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Ye Vagabonds
Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January
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Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right (EP) - out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: This beautiful title track from the new EP by the Irish folk singer-songwriter from Cavan is a powerful original about man-made, greed-motivated unnatural disasters, joining with five other poignant numbers, including a new version of The Bleak Midwinter, out now on Rough Trade
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Dublin’s Lankum return, bringing a new dimension to Specials classic
Song of the Day: An extraordinarily haunting and powerful release by the experimental Irish folk band with a cover of the often topical 1981 Specials classic number, now with a different dimension of drone sounds, strings, rich vocal harmonies, piano and a climax of rippling synths and beats, released on Rough Trade
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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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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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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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Pulp in the studio
Song of the Day: A simple, universal message in a hugely appealing, crowd-pleasing galloping indie-pop number by the Sheffield band fronted by Jarvis Cocker in this second single heralding their forthcoming album, More, out on Rough Trade on 6 June
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The Sophs
Song of the Day: Oddly mesmeric, viscerally candid yet also gently ironic, a catchy, crisp debut indie-pop single by the Los Angeles six-piece, newly signed to Rough Trade, with a song about overcompensation of grief and losing control of emotions, but also with a drily humorous performance video
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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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More on the horizon: Pulp’s first album since 2001 is out in June on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: Heralding More, their first new album in 24 years, the beloved Sheffield indie-pop band return with instantly catchy, joyous number referencing Jarvis Cocker’s drive to perform, and a drily humorous titular reference to the legendary Stone Roses gig in Widnes in 1990
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From the video for Poor Creature’s The Whole Town Knows
Song of the Day: A stirring, primal, powerfully dark, vivid hybrid-folk single by the trio of Ruth Clinton (Landless), Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody (of Lankum) heralding their debut album All Smiles Tonight, out on 11 July via River Lea Records
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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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Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)
Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland
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Hifi Sean and David McAlmont
Song of the Day: With a title that sums up that contradictory essence of great pop music, a fabulous new disco-flecked return from the Glaswegian musician and producer and the soulful, silkily, soaring voiced singer, taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, Daylight, out on 20 June on Rough Trade
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Goat Girl
Song of the Day: Engrossingly downbeat, but with rippling passages of guitar arpeggios in between strums, an alluringly deadpan song by the south London indie band, heralding their next album, Below The Waste, out on 7 June via Rough Trade
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Gruff Rhys’s forthcoming new album, Sadness Sets Me Free, out on Rough Trade
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, characteristically quirky and catchy new indie-pop single by the Welsh singer-songwriter, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance”
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Artwork for the new AHOHNI single It Must Change: “Julia with Rose” by Erika Yasuda (Tokyo, 1979-1984
Song of the Day: Classy, powerful, soulful new single by the acclaimed British-born, New York-based artist with their wonderfully emotive, distinctive voice, heralding the forthcoming new album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, with a song describing systems in collapse with a note of compassion for humanity
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This Is The Kit’s new album, Careful Of Your Keepers, out in June
Song of the Day: Released today, a crisp, beautifully crafted alternative folk number with guitars, horns and intricate rhythms by Kate Stables and co, taken from the next album, Careful Of Your Keepers, out on Rough Trade and produced by Gruff Rhys
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Special Interest
Song of the Day: With a fantastically fuzzy, funky bass line, disco funk style and punchy, dynamic vocal delivery, the New Orleans band’s new single has dance appeal, but its subject matter has more gravitas, referring to Black rights revolutionary Herman Wallace who was held in solitary confinement for over 40 years
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The cover of black midi’s forthcoming album Hellfire
Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos
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