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Song of the Day: Zoh Amba - Eyes Full

May 6, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Zoh Amba’s upcoming debut album, Eyes Full, out on Matador Records

Song of the Day: An impassioned, stirring, dark and driving country/indie-rock number about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why by the NY-based band with Kingsport, Tennessee roots, with this title track of the forthcoming debut LP Eyes Full, out on 5 June via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Kim Gordon - Not Today

January 15, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Totally wired: KIm Gordon is back with an upcoming third solo album, PLAY ME, out on Matador Records

Song of the Day: Title aside, today really is the day for the ever innovative, former Sonic Youth frontwoman to return with a striking, stylish, eclectic, bittersweet dress-themed new single heralding her upcoming third solo album, PLAY ME, out on 13 March via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: David Byrne - T Shirt

November 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

David Byrne - T Shirt

Song of the Day: In addition to his acclaimed latest album Who Is The Sky?, with which he is now touring to rave reviews, the former Talking Heads frontman releases a new, catchy electro-pop, humorous but pointed political number co-written with old friend and collaborator Brian Eno, and out now on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Spoon - Guess I'm Fallin In Love

September 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Spoon

Song of the Day: Released alongside another catchy single, Chateau Blues, this krautrock-ish indie rock number is a twist on the standard love by the Austen, Texas band fronted by Britt Daniel, and out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: bar italia - Fundraiser

August 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

bar italia

Song of the Day: The London indie-rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton return with a punchy, gnarly, lively lead-swapping new post-punk number, heralding their upcoming new album Some Like It Hot, out on 17 October via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: David Byrne - Everybody Laughs (featuring Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra)

June 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

David Byrne returns in his own inimitable style, with an upcoming new album, Who Is The Sky?

Song of the Day: The ever innovative ex-Talking Heads frontman returns with a jaunty, restorative, upbeat new number capturing some universal human behaviour and emotions, heralding his new album, Who Is The Sky?, on out 5 September via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs

June 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Water From Your Eyes: Nate Amos and Rachel Brown

Song of the Day: Dynamic, pace-changing, stylishly experimental indie rock with droll, clever delivery and shades of Deerhoof by the Brooklyn band of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, heralding their forthcoming album It's a Beautiful Place, out on 22 August via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Car Seat Headrest - Gethsemane

March 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming concept album, The Scholars

Song of the Day: Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Julien Baker and TORRES - Tuesday

March 2, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Circuit des Yeux - Canopy of Eden

February 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Circuit des Yeux’s forthcoming album Halo on the Inside

Song of the Day: A fabulously thrumming, throbbing, pagan-folk dancefloor number by strikingly individual and original Chicago vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr, heralding the new LP, Halo on the Inside, out on 14 March via Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Perfume Genius - No Front Teeth (featuring Aldous Harding)

February 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror

January 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: DARKSIDE - S.N.C

January 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

DARKSIDE - S.N.C

Song of the Day: Instantly stylish, hooky, engaging funk and experimental rock with a distinct cavernous sound by the New York trio of Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington, and new member Tlacael Esparza, heralding the band’s forthcoming third LP, Nothing, out on 28 February on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Julien Baker & TORRES - Sugar in the Tank

December 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Mdou Moctar - Imouhar

March 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Mdou Moctar

Song of the Day: Building to a powerful guitar crescendo, a stirring new desert blues and rock single about cultural identity by the Nigerian Tuareg musician and band return with a title meaning “brother or comrade”

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Song of the Day: Kim Gordon - BYE BYE

January 25, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kim Gordon

Song of the Day: A dark, menacing but very strikingly original new number by the legendary former Sonic Youth frontwoman, fusing noise rock, electronica, and a farewell shopping-and-packing list, which heralds her next solo album, The Collection, out on 8 March

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Song of the Day: Queens of the Stone Age - Emotion Sickness

May 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Queens of the Stone Age new album out in June - Times New Roman

Song of the Day: A rockin’ Saturday return with this new single by the Seattle-formed band fronted by Josh Homme, with classic guitar sounds and a chorus that has echoes of late-60s Cream, and is taken from their forthcoming album, Times New Roman

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Song of the Day: Water From Your Eyes - Barley

March 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Water From Your Eyes: Rachel Brown and Nate Amos

Song of the Day: Highly original experimental pop with oddball, mantra-like deadpan and palpitating, repetitive rhythms by the Brooklyn duo of Rachel Brown and Nate Amos from their forthcoming album Everyone's Crushed on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: bar italia - Nurse!

March 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Dark and alluring: bar italia

Song of the Day: A dark and alluring new single by the art-rock / post-punk trio of Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, Nina Cristante, and Samuel Fenton, with fuzz guitar, crisp drums and arresting vocals. Out on Matador Records

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Song of the Day: Circuit Des Yeux - The Manatee

February 9, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Circuit Des Yeux, aka Haley Fohr

Song of the Day: After Rheinzand’s Elefantasi and Röksopp’s dream-like fantasy, further ethereal and sea cow creatural wonder in the form of the Chicago band’s beautiful new single, following their last year’s album -io, out on Matador Records

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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026

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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

April 23, 2026

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