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The Futureheads release their first album in seven years
Song of the Day: “I remember a fight in school. I was horrified. The evil grins and suffering burnt into my mind. And it left a scar.” Powerful lines about modern masculinity repression and more from the Sunderland band’s first track for seven years
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Brooklyn’s 3rd Bass from the early 1990s
Song of the Day: After R.E.M.’s The Wrong Child, a more discursive number about teenage problems, ranging from drugs, gangs, sexual abuse, to depression and suicide by one of the finest New York rap outfits from the golden age of early 90s hip hop
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From the cover of R.E.M.’s 1988 album
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Problem Child by Hed Ogledd, a rarely played, but beautiful, pathos-rich song from the perspective of an outsider, perhaps with a physical or mental disability, looking at other children playing
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Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945)
Song of the Day: Following Solomon Burke and The Blind Boys of Alabama, let's take it way back to the great blues and gospel singer and bottleneck guitarist who was raised in Marlin, Texas
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Bill Callahan
Song of the Day: The past week has featured a selection of wonderful Scottish artists, several of whom admire and have been influenced by this American singer-songwriter whose voice and simplicity of style has power and profundity
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Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman
Song of the Day: We focus on the title track of Josh Tillman's latest and much acclaimed new album, capturing the absurdity of the human condition with powerful music and acerbic, yet melancholy wit
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