Song of the Day: This epic, enigmatic experimental new track, featuring harpsichord sounds alongside intricate guitars, driving beats and menacing lyrics, heralds the Brighton art-rock-post-punk band’s third LP, Cowards, out in February 2025 on Warp Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Nitefire - Love Won't Tear Me Away
Song of the Day: Catchy, quirky, punchy post-punk by the young LA band with electo-pop ripples and echoes of New York’s LCD Soundsystem and the style of 90s Brit rockers Supergrass, taken from their new EP Ameripop!, now via Concord Records
Read moreSong of the Day: LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes
Song of the Day: Infectiously catchy, stripped back, electro-synth-post-punk by the popular New York band fronted by James Murphy with a new single serving as teaser for an as yet unfinished new album, out on Columbia Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Heartworms - Warplane
Song of the Day: Inspired by the death of a young WW2 Spitfire pilot, a dark, yet evocative, exciting, pacy, dynamic, postpunk single with distorted guitars, propeller like drums, and the alluring, explosive presence of Jojo Orme, heralding a debut album Glutton for Punishment, and produced by Dan Carey on Speedy Wunderground
Read moreSong of the Day: A Place To Bury Strangers - Fear Of Transformation
Song of the Day: Taken from the Brooklyn band’s recently released and seventh album, Synthesizer, a dark and alluring goth-electro-postpunk number reminiscent of 1980s Suicide, about a teenage boy sneaking our of his parent's house to go to his first Furry party, but with a deadly secret – he's a werewolf
Read moreSong of the Day: Wussy - Cellar Door
Song of the Day: Graveyard themed, but also referencing the euphonic phrase considered the most among the English language’s most beautiful, a catchy, spooky lo-fi krautrocky title track with a fabulous retro disco footage video, from the Cincinnati band’s latest EP, out on Shake It Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Adult DVD - Do Something
Song of the Day: Fresh delivery and punchy, energetic electro-postpunk by the Leeds band in the opening track from their new EP Next Day Shipping, following other singles Doomsday Prepper, Bill Murray and Yacht Money
Read moreSong of the Day: Kim Deal - Crystal Breath
Song of the Day: Crunchy, fuzzy, spacey, dreamy, psychedelic, this striking new single from the Breeders and former Pixies star is taken from her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More, out on 22 November via 4AD
Read moreSong of the Day: THUS LOVE - Birthday Song
Song of the Day: Swaggering, stylish indie postpunk, with a touch of Arctic Monkeys, by the band from Brattleboro, Vermont, with a strangely disturbing celebratory video (also featuring an owl), and heralding their sophomore album, All Pleasure, out 1 November via Captured Tracks
Read moreSong of the Day: Silverbacks - Something I Know
Song of the Day: Catchy, crisp indie with shades of Stereolab, an intimate drum beat and clarinet tones by the Dublin six-piece heralding their third LP Easy Being A Winner, out on 18 October via Central Tones / Cargo
Read moreSong of the Day: Shelf Lives - Where Did I Go?
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
Read moreSong of the Day: She Drew The Gun - Mirrors
Song of the Day: Liverpool’s brilliant Louisa Roach returns with a powerful new number described as “like a therapy session with your shadow self. It’s a looking in the mirror song, a song to my subconscious, my shadow,” and following the title track single, heralds her forthcoming album, Howl, out on 15 November via Submarine Cat Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Crows - Vision of Me
Song of the Day: Shades of both Joy Division and Killers come in this stridently powerful, high octane rock single about identity, with a Terry Gilliam’s Brazil-inspired dystopian video shot at the Barbican, and hails the London band’s forthcoming album Reason Enough, out on 27 September via Bad Vibrations
Read moreSong of the Day: The Dare - You're Invited
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Party Dozen - The Big Man Upstairs
Song of the Day: A powerful, surging stirring, experimental postpunk but also melodic track by the Sydney-based duo of saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet, about the tumultuous political landscape of Queensland during the reign of 60s-80s Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Read moreSong of the Day: Pom Poko - Go
Song of the Day: A fantastic frenzy of a new single about life as a messy to-do list, featuring string harmonics in both guitar and bass played at breakneck speed by the Norwegian indie postpunk band, heralding their forthcoming third album, Champion, out on 16 August on Bella Union
Read moreSong of the Day: Honeyglaze - Don't
Song of the Day: Dark, defiant, angry talky, experimental indie post-punk with a visceral riposte to a bad relationship by the London trio featuring the emotional voice of Anouska Sokolow, heralding their forthcoming sophomore album, Real Deal, out on September on Fat Possum
Read moreSong of the Day: 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
Read moreSong of the Day: J.R.C.G - Dogear
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
Read moreSong of the Day: Deadletter - Mere Mortal
Song of the Day: A dark, powerful, punchy new postpunk single by the London-based Yorkshire band fronted by Zac Lawrence about powerlessness over mortality, and the brutal, gruelling hunt for acceptance and closure in the wake of a grievance
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