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Ezra Furman never fails to be entertaining on stage
A beautifully upbeat, mischievous, wistful, passionate number from the new album, Transangelic Exodus by the Chicago indie rock singer-songwriter, in which "the past is the past, but the present's nothing without it"
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Millicent Fawcett campaigns for the vote in London's Hyde Park
Song of the Day: Two very contrasting songs to celebrate the centenary of the first legal step into women's suffrage in Britain - the Representation of People Act 1918 - followed by the eventually ratification across the US in 1920.
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Field Music's 2018 album Open Here
Song of the Day: How to create a value system for modern life? Just as this is hard to quantify, it is equally difficult to categorise the musical style of the Sunderland band, whose latest, sixth album, Open Here, addresses a variety of contemporary issues
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Awkward position: Abba's Agnetha Fältskog
Song of the Day: Completing a triptych of songs about pyrrhic victory in relationships, an ultimate breakup number by the Swedish pop quartet – heavily layered in irony because Agnetha Fältskog sang the lead in a work written by ex-husband Björn Ulvaeus
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Maybe nine can win? Fabulous family band The Sylvers
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Ty Segall/Hot Chocolate cover comparison, more material playing on the topic of who or may not be the winner in a relationship from the brilliant hip hop and jazz producer and the 70s funk and soul family group
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Ty Segall's new album, Freedom's Goblin
Song of the Day: It's time for an upbeat number for Friday, and so let's enjoy a great new cover version by the American garage rocker that stands up the original, but also resulting in a situation where everyone is indeed a winner
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Super Furry Animals single cover for Northern Lites
Song of the Day: After Renaissance, let's turn to the innovative Welsh band, here adding a catchy dash of Caribbean calypso, steel drums and brass into a song written years earlier by frontman Gruff Rhys
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Elizabeth Fraser singing Teardrop on tour with Massive Attack in 2006
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Amy Winehouse, tears of another taste from another enthralling voice – Elizabeth Fraser formerly of the Cocteau Twins
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Baxter Dury … a different chip of the old blockhead
Song of the Day: Sounding uncannily like his dad Ian in the speaking department, but producing entirely different music and his own, more relaxed style, the opening and title tracks from his 2017 album are deeply personal and still laced with aggression, irony, self-loathing and dark humour
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Rick Hall with Wilson Pickett and the great Muscle Shoals guitarist Jimmy Johnson
Song of the Day: Today's song could be one of many masterpieces, because it's really a tribute to its co-writer, the recently departed Rick Hall, who founded the magical musical well known as Fame Studios at 603 East Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
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Unstoppable … !!! work up a sweat on stage
Song of the Day: It is hard to find any material more energising than the music of the New York dance-postpunk band originally from Sacramento, California, who have been delivering blistering live performances for more than 20 years
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Human Pyramids: Paul Russell and friends
Song of the Day: Surviving the hectic regime that runs up to Xmas? For those struggling to get through that to-do list, keep up with socialising and stave off illness, after a short break, this week on SOTD we're embarking on a series of songs to invigorate the body, mind and spirit
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Don't let yourself go hungry, fox in the snow …
Song of the Day: A wintry scene for an equally wintry day, and continuing our creatural theme, a melancholy but beautiful number from the Glasgow band's second album of 1996, If You're Feeling Sinister
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Grace Slick with Jefferson Airplane
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Frightened Rabbit, it was simply too tempting to follow down this particular hole in this wondrous psychedelic number written and sung by Grace Slick
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Deer Tick
Song of the Day: Following on from our hooves, animal, and body parts band theme, we turn to two very contrasting tracks, from the versatile Rhode Island band who have variously been described as anything between alt-country and punk
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Bdy_Prts's Jenny and Jill take it to the top, and beyond …
Song of the Day: From our recent hoof-themed trot on SOTD, it's time to take a related sidestep to similar body parts in the from of the indie pop Glasgow band fronted by the twinkle-toed Jenny Reeve and Jill O'Sullivan
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Chrome Hoof. From another time, another place …
Song of the Day: Another selection made on the hoof, and today we're really pushing to the outer reaches of experimentation with the strange fusion of dance, psychedelia, prog-rock, jazz and electronica provided by London group from their second album, 2007's Pre-Emptive False Rapture
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Look out, it's the Hare and Hoofe …
Song of the Day: Scampering on from yesterday's Beth Jean Houghton and her Hooves, let's indulge in a bit of Sunday silliness in the beautiful shape of more fast moving animal feet, this Folkestone-formed five-piece
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Beth Jeans Houghton and her trusty Hooves
Song of the Day: Following our recent mini series of goat-related acts, we trot along now to the lovely sound of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne born singer-songwriter and her Hooves, and two splendid number from the 2012 album Your Truly, Cellophane Nose
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Goat Girl
Song of the Day: Continuing our hungry bearded quadruped theme, let's turn to the young and entertaining south London female group composed of Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and L.E.D
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