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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: Hannah Frances - Surviving You

August 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Jay Som - Cards On The Table

August 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jay Som

Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric, dream-like electro- and bedroom pop by the American LA-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer aka Melina Duterte,, from her forthcoming fourth LP, Belong, out on 10 October via Lucky Number / Polyvinyl

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Song of the Day: Jamie Woon - When

August 22, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jamie Woon returns with his first album since 2015 …

Song of the Day: Infectiously pacy, catchy, agile, high-voiced funk and soul by the British singer-songwriter and producer, heralding this upcoming third LP 3, 10, Why, When – and his first for a decade, due out on 3 October via Also Can Records

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Song of the Day: Wombo - S.T. Tilted

August 21, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wombo

Song of the Day: Clever, polyrhythmic, angular, intricate but also dreamy experimental rock by the three-piece indie band from Louisville, Kentucky, from their recently released third album Danger in Fives, out on Fire Talk Records

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Song of the Day: Neko Case: Winchester Mansion of Sound

August 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Neko Case’s upcoming album Neon Grey Midnight Green

Song of the Day: Catchy, piano-based rolling pop and Americana by the US singer-songwriter in a song inspired by her late friend and collaborator Dexter Romweber of the band Flat Duo Jets, and heralding Case’s first album for seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, out on 26 September via ANTI Records

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Song of the Day: TEED (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs) - Desire

August 19, 2025 Peter Kimpton

TEED - Desire

Song of the Day: The US-based British electronic music producer, DJ and singer-songwriter Edward Higginbottom, now shortening his moniker to TEED, returns with new single (with B-side The Echo) – a dreamy, wistful piece of electro-pop, out on Nice Age Records

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Song of the Day: Prewn - System

August 18, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Prewn - System

Song of the Day: Wonderfully woozy and alternative chamber folk-pop and psychedelic rock builds in this title track to the upcoming new album by the band led by Izzy Hagerup from Northampton, Massachusetts, due out on 3 October via Exploding in Sound Records

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Song of the Day: Oliver Beard - I'm Coming To Kill You

August 17, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Oliver Beard - I'm Coming To Kill You

Song of the Day: Menacing in title, but beautiful in sound, melody and execution, this extraordinarily powerful, slow-build number by the Sydney, Australia singer-songwriter is a revenge murder ballad, a cathartic retelling of Beard’s experience of sexual assault

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Song of the Day: Just Mustard - We Were Just Here

August 16, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Just Mustard

Song of the Day: Dreamy, mesmeric electro-indie-shoegaze-pop by the five-piece band from Dundalk, Ireland, with the title track heralding their forthcoming new album out on 24 October via Partisan Records

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Song of the Day: IDLES - Rabbit Run

August 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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Song of the Day: Wolf Alice - White Horses

August 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Wolf Alice in the woods

Song of the Day: Heralding the British band’s upcoming fourth album The Clearing, this thrumming, Fleetwood Mac-like, acoustic 70s-style rock number is the only one from the LP to feature drummer Joel Amey on lead vocals, with Ellie Rowsell joining in the chorus

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Song of the Day: Jens Lekman - Wedding in Leipzig

August 13, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Jens Lekman

Song of the Day: The Swedish singer/songwriter’s latest is a witty, catchy, vividly detailed narrative of a nervous wedding singer, worried about being seated at the singles table with oddballs, and heralds his new Songs For Other People’s Weddings, out on 12 September via Secretly Canadian

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Song of the Day: Low Girl - No Reasons

August 12, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Low Girl’s upcoming album Is It Too Late To Freak Out

Song of the Day: Vibrant, restless, sprawling, turbulent, simmeringly angry indie-fuzz-pop about a messy breakup in this latest single by the British band fronted by Sarah Cosgrove, heralding their debut album, Is It Too Late To Freak Out, due out on 22 October via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Selector Dub Narcotic - When Boys Cry

August 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for When Boys Cry animated by Andrew Ebright

Song of the Day: A groovy deep-voiced tearjerker dance track by the veteran American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and DJ Calvin Johnson, known for bands including Beat Happening, but here under in his dance music alter ego, with the title track of his forthcoming EP out on 12 September via K Records

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Song of the Day: Whitmer Thomas - Bronco Buster

August 10, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Whitmer Thomas

Song of the Day: A catchy, shuffle-beat indie-blues-rock number by the American musician and comedian, from his new gambling-themed EP, Tilt, due out September 5 via Saddle Creek’s Document Series

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Song of the Day: Disclosure and Anderson .Paak - NO CAP

August 9, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Disclosure and Anderson .Paak - NO CAP

Song of the Day: An itchily infectious and ecstatic fusion of dance music and hip-hop between the British electronic music duo brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, with the American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer, out on Apollo Records / Disorder Records /UMG / Capitol Records

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Song of the Day: Westside Cowboy - Drunk Surfer

August 8, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Westside Cowboy’s debut EP This Better Be Something Great

Song of the Day: Dynamic, powerful, passionate, stop-start and soaring indie-rock by the Manchester band, taken from their debut EP This Better Be Something Great, out now on Heist or Hit / Nice Swan Records

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Song of the Day: Laufey - Lover Girl

August 7, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Laufey

Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, charming new retro-style bossa nova track, the latest single heralding the acclaimed Icelandic-Chinese pop artist’s third album, A Matter of Time, out on 22 August via AWAL

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Song of the Day: Chappell Roan - The Subway

August 5, 2025 Peter Kimpton

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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Jan 29, 2026
Tessa Rose Jackson: The Lighthouse
Jan 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful, intricate, understated, poetic and intelligent, this warm, inviting experimental folk by the Dutch-British singer-songwriter is the first LP under her own name, having previously released three as the artist Someone

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong
Jan 28, 2026

New album: The acclaimed veteran country, rock and Americana singer-songwriter and multi-Grammy winner’s latest LP has a title that speaks for itself, but is powerful, angry, defiant and uplifting, and, recorded in Nashville, features guest vocals from Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Brittney Spencer

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Clothesline From Hell: Slather On The Honey
Jan 27, 2026

New album: His moniker mischievously named after a wrestling move, a highly impressive, independently-created experimental, psychedelic rock debut the the Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Dead Dads Club: Dead Dads Club
Jan 27, 2026

New album: Dynamic, passionate, heart-stirring indie rock in this project fronted by Chilli Jesson (formerly bassist of Palma Violets) with songs spurred by the trauma of losing his father 20 years ago, retelling a defiant and difficult aftermath, with sound boosted by producer Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C.

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
The Paper Kites: If You Go There, I Hope You Find It
Jan 25, 2026

New album: Warm, tender, gently-paced, calmly reflective, beautifully soothing, poetic, melancholic alternative folk and Americana by the band from Melbourne in their seventh LP in 15 years

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
PVA: No More Like This
Jan 24, 2026

New album: Inventive, alluring, sensual, mysterious, minimalistic electronica, trip-hop and experimental pop by the London trio of Ella Harris, Joshua Baxter and Louis Satchell, in this second album following 2022’s Blush, boosted by the creativity of producer and instrumentalist Kwake Bass

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Imarhan: Essam
Jan 20, 2026

New album: A mesmeric fourth LP in a decade by the band from Tamanrasset, Algeria, whose name means ‘the ones I care about’, their Tuareg music mixing guitar riffs, pop melodies and African rhythms, but this time also evolves slightly away from the desert blues rocky, bluesy influence of contemporaries Tinariwen with electronic elements

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Courtney Marie Andrews: Valentine
Jan 20, 2026

New album: Emotional, beautiful, stirring, Americana, folk and indie-pop by singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona, in this latest studio LP in of soaring voice, strong melodies, love, vulnerability and heartbreak, longing and bravery

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Jan 18, 2026

New album: Delicate, beautiful, ethereal, meditative new work by the two American experimental composers in their first collaborative LP, with gentle understated vocals, classic synth sounds, and rare harps chosen from from the Paris Musée de la Musique Collection

Jan 18, 2026
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Jan 16, 2026
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
Jan 16, 2026

New album: The caustic wit of Nottingham’s Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a 13th LP of brilliantly abrasive, dark humoured hip-hop and catchy beats, addressing the rubbish state of the world, as well as local, personal and social irritations through slick nostalgic cultural reference, some expanded sounds, and an eclectic set of guests

Jan 16, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
SAULT: Chapter 1
Jan 14, 2026

New album: As ever, released suddenly without fanfare or any publicity, the prolific experimental soul, jazz, gospel, funk, psychedelia and disco collective of Cleo Sol, Info (aka Dean Josiah Cover) and co return with a stylish, mysterious LP

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 14, 2026
The Cribs: Selling A Vibe
Jan 14, 2026

New album: A first LP in five years by the likeable and solid guitar indie-rock Jarman brothers trio from Wakefield, now with their ninth - a catchy, but at times with rueful, bittersweet perspectives on their times in the music business

Jan 14, 2026
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Jan 9, 2026
Dry Cleaning: Secret Love
Jan 9, 2026

New album: This third LP by the London experimental post-punk quartet with the distinctive, spoken, droll delivery of Florence Shaw, is packed with striking, vivid, often non seqitur lyrics capturing life’s surreal mundanities and neuroses with a sound coloured and polished by Cate Le Bon as producer

Jan 9, 2026
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Dec 31, 2025
Various Artists: ICELOCK CONTINUUM
Dec 31, 2025

New album: An inspiring, evocative, sensual and sonically tactile experimental compilation from the fabulously named underground French label Camembert Électrique, with range of international electronic artists capturing cold winter weather’s many textures - cracking, delicate crunchy ice, snow, electric fog, and frost in many fierce and fragile forms across 98 adventurous tracks

Dec 31, 2025

new songs …

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Jan 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody
Jan 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Shimmeringly catchy and singalong, effervescent Abba-esque and Fleetwood Mac-ish piano and synth pop with an eye-catching, vampiric-themed video by the British singer-songwriter from Grantham, heralding her second album Cruel World out on 10 April via Polydor/Universal.

Jan 29, 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Nathan Fake - Slow Yamaha
Jan 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Hypnotic electronica with woozy layers of smooth resonance and a lattice of shifting analogue patterns by the British artist from Norfolk, taken from his forthcoming album, Evaporator, out on InFiné Music

Jan 28, 2026
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Jan 27, 2026
Song of the Day: Charlotte Day Wilson - Lean (featuring Saya Gray)
Jan 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylish, striking, sensual experimental electro-pop and R&B in this fabulous collaboration between the two Canadian singer/ multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, out on Stone Woman Music/ XL Recordings

Jan 27, 2026
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Jan 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Lime Garden - 23
Jan 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, witty, quirky indie pop about age and adjustment by the Brighton-formed quartet fronted by Chloe Howard, heralding their upcoming album Maybe Not Tonight, out on So Young Records on 10 April

Jan 26, 2026
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Jan 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Madra Salach - The Man Who Seeks Pleasure
Jan 25, 2026

Song of the Day: A powerful, slow-simmering and gradually intensifying, drone-based original folk number about the the flipsides of love and hedonism by the young Irish traditional and alternative folk band, with comparisons to Lankum, from the recently released EP It's a Hell of an Age, out on Canvas Music

Jan 25, 2026
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Jan 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee
Jan 24, 2026

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

Jan 24, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (for War Child HELP 2 charity album)
Jan 23, 2026

Song of the Day: A simmering, potent, contemplative new track by acclaimed Sheffield band, their first song since 2022’s album The Car, with proceeds benefiting the charity War Child, heralding the upcoming HELP (2) compilation out on 6 March with various contributors

Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 22, 2026
Song of the Day: White Denim - (God Created) Lock and Key
Jan 22, 2026

Song of the Day: The Austin, Texas-formed LA-based rockers return with an infectiously catchy groove fusing rock, funk, dub, soul, and down-dirty blues with some playful self-mythologising and darker themes, heralding 13th album, 13, out on 24 April via Bella Union

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 21, 2026
Song of the Day: Holy Fuck - Evie
Jan 21, 2026

Song of the Day: The Canadian experimental indie rock and electronica quartet from Toronto return with a pulsating new track of thrumming bass and shimmering keyboards, heralding their forthcoming new album Event Beat, out on 27 March via Satellite Services

Jan 21, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
Song of the Day: KAVARI - IRON VEINS
Jan 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Exciting, cutting-edge electronica and hardcore dance music by innovative the Birkenhead-born, Glasgow-based artist Cameron Winters (she), with a stylish, striking video, heralding the forthcoming EP, PLAGUE MUSIC, out digitally and on 12-inch vinyl on 6 February via XL Recordings

Jan 20, 2026
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Jan 19, 2026
Song of the Day: A$AP Rocky - Punk Rocky
Jan 19, 2026

Song of the Day: The standout catchy hip-pop/soul/pop track from the New York rapper aka Rakim Athelston Mayers’ (also the husband of Rihanna) recently released album, Don’t Be Dumb, featuring also the voice of Cristoforo Donadi, and out on A$AP Rocky Recordings

Jan 19, 2026
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Jan 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Buck Meek - Gasoline
Jan 18, 2026

Song of the Day: The Texas-born Big Thief guitarist returns with an beautifully stirring, evocative, poetic love-enthralled indie-folk single of free association made-up words and quantum leap feelings, rolling drums and strums, heralding his upcoming fourth solo album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD

Jan 18, 2026

Word of the week

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Jan 22, 2026
Word of the week: zumbador
Jan 22, 2026

Word of the week: A wonderfully evocative noun from the Spanish for word buzz, and meaning both a South American hummingbird, a door buzzer, and symbolic of resurrection of the soul in ancient Mexican culture, while also serving as the logo for a tequila brand

Jan 22, 2026
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Jan 8, 2026
Word of the week: aspectabund
Jan 8, 2026

Word of the week: This rare adjective describes a highly expressive face or countenance, where emotions and reactions are readily shown through the eyes or mouth

Jan 8, 2026
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Dec 24, 2025
Word of the week: bellonion (or belloneon)
Dec 24, 2025

Word of the week: It sounds like a bulbous, multi-layered peeling vegetable, but this obscure mechanical musical instrument invented in 1812 in Dresden consisted of 24 trumpets and two kettle drums and, designed to mimic the sound of a marching band, might also make your eyes water

Dec 24, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025

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