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The Mars Volta’s Blacklight Shine
Song of the Day: After 10 years of schisms and side projects, the Texan prog-rock experimental duo of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and band finally reunite with an unique blend of funk, rock, Cuban and Afro-Cuban drumming and English and Spanish lyrics
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La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity
Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP
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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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DIfferent category: Braxe + Falcon
Song of the Day: Smooth, sublime, electro-funk-pop by the French dance music production pair of Alain and Stéphane Quême, aka Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, joined here by Sunni Colon, taken from their forthcoming Step By Step EP that also features Panda Bear
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Diana Ross and Tame Impala - Turn Up The Sunshine from the new Minions movie soundtrack
Song of the Day: A shamelessly upbeat summer disco-funk number as part of the soundtrack for the new animated 70s-themed Minions movie soundtrack featuring the veteran Motown singer, and the Australian band
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What has Lizzo have in common with Stephen Hawking? They’re both about damn time
Song of the Day: It’s Friday, and about damn time some brand new disco funk - and who better to supply it than the colourful, charismatic American singer with a number that heralds her forthcoming new album, three years in the making
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Song of the Day: From their recently released EP Texas Moon, out on Dead Oceans, an effortlessly smooth fusion of 60s Thai funk with soul by the three-piece from Houston and the singer from Atlanta
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Seratones, fronted by AJ Haynes
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming third album Love & Algorhythms, an upbeat, and truly uplifting positive fusion of pop, soul, funk and gospel by the soul-rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana. Out no New West Records
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Fantastic Negrito
Song of the Day: Fabulous mix of funk, blues and African influences in this ironic song by the flamboyant musician from Oakland, California about greed, excess, commodities and racial prejudice inspired in style by Taj Mahal’s idea of the “gods of Africa meeting the ghosts of Mississippi”
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Ibibio Sound Machine
Song of the Day: It really it all anyone might want too. Excellent new electro-pop afro-funk by the London band fronted by Eno Williams from their forthcoming album Electricity, out on Merge Records and produced by Hot Chip
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From the cover of Lucius’s LP Second Nature, out on 8 April
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album Second Nature, superbly funky disco pop by the LA-based quartet fronted by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, about dealing with grief, paranoia and depression, but how it is help by being in the right company
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Melt Yourself Down’s latest single
Song of the Day: A single o blistering pace and riff released a couple of months ago by the London band that fuses jazz, punk, jazz, funk and North African influences, led by tenor saxophonist Pete Wareham and joined by vocalist Kushal Gaya
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The Lazy Eyes
Song of the Day: “I want it all to be OK”. Thumpingly fun, psych-rock-funk number, streaked with insanely catchy riffs and bassline and dreamy vocals by the Sydney, Australia band from their forthcoming debut LP, following two EPs
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And then there were three: Foals
Song of the Day: With strong echoes of Talking Heads, funk guitar and a thumping bass line, a catchy, punchy new single by the Oxford indie rockers, from their forthcoming album
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Hitting the hot-spot: Warmduscher
Song of the Day: Sweary, grumbling grandiloquence by Clams Baker and co in a catchy piece of disco-funk where everything gets the finger with this new single by the mischievous collective ahead of their forthcoming fourth album
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Switched on: Ibibio Sound Machine
Song of the Day: Electronic pop and afro-funk combine in this Hot Chip-produced new single by the vibrant London band exploring the connection between people and the power resource, and through all of life’s complexities, why it’s a simple answer
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Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt
Song of the Day: The crisp, laid back, stylish, gentle funk of this single by the Brooklyn artist comes in a clever contrast to the seriousness of subject – a divided America facing a Capitol skirmish scandal and difficult schisms to deal with and heal
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Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dance-infectious, catchy retro mix of 70s disco and funk, this new Ray Mang Extended Remix of this title track number from the 2020 album Love & Dancing featuring the NYC band and the London DJ collective
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TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres
Song of the Day: Superbly catchy disco-funk-hip-hop collaboration between the American LA-based producer and DJ also known as Jennifer Lee and the rapper aka Sheldon Young from Compton, California
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Liv.e aka Olivia Williams
Song of the Day: A gorgeous mix of funk, jazz, Latin shuffle and soul by the Dallas-raised, LA-based 23-year-old singer-songwriter (pronounced Liv) Olivia Williams from her new EP CWTTY+
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