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Wolf Alice
Song of the Day: A strikingly percussive and piano-led, stylishly syncopated, full-on floral-and-dirt metaphorical new single by the Mercury-winning London indie rock band of singer Ellie Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie and co, heralding their forthcoming fourth album, The Clearing, out on 29 August via Columbia Records/ RCA
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Black Honey
Song of the Day: The Brighton four-piece return with a stylish wash of dark grunge, shoegaze and dream-pop and a bio-chemical emotional metaphor, heralding their forthcoming fourth LP, Soak, out on 15 August on Foxfive
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Luvcat - Lipstick
Song of the Day: Sultry, stylish noir-rock-pop with oodles of panache and brass, a very entertaining video, and lyrics on the theme of power dynamics, yearning and surrender in a relationship by the Liverpool-born, London-based Sophie Morgan Howarth
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Tyler Ballgame
Song of the Day: Signed today to Rough Trade Records, the rising-star Rhode Island singer-songwriter Tyler Ballgame has soaring, Orbison-style voice, his powerful, emotional songcraft inspired by 60s and 70s soulful rock and pop nostalgia
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Picture Parlour - Who’s There To Love Without You?
Song of the Day: Swaggering, glam, stylish, 70s-style heavy rock with oodles of panache in a bombastic tongue-in-cheek declaration by the Manchester-formed band of Katherine Parlour, Ella Risi and co, out on Island Records
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WITCH’s forthcoming album, SOGOLO, out on Partisan Records
Song of the Day: Continuing their triumphant re-emergence after 2023’s album Zango which ended a near-40 hiatus, Zambia’s pioneering zamrockers return with their classic psychedelic groove, heralding the forthcoming new album SOGOLO, out 13 June on Partisan Records
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Arcade Fire’s upcoming album, Pink Elephant
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Montreal indie rockers fronted by husband and wife team of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, return with their first new music for three years, a single referring to the Chinese zodiac calendar for 2025, and announcing their new album, Pink Elephant, out on 9 May via Columbia Records
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Garbage in 2025
Song of the Day: A new single that’s topically dark and dystopian in flavour by the veteran American rock band fronted by Scotland’s Shirley Manson, but also an ironic title and a call to action, heralding their forthcoming album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, due out on 30 May, on BMG
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Matt Berninger’s forthcoming second solo album, Get Sunk
Song of the Day: The frontman of The National’s new solo single has his distinctive rich vocal tones, a warm, swelling indie sound and here some gently caustic, vivid lyrics about a tricky reunion. It heralds his second solo album Get Sunk out 30 May, on Concord Records
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Pigs x7 and El-P
Song of the Day: Turn it up to seven! The likeable Newcastle-upon-Tyne heavy rockers return with their elemental, meaty, thunderous sound fronted by raucous voice of Matthew Baty, also joined by one half of American hip-hop outfit Run The Jewels, aka rapper
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - This Conversation is Missing Your Voice
Song of the Day: From the upcoming album Tall Tales, the Radiohead/The Smile frontman joins the longstanding British electronic collaborative musician and lover of vintage synths in this innovative work with a video following a package through a delivery factory
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Nova Twins: Amy Love abnd Georgia South
Song of the Day: Following another recent single, Monsters, explosive fireworks rock by the British duo of Amy Love and Georgia South in this dynamic ‘celebration of the power of women’ and heralding their third album, Parasite & Butterflies, due out on 29 August via Marshall Records
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Car Seat Headrest’s upcoming concept album, The Scholars
Song of the Day: Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records
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Andy Bell’s latest album is Pinball Wanderer
Song of the Day: Taken from the Ride frontman’s recent solo album, Pinball Wanderer, an infectious, extended syncopated, psychedelic groove reminiscent of The Stone Roses with a dash of krautrock
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The Voidz - Blue Demon
Song of the Day: The experimental rock band featuring Strokes’ Julian Casablancas on distorted, sci-fi style vocals return with a synth-laden, syncopated, oddball but catchy release, also filled with caustic, indirect references to Israel’s destruction and occupation of Palestine and the US foreign policy hand in it
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Black Country, New Road - Happy Birthday
Song of the Day: The latest single by the south London experimental band marks a slight shift in style with this stirring, thoughtful, shifting narrator folk-pop-rock, life-death-themed number, inspired by Joanna Newsom and Fiona Apple, heralding their upcoming album Forever Howlong, out on 4 April via Ninja Tune
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From the video for Destroyer’s Hydroplaning Off The Edge of the World, directed by Sydney Hermant
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, alternative indie-pop by the Canadian singer and musicianDan Bejar with a barrage of oddball, amusingly mysterious, conversational lyrics in this latest single heralding his new album, Dan’s Boogie, out on 28 March via Merge Records
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Model/Actriz
Song of the Day: A pulsating. staccato, angular take on the well-known fairytale by the exciting Boston-formed, Brooklyn-based post-punk band of Cole Haden, Aaron Shapiro, Jackson Wetmore, and Ruben Radlauer, heralding their forthcoming album, Pirouette, out 2 May via True Panther / Dirty Hit Records
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Hamilton Leithauser
Song of the Day: A passionate, punchy, thumpy, catchy, candid love song by The Walkmen vocalist heralding his upcoming album, This Side of the Island, out on 7 March via Glassnote Music
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Brian D’Addario of The Lemon Twigs
Song of the Day: Classic 70s-inspired pop-rock with a fabulously strong melody and basslines, all entirely played and sung by one of multi-instrumentalist siblings, The Lemon Twigs on an 8-track, and co-produced with brother Michael, out on Headstack Records
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