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 – U

17th July 2026 · 2010s, 2017, Dance, Electro, Music

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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Gilla Band return from a four-year hiatus with a techno-influenced new tune, Giraffe, that proves they’ve lost none of their abrasive power.

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The Fall – Smile

14th July 2026 · 1980s, 1983, Music, Punk

The Fall made their national TV debut on The Tube thanks to John Peel – five years after I first saw them play in London.

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Sophia Stel is a Canadian electronic artist who blends her emotional vocals with elements of hyper-pop and, on this mellow breakup tune, trip-hop.

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This bass-heavy slice of minimal industrial techno by Maquina may be another first for me – a band from Lisbon.

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Song of the Day

A Certain Ratio’s 1982 single Knife Slits Water gets an updated remix from Andy Meecham, aka The Emperor Machine.

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Do we like to funk on a sunny summer’s day? Yes we do. And we very much do when the soundtrack is Big Time by Rick James.

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