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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Only Girl
Song of the Day: The London experimental violin-infused indie band return with a catchy, playful love song single that’s popular on their live sets, and their first via Fiction Records
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The Twilight Sad - Waiting for the Phone Call
Song of the Day: The Scottish post-punk/indie rock band return with a powerful new single about grief, love and mental illness, their first in six years, with guest Robert Smith of The Cure on guitar, and out on Rock Action Records
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Party Dozen - Mad Rooter/Ghost Rider single
Song of the Day: A stomping rock, raucously catchy new single by the Sydney Australia duo of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, available as 7-inch double A-side with the song Ghost Rider, single out 5 December via City Slang/GRUPO
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Genesis Owusu
Song of the Day: A sharp Halloween-themed catchy post-punk number with a caustic bite at the monsters of far-right politics and an entertaining video by the Ghanaian-Australian rapper and singer, out on OURNESS
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Y’s Sophie Coppin and Adam Brennan
Song of the Day: Punchy, fierce postpunk by the London collective, heralding their upcoming debut EP with a saxophone laced song addressing class divide and hierarchy in which the rich skip through a world they feel they own, released on on SO Recordings and Hideous Mink Records
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Sleaford Mods’ new album The Demise Of Planet X, is out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: The Notts duo of Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson and return with a fabulously furious, colourful, sweary and darkly acerbic number, with explosive, passionate rage by the Game of Thrones actress, spooky vocals by the indie/postpunk Black Country duo, and a video by brilliant British horror director Ben Wheatley, heralding the new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out on 16 January 2026 via Rough Trade Records
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BIG SPECIAL - Plaintive Native
Song of the Day: Following their second album, National Average over the summer, the witty, punchy, Walsall, Black Country post-punk duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, return with a striking number frontman “about political turmoil clouding the minds of the nation that turns moral conviction into apathy”
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The New Eves - Red Brick / Whale Station
Song of the Day: Following their excellent debut LP in August, The New Eve Is Rising, the Brighton experimental quartet return with with an arresting mix of spoken word and lo-fi folk-rock, developed from a jam and a poem about a trip to New York, and out on Transgressive Records
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Dry Cleaning
Song of the Day: Brilliantly droll, different, downbeat, throwaway profundity and wit from the unmistakable delivery of vocalist Florence Shaw and Bowie-esque guitarist Tom Dowse, by the south London post-punk quartet, heralding their upcoming new album Secret Love, produced by Cate Le Bon, and out on 9 January, via 4AD
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sleepazoid - NEW AGE
Song of the Day: Powerful, punchy post-punk and grunge /shoegaze alt-rock with a voluminously guitar-rich number about change and self-renewal by the Melbourne quintet of Nette France, Josef Pabis, George Inglis, Jim Duong and Luca Soprano, and out on Surreal Sound
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Gurriers. Erasure
Song of the Day: The Dublin post-punk band’s first single since last year’s blistering debut LP Come And See continues their fierce flammability with what frontman Dan Hoff describes as “an unwavering cry into the void in the face of imperialism and tyranny”, out now on No Filter
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Courting - The Twins (1969)
Song of the Day: A pulsating, passionate, dynamic, indie-postpunk single about missing something once you’ve lost it by the Liverpool quartet of Connor McCann, Josh Cope, Sean Murphy-O'Neill, and Sean Thomas, following their album out earlier this year, Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story. Out on Lower Third / PIAS
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Sleaford Mods are back with a bang: Megaton
Song of the Day: The Nottingham punk-rap duo of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn return with a bang and their first since 2023 – a punchy, catchy, dark-humoured mimicry number about how society is stupidly crippled by social media and separatism – with proceeds from the release going to War Child, the charity that helps children affected in conflict zones
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Chalk - Pain
Song of the Day: A blistering, visceral, pulsating new single with strains of The Prodigy by the post-punk/ dance electronic Belfast trio fronted by Ross Cullen about while wanting to feel untouchable, how vulnerability can overtake you, out on after their recent signing with NYC-based label ALTER Music
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Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, poignant acoustic number of bittersweet optimism by the London indie/postpunk trio, here performed by Anouska Sokolow out on Fat Possum Records
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Maruja’s single Trenches is the latest to herald their debut album Pain To Power
Song of the Day: Influenced by Rage Against The Machine, a seething, menacing new track by the Manchester jazz-punk band, one they describe as “a call for revolution in the face of the oppressive,” with searing, combative lyrics by vocalist Harry Wilkinson and interweaving sax by Joseph Carroll, heralding their debut album Pain to Power, out on 12 September via Music For Nations
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Upchuck (Photo: Michael Tyrone Delaney)
Song of the Day: Blistering, ferocious new punk, raging against hopelessness and confronting the spectacle of social injustice that has become daily drudgery for their generation by the band from Atlanta, Georgia, from their forthcoming new album I’m Nice Now, produced by Ty Segall, and out on 3 October via Domino Records
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bar italia
Song of the Day: The London indie-rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton return with a punchy, gnarly, lively lead-swapping new post-punk number, heralding their upcoming new album Some Like It Hot, out on 17 October via Matador Records
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Wombo
Song of the Day: Clever, polyrhythmic, angular, intricate but also dreamy experimental rock by the three-piece indie band from Louisville, Kentucky, from their recently released third album Danger in Fives, out on Fire Talk Records
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Just Mustard
Song of the Day: Dreamy, mesmeric electro-indie-shoegaze-pop by the five-piece band from Dundalk, Ireland, with the title track heralding their forthcoming new album out on 24 October via Partisan Records
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