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U2’s Easter Lily, their second EP of 2026
Song of the Day: After February’s politically themed protest EP Days of Ash, another surprise single and EP, Easter Lily, by the veteran Irish rock band, seasonally themed and reflecting the band’s beliefs, with a classic sound harking back to the past, guitar and synths, and a number described as a devotional song, a celebration of new life, rebirth and resurrection
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U2’s EP Days of Ash, their first new release since 2017
Song of the Day: Bono, The Edge and co return with their first new music since 1017 by the Irish rock giants, a return to form with a powerful protest song about current American politics, part of their new six-song EP, Days of Ash, out on Island Records
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Alabama Shakes
Song of the Day: Brittany Howard rejoins old bandmates Heath Fogg and Zac Cockrell for their first music together in a decade, with this powerful, poignant, soaring soulful number recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios with longtime collaborator Shawn Everett, out on Island Records / UMG
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It’s travelling … Video still from Chappell Roan’s The Subway
Song of the Day: Mixing echoes of classic full-blown 80s pop with modern twists, candid sexuality, self-detrimental humour and elements of the Sundays and the Cranberries, the American acclaimed superstar singer-songwriter returns with a soaring pop single about a transport-based encounter
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The Last Dinner Party’s upcoming new album, From The Pyre
Song of the Day: Channelling ABBA and more – opulent, dramatic, catchy pop with a dark undercurrent of story and fable, where being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer with matching cinematic, fantasy video, by the acclaimed all-female British band following last year’s debut Prelude to Ecstasy, and heralding their second album, From The Pyre, out on 17 October on Universal Island
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Picture Parlour - Who’s There To Love Without You?
Song of the Day: Swaggering, glam, stylish, 70s-style heavy rock with oodles of panache in a bombastic tongue-in-cheek declaration by the Manchester-formed band of Katherine Parlour, Ella Risi and co, out on Island Records
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Getting the job done: Chappell Roan
Song of the Day: After the huge success of 2023’s debut LP The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, the Missouri singer-songwriter and queen of catchy pop and the candid principled scourge of online trolls channels a different genre with a mischievously lesbian country number, with added ironic multi-role video
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Jacob Alon
Song of the Day: A beautiful, poignant new number by the Edinburgh-based Scottish singer, centred around a cousin who tragically drowned in a freak accident before he was born, and heralding a debut album, In Limerence, out on 30 May via Island Records /EMI
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Dora Jar - Lucky
Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG
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Remi Wolf’s forthcoming LP, Big Ideas
Song of the Day: A new, fabulous funk, soul and pop single with a humorously self-detrimentally twist and entertaining flirty video by the Californian singer-songwriter from her upcoming album, Big Ideas, out in July
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Yard Act … they make hits
Song of the Day: The Leeds band fronted by James Smith return with another catchy, clever, talky, ironic post-punk single, here parodying the very nature of what they do, and heralding the new album, Where’s My Utopia
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Dora Jar
Song of the Day: Wonderfully crisp, catchy, uplifting indie pop, in a song inspired by taking an internet break and feeling more alive, by the New York-based artist Dora Jarkowski from North Carolina
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English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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The Last Dinner Party. From the video for My Lady of Mercy
Song of the Day: Another dynamic, passionate, luxuriant pop-rock single by the British five-piece, this time about girl admiringly seeing for the first time a painting of Joan of Arc, feeling a huge romantic crush, but also one that’s affected by the “bloody, carnal language of religious experience”
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Brittany Howard - What Now
Song of the Day: The Alabama Shakes singer-songwriter returns with a passionate and sharp new single of funk-driven soul pop spearheaded by her fabulous voice, a song about the uncertainty of the future and is the title track of her forthcoming next solo album
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Lola Young
Song of the Day: Following her debut album My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely, earlier this year, an arresting new single of personal, passionate address, powerful build with guitar and electronica by the British singer-songwriter
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English Teacher
Song of the Day: After last year’s Polyawkward EP and other excellent releases, the Leeds-based post-punk indie band return with a clever, sharp song with lyrics by frontwoman Lily Fontaine about the contradictions of growing up in Pendle, Lancashire
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Things are looking up: Ben Howard
Song of the Day: An upbeat new piece of experimental dreamy electro-pop by the English singer-songwriter about resisting pressure to conform, even in the face of personal struggles, taken from his forthcoming fifth album, Is It?
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Remi Wolf
Song of the Day: Turn it up to 11. Soaring vocals, huge horn sounds, classic piano pop with a massive rousing climax? It’s all in this new single from the flamboyant California singer-songwriter, their first new music since 2021’s Juno album
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The Last Dinner Party
Song of the Day: A polished, catchy, candid and declamatory art-pop-rock debut by the south London five-piece band with chorus that has musical shades of ABBA and Sparks
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