Your Custom Text Here
The mini debut album by couchgagzzz - GOSPORTS!!!
Song of the Day: Short, punchy, catchy and fast, the infectiously energetic title track from the recent debut mini album by the band from Bari, Italy, with inspiration from the Australian punk scene, style they herald budget rock and synth punk, but also with echoes of the Ramones
Read more
Formal Sppeedwear
Song of the Day: A brilliantly wonky and original mixture of clever, oddball riff, arrhythmic post-punk/new wave by the Stoke on Trent trio from their upcoming self-titled EP, with echoes of XTC and Talking Heads and Scary Monsters-era Bowie
Read more
Eels Time!, the new album
Song of the Day: Another brilliantly darkly humorous, droll, vivid single by Mark Oliver Everett heralding a new Eels album, the 15th in all, Eels Time! and one of a few tracks he has co-written with All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter
Read more
Girl and Girl’s forthcoming album, Call A Doctor
Song of the Day: A Friday pair of upbeat, emotional, stirring, catchy, candid, witty, jangly guitar indie numbers by the band from Queensland, Australia, fronted by Kai James, heralding their upcoming album Call A Doctor, out on 24th May via Sub Pop
Read more
Anna Erhard - Botanical Garden
Song of the Day: ‘They would not allow us to pick our favourite flowers’. A beautifully droll, catchy new indie number by the witty Berlin artist, here parodying a miserably bizarre Google-type online review
Read more
Goat Girl
Song of the Day: Engrossingly downbeat, but with rippling passages of guitar arpeggios in between strums, an alluringly deadpan song by the south London indie band, heralding their next album, Below The Waste, out on 7 June via Rough Trade
Read more
Maria Chiara Argirò’s forthcoming album, Closer
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, infectious, sensual synth-pop with added trumpet by the London-based Italian artist originally from Rome, in this number about “establishing a lighter and balanced relationship with your inner self and consequently with others”
Read more
BODEGA’s forthcoming next album, Our Brand Could Be YR Life
Song of the Day: Smart, punchy, social satire in this new post-punk single by the New York band fronted by Ben Hozie, from the upcoming album Our Brand Could Be YR Life, out on Chrysalis Records
Read more
Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett and Jamie Sierota, aka meija, in the Possum video
Song of the Day: A pair of recent excellent indie-pop singles by the LA based producer and songwriter Jamie Sierota, witty, catchy and clever, featuring respectively, guests Jawny - aka American singer Jacob Lee-Nicholas Sullenger, and Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett
Read more
Charm of Finches - sisters Mabel and Ivy
Song of the Day: A beautiful, witty, new indie-folk number the Melbourne sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes with a tongue-in-cheek look at how women sometimes blame other women for their own internal issues when it comes to relationships
Read more
Liz Lawrence returns with Big Machine from her new album, Peanuts, out on Chrysalis
Song of the Day: Classy, articulate, stirring and strident indie electro-pop by the British singer-songwriter and guitarist with this lead single from the upcoming brand new album Peanuts, out on Chrysalis Records
Read more
Phone addiction: Arab Strap’s Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat
Song of the Day: One of two recent singles heralding the forthcoming new album by Scotland’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton, a witty, articulate, deadpan lament about online hate, mixing a disco beat with guitar line
Read more
M(h)aol - Pursuit
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent debut album Attachment Styles, a visceral, intense single by the feminist postpunk Dublin band, about the traumatic experience of being followed home
Read more
Nick Cave
Song of the Day: The Australian legend returns with characteristic zeal and passion with this striking narrative title track from his upcoming 18th studio album, one capturing his recurring themes of death, religion, love and violence, a reflecting on a chaotic world
Read more
youbet’s Nick Llobet
Song of the Day: Quirky, intricate, sensitive indie by the South Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based band of Nick Llobet, with a song described as a topsy-turvy study of self-criticism, the gentle melody paired with devilish lyrics about losing perspective
Read more
La Luz’s upcoming new album, News of the Universe
Song of the Day: The California-based band fronted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Shana Cleveland return with a mesmeric, dream-like mix of surf, krautrock and po and psychedelia, taken from their upcoming album News of the Universe, out on 24 May via Sub Pop Records
Read more
Annie Clark’s fired up with a new St Vincent single, Broken Man
Song of the Day: The acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark returns with a smouldering, explosive, swaggering, hard rock, gnarly new single featuring Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl guesting on drums, and heralding her forthcoming seventh album, All Born Screaming
Read more
Richard Hawley
Song of the Day: The veteran Sheffield singer-songwriter returns with that shimmering guitar Duane Eddy/Link Wray sound, and story ‘about a deal that goes wrong’, heralding his new album, In This City They Call You Love
Read more
Lip Critic - The Heart
Song of the Day: Frenetic, explosive experimental post-punk electronica by the New York band featuring double drummers, anarchic sampling and frontman Bret Kaser’s lyrical attack on the state of the spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption
Read more
UCHE YARA
Song of the Day: A pair of uniquely stylish yet contrasting numbers about being away from home by the Berlin-based, Nigerian heritage singer and guitarist who has fabulously full and deep range voice – Uchenna Yara Katzmayr
Read more