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Song of the Day: Cakes Da Killa - Mind Reader (featuring Stout)

January 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Cakes Da Killa - Mind Reader

Song of the Day: The flamboyant, charismatic American rapper aka Rashard Bradshaw known as a key figure in hip-hop’s ‘queer explosion’ returns with slick, fast, articulate, confident delivery on this dance-music inflected track, with guest vocals by Stout

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In 2024, dance, hip hop, pop Tags Cakes Da Killa, Young Art Records, songs, song of the day, Stout
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Song of the Day: Hiatus Kaiyote - Everything’s Beautiful

January 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Haitus Kaiyote

Song of the Day:Intricate guitar riffs, rippling flute and fabulously soaring vocals by singer Nai Palm, this is stylish new funk and soul by the Melbourne band celebrating joy and a celebration of life's infinite possibilities

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In 2024, alternative, dance, funk, pop, soul Tags Hiatus Kaiyote, Brainfeeder Records, songs, song of the day, Nai Palm
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Song of the Day: The Klittens - Reading Material

January 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The Klittens

Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, perky, perfect riff indie-art-pop by the five-piece from Amsterdam, highly uplifting, but ironically written like diary entries by guitarist Winnie Conradi during a period a extreme illness to deal with the dull passing of time

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Song of the Day: A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down to This

January 23, 2024 Peter Kimpton

A Certain Ratio - All Comes Down to This

Song of the Day: With an ever-evolving sound, a belter of a new single by the veteran Manchester post-punk trio brings electronic twists, sharp lyrics and the production magic of Speedy Wunderground label’s Dan Carey with the title track of their forthcoming new LP

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In 2024, electronica, dance, funk, indie, pop, new wave, post-punk Tags A Certain Ratio, Mute Records, Dan Carey, songs, song of the day
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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: Real Estate - Water Underground

January 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Good call: Real Estate’s upcoming new album, Daniel

Song of the Day: Beautiful, perfect simplicity of melody is deceptively hard to achieve, but it flows freely in this new track by the Brooklyn indie-folk band, heralding their forthcoming album, Daniel, out in February on Domino Records

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Song of the Day: Melanie Baker - All My Plants Have Died

January 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Melanie Baker - All My Plants Have Died (except this one is still alive …)

Song of the Day: A wonderfully droll, wistful and catchy new indie single by the British singer-songwriter from the Lake District with a characteristic number about the anxieties and absurdities of everyday life

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Song of the Day: Yard Act - We Make Hits

January 19, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Yard Act … they make hits

Song of the Day: The Leeds band fronted by James Smith return with another catchy, clever, talky, ironic post-punk single, here parodying the very nature of what they do, and heralding the new album, Where’s My Utopia

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Song of the Day: Sasha Assad - Still

January 17, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sasha Assad - Still

Song of the Day: Alongside another recent single, Bad Nature, a compelling, passionate, swaggering indie rock number from the Nottingham artist with Egyptian heritage with a song about heartbreak

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In 2023, 2024, indie, pop, rock Tags Sasha Assad, Fierce Panda Records, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High) (featuring Beck and Dan The Automator)

January 16, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney

Song of the Day: An infectiously funky stomp of new single with added brass sees the return of the Akron, Ohio duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with the distinctive guest vocals of Beck, heralding the forthcoming new album, Ohio Players

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Song of the Day: Campus Christy - Very Complex (feat. Piya Malik)

January 15, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Campus Christy - Very Complex

Song of the Day: Languidly catchy pop-rock and with fuzz guitar, this is the single by the band featuring Stones Throw founder Chris Manak (aka Peanut Butter Wolf) and multi-instrumentalist Brian Ellis, joined by Piya Malik of Say She She

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Song of the Day: Flamango Bay - Mascara

January 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Flamango Bay

Song of the Day: Catchy, emotive, powerful indie pop in this title track from the forthcoming EP by the LA-based, San Francisco Bay-formed band about the contradictory nature of the titular make-up as a way to hide from, but also play with gender identity

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Song of the Day: Solar Eyes - Let's Run Away

January 9, 2024 Peter Kimpton

On track for the album release: Solar Eyes’ Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis

Song of the Day: The Birmingham psych/pop duo launch into 2024 with a galloping pace mixing in a heady, eclectic mix of shoegaze, indie, sci-fi, spaghetti western and echoes of Ennio Morricone with a escape-themed track heralding their debut album and recorded in Texas

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Song of the Day: Sans Soucis - Mexico City (featuring Charles)

January 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sans Soucis - Mexico City

Song fo the Day: An uplifting single for a winter Monday of pop-funk escapism to a hotter climate by the London-based Italian singer-songwriter Giulia Grispino and co-producer Cid Rim (Clemens Bacher) with guest vocals by Charles

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In 2024, 2023, dance, disco, funk, pop Tags San Soucis, Cid Rim, Charles, Decca, Universal, songs, song of the day
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Song of the Day: Ratbag - Dead End Kids (Why Aren't You Laughing EP)

January 6, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Ratbag’s EP, Why Aren’t You Laughing?

Song of the Day: Sharp, catchy, renegade-themed indie post-punk from New Zealand by the band of Auckland artist Sophie Brown with the opening track from her debut EP, Why Aren’t You Laughing, alongside a panache for Gorillaz-style visuals

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Song of the Day: TATYANA - Hold My Hand / Down Bad

January 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Tatyana from the video for Hold My Hand

Song of the Day: A distinctive, catchy, clever and innovative pair of recent electro-pop singles packed with textured sounds by the London artist Tatyana Phillips, taken from their forthcoming album, It's Over, out on 22 March via Sinderlyn

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Song of the Day: Vanity Fairy - Love of My Life

December 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Vanity Fairy aka Daisy Capri

Song of the Day: A gently imaginative romantic, uplifting, disco-funk number to end 2023 with throwback 70s style reminiscent of classic Bee Gees, especially in that vocal style, by London singer-songwriter Daisy Capri

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Song of the Day: Yumi Zouma - KPR

December 27, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Yumi Zouma’s latest release, EP IV

Song of the Day: Bright, uplifting, clever and wistful, with sinewy guitars and thrumming bass, a catchy and cagey number about uncertain love in this opening track from the New Zealand indie band’s latest recent release, EP IV

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Song of the Day: Ladytron - All Over By Xmas

December 24, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ladytron - All Over By Xmas

Song of the Day: A bell-jingling, tuneful seasonal single with dark undertones of foreboding by the Liverpool electro-pop band of Helen Marnie, Daniel Hunt, and Mira Aroyo

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Song of the Day: Σtella - Girl Supreme

December 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Σtella

Song of the Day: Released earlier this year, a supremely catchy electro-pop single by the Athens-based Greek artist Stella Chronopoulou about a casual romantic encounter becoming a fateful affair

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New Albums …

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Apr 29, 2026
Sam Grassie: Where Two Hawks Fly
Apr 29, 2026

New album: Beautiful debut LP by the London-based Glaswegian fingerstyle folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, with added saxophone, double bass, flute, clairsach and clarinet in a release of mostly the traditional, covers, sung or instrumental, and supported by the Bert Jansch Foundation

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Irmin Schmidt: Requiem
Apr 29, 2026

New album: A strangely mesmeric, avant-garde and analogue-ambient, field recording-based experimental release by the last surviving founding member of experimental ‘krautrock’ band CAN, who, approaching the age of 89, has also written over 40 TV and film scores

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Gia Margaret: Singing
Apr 28, 2026

New album: Gently profound, and full of wondrous, mesmeric, slow, delicate experimental songs, this simple title has a powerful resonance – it is the Chicago artist’s first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer (there have been two instrumental LPs since), having suffered and recovered from a severe vocal injury, she returns with a delicate, candid, whispery but hauntingly beautiful delivery

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Angelo De Augustine: Angel in Plainclothes
Apr 28, 2026

New album: A beautiful, delicate fifth LP from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter, friend and collaborator with Sufjan Stevens with whom he shares a stylistic resemblance, here with themes on life's fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Carla dal Forno: Confession
Apr 28, 2026

New album: This lo-fi, darkly minimalist but also oddly candid fourth LP by the Australian, Castlemaine-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist centres on the conflicted, obsessive feelings about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way”, and “an album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly. About stability rubbing up against desire.”

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Friko: Something Worth Waiting For
Apr 26, 2026

New album: Passionate, powerful, dynamic indie rock in this sophomore LP by the Chicago-based quartet that gallops forwards with a driving momentum, some elements of early PJ Harvey and Radiohead, and is produced by John Congleton

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
White Denim: 13
Apr 26, 2026

New album: This 13th LP in two decades by the Austin, Texas rock band fronted by James Petralli has a particularly mischievous experimentalism, spreading styles far beyond breathlessly paced prog rock, with wrily humorous, surreal, personal and passionate numbers across heavy funk, dub, soul, psyche, country, dirty blues and more, joined by host of outstanding extra musicians

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Hukwe Zawose Foundation: Asili ya Mama
Apr 24, 2026

New album: Wonderfully evocative field recordings release of Wagogo, Waluguru and Wasambaa Tanzanian women singing traditional songs in their villages, rarely heard outside of their own circles, the title is translated as The Origin of Mother, rich in stories and capturing the place where song is first learned, first felt, first shared

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
They Might Be Giants - The World Is To Dig
Apr 23, 2026

New album: Four decades since their self-titled debut, Brooklyn alternative rockers John Flansburgh and John Linnell return with their 24th LP, packed with of punchy, pacy, wistful, whimsical, clever wordplay and indie rock-pop, buoyantly satirical and also a little world weary at times, they remain oddball, lively commentators on the ongoing absurdity of life

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Eaves Wilder: Little Miss Sunshine
Apr 22, 2026

New album: After 2023’s Hookey EP, a strong, passionate indie-dream-pop-shoegaze full debut by the London singer-songwriter, whose breathy voice intertwines with strong, stirring riffs and textured sounds, themed around cycles of nature aiming to explain and celebrate the mercurial nature of human emotional weather

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Honey Dijon: The Nightlife
Apr 22, 2026

New album: The irrepressible, prolific and charismatic London-based Chicago DJ, musician, producer and vinyl lover returns with a flamboyantly fun celebration of club and queer culture through the prism of dance music from disco to house, with a wide variety of guest vocalists

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Tiga: HOTLIFE
Apr 21, 2026

New album: Montreal’s acclaimed electronica/techno/dance artist Tiga Sontag returns with his fourth album - inventively packed with head-nodding, toe-tapping, oddly itchy, infectious grooves, cleverly crafted retro sounds recalling Kraftwerk to acid house and electroclash, insistent bold beats and synth riffs, with lyrics of the existential, droll and surreal

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
TOMORA: Come Closer
Apr 20, 2026

New album: A striking, dynamic collaboration between Norwegian experimental pop sensation Aurora and Tom Rowlands, one of half of Chemical Brothers, with a sensual, otherworldly energetic fusion of mystical, sensual ambience, and block-rocking dance beats

Apr 20, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Jessie Ware: Superbloom
Apr 20, 2026

New album: Following 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, as well as the successful food podcast Table Manners she hosts alongside her mother, the British pop singer continues to ride the 70s disco ball train, catering to the clever, kitsch and catchy with an ironic wink, adding also a luxuriant garden metaphor

Apr 20, 2026

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May 1, 2026
Song of the Day: Bleachers - I'm Not Joking
May 1, 2026

Song of the Day: Featuring harpsichord, Hammond organ, Dobro and more, producer Jack Antonoff and his New Jersey rock band return with a heartfelt love song single heralding the upcoming album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, out on 22 May via Dirty Hit

May 1, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
Song of the Day: Alewya - Selah
Apr 30, 2026

Song of the Day: Striking, stylishly agile electronica and dance with a rich African and Arabian influence by the London-based British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, heralding her upcoming album, Zero, out on 26 June via LDN Records

Apr 30, 2026
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Apr 29, 2026
Song of the Day: Metric - Crush Forever
Apr 29, 2026

Song of the Day: Uplifting, effervescent electro-disco-pop by the Toronto indie rock band, with a song vocalist/keyboardist Emily Haines describes as “my love letter to strong girls in this world”, taken from their recently released 10th album, Romanticize the Dive, out on Metric Music via Thirty Tigers

Apr 29, 2026
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Apr 28, 2026
Song of the Day: Jim Ghedi - The Hungry Child
Apr 28, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, gripping, visceral folk by the Sheffield singer-songwriter, with a striking number based on an early 19th-century German poem about the fatal story of a child pleading for food, and, following last year’s acclaimed album, Wasteland, also out on Basin Rock, it heralds his upcoming soundtrack for the Hugh Jackman film, The Death of Robin Hood.

Apr 28, 2026
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Apr 27, 2026
Song of the Day: holybones (with Baxter Dury) - SLUGBOY
Apr 27, 2026

Song of the Day: Dark, unsettling, sleazy and strange, this is arrestingly vivid new collaborative single between the clandestine London electronic collective and the downbeat, deep-voiced poetic Londoner, out on Promised Land Recordings

Apr 27, 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Song of the Day: Hand Habits - Good Person
Apr 26, 2026

Song of the Day: Gentle, droll, humorously self-deprecatingly, and also delicately beautiful, this new experimental folk single by the moniker of Los Angeles singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Duffy addresses the love-hate relationship with making music, out on Fat Possum

Apr 26, 2026
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Apr 25, 2026
Song of the Day: Pigeon - Miami
Apr 25, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, sunny, upbeawt indie synth-pop with an African twist by the Margate band fronted by Falle Nioke, with flavours of William Onyeabor, Hot Chip and New York 70s disco, heralding their upcoming album OUTTANATIONAL, out on 1 May via Memphis Industries

Apr 25, 2026
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Apr 24, 2026
Song of the Day: Tricky - Out of Place (featuring Marta Złakowska)
Apr 24, 2026

Song of the Day: A pulsating fusion of beats, orchestral strings and the Bristol trip-hop pioneer’s distinctive, deep, croaky voice, with an emotional reference to his daughter Mina Topley-Bird (1995–2019), and heralding his first solo album for six years, Different When It’s Silent, out on 17 June via False Idols

Apr 24, 2026
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Apr 23, 2026
Song of the Day: Beck - Ride Lonesome
Apr 23, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, simmering, slow, melancholy and reflective, a surprise single and welcome return by the acclaimed US artist, evoking the haunting, sun-bleached landscapes and musical textures of his 2015 Grammy winning album Morning Phase, out now on Iliad Records/Capitol Records

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
Song of the Day: Gelli Haha - Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep
Apr 22, 2026

Song of the Day: Described appropriately as somewhere between Studio 42 and Area 51, eccentric, effervescent, spacey, catchy and eclectic disco pop by the Los Angeles artist (aka Angel Abaya, co-written with Sean Guerin) out on Innovative Leisure

Apr 22, 2026
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Apr 21, 2026
Song of the Day: LEENALCHI 이날치 - Here Comes That Crow 떴다 저 가마귀
Apr 21, 2026

Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy, funky, psychedelic and quirky new work by the seven-piece Seoul-based Korean pansori band led by bassist Jang Young Gyu with the title track of their new EP, out on 12 June via Luaka Bop, and heralding a European and North American tour

Apr 21, 2026
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Apr 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Jesca Hoop - Big Storm
Apr 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky experimental indie folk-pop by the innovative Manchester-based California artist, featuring a clever video that old footage and Hoop in various vintage guises, heralding her upcoming album Long Wave Home, out on 1 May via Last Laugh / Republic of Music

Apr 20, 2026

Word of the week

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Apr 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
Apr 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

Apr 23, 2026
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Apr 9, 2026
Word of the week: undine
Apr 9, 2026

Word of the week: It might sound like the act of abstaining from food, but this noun from derived from undina (Latin unda) meaning wave, refers to mythical, elemental beings associated with water, such as mermaids, and stemming from the alchemical writings of the 16th-century Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus

Apr 9, 2026
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Mar 27, 2026
Word of the week: veena
Mar 27, 2026

Word of the week: This ornate, curvaceous, south Indian classical instrument, the saraswati veena, is a special bowl lute with a rich, resonant tone, has 24 copper frets with four playing strings and three drone strings, and is used for Carnatic music

Mar 27, 2026
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Mar 12, 2026
Word of the week: wallfish
Mar 12, 2026

Word of the week: It sounds like the singing finned picture ornament Big Mouth Billy Bass that became popular in the late 1990s, but this is a much older noun, derived in Somerset, England, pertains to the climbing gastropod that can slowly climb up any surface

Mar 12, 2026
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Feb 25, 2026
Word of the week: xiphias
Feb 25, 2026

Word of the week: Get the point? This is the scientific name for the swordfish, in full Xiphias gladius (from the Greek and Latin for sword), that extraordinary sea creature with the long, pointy bill. But what of it in song?

Feb 25, 2026

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