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Slide this way: music and songs featuring the trombone

August 5, 2021 Peter Kimpton
JJ Johnson

JJ Johnson

From classical to Dixieland to New Orleans early jazz, swing, big band, bebop to modern jazz, pop, funk, rock and more, it’s time to bone up, slide in and have a blast with your suggestions on this great, often unheralded instrument

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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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And the beat goes on: songs about wings

July 29, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Hum that tune …

Hum that tune …

Birds to insects, bats and angels to Icarus and aeroplanes, myth and reality, metaphor and literal, it’s time to let your musical imagination take flight and soar with the senses in songs that feature these supreme super-limbs in lyrics

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Playlists: songs about refreshment and cooling down

July 27, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Very cool: The Main Ingredient

Very cool: The Main Ingredient

As the heat continues, where might we find refreshment? From cold water, drinks and more there’s no fresher breeze to bring a sweet shade of musical relief than playlists picked by Hoshino Sakura from last week’s many nominations

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Ice going: songs about refreshment and cooling down

July 22, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Ice work if you can get it …

Ice work if you can get it …

Things are really hotting up, so it’s time to lower the temperature a bit. Whether that involves cooling off on your insides or outside, physical, visceral, mental or metaphorical, let’s cool off with some songs on the subject

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Playlists: songs about stereotypes

July 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The Specials. A most atypical and brilliant band …

The Specials. A most atypical and brilliant band …

Band member types to black racial stereotyping, standard gender attributes to cultural cliches, this week our guest writer Loud Atlas explores all the standard norms and from a huge choices picks playlists are outstandingly atypical

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Typecast? Songs about stereotypes

July 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Stereo-typing

Stereo-typing

Which type are you? Portraying or satirising, explaining or exploding, this week we explore these social generalisations about race, gender, age, nationality, class or profession as expressed in song lyrics or even musical style

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Playlists: songs about museums, galleries and exhibitions

July 13, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Airing the sound: MOMA’s Music Gallery

Airing the sound: MOMA’s Music Gallery

It’s a private view where all are invited. Led by our expert guest curator EnglishOutlaw, chosen from a range of musical hanging fruit, welcome to the grand tour reopening of an entirely unique grand expo - a canticular spectacular

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Public exposure: songs about museums, galleries and exhibitions

July 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Some of the Horniman Museum’s many musical instruments

Some of the Horniman Museum’s many musical instruments

It’s time to show off your best and most collectible nominations about venues of art and artefacts, whether that is the building, the people, or the interacting with the items within, from grand palaces to tiny garages

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Time for change: songs about coins

July 1, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Heavy metal: American guitar pick coins

Heavy metal: American guitar pick coins

Penny for your thoughts? Spare a dime? Money may often be on anyone’s mind, but this week we’re spinning a theme in particular all about coins, incidentally or centrally in a song lyrics. Will your suggestions come up heads or tails?

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Pride playlists: songs about gender and LGBTQ+

June 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Pride: coming out from black and white

Pride: coming out from black and white

Coded 30s black blues to a 1950s Mexican diva, 1970s and 80s politics to full on out dirty disco in 2021, this week’s guest playlister Pop Off! celebrates a personal birthday with Gay Pride parade that goes beyond the obvious anthems

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Gay pride struggles and strides: songs exploring gender and LGBTQ

June 24, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Very fruitful: Little Richard

Very fruitful: Little Richard

It’s time to come out with our own Song Bar gay parade – songs exploring, expressing the experience from confusions and problems, all the way to coming out and celebrating gender, difference across the sex spectrum

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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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Set the controls: songs about switches, buttons, knobs and levers

June 17, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Slide away …

Slide away …

Literal or metaphorical, mechanical, electrical or psychological, it’s time to switch your attention to these sorts of manual controls referred in song lyrics, and see what turns on and pushes those buttons …

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Playlists: songs about acceptance

June 15, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Oumou Sangaré

Oumou Sangaré

People, circumstances, oneself or even death, there’s a huge sense of calm, relief and relaxation around this week’s beautifully benign and wisely accepted playlists, chosen by guest tincanman from a massive influx of nominations

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Playlists: songs about horizons

June 8, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Rising and setting …

Rising and setting …

Distant hillsides to sea sunsets, skylines and vapour. trails to massive events, this week’s playlists are a thing of timeless beauty, picked by guest ajostu from an ocean of nominations, stretching far and wide across the musical globe

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Always beyond: songs about horizons

June 3, 2021 Peter Kimpton
The open road … all the way the vanishing point …

The open road … all the way the vanishing point …

It’s the inspiration for so many album covers, not to mention songs, and also an idea of infinity we never quite reach. From literal or metaphorical and lyrical, this week we reach for that imagined line where land, or sea, meets sky

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Playlists: Welcome to the Festival of Drone

June 2, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Enter a dome of mesmerising drone ….

Enter a dome of mesmerising drone ….

You’ve got your ticket, now click to enter this special event, a festival of continuous sounds, otherworldly music that crosses the realms of pop, folk and other forms filling five special fields and domes, curated by guest organiser MussoliniHeadkick

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Playlists: songs about roses

May 25, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Roses of many colours decorate this week’s lists …

Roses of many colours decorate this week’s lists …

Whether wild or cultivated, on western plains to eastern mountains, country gardens or inner city, guest flower picker AmyLee creates a bloomin’ marvellous bouquet of music to display a fabulous selection of aural and lyrical colours

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Soft and sharp: songs about roses

May 20, 2021 Peter Kimpton
Red and white Rosa Osiria

Red and white Rosa Osiria

Romance, death, pain or beauty, petals or thorns? In titles or lyrics of song, literal or metaphor, as symbols or even as names, including also instrumentals, it’s time to gather musical blooms inspired by this particular flower

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Jan 19, 2025
Jasmine 4.t - You Are The Morning
Jan 19, 2025

New album: An outstanding folk/rock debut by the Manchester-based trans singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank, whose moving songs tackle ambiguous relationships, identity, tangled joy, heartache, camaraderie and isolation of trans-feminine life an LP produced by the Boygenius trio of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker

Jan 19, 2025
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Jan 18, 2025
The Weather Station: Humanhood
Jan 18, 2025

New album: Beautifully balanced, nuanced, delicate, intimate new experimental folk by Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman on a gorgeous seventh LP that goes to the individual and collective core of being alive, with a free-flowing semi-acoustic songs partly created by improvisation with her six-piece band, decorated with flurries of woodwind

Jan 18, 2025
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Jan 17, 2025
Ela Minus: DÍA
Jan 17, 2025

New album: A wonderfully eclectic, inventive, darkly ecstatic, introspective yet musically expansive electronica and dance music follow-up to 2020’s debut, Acts of Rebellion, on the theme of light and self-discovery by the Colombian singer-songwriter, musician and producer

Jan 17, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Lambrini Girls: Who Let The Dogs Out
Jan 10, 2025

New album: This feisty, humorous, angry, intelligent, kick-ass debut by the Brighton queer-punk band fronted by duo Lily Macieira and Phoebe Lunny is an explosion of artful, acerbic attitude and energy, and produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox

Jan 10, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear
Jan 10, 2025

New album: After a greatest hits tour and two recently new band members, the Glasgow art-rockers fronted by the sharp-witted Alex Kapranos return with renewed vim and vigour, with an unashamed air of going full-tilt on classic FF in their sound and style perky, pacy, hooky indie-pop

Jan 10, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon
Jan 10, 2025

New album: Always infectiously fun and effervescently charismatic, the blue-haired South African star’s third LP bursts with witty, sex-positive braggadocio, sung in Xhosa and English, and spanning the rhythms and sounds of Johannesburg and Durban with electro-pop and cross-genre dance

Jan 10, 2025
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Jan 8, 2025
Ethel Cain: Perverts
Jan 8, 2025

New album: Dark, challenging, otherworldly, experimental, ethereally oddball but at times alluring electronica and ghostly vocalisations? It’s the Tallahassee artist Hayden Anhedönia, who after the successful 2022 LP Preacher’s Daughter, pushes the musical envelope into most unusual territory

Jan 8, 2025
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Jan 8, 2025
Alice Hebborn: Saisons
Jan 8, 2025

New album: Released last month, a vivid, stirring, experimental debut LP of piano and electronica by the Belgian composer in seven movements, exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world

Jan 8, 2025
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Jan 5, 2025
SAULT: Acts of Faith
Jan 5, 2025

New album: Released as usual without fanfare, and on Christmas Day, the London collective of by producer and musician Inflo return with an 11th LP – silky smooth, classy soul, funk and gospel, fronted by the voice of Cleo Sol

Jan 5, 2025
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Dec 30, 2024
Favourite Albums of 2024 - Part 2
Dec 30, 2024

Favourite albums of 2024: Welcome to The Song Bar’s favourite albums of 2024 Part 2. Part 1 can be found here. There’s no such thing as ‘best of’ and everything is subjective, but please dig into this rich seam of originality and quality, and even suggest more of your own

Dec 30, 2024
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Dec 30, 2024
Favourite albums of 2024 - Part 1
Dec 30, 2024

Favourite albums of 2024: Welcome to The Song Bar’s favourite albums of 2024 Part 1. There’s no such thing as ‘best of’ and everything is subjective, but rich seams of originality and quality are certainly here to be enjoyed. Peruse away …

Dec 30, 2024
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Dec 29, 2024
Aphex Twin: Music From The Merch Desk (2016-2023)
Dec 29, 2024

Album review: A decade since his last album, Syro, electronica’s brilliant British outsider and pioneer Richard D James returns with a surprise fan-pleaser, a mass compilation release of 38 numbers played at festivals, and previously only on limited-edition vinyl sold at the merch desk of select events

Dec 29, 2024
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Dec 27, 2024
Juniore: Trois Deux Un
Dec 27, 2024

Album review: Released in September, the French band’s latest LP is another sparkling gem of 60s psychedelic and “yéyé noir” surf pop – whisperingly seductive, witty, wistful, stylish and sophisticated, from the breathless paced to the songs like a coil of smoke - moody, slow and pithily philosophical

Dec 27, 2024
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Dec 27, 2024
Izumi 'Mimi' Kobayashi: Choice Cuts 1978-1983
Dec 27, 2024

Album review: Out of many compilations released in 2024, this Time Capsule collection is a highlight, picking some of the fabulously fun, inventive, hybrid jazz-funk-Latin-reggae-electronica pop of the innovative Japanese composer and pianist

Dec 27, 2024

new songs …

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Jan 19, 2025
Song of the Day: Caolán Austin - We Shall All Be Gone Shortly
Jan 19, 2025

Song of the Day: Beautiful, tranquil, delicately experimental instrumental electronica with piano by the Irish composer, producer musician from Derry, with additional fiddle by Joshua Burnside, out on Only You Recordings

Jan 19, 2025
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Jan 18, 2025
Song of the Day: Goat + MC Yallah - Nimerudi
Jan 18, 2025

Song of the Day: Meaning “I’m Back” in Swahili, an excellent, energised fusion of break beats, Afrobeat, fuzz psych and hip-hop by the mysterious masked Swedish band and the Kenya-born, Uganda-raised high-speed rapper

Jan 18, 2025
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Jan 17, 2025
Song of the Day: Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror
Jan 17, 2025

Song of the Day: With this lead single, the US musical shapeshifter Mike Hadreas returns with a compelling Americana-style number about reflective horizons and paradoxes, heralding his seventh album, out on 28 March on Matador Records

Jan 17, 2025
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Jan 16, 2025
Song of the Day: Joy Crookes - Pass the Salt (featuring Vince Staples)
Jan 16, 2025

Song of the Day: With a big, meaty, menacing bass and drum sound, the serenely smooth-voiced Brixton British singer returns, following her acclaimed 2021 LP Skin, with a spicy, bitch-back number expressing anger at someone telling lies about her, with added verse by the American rappe

Jan 16, 2025
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Jan 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Everything Is Recorded - Swamp Dream #3 (ft. Mary in the Junkyard)
Jan 15, 2025

Song of the Day: A beautifully odd, ghostly, eclectic track by the producer and XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, joined by the south London experimental rock trio, and heralding his forthcoming album Temporary, out on released 28 February via XL Recordings

Jan 15, 2025
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Jan 14, 2025
Song of the Day: Albertine Sarges - Girl Missing
Jan 14, 2025

Song of the Day: The title track from the forthcoming album by the innovative Berlin indie artist is beautifully upbeat and serene and style, but is inspired by deeply personal and sorrowful story from her life. Girl Missing is due out on 21 February via Moshi Moshi Records

Jan 14, 2025
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Jan 13, 2025
Song of the Day: Helen Ganya - Fortune
Jan 13, 2025

Song of the Day: A Thai-dulcimer (khim) decorates this beautiful track by the Singapore-raised, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter inspired by her heritage, her mother, and “all the diasporic mums out there”. It’s the latest track heralding her forthcoming album Share Your Care out on 7 February via Bella Union

Jan 13, 2025
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Jan 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Tunng - Snails
Jan 12, 2025

Song of the Day: Delicious, delicate, detailed and poetic, it’s a beautiful acoustic new single by the British folktronica pioneers, heralding their new album Love You All Over Again, which in part celebrates 20 years of making music, out on 24 January on Full Time Hobby

Jan 12, 2025
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Jan 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Sports Team - Bang Bang Bang
Jan 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy yet with a darkly satirical subject, the British band return with new song inspired by the whistling spaghetti western soundtracks of Ennio Morricone, but reflecting on American gun culture, heralding their next album Boys These Days out 24 May on Bright Antenna & Distiller Records

Jan 11, 2025
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Jan 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Fat Dog - Peace Song
Jan 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Following their hit 2024 album, WOOF. the south London alternative post-punk band fronted by Joe Love return with a fabulously strong melody and an entertaining video featuring an pub-based alien figure and Godzilla-sized invading dog, out on Domino Records

Jan 10, 2025
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Jan 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DARKSIDE - S.N.C
Jan 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Instantly stylish, hooky, engaging funk and experimental rock with a distinct cavernous sound by the New York trio of Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington, and new member Tlacael Esparza, heralding the band’s forthcoming third LP, Nothing, out on 28 February on Matador Records

Jan 9, 2025
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Jan 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Avalanche Party - Shake The Slack
Jan 8, 2025

Song of the Day: Panache-filled post-punk with a fierce, electrical energy and sharp lyrics by the five-piece band from the North Yorkshire Moors in a new single heralding their forthcoming album, Der Traum Über Alles, out on 7 February via AMK/ Kartel Music.

Jan 8, 2025

Word of the week

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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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Nov 27, 2024
Word of the week: broticolous
Nov 27, 2024

Word of the week: Mice, rats, spiders, foxes to raccoons, this obscure adjective, connected to the French noun broticole, this relates to any animal and insect species with a tendency to live around and alongside humans and their dwellings perhaps as scavengers, but also showing adaptability

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 15, 2024
Word of the week: circumbendibus
Nov 15, 2024

Word of the week: Not a snaking elongated piece of public transport but still a very evocative 17th-century word for a circuitous, long-winded route or way of doing something or telling a story …

Nov 15, 2024
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