I’ve always been a sucker for a melancholy song about grief and loss, and this one’s a real heartbreaker. The music, the lyrics, the vocals, the video… all of it. (more…)

When the sun comes out, as it finally has (and not before bloody time), there is little I would rather listen to than some desert blues from Mali. (more…)

I don’t know anything about Ten Benson except that when I heard this song on Marc Riley’s 6Music show I thought it might be a lost out-take by The Stooges. (more…)

Hot off the press (yesterday) comes this collaboration between the two top synth pop duos of our time. Or – let’s be fair – any other time. (more…)

Here’s a familiar song as it’s never been heard before.
Ukrainian punk band Beton have reimagined The Clash’s hit single London Calling as an “anthem of solidarity and hope” for their people amid the Russian invasion.

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Warpaint return from a six-year lay-off with the same line-up but a glitchy, claustrophobic new sound on Champion. (more…)

In many ways Bodega seem like a computer-generated hipster band from Brooklyn, if not the most pretentious band in the world. But I like ’em. (more…)

Steady Habits sound like an old-timey country music band from somewhere in the American South – but actually come from Oxford. (more…)

Music with a message doesn’t come much more infectious than Charlotte Adigéry’s anti-racist dance banger, Blenda. (more…)

A second new tune by Sharon Van Etten in as many months suggests a new solo album must be on the horizon. (more…)