Song of the Day: Anyone for Tennis? No need to work up a sweat, it’s just the latest otherworldly single by the indie pop band from Denver, Colorado, the husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley
Read moreWarmduscher - Midnight Dipper / I Got Friends
Warmduscher:: wonderfully twisted.
Song of the Day: Funky, dirty, sleazy and dangerously fun, the newest entry is from the South London band’s brand new album Tainted Lunch, plus an older track from their second album from last year, Whale City.
Read moreThe Bevis Frond – And Relax …
From the cover of We’re Your Friends, Man – the newest album by The Bevis Frond
Song of the Day: Following Kamikaze Palm Tree we turn a new leaf towards the psych rock band fronted by Nick Saloman from their latest, 23rd studio album, We’re Your Friends, Man
Read moreKamikaze Palm Tree – Sharpie Smile / Tucan's Nose
Kamikaze Palm Tree
Song of the Day returns with a pair of extraordinary, experimental songs from the San Francisco psych band of Cole Berliner and Dylan Hadley from their 2019 debut album Good Boy
Read moreDaniel Johnston – The Story Of An Artist / An Idiot's End / True Love Will Find You In The End
Daniel Johnston: 1961 -2019
Song of the Day: A short tribute to the recently departed 58-year-old American singer-songwriter. Eccentric, troubled, mentally fragile, his emotional, vulnerable style helped created songs of lo-fi, acoustic, quirky, rough-edged beauty
Read moreSilver Jews – Random Rules / Pretty Eyes
David Berman of Silver Jews, 1967-2019
Song of the Day: In tribute, two songs, that could be any number from the pen of the tragically departed David Berman, singer of Silver Jews and more recently Purple Mountains, one of the greatest lyricists of the past 30 years
Read moreD-day anniversary song special: Jim Radford, Iron Maiden, Joe Strummer
D-day – 6 June 1944
Song of the Day: To mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy, three songs of contrasting styles, beginning with one by Hull-born 90-year D-day veteran, old folk singer and peace campaigner
Read moreJohn Myrtle – Cyril The Slug
John Myrtle
Song of the Day: After POZI’s Diggers and Squid’s Houseplants, it’s time to dig out an actual gardening connection, from the point of view of an unwanted guest, in a delightfully eccentric offbeat number by the London singer and songwriter
Read moreMomus – The Age of Information
The cover of 1997’s Momus album Ping Pong
Song of the Day: To mark the 30th anniversary of the world wide web, a very prescient 1997 song about the online world by the prolific Scottish artist also known as Nick Currie from his 11th studio album (of dozens), Ping Pong
Read morePJ Harvey – Sheela-Na-Gig (for International Women's Day)
Single cover for PJ Harvey’s Sheela-Na-GIg (1992)
Song of the Day: Today’s song, in celebration of women, is from the British singer-songwriter from her debut album Dry – a robust defence of and pride in the female body in response to an insulting lover
Read moreTalk Talk – It's My Life / Life's What You Make It / Desire
Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, 1955-2019
Song of the Day: A triple-song tribute the Mark Hollis, founder songwriter and frontman of the extraordinarily innovative and influential 80s band, whose death, at 64, was recently reported
Read moreShe Drew The Gun – Something For The Pain / Resister
Louisa Roach from She Drew The Gun
Song of the Day: A pair of finely crafted and powerful songs addressing pain and ongoing social problems from the Liverpool indie pop band fronted by singer and songwriter Louisa Roach from the 2018 album Revolution of Mind
Read moreR.E.M. – The Wrong Child
From the cover of R.E.M.’s 1988 album
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Problem Child by Hed Ogledd, a rarely played, but beautiful, pathos-rich song from the perspective of an outsider, perhaps with a physical or mental disability, looking at other children playing
Read moreSufjan Stevens – Christmas In The Room
Merry Christmas, from Sufjan Stevens
Song of the Day: From the prolific US singer-songwriter’s second box set of festive songs, Silver and Gold, a cosy, beautiful, if slightly melancholy of depiction of a couple-only non-family occasion of just watching TV
Read moreJulia Jacklin – Body / Head Alone
Julia Jacklin
Song of the Day: “It’s just my body. I guess it’s just my life.” Two of several telling lines from a pair of beautifully powerful songs by the the Australian singer-songwriter from her forthcoming album, Crushing
Read moreChristian Fitness – National Insurance
Christian Fitness aka Andrew Falkous
Song of the Day: “Hard work is a trap.” Continuing the employment theme, an explosion of hilarious, caustic wit and rapier guitar riffs of angry moral decency from Cardiff-based Andrew "Falco" Falkous
Read moreMush – Gig Economy
Economic gigging: Mush
Song of the Day: Continuing from Bas Jan's songs, a recent number by the indie Leeds-formed quartet that with frantic energy reveals the impossibility of the 21st century model of freelance employment
Read morePJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder / The Glorious Land / On Battleship Hill
PJ Harvey and autoharp
Song of the Day: Continuing on the First World War Armistice Day centenary, a trio of some of the finest songs about war from the British singer and composer from her acclaimed 2011 album Let England Shake
Read moreThe Fall – Cab It Up!
Mark E Smith and ex-wife and guitarist Brix in 1988
Song of the Day: Moving along now to the taxi ranks of Manchester and the unmistakable sound of Mark E Smith’s barking voice, one of many Fall songs in which taxis appear, in a frenetic schedule between gig, studio and pub
Read moreArctic Monkeys - Red Lights Indicate Doors Are Secured
Waiting for a cab? Arctic Monkeys in their early days, with frontman Alex Turner, second from right
Song of the Day: After Jens Lekman’s quiet, contemplative black cab ride, a riot of vivid images and late-night chaos clambering into a taxi in Sheffield with Alex Turner and co from their 2006 debut album
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