crunchy bass, themed across the chance numbers game and a spin on creativity, and also now the title track heralding their upcoming album out on 12 June via Mothland and Bella Union
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They are Hungry
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
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Adult DVD
Song of the Day: Catchy, witty, energised acid-dance-punk with echoes of Underworld and Snapped Ankles by the dynamic, innovative band from Leeds in a new number about a dodgy character of toxic masculinity and online ignorance, and their first release on signing to Fat Possum
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Sleaford Mods’ new album The Demise Of Planet X, is out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: The Notts duo of Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson and return with a fabulously furious, colourful, sweary and darkly acerbic number, with explosive, passionate rage by the Game of Thrones actress, spooky vocals by the indie/postpunk Black Country duo, and a video by brilliant British horror director Ben Wheatley, heralding the new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records
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BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native
Song of the Day: Following their second album, National Average over the summer, the witty, punchy, Walsall, Black Country post-punk duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, return with a striking number frontman “about political turmoil clouding the minds of the nation that turns moral conviction into apathy”
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Gurriers. Erasure
Song of the Day: The Dublin post-punk band’s first single since last year’s blistering debut LP Come And See continues their fierce flammability with what frontman Dan Hoff describes as “an unwavering cry into the void in the face of imperialism and tyranny”, out now on No Filter
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Courting - The Twins (1969)
Song of the Day: A pulsating, passionate, dynamic, indie-postpunk single about missing something once you’ve lost it by the Liverpool quartet of Connor McCann, Josh Cope, Sean Murphy-O'Neill, and Sean Thomas, following their album out earlier this year, Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story. Out on Lower Third / PIAS
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Sleaford Mods are back with a bang: Megaton
Song of the Day: The Nottingham punk-rap duo of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a bang and their first since 2023 – a punchy, catchy, dark-humoured mimicry number about how society is stupidly crippled by social media and separatism – with proceeds from the release going to War Child, the charity that helps children affected in conflict zones
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Chalk - Pain
Song of the Day: A blistering, visceral, pulsating new single with strains of The Prodigy by the post-punk/ dance electronic Belfast trio fronted by Ross Cullen about while wanting to feel untouchable, how vulnerability can overtake you, out on after their recent signing with NYC-based label ALTER Music
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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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Upchuck (Photo: Michael Tyrone Delaney)
Song of the Day: Blistering, ferocious new punk, raging against hopelessness and confronting the spectacle of social injustice that has become daily drudgery for their generation by the band from Atlanta, Georgia, from their forthcoming new album I’m Nice Now, produced by Ty Segall, and out on 3 October via Domino Records
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IDLES - Rabbit Run, from the soundtrack from Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing
Song of the Day: Powerfully, simmering, menacing and explosive … new from the Bristol punk band, taken from the original soundtrack from the upcoming Darren Aronofsky thriller movie, Caught Stealing, out on Protozoa / Partisan Records
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Snõõper
Song of the Day: Frenetic, stomping, bass-heavy, angular guitar and catchy post-punk with echoes of Leeds’ Delta 5 by the Nashville band in this title track from their forthcoming new album, out on 3 October via Third Man Records
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From the video for The Hives’s new single, Paint a Picture
Song of the Day: The Swedish post-punk rockers return with a raucous, swaggering, riveting single with blistering changes of chorus pace, a stylish video inspired by the art style of Roy Lichtenstein, and heralding their upcoming album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, out on 29 August on Play It Again Sam
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Rung up: Gina Birch
Song of the Day: A catchy, energising, all-empowering, air-punching new post-punk single by the legendary Raincoats co-founder, artist, bass player and film-maker, inspired by, and name-checking heroines of art, politics and protest, heralding her forthcoming album Trouble, out on 11 July via Third Man Records
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Tropical Fuck Storm’s upcoming album Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
Song of the Day: A heady new brew of Beefheart-ish ironic, acidic, acerbic, anarchic psychedelia by the brilliantly different Melbourne post-punkers with a song about the absurd overestimation of knowledge, from their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records
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