Mar 24, 2023 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2023. There weren’t a lot of new songs on offer this week, perhaps because the music industry was recovering from SXSW last week. But there were still some tracks we liked. This week we are offering 20% off all print […]
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10 Best Songs of the Week: Caroline Rose, Feist, Fenne Lily, The Lemon Twigs, and More
Feb 17, 2023 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2023. There were lots of great tracks this week, but none that screamed out Very Best Song of the Week, so there was some debate on what should top this week’s list. In the past week or so we posted […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: Black Belt Eagle Scout, Lael Neale, Caroline Polachek, Girl Ray, and More
Feb 03, 2023 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2023. There were lots of strong contenders this week, the Top 7 is especially solid. We settled on a Top 12 this week. Don’t forget to check out our Top 100 Albums of 2022 list. In the past week or […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Clark, Samia, Heather Woods Broderick, Bodywash, and More
Jan 27, 2023 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the fourth Songs of the Week of 2023. After a stacked, blockbuster seven days that was last week (filled with big album announcements and three boygenius songs), things settled down this week. Still, there was plenty to like. Don’t forget to check out our Top 100 Albums […]
11 Best Songs of the Week: John Cale, M83, U.S. Girls, Miss Grit, and More
Jan 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2023. After a quiet period last week, this week was roaring with album announcements and new songs. We settled on a Top 11 this week. Don’t forget to check out our Top 100 Albums of 2022 list. In the last […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Paramore, Caroline Polachek, H. Hawkline, Young Fathers, and More
Dec 09, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell) Welcome to the 42nd Songs of the Week of 2022. Despite things starting to wind down a bit for the holidays, there were plenty of contenders this week. In the last week or so we posted interviews with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith […]
11 Best Songs of the Week: Quasi, The WAEVE, Gaz Coombes, serpentwithfeet, and More
Dec 02, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 41st Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the Thanksgiving holiday, so this week’s list covers songs from the last two weeks. In the last week or so we posted interviews with […]
13 Best Songs of the Week: The WAEVE, Caroline Rose, Algiers, Frankie Cosmos, and More
Oct 28, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were turning our new print issue into the printer last Friday. So this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks and […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Alvvays, Broken Bells, Magdalena Bay, Björk, and More
Sep 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week one artist has two songs in the main list, which is a Top 10 this time. In the last week or so we posted an interview with Brett Morgen, the director of the David […]
9 Best Songs of the Week: Weyes Blood, Suede, The Orielles, Death Cab for Cutie, and More
Sep 16, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 35th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week we had a very clear #1. Two album tracks, from records released today, made the list. And all in all we settled on a Top 9. In the last week or so we posted […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: The WAEVE, Björk, The Big Moon, Marlon Williams, and More
Sep 09, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 34th Songs of the Week of 2022. Yesterday the world lost an historical icon. Regardless of your thoughts on the Royal Family, there’s no question that Queen Elizabeth II had a massive impact on the last 70 years of world history. In the […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: Stella Donnelly, GIFT, Will Sheff, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, and More
Aug 05, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2022. There were lots of strong contenders this week, although there was a pretty clear #1 and our #2 was a new band we’d never even heard of before this week. We settled on a Top 12 […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Jessie Ware, Julia Jacklin, Disq, Scout Gillett, and More
Jul 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 28th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a weak week for new tracks. Don’t get us wrong, we stand behind all the songs that made this week’s main list, there just wasn’t a plethora of other tracks to choose from. In […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Regressive Left, First Aid Kit, Stella Donnelly, Nightlands, and More
Jun 24, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2022. Whereas last week we had a supersized Top 15, this week the pickings were slimmer, with a more back down to earth Top 10. In the last week we posted interviews with Weyes Blood and Steven […]
13 Best Songs of the Week: Angel Olsen, Kiwi Jr., Soccer Mommy, Horsegirl, and More
May 20, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a mixed week for new tracks, but there were still some good ones worth crowing about and we settled on a Top 13. In the last week we posted interviews with The War on […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: Father John Misty, Wet Leg, Sun’s Signature, The Smile, and More
Apr 08, 2022 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a fantastic new release day, with fresh albums by Wet Leg, Father John Misty, Jack White, Oceanator, Daniel Rossen, Orville Peck, Lucius, and others. Some of those artists end up on this week’s Songs of the Week, […]
13 Best Songs of the Week: Craig Finn, Fontaines D.C., Good Morning, Hatchie, and More
Mar 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week two icons from the 1980s united for a single and another artist from that era released their first new song in 14 years. There were also a couple of album tracks we loved. Tally […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: Ezra Furman, Nilüfer Yanya, Belle and Sebastian, Wet Leg, and More
Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a stellar week for new tracks and we could only narrow it down to a Top 12, with several strong honorable mentions. Covers of Covers, our first album, came out today on CD and […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Daniel Rossen, SASAMI, Toro y Moi, Vundabar, and More
Feb 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone) Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2022. With Russia invading Ukraine on Thursday morning (and the increased threat of invasion earlier in the week), it was a bit hard to pull away from CNN and focus on new music. But nevertheless we were […]
10 Best Songs of Week: Metronomy, Spoon, The War on Drugs, SASAMI, and More
Oct 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell) Welcome to the 41st Songs of the Week of 2021. It may be Halloween on Sunday, but there weren’t any particularly spooky new songs this week. In the last week we posted interviews with John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, Mick Quinn […]
9 Best Songs of the Week: Water From Your Eyes, LUMP, Silk Sonic, Koleżanka, and More
Jul 30, 2021 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a light week for great new tracks, but we came up with nine we really liked. In the last week we posted interviews with Anika, Tunng, LUMP, and Yola. In the last week we also reviewed a […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: The War on Drugs, Penelope Isles, Indigo De Souza, Piroshka, and More
Jul 23, 2021 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the 28th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a nice week for new music, with some strong new singles (some connected to album announcements) and some wonderful album tracks we’ve long wanted to share with our readers and can now that the albums are out. […]
11 Best Songs of the Week: Courtney Barnett, The Goon Sax, Strand of Oaks, Damon Albarn, and More
Jul 09, 2021 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2021. The American music industry pretty took Monday off due to Sunday’s July 4th holiday, so we expected slimmer pickings this week. It was not to be, thanks for some exciting album announcements. We settled on a Top 11 this […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: LUMP, Villagers, Magdalena Bay, Meatbodies, and More
Jul 02, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell) Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week we were feeling a bit indecisive and couldn’t really narrow it down to a Top 10, so we went with a Top 12 instead. In the last week we posted interviews with Faye Webster, […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Low, Geese, Colleen Green, Morly, and More
Jun 25, 2021 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2021. Today was a blockbuster new album release day. It saw the release of new full-lengths by Modest Mouse, Lucy Dacus, The Mountain Goats, John Grant, SPELLLING, Faye Webster, Matthew Dear, Lightning Bug, Pom Pom Squad, Hiss Golden Messenger, Gaspard […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Sparks, Girl Ray, Wesley Gonzalez and Rose Elinor Dougall, and More
May 28, 2021 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week, Republicans successfully blocked a commission that would have probed the January 6 storming of the Capitol. There was yet another massing shooting, this time in San Jose, CA, in which nine were gunned down at the Valley […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, Japanese Breakfast, and More
May 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern Welcome to the 19th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week there was finally a ceasefire in the latest Israeli Palestinian conflict. Some Republicans tried to block a commission that would be tasked to look into the January 6 storming of the Capitol. President Biden offered a counter […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: TORRES, SPELLLING, The Goon Sax, Wolf Alice, and More
May 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad) Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week the CDC relaxed mask guidelines for those who have been vaccinated, helping to further pave the way for live music to return this fall. Although, right now there’s no clear way for venues or […]
12 Best Songs of the Week: Kero Kero Bonito, Wolf Alice, Gruff Rhys, John Grant, and More
Apr 23, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Emma Goad) Welcome to the 15th Songs of the Week of 2021. In this week’s news, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the murder of George Floyd! There’s still a long way to go with police reform […]
10 Best Songs of the Week: SPELLLING, Lucy Dacus, Ora the Molecule, Twin Shadow, and More
Apr 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone, Caleb Campbell, and Emma Goad) Welcome to the 14th Songs of the Week of 2021. In this week’s news, the case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd wound down, with closing arguments expected on Monday. Protests erupted in the […]