A song a day, every day. From brand new tunes to elderly classics. We don’t promise to be constrained by genre, but we promise to recommend brilliant music.
Laura Marling so beautifully articulates the crispness of Britain’s cold weather in this, her most wintry of songs. This song was released in 2009, but La Marling started playing it the Christmas before. Including at the Communion Christmas Party, a…
Bradford folkies The Halstead Clan have produced this rather lovely Christmas song to raise money for a local boy, Cannor Lancaster. Connor was left physically affected by a bout of meningitis at just two weeks old, and has since been…
Way back in 2002, Conor Oberst released A Christmas Album as Bright Eyes. What was then an online-only release brought together Oberst’s take on 11 standards but it was never designed to soundtrack a Christmas party. The New York Times…
Criminally, Fountains of Wayne have only troubled the UK top 40 three times. One of those was back in 1997 with their festive single ‘I Want An Alien For Christmas’. While that was memorable for its sheer silliness, the real…
The Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club are unleashing a veritable feast of sounds for fans of a quality Christmas song, with four (snow white, of course) 7″s hitting the shelves of fine record shops everywhere this week to celebrate the festive…
For the next 24 days, Song of the Day is going to mean Christmas Song of the Day as our daily tune is turned over to festive themes. It’s our Advent Calendar, just another little celebration of our love of…
Rachel Sermanni’s debut album Under Mountains was one of our favourites of 2012, so it’s no small thing to say her new song, ‘Everything Changes’, may be her best yet. Though only 22, Sermanni has been touring for five years…
Joel Thibodeau’s neo-folk group Death Vessel will return early next year with their new album Island Intervals! Among the eight songs to be contained therein is ‘Ilsa Drown’, which features vocals from and a co-writing credit for Jonsi of Sigur…
Emily & The Woods will be back with a new EP in the new year, and they’re previewing it with the release of ‘Helios’ as a single next month. Emily says the band have been away listening to the likes…
There is a lot more than just 5,300 miles separating York from Los Angeles, but Ned Roberts has bridged the gap in an extraordinarily quick time. When he used to play the pubs and clubs inside York’s ancient city walls…