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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
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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
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Mdou Moctar
Song of the Day: Building to a powerful guitar crescendo, a stirring new desert blues and rock single about cultural identity by the Nigerian Tuareg musician and band return with a title meaning “brother or comrade”
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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
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King Hannah - Big Swimmer
Song of the Day: An immediately arresting, gorgeous indie Americana of poise and elegance by the Liverpool duo of singer Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle, joined here by Sharon Van Etten on vocal harmonies, with the title track of their forthcoming album, out on City Slang
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Iron & Wine’s forthcoming album, Light Verse
Song of the Day: Heralding his seventh full-length LP, Light Verse, North Carolina singer-songwirter Sam Beam returns with beautiful alt-folk-country and orchestra love song duet with the golden-voiced Fiona Apple
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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
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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
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Lovely Eggs: Holly Ross and David Blackwell
Song of the Day: Four years since their brilliantly entertaining album I Am Moron, the Lancaster couple Holly Ross and David Blackwell return with wonderful psychedelic punk west coast rock, to herald their new album, Eggsistentialism due on 17 May via Egg Records
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The Mysterines - Stray
Song of the Day: A darkly gothic, smouldering, then explosive new rock single by the Merseyside band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Lia Metcalfe, taken from their forthcoming second album, Afraid of Tomorrows, out in June on Fiction Records
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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
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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
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Ride’s seventh album, Interplay is out on 29 March
Song of the Day: A second single heralding the veteran Oxford indie shoegaze band fronted by Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, from their forthcoming seventh album, Interplay, has an epic, wistful airy power, with echoes of New Order
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Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops
Song of the Day: “Each generation makes its own apology.” With a train-like rhythm, plinky piano, harp and more, one of two eccentric, inventive new singles, alongside Capricorn, to herald the lauded New York indie-art-pop band’s forthcoming new album, Only God Was Above Us, out on 5 April on Columbia Records
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William Doyle’s upcoming new album, Springs Eternal
Song of the Day: Catchy, clever, fuzz-guitar experimental pop from the British musician from Bournemouth, and a single with a ongoing watery theme from his forthcoming album Springs Eternal, out on Tough Love
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Royel Otis
Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy indie-rock-pop rhythmic-piano banger by the Australian duo Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, here produced by the acclaimed Dan Carey, and the latest single heralding their forthcoming album Pratts & Pain, out on Ourness
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Blue Whale’s forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images
Song of the Day: Excellently angular, guitar post-punk spiralling with a crazed but controlled momentum by the Belfast band in this opening instrumental track of their forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images
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Kim Gordon
Song of the Day: A dark, menacing but very strikingly original new number by the legendary former Sonic Youth frontwoman, fusing noise rock, electronica, and a farewell shopping-and-packing list, which heralds her next solo album, The Collection, out on 8 March
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Lucy Rose
Song of the Day: With her first new music in four years, the British singer-songwriter returns with two dynamic rock-pop singles, one with mesmeric rising and falling piano chord line, the other with a jaunty jazz style, heralding her new album, This Ain’t the Way You Go Out
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Sasha Assad - Still
Song of the Day: Alongside another recent single, Bad Nature, a compelling, passionate, swaggering indie rock number from the Nottingham artist with Egyptian heritage with a song about heartbreak
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