Mary In The Junkyard are the latest in a recent tradition of highly original British bands whose influences are hard to detect.

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Mary Gauthier keeps it real in a way few others have ever dared to do in her autobiographical coming-of-age song Drag Queens In Limousines. (more…)

Hey Joe is not just a classic, but a genuine rock standard, with at least a hundred versions. This is one of my favourites, by blues guitarist Roy Buchanan.

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British DJ Dave Clarke teamed up with German electroclash ensemble Chicks On Speed on this banger, with a Bauhaus sample to boot.

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Leon Bridges teams up with dance trio Jungle on a slice of uplifting summer soul infused with the sound of Afro jazz and funk.

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When I first heard the adrenalin rush of those guitars at the start of Girl From Mars, I was instantly transported back to the first wave of punk in 1977.

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I’m so not the target audience for Canadian hyperpop singer 8485, but this song is such an earworm I can’t resist it.

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Shoun Shoun is the project of Bristol-based Annette Berlin, who describes her band’s sound as “lo-fi anxiety and raucous tales of bad behaviour.”

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Fantastic Negrito – New Live Album And Interview

DJ Seinfeld’s tune instantly evokes sunny afternoons in Ibiza, where you can imagine it seeping from the speakers of a beach bar as you sip on a cocktail.

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