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Song of the Day: Snõõper - Worldwide

July 30, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Snõõper

Song of the Day: Frenetic, stomping, bass-heavy, angular guitar and catchy post-punk with echoes of Leeds’ Delta 5 by the Nashville band in this title track from their forthcoming new album, out on 3 October via Third Man Records

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Song of the Day: The Hives - Paint a Picture

June 24, 2025 Peter Kimpton

From the video for The Hives’s new single, Paint a Picture

Song of the Day: The Swedish post-punk rockers return with a raucous, swaggering, riveting single with blistering changes of chorus pace, a stylish video inspired by the art style of Roy Lichtenstein, and heralding their upcoming album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, out on 29 August on Play It Again Sam

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Song of the Day: Gina Birch - Causing Trouble Again

May 14, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Rung up: Gina Birch

Song of the Day: A catchy, energising, all-empowering, air-punching new post-punk single by the legendary Raincoats co-founder, artist, bass player and film-maker, inspired by, and name-checking heroines of art, politics and protest, heralding her forthcoming album Trouble, out on 11 July via Third Man Records

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Song of the Day: Tropical Fuck Storm - Dunning Kruger's Loser Cruiser

April 23, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Tropical Fuck Storm’s upcoming album Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records

Song of the Day: A heady new brew of Beefheart-ish ironic, acidic, acerbic, anarchic psychedelia by the brilliantly different Melbourne post-punkers with a song about the absurd overestimation of knowledge, from their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex, out on Fire Records

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Song of the Day: Viagra Boys - Man Made Of Meat

January 25, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Viagra Boys - Man Made Of Meat

Song of the Day: A humorously vivid title with punchy, catchy number and video with this ironic take on consumerism and the art world by the mischievous Swedish punk band, in this first single from the forthcoming album viagr aboys, due out on 25 April on Shrimptech Enterprises

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Song of the Day: Skunk Anansie - An Artist Is An Artist

January 20, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Skunk Anansie - An Artist Is An Artist

Song of the Day: A welcome and excellent return from the London rockers fronted by the inimitable Deborah "Skin" Dyer with a punchy, uncompromising number about creative life, its disciplines, sacrifices and identity, out on Frontiers Records

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Song of the Day: The Velveteers - On And On

January 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

The Velveteers

Song of the Day: Gripping, gutsy, greedy, dirty-fuzz guitar rock by the trio from Boulder, Colorado, heralding their new album A Million Knives, produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and released on 14 February via Easy Eye Sound

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Song of the Day: The Priscillas - Plastic

November 30, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The Priscillas - Plastic

Song of the Day: Panache-filled, punchy panic by the glamorous London power-punk quartet in this new single about how one of the planet’s biggest polluting problems goes down to cellular level, with menacing guitars and bass lines, driving drums, and sharp, dynamic vocal harmonies

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Song of the Day: Sunny War - Walking Contradiction

November 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Sunny War

Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress

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Song of the Day: Lambrini Girls - Company Culture

September 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lambrini Girls: Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira

Song of the Day: Blistering, brilliant, angry, articulate punk by the Brighton duo of Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira addressing key, ongoing issues of inequality of gender and sexuality in the workplace. Familiar problem? Just finishing your working week? Let off some steam with this …

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Song of the Day: Shelf Lives - Where Did I Go?

August 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Shelf Lives: John Hillyard and Sabrina Di Giulio

Song of the Day: Visceral, biting, powerful, punchy, semi-spoken, semi-screamed electro post-punk with a dark theme by the London-based duo of producer John Hillyard and Toronto-born vocalist Sabrina Di Giulio, out on Not Sorry Mom Records

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Song of the Day: The Dare - You're Invited

August 10, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The Dare’s forthcoming album What’s Wrong With New York?

Song of the Day: A punchy, cocky, talky, witty post-punk fusion with echoes of LCD Soundsystem and The Fall by the New York artist Harrison Patrick Smith, with a new single heralding his forthcoming debut album What’s Wrong With New York?, set for release on 6 September via Polydor/Republic Records

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Song of the Day: Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That

May 21, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Down in the dirt: Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That

Song of the Day: A very welcome return by the irrepressible Amy Taylor and Melbourne punk band with their first new music for three years, mixing anger and humour and poking fun at naysaying fans with this fabulous Detroit garage grit-style number, which, while indisputably Sniffers, also has some strutting echoes of The Rolling Stones

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Song of the Day: J.R.C.G - Dogear

May 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

J.R.C.G’s forthcoming debut LP Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra), on Sub Pop

Song of the Day: With a fantastically meaty, dark thrum, groove and infectious abstraction, a new post-punk single by the Tacoma, Washington-based artist Justin R. Cruz Gallego, from from his forthcoming debut album Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra) out on 2 August via Sub Pop Records

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Song of the Day: Peter Bibby - Fun Guy

April 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Peter Bibby in two of his guises

Song of the Day: … but not anymore!” The latest single by the witty Australian artist is a driving drum-machine, thrumming bass and blistering guitar punk banger, a humorous perspective on changing your ways, with vocal style influences such as Suicide and Throbbing Gristle

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Song of the Day: Big Special - Black Dog / White Horse

April 12, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Big Special: Joe Hicklin, Callum Moloney and friend

Song of the Day: A change of pace to a gentler style by the usually punchier post-punk Walsall duo of singer and Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney, and number with a beautiful, tender, reflective melody and lyrics

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Song of the Day: couchgagzzz - GOSPORTS!!!

April 8, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The mini debut album by couchgagzzz - GOSPORTS!!!

Song of the Day: Short, punchy, catchy and fast, the infectiously energetic title track from the recent debut mini album by the band from Bari, Italy, with inspiration from the Australian punk scene, style they herald budget rock and synth punk, but also with echoes of the Ramones

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Song of the Day: BODEGA - Cultural Consumer III

March 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

BODEGA’s forthcoming next album, Our Brand Could Be YR Life

Song of the Day: Smart, punchy, social satire in this new post-punk single by the New York band fronted by Ben Hozie, from the upcoming album Our Brand Could Be YR Life, out on Chrysalis Records

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Song of the Day: The Lovely Eggs - My Mood Wave

February 27, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lovely Eggs: Holly Ross and David Blackwell

Song of the Day: Four years since their brilliantly entertaining album I Am Moron, the Lancaster couple Holly Ross and David Blackwell return with wonderful psychedelic punk west coast rock, to herald their new album, Eggsistentialism due on 17 May via Egg Records

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Song of the Day: Lip Critic - The Heart

February 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Lip Critic - The Heart

Song of the Day: Frenetic, explosive experimental post-punk electronica by the New York band featuring double drummers, anarchic sampling and frontman Bret Kaser’s lyrical attack on the state of the spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption

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New Albums …

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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Greg Mendez: Beauty Land
June 3, 2026

New album: A gently ironic title, but no doubting beauty of the sound, reminiscent of the late, great Elliott Smith, this new gem of a lo-fi LP is full of mildly tragic, sensitive, thoughtful 14 short numbers by the Philadelphia high falsetto singer-songwriter

June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Iceage: For Love of Grace & The Hereafter
June 3, 2026

New album: A stylishly ramshackle, brilliantly brash’n’breezy punk-shoegaze feral sixth studio LP, streamlining sounds from 50s rock’n’roll through to early 00s indie by the Copenhagen band fronted by Elias Rønnenfelt, successfully fulfilling their aim on this to be “immediate, urgent, raw and fast” across themes of romantic devotion with violent chaos and nihilism

June 3, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Boards of Canada: Inferno
June 2, 2026

New album: Scotland’s hugely influential electronic experimental sibling duo Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin return 13 years after their last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest, with an epic 18-track collection that dissects the psychology of religion with distorted vocal samples and cut-ups across landscapes of dystopian synth textures and beats

June 2, 2026
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June 2, 2026
Kurt Vile: Philadelphia's Been Good To Me
June 2, 2026

New album: A selection of fond love-letter songs to the city where he was raised and has remained by the 46-year-ld American singer-songwriter, in this deliciously laid back 10th LP of songs of interweaving guitars, folk, rock, country and psychedelia, all with his inimitably relaxed vocal delivery

June 2, 2026

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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Song of the Day: Baalti & Lapgan - Romance / Ipa Ma
June 8, 2026

Song of the Day: Vibrant, rhythmic, experimental electronica and dance music sampling Bollywood, Bengali disco, Hindustani classical and Gujarati folk by the NY-based pair Jaiveer Singh, Mihir Chauhan, joined by producer Gaurav Nagpa, from their recent album, Threads, out on Azal/FADER

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Song of the Day: Margaret Glaspy - Michigan
June 7, 2026

Song of the Day: A beautiful finger-picked acoustic single by New York-based Californian singer-songwriter about escaping the big city post breakup, heralding her upcoming album I Am Both out on 7 August via ATO

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Song of the Day: LA Priest - Into The Sky
June 6, 2026

Song of the Day: High-octane electronica and euphoric, dance music by the eccentric, eclectic US artist Sam Eastgate with his first music for two years, and a highly entertaining video, out on Domino Records

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
Song of the Day: Ibeyi - Aset / Offerings
June 5, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of sensual, soulfully vivid new singles partly sung in Spanish, and the first new music for four years from the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz, heralding their upcoming fourth album, Offering, out on 26 June via AWAL Recordings

June 5, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Song of the Day: Seasick Steve - The Last Season of America
June 4, 2026

Song of the Day: A poignant, powerfully gentle folk-blues-Americana protest number by the veteran Calfornian singer-songwriter with an extended metaphor about the state of his country in this title track heralding his upcoming album out on 18 September via Steve’s new label Eastcote Recordings

June 4, 2026

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 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

April 23, 2026

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