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When the chips are down …
Song of the Day: ‘I like to participate in life’s edge. From time to time I take a little ride over that edge’. Heart-racing, breathless spoken word packed with images of hedonism, pubs and fast, frantic living in this debut single by the quintessentially British MC who is a mixture of Sleaford Mods, Slowthai and the Streets
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The Smirk EP
Song of the Day: Timeless fast, direct, no-nonsense fuzzy post-punk from the project of California’s Nic Vicario from Crisis Man, Public Eye, and Cemento, in a style that will also please fans of Flat Worms. From the newest EP and out out on the Portland, Oregon-based label Total Punk!
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Witch Fever
Song of the Day: A number to blow away any cobwebs on a Monday, the Manchester all-female heavy rock/punk band’s latest is a fiercely defiant cri de coeur moving from self-harm to self-emancipation
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Girls with goals: Loose Articles
Song of the Day: A bonus SOTD to kick off the European Cup final in the form of a caustically humorous, heavily ironic number by the all-female indie punk band from Manchester
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Sprints: fast garage postpunk out of Dublin
Song of the Day: With driving guitar riffs and screaming vocal delivery, a fantastically spiky and fierce garage postpunk by the four-piece band from Dublin about the cost of living and seeking to escape it
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Buy this song and help reclaim safety on streets
Song of the Day: In the wake of the deaths of Blessing Olusegun in Bexhill and Sarah Everard in London, a powerful fundraising postpunk special number for Women’s Aid by a who’s who of indie musicians including Brix Smith
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Grand National by Courting
Song of the Day: On a day when one of the most famous horse races returns, a better bet is this fiercely caustic, fast and furious, post-punk critical perspective about the Aintree event by a nearby band, the Liverpool-based indie four-piece
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On the button: Earth Scum by FYI Chris
Song of the Day: The final track on the album Earth Scum by the Yorkshire and Macclesfield duo of Chris Coupe and Chris Watson features viscerally acerbic, self-deprecating gallows humorous delivery by Mancunian poet and performer Thick Richard
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All Mine
Song of the Day: ‘A song about the overly entitled and underwhelmed’ is how this punchily humorous and caustic postpunk number is described by the band from Brooklyn, and indeed it is
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Song of the Day: Alight with scorching post-punk guitars and searingly angry vocals, this track from new EP Disappearing Act, about tyrannical power-grabbing figures, is by Yorkshire’s answer to Idles, Shame, Fontaines D.C. and The Fall
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Songs of the Day: A triple bill of fast and furiously brilliant postpunk by duo Owen Deutsch and Sean from the New York collective and label D4MT Labs Inc, covering subjects such as war and colonialism, taken from the LP Age of Exile
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Remix cover of CLT DRP’s album Without The Eyes
Song of the Day: Blisteringly angry bass and energetic apathy wrapped in quasi-satirical feminine punk-pop? It’s all here in this track by the electro-punk trio based in Brighton from their debut album Without The Eyes, out on Small Pond Recordings
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The two Bobby’s of Bob Vylan
Song of the Day: Blisteringly brilliant, angry, scorching guitar punk hip-hop-grime number by the London duo focusing on the state of Britain, growing up mixed race in a racist, abrasive culture that is continually prevalent now for Black Lives Matter
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Song of the Day: Unstoppable bassline, fierce, driving energy, and uncompromising lyrics delivered in a talk/sing style by the British artist Tor Maries, this brilliant single has the punchy air of Sleaford Mods and also Róisín Murphy
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Cult Figures’ latest EP
Song of the Day: A life-affirming, survival-craving postpunk belter from the latest EP of veteran band who, as contemporaries of the likes of Subway Sect and Wire, first released singles in 1979 and 1980
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Deeper …
Song of the Day: Created before the Covid-19 outbreak, this strangely topical song by the Chicago postpunk quartet from their new album Auto-Pain, has a fabulously sharp, driving guitar and vocal energy reminiscent of The Cure, New Order and Pavement
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The ever sharp and prolific Jeffrey Lewis
Song of the Day: Who better, and who indeed has written such a nailed-on brilliant song about coronavirus lockdown than the super-sharp lyricist, prolific songwriter and comic book artist from New York’s Lower East Village?
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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
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Squid’s in? Squid’s out …
Song of the Day: As spring comes into full bloom, a brilliant new song and band also bursting into life, but with an energetic twist – about not being able to afford a house or garden, nor plan for your future
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Keith Flint of The Prodigy
Song of the Day: Another sudden death of a great performer, and this time a tribute to the Prodigy’s Keith Flint, who began as a dancer for the punk rave band, but who’s magnetic presence turned into a charismatic co-frontman
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