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Playlists: songs about the Roman Empire

February 11, 2025 Peter Kimpton

A few members of Rome’s classic band lineup

Empires rise and crumble, but few on a scale as that of Ancient Rome. Following last week’s topic, guest playlister Marco den Ouden is inspired to create a musical arc to match Gibbon’s famous historical magnus opus

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Playlists: songs about detectives and private investigators

December 11, 2024 Peter Kimpton

They call him Mr Tibbs: Sidney Poitier shows Rod Steiger how real detective work is done - In The Heat of The Night (1967)

There’s a body, but what’s the motive, and whodunnit? Gathering a cast of famous detectives and a pile of tracks about them to spin in the Bar, Chief Inspector Marco den Ouden solves the case with musical cues and keys, inspired by last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs about castles and palaces

October 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Palace of Versailles courtyard

Real, fictional or metaphorical, these grand buildings have found inspiration across musical genres, opening the drawbridge to many fabulous narratives and sounds. Inspired by last week’s topic, guest Marco den Ouden takes us on a grand tour

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Playlists: songs about the frozen north

October 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Mush! The team all pulled together, leading to these splendid songs …

Stunning sights and sounds that will melt your heart, but hopefully not too much of the ice. From Siberia to Alaska, the Inuit to the Laps and beyond, Marco den Ouden takes us on a fabulous journey across the frozen north inspired by last week's topic

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Playlists: songs featuring finger-clicking, toe-tapping and foot-stomping

June 26, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The fabulous Nicholas Brothers

Foot stomping and clogging to the click of fingers, flamenco and castanets, these playlists, picked by guest Marco den Ouden from last week’s topic, take a tour of the world from Canada to Mexico, Spain to Japan, with music that’s right on tap

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Playlists: songs about legs, trousers, pants and other coverings

May 22, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Trousers, pants, hotpants and other leggings, not to mention even a couple of legless numbers, from the beautiful to the bawdy, this week’s music definitely doing the talking and walking is picked by guest Marco den Ouden from last week’s topic

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Playlists: Gaelic songs

March 20, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Evergreen accompanists: The Chieftains

What’s the craic? Our recent St Patrick’s Day special was focused on songs in the Irish language, but with a generous distillation process, brought forth also some good cheer in other Gaelic identities, all served up with great taste by guest Marco den Ouden

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Playlists: songs about tyranny and dictatorship

January 24, 2024 Peter Kimpton

Revolutionary warnings: Crass

Coercion, violence and suppression, it’s a recurring cycle through history. Spanning the globe with philosophy and genre, guest playlister Marco den Ouden examines the big questions about autocracy and anarchy, picked from last week’s topic nominations

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Playlists: songs about legacy

August 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Stevie Wonder has a strong connection with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr …

It runs within us all, but how is it expressed in song? From major moments and figures in history to personal stories, and even the legacy in our genes, guest Marco den Ouden covers a brought range in fine detail with playlists picked from last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs about the stomach and guts

June 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Got a gut feeling for what will come up in the latest lists?

Hungry to fill your musical belly with music? Need to digest, and relieve pain? After readers spilled their music guts in response to last week’s topic, guest song doctor Marco Den Ouden explores and prescribes a full menu of tasteful and entertaining ingredients

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Playlists: songs about rare events

February 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Rare, and always on the move: Halley and Billie

From celestial to historical, the fictional to the emotional, while rarities are exactly as described, there’s a huge variety, and many songs about them. Picking from last week’s huge range of nominations, guest Marco den Ouden makes heavenly choices

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Playlists: songs about winter sports and pastimes

December 13, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The classic Netherlands Elfstedentocht event. But what songs made the finish for this week’s theme?

Skating, skiing, ice hockey and other sliding, the big freeze inspired musical outdoor winter activity. But which songs made it to the finish line, and which were left on ice? Check out in this winter wonderland of playlists by guest Marco den Ouden

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Playlists: songs about eyewear

July 19, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Musical vision: double-bass player Charlie Haden and friends gets eyes and ears firmly on the topic

Protective sunglasses to corrected vision, what songs are in the frame? They are often about what is hidden, but also what is revealed, especially in love, and guest Marco den Ouden brings everything into focus with fabulous playlists inspired by last week’s topic.

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Playlists: songs about punctuality

June 29, 2022 Peter Kimpton

What time will love flower? The Foundations 1968

Something changed around the Enlightenment, with the advent of universal timepieces, but how did that affect human relationships? Inspired by last week’s nominations, Marco den Ouden clocks in with perfectly timely playlists

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Playlists: songs about higher education and graduation

May 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Results are in the air tonight

Applications have been made, papers marked, but from last week’s many entries, which made the grade and will reach graduation to make the playlists? Examiner Marco den Ouden reveals the full results …

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Playlists: songs about tradition

December 21, 2021 Peter Kimpton

British and German troops buck tradition, but also honour it, during the Christmas Day truce of 1914, to play football instead of war

Ancient religions to strange festivals, drinking rituals to counting sheep to chasing cheeses, small slices of history to long formed social behaviour, enjoy wonderful stories and playlists picked by guest Marco den Ouden from last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs about wings

August 3, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Crane at sunset

Crane at sunset

Music on the magic of flight to the feathery movement of mythology and morality tales, beautiful murmurations to deadly war munitions, guest playlister Marco den Ouden marvellously spreads his wings from a vast array of song nominations

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Playlists: songs about switches, buttons, knobs and levers

June 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Don’t adjust the dial. Stay tuned. All the buttons and songs are on this week’s Song Bar radio

Don’t adjust the dial. Stay tuned. All the buttons and songs are on this week’s Song Bar radio

Click! Radio to romance, computers to transport, even death and destruction, those switches are primed for all occasions, so stay tuned for super songs picked by guest Marco den Ouden from nominations that push all the right buttons

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Playlists: songs about zombies and the undead

February 23, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Flesh out the music? Things are getting extra mouthy …

Flesh out the music? Things are getting extra mouthy …

Downright scary, but also popular, are they society’s ills eating itself, or its ills eating society? Spanning the globe, with tasty flavours and takes from the UK to the US, Latin countries, Japan and the Caribbean, guest playlister Marco den Ouden takes a brilliantly big bite

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Playlists: songs about knots, ties and untying

December 22, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Lacy days … a band of knots

Lacy days … a band of knots

Tied up, tied down, in difficulty, for practicality or pleasure, dreadlocks to complex knots, this week’s guest Marco den Ouden has untangled nominations to knit together two tremendous playlists to which any listener will feel attached

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New Albums …

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Feb 18, 2025
Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking
Feb 18, 2025

New album: The veteran Welsh rockers’ 15th studio album delivers everything you’d expect - direct lyrics on big social and political themes, huge, surging melodies and powerful choruses, variously wistful, playful, angry, sincere, and even includes a slanted dedication to the Smiths with one of their strongest for years

Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 18, 2025
John Glacier: Like A Ribbon
Feb 18, 2025

New album: The Hackney, east London producer-vocalist and model, who presents a persona as evasive, oddball, deliberately obfuscating “20,000-year old” “alien”, releases an esoteric, at times beguiling debut of offbeat trip-hop, filled with talking, stream-of-consciousness vocals mixed variously with guitar, assorted samples and electronica, also co-produced by Kwes Darko and Flume

Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 16, 2025
Hifi Sean and David McAlmont: TWILIGHT
Feb 16, 2025

New album: Twinned with last summer’s LP DAYLIGHT, the duo of Scottish musician and the English soul singer return with the darkside – an absorbing adventure from dusk to dawn, with evocative, cinematic, experimental, old-school synths and electronica and McAlmont’s extraordinary, wide-ranging voice

Feb 16, 2025
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Feb 16, 2025
Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On
Feb 16, 2025

New album: Minimalistic, pithy, nostalgically twangy, wistful, undersyated indie-folk-pop by the Chicago/New York trio of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece in this second LP with a refreshing sound produced by Cate Le Bon

Feb 16, 2025
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Feb 15, 2025
Richard Dawson: End of the Middle
Feb 15, 2025

New album: Extraordinary songs about ordinary lives by the wonderful Newcastle alternative folk singer-songwriter – poetic, strikingly detailed, touching, warm, gently humorous, melancholy, original and gorgeously profound, bringing beauty to banality, private tragedies and small joys

Feb 15, 2025
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Feb 13, 2025
Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness
Feb 13, 2025

New album: Warm, tender, thoughtfully profound, intelligent, finely crafted indie-folk with Laurel Canyon-era and Americana elements by the now Manchester-based New Zealand singer-songwriter on themes of hemes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak

Feb 13, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
HONESTY: U R HERE
Feb 11, 2025

New album: Moody, dark, atmospheric, cross-genre inventiveness comes aplenty in this debut LP for Partisan Records by the Leeds-based collective who bring a hard-to-define fusion of ambient, restless electronica, shoegaze, goth, abstract industrial, krautrocky momentum, soulful trip-hop and alt-pop

Feb 11, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Helen Ganya: Share Your Care
Feb 9, 2025

New album: The Brighton-based Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter’s new LP is inspired by the death of her grandmother in 2021, exploring and celebrating her east-Asian heritage in a gorgeously warm, eclectic collection that includes sounds of the Thai dulcimer.

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Squid: Cowards
Feb 9, 2025

New album: Fabulously strange, inventive and and cleverly unsettling third album by the Brighton experimental post-punk, alt-rock quintet with a series of first-person narratives and inner monologues by fictional, disturbing characters - from cult leaders, serial killers, cannibals, sociopaths and arsonists

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Heartworms: Glutton For Punishment
Feb 9, 2025

New album: After a series of outstanding singles, the British artist Jojo Orme releases her debut full LP of inventive, goth-tinged post-punk, with echoes of Siouxsie Sioux and PJ Harvey, and produced the the ever inventive Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 8, 2025
Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Feb 8, 2025

New album: With a strong, seasoned new band, the acclaimed New Jersey singer-songwriter takes a new direction, from her more recent country and folk output, into an expansive sheen of synth, indie, rock and a hint of goth, and themes of emancipation, letting go, and relationships

Feb 8, 2025
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Feb 7, 2025
Matt Berry: Heard Noises
Feb 7, 2025

New album: The British comic actor, known now for 20 years, from Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place to Toast of London to What We Do In The Shadows, returns with his other great indulgent passion, as eccentric multi-instrumentalist and singer of 60s and 70s-inspired psychedelic rock and pop on this impressive 11th studio album

Feb 7, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Brooke Combe: Dancing At The Edge Of The World
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Classy, classic soul full debut LP by the young Scottish singer from Edinburgh, following 2023’s EP, Black Is the New Gold with finely controlled, mature voice and influences from the likes of Marvin Gaye, Baby Huey, and William DeVaughn

Feb 5, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Dilettante: Life Of The Party
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Clever, wry, humorous, refreshing, quirky, experimental pop and art rock from the Manchester-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon and her revolving musical collective, a talented artist known also for playing in BC Camplight’s band

Feb 5, 2025

new songs …

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Feb 18, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Murphy - Swoon (featuring Trent Reznor)
Feb 18, 2025

Song of the Day: Dark, smoky, gothy, simmering, bizarre and Bowie-esque, the Bauhaus singer joins forces with old friend and the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, relating to the state of performer and audience, and heralding his upcoming album Silver Shade out on 9 May via Metropolis Records

Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 17, 2025
Song of the Day: The WAEVE - Love Is All Pain
Feb 17, 2025

Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records

Feb 17, 2025
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Feb 16, 2025
Song of the Day: Rebekka Karijord - Sanctuary
Feb 16, 2025

Song of the Day: Delicate, exquisite, but melancholic new single by the Norwegian Stockholm-based singer and composer about the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased. It heralds her forthcoming album The Bell Tower due out on 25 April via Bella Union

Feb 16, 2025
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Feb 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
Feb 15, 2025

Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans

Feb 15, 2025
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Feb 14, 2025
Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Grand Mal
Feb 14, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union

Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 13, 2025
Song of the Day: Divorce - Hangman
Feb 13, 2025

Song of the Day: A clever, passionate, powerful new single with an extended game metaphor by the Nottingham indie band from their forthcoming album Drive to Goldenhammer out on 7 March via Gravity Records / Universal

Feb 13, 2025
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Feb 12, 2025
Song of the Day: The Nightingales - Same Old Riff
Feb 12, 2025

Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records

Feb 12, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Caity Baser - Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It)
Feb 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Undeniably infectious, catchy, cheeky, flamboyant confidence-boosting, table-turning pop with brassy embellishments by the charismatic Southampton-raised, Brighton-based artist, out on Chosen Music / Capitol / Polydor

Feb 11, 2025
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Feb 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Feb 10, 2025

Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey

Feb 10, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Song of the Day: Dora Jar - Lucky
Feb 9, 2025

Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Nxdia - Boy Clothes
Feb 8, 2025

Song of the Day: With a fabulously bendy, woozy-feel bass line and an explosive chorus, thrilling alternative pop/postpunk about gender identity and fluidity by the charismatic, Cairo-born, Manchester-based non-binary artist Nadia Ahmed, out on Bxdger Records

Feb 8, 2025
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Feb 7, 2025
Song of the Day: Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last (featuring Kristen Stewart)
Feb 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress

Feb 7, 2025

Word of the week

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Feb 11, 2025
Word of the week: withershins / widdershins
Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: Also variously spelled widershins and widderschynnes, this Lowland Scots dialect word term derived from German means counter-clockwise, literally “against the way”, not only on a clock face, but originally against the perceived motion of the sun in the northern hemisphere

Feb 11, 2025
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Jan 29, 2025
Word of the week: xenodocheionology
Jan 29, 2025

Word of the week: It’s something in which many of us may indulge during the thick of winter, planning for holidays via booking websites, this noun meaning the study of hotels, extending also to researching their lore and history

Jan 29, 2025
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Jan 16, 2025
Word of the week: yepsen
Jan 16, 2025

Word of the week: A timeless noun emanating from Middle English ȝespen and first used in around 1325, meaning a unit of measurement being the amount of that can be held in two hands cupped together

Jan 16, 2025
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Jan 9, 2025
Word of the week: zingiberaceous / zinziberaceous
Jan 9, 2025

Word of the week: Two alternative spellings, spicily evocative and colourful, they are adjectives pertaining to the Zingiberaceae family of flowering plants that variously bring that distinctive flavour of, and are a rather fancy way of saying – ginger

Jan 9, 2025
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Dec 12, 2024
Word of the week: aquabob
Dec 12, 2024

Word of the week: Sounding like some water-based children’s TV superhero, it’s actually a particularly apt and descriptive word for wintertime, being an 18th-century English Kent dialect noun meaning icicle

Dec 12, 2024
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