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The brilliant Bill Callahan is back
Song of the Day: Resonant, poetic, moody, profound, the acclaimed American singer-songwriter returns with a song exploring feelings of a life that was lived and one that's meant to be, heralding his latest album, My Days of 58, out on 27 February 2026 via Drag City Records.
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John Cale and Charli xcx
Song of the Day: A potent, surprise collaboration comes all aswirl in this dark, haunting, gothic, cinematic piece of jagged strings and nightmarish, crashing sounds with a spoken monologue by the Velvet Underground Welsh legend dominating this song by British pop superstar best known for Brat, taken from the soundtrack to director Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming film adaptation of Wuthering Heights
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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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Henry Coke
Song of the Day: “I’m done with you scaring me.” A striking, self-released single for a Sunday by the London musician and producer, born into a lineage of vicars and church leaders, but here candidly addressing the cause of his drift from Christianity in his own passionate address
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Ratboys’ upcoming album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair
Song of the Day: A bright, breezy, but also anxiety-themed number inspired by the perspective of a family pet and owner, new from the Chicago indie rock band, heralding their upcoming album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair, due out on 6 February via New West 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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The Wave Pictures: David Tattersall (guitar and lead vocals), Franic Rozycki (bass), and Jonny Helm (drums)
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the British indie trio with a soaring, smart, dream-filled number with notes of 60s garage rock, classic 70s rock and 90s US indie, lyrically and inspired by the writings of William Burroughs, and heralding their upcoming album Gained / Lost, due out 27 February 2026 via Bella Union
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Twen’s Ian Jones and Jane Fitzsimmons
Song of the Day: A punchy, catchy escapism-themed new single with glittering, psychedelic guitar jangles and a pacy, perky delivery by the Nashville indie-rock duo of Ian Jones and Jane Fitzsimmons, heralding their upcoming album Fate Euphoric, out on 4 November via Twen Enterprises
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Howling Bells return with a single from their upcoming new album, Strange Life, their first since 2014
Song of the Day: The Australian indie-rock band of siblings Juanita and Joel Stein and drummer Glenn Moule return with their first new music for 11 years, heralding their upcoming fifth album Strange Life, out on Friday 13 February 13th 2026, via NUDE Records
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Anna Calvi returns with a powerful interpretation of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy song
Song of the Day: A powerful, smoky, stylish, passionate cover version of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy number by the acclaimed British singer and guitarist, returning with a haunting duet with the US artist, their vocals intertwining in a song about intimacy beyond romance - the quiet, profound love found in friendship
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Courtney Barnett is back …
Song of the Day: The acclaimed Australian indie singer-songwriter returns with a catchy, but also darkly cathartic new single, produced by John Congleton, and her first new material since 2023's instrumental album End Of The Day, and the follow-up to 2021's Things Take Time, Take Time LP
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Chanel Beads’ Shane Lavers with Maya McGrory
Song of the Day: New York-based musician Shane Lavers’ latest single is a mesmeric, textured piece of dreamy digital and analogue experimentalism about memory, accompanied by Zachary Paul on violin and vocals by Maya McGrory, and out on Jagjaguwar
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The Fiery Furnaces anniversary edition of Blueberry Boat
Song of the Day: Brooklyn’s brother and sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger and co return with a quirky indie-rock experimental echoing piano and vocal number, an additional track to 20th anniversary edition of their seminal 2004 album Blueberry Boat
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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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Lava La Rue - Easy Come, Easy Go
Song of the Day: A late-summer splash of catchy, colourful indie pop by the London artist, but one that also critiques AI anxiety and online intimacy “like not being able to tell if your crush sent you a text ghostwritten by ChatGPT”, and, produced by Fraser T Smith and out on BMG, it follows last year’s acclaimed debut album, Starface
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Tyler Ballgame’s debut album, For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade Records
Song of the Day: Some voices are once in a generation. The likes of Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley. And now here’s the Rhode Island-raised singer-songwriter, his truly tremendous tenor soaring supremely on this soulful indie-Americana rock number about how love makes glorious fools of us, and heralding his upcoming debut album For the First Time, Again, out on 30 January, 2026 via Rough Trade
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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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lucky break is newly signed to Fire Records
Song of the Day: A beautiful, gentle, tender melodic acoustic indie single about pressures over life plans by the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Emma Gerson, whose influences include Fiona Apple and Bedouine, and is newly signed to Fire Records
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Picture Parlour’s Katherine Parlour and Ella Risi
Song of the Day: Mixing a tone of bittersweet regret and defiance, a catchy new single by the Manchester-formed, London-based indie band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour and guitarist Ella Risi, from their upcoming debut album The Parlour out on 14 November via EMI/Universa
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