Melbourne band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return with their first music for four years, Sunburned In London.

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There’s a thin line between homage and pastiche and you can make your own mind up about teenage siblings The Molotovs.

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Here’s another anti-ICE anthem, inspired by the murders in Minneaolis, this time from across the pond by our own Billy Bragg.

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Chase away the winter blues with my first playlist of 2026 – two and a half hours of eclectic pleasure to warm the cockles of your ears, kicking off with the S.O.S. Band’s and coming to a melancholy close with Mary Margaret O’Hara. In between there’s a few country numbers, a hefty dose of Krautrock deep cuts, some reggae and soul, a couple of protest songs against ICE and Trump, and tributes to those we lost, including two drummers – Sly Dunbar and Kenny Morris – and actress Catherine O’Hara.

Catherine O’Hara played some of the funniest characters on film and TV – and her sister Mary Margaret O’Hara made one of the best debut albums ever recorded.

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Bob Marley captured the concerning mood of the times with his warning of impending global catastrophe – as relevant today as when he sang it in 1979.

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Bruce Springsteen delivers his response to the unfolding disaster in Minneapolis – a powerful riposte to the murderous exploits of ICE.

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Sly Dunbar was one half of the greatest reggae rhythm section in history, alongside the late and equally great Robbie Shakespeare.

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Love songs really don’t get more romantic than The Ocean by Richard Hawley. And the story behind it only adds to its emotional power.

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Packaging are a duo from Seattle who combine krautrok rhythms with swirling synths on this pulsating ode to airport anxiety. (more…)