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Song of the Day: Glass Beams - Mahal

July 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Glass Beams

Song of the Day: The title track of the recent EP by the Melbourne-based trio formed around founding member Rajan Silva is a exotic, entrancing instrumental fusing eastern and western cultures, the sounds of Ravi Shankar and family, and psychedelia

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Song of the Day: Nubya Garcia - Clarity

July 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Nubya Garcia’s upcoming album, Odyssey

Song of the Day: A gorgeously rich, emotive new blended jazz piece featuring orchestral strings, piano and more by the award-winning London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer heralding her forthcoming new album, Odyssey out on 20 September via Concord Jazz

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In 2024, classical, experimental, jazz Tags Nubya Garcia, Concord Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: Galliano - Circles Going Round The Sun

May 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Galliano return in 2024 after 27 years

Song of the Day: The acid jazz, soul and hip hop band returns after almost three decades with a vibrant new ode-to-dance and spoken number namechecking influential artists, musicians and from Arthur Russell to Andrew Weatherall, and heralds the the forthcoming album Halfway Somewhere, out on Browswood Recordings

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In 2024, hip hop, jazz, soul Tags Galliano, Brownswood Recordings, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Lady Blackbird - Let Not (Your Heart Be Troubled)

May 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lady Blackbird

Song of the Day: The opening track of soaring, timeless, passionate gospel-infused soul music and more by the supreme American singer-songwriter, taken from her fabulous new five-track EP, Slang Spirituals, out now

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In 2024, blues, gospel, jazz, soul Tags Lady Blackbird, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Colin Stetson - The Love It Took To Leave You

May 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Colin Stetson

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, looping, primal and delicately beautiful experimental work by the saxophonist from Montréal, Canada, here on the alto with the title track of his upcoming new album and one described as “a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain”

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In 2024, alternative, avant garde, experimental, jazz Tags Colin Stetson, Invada Records, Envision Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: Laufey - Goddess

May 14, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Laufey

Song of the Day: This mesmeric, haunting, piano-accompanied new single comes from the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir about her experience in a relationship with someone who is more in love with her image as an artist than her as a person

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In 2024, folk, jazz, pop Tags Laufey, Vingolf Recordings, AWAL Records, AWAL Recordings, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Ezra Collective: Ajala

May 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ezra Collective

Song of the Day: After 2022’s Mercury prize-winning album, Where I’m Meant To Be, the jazz and afrobeat quintet of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison return with a vibrant new single

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In 2024, afrobeat, jazz Tags Ezra Collective, Femi Koleoso, Partisan Records, songs, song of the day, instrumentals
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Song of the Day: Jordan Rakei - Friend or Foe

April 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Jordan Rakei

Song of the Day: The latest single by the silky-voiced London-based New Zealand-Australian soul singer brings also punchy horns and orchestra in a jazz-funk-Motown-style fusion, and comes from his forthcoming album, The Loop, out on 10 May via Decca Records

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In 2024, funk, jazz, pop, soul Tags songs, song of the day, Jordan Rakei, Decca
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Song of the Day: Baby Rose with BADBADNOTGOOD - One Last Dance

March 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Baby Rose’s upcoming EP, Slow Burn, is out in April

Song of the Day: Serene, gentle, simmering soul and jaz in this ode to lost friendship by the smoky-voiced Atlanta singer-songwriter Jasmine Rose Wilson, joined by the Canadian instrumentalist, from upcoming EP Slow Burn, out on 12 April on Secretly Canadian

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In 2024, jazz, soul Tags Baby Rose, BadBadNotGood, Secretly Canadian, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Kamasi Washington - Prologue

March 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Kamasi Washington

Song of the Day: The acclaimed Los Angeles virtuoso jazz saxophonist returns with this dramatic, energetic opening track, originally written by by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, and heralding his forthcoming new album, Fearless Movement, out 3 May via Young Records

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In 2024, jazz, experimental Tags Kamasi Washington, Young Records, Astor Piazzolla
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Song of the Day: Ella Raphael - Tangled Love

March 3, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ella Raphael - Tangled Love

Song of the Day: A gorgeously smooth, hazy, exotic, noirish, vibraphone-led slice of melancholy with a lush lap steel guitar by the singer-songwriter from Haifa “about the way we are raised, a breakdown in communication, and the entanglement that evolves as a result”

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In 2024, alternative, Americana, country, folk, jazz Tags Ella Raphael, Fire Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Tomasz Guiddo and Jimi Tenor - Where The Wild Roam

February 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Where The Wild Roam EP by Tomasz Guiddo & Jimi Tenor

Song of the Day: A delicious fusion of jazz, electronica, dance music and classical, celebrating freedom, by the Warsaw-born DJ, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, joined by the acclaimed Finnish saxophonist Jimi Tenor on vocals, flute, piano and keyboards

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In 2024, alternative, electronica, experimental, fusion, indie, jazz Tags Tomasz Guiddo, Jimi Tenor, Compost Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Stevie Toddler - Wake Me Like

January 31, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Stevie Toddler’s forthcoming 8-track EP release, Last Time Forever

Song of the Day: From the forthcoming sophomore release, Last Time Forever, a gorgeous experimental mix of pop, jazz and classical by the Bristol artist, here with rolling piano sounds, orchestral instruments and a wonderful wooziness that captures that moment of falling awake in a dream-like state

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Song of the Day: Lucy Rose - The Racket / Could You Help Me

January 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lucy Rose

Song of the Day: With her first new music in four years, the British singer-songwriter returns with two dynamic rock-pop singles, one with mesmeric rising and falling piano chord line, the other with a jaunty jazz style, heralding her new album, This Ain’t the Way You Go Out

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In 2024, 2023, jazz, pop, rock Tags Lucy Rose, Communion Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Peacey - Culture Bandit (featuring Vanessa Hidary)

December 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Peacey - Culture Bandit (featuring Vanessa Hidary)

Song of the Day: Punchy, pacy, catchy and exclamatory, a super smart talky-dance track by the Edinburgh-based DJ and electronica artist David Peace joined by New York spoken-word artist celebratory multiculturalism

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In 2023, alternative, dance, electronica, experimental, spoken word, funk, jazz Tags Atjazz Record Company, Peacey, Vanessa Hidary, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Compared to What

December 11, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (EHE) - Kahil El'Zabar (middle), Corey Wilkes (left) and Alex Harding (right)

Song of the Day: The veteran singer-percussionist and friends release a fabulous 8-minute, jazz-blues interpretation of the Eugene McDaniel protest song, taken from the forthcoming album Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, out on 8 March on Spiritmuse Records

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In 2023, jazz, African Tags Kahil El'Zabar, Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Eugene McDaniel, songs, song of the day, Spiritmuse Records
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Song of the Day: O. - Slice

December 8, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Slice by O.

Song of the Day: The title track from the debut EP by the exciting, experimental, energetic King Tubby-influenced London duo of baritone saxophonist Joseph Henwood and drummer Tash Keary, out on Speedy Wunderground and produced by Dan Carey

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In 2023, alternative, experimental, indie, jazz Tags O., Speedy Wunderground, Dan Carey
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Song of the Day: Maruja - One Hand Behind The Devil

October 29, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Manchester’s Maruja

Song of the Day: Stormy, scything, dynamic post-punk with blasts of jazz by the Manchester quartet of singer-guitarist Harry Wilkinson, drummer Jacob Hayes, bassist Matt Buonaccorsi and saxophonist Joe Carroll

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Song of the Day: BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson - Sleeper

October 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

BADBADNOTGOOD & Charlotte Day Wilson - Sleeper

Song of the Day: A beautiful, classy fusion of soul and jazz of perfect balance by the Canadian instrumental trio and fellow Toronto singer, marked by particularly crisp drumming and delicate flutes

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In 2023, jazz, pop, soul Tags BadBadNotGood, Charlotte Day Wilson, Stone Woman Music, XL Recordings
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Song of the Day: Ego Ella May - Undone

September 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ego Ella May

Song of the Day: An exquisitely crisp, delicate soulful number by the London singer-songwriter inspired by a book about Swedish business who becomes a Buddhist monk in Thailand for 17 years, and is about letting go of control, ditching facades and leaving it all behind

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Jan 30, 2026
Tyler Ballgame: For The First Time, Again
Jan 30, 2026

New album: With that sublime, soaring, soulful voice, and echoes of Roy Orbison, the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter’s truly gorgeous debut LP captures all the range of of the love – warmth, longing, tenderness and heartbreak through classy and crafted retro sound of 60s and 70s rock

Jan 30, 2026
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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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Jan 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Robber Robber - The Sound It Made
Jan 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, dynamic, noisy stop-and-start, stylish experimental post-rock and post-rock by the band from Burlington, Vermont, fronted by Nina Cates, heralding their new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, out on 3 April via on Fire Talk

Jan 30, 2026
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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

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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