New Tracks Weekend, November 21-23, 2025

New Tracks Weekend, November 21-23, 2025

Packed with new sounds this weekend, and we're off to the races. Headliners include Hazel English, Lucid Express, Adele Dazeem, Whitelands, Snowcuffs (pictured above), HIGHDRIVE, Shrinestone, hazy waters, Strawberry Lust (w/honeyboi), T. G. Shand, and Sophie And Me. But there's more! We're spinning up countrygaze from Tiberius, as well as choice cuts from Soft Skies Inc, PSYOPs, Sixtieth Parallel, One Hundred Moons, Stay Lunar, Cloud Studies, Libbianski, Cement Diver, Future […]

November 21, 2025 157 2

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, July 5-7, 2024

Much has happened since we last posted, so we'll catch you up to present moment as rapidly as possible. This weekend, we're celebrating new sounds from T. G. Shand, Muted Color (pictured above), PARLOUR, and Haermape. Backing up this front line is a deep bench, including Sun Mahshene, Farewell Days, Shoegazer, Berezina, Nashville Saints, Secret Towns, Fin del Mundo, Echodrone and so much more. We're set for high heat, and […]

July 5, 2024 187

2

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, May 31 – June 2

A lot of new music to celebrate this weekend, and at least one crucial platter we're one week late to present. Headliners this weekend include So Totally (pictured above, photo credit: Bek Martin), dottie, Fern Murphy, T. G. Shand, In The Afterglow, and Velvet. But there's so much more: Emma Anderson, Farewell Days, Holding Hour, Lone Seagull, Space Poets, Onira, Phantogram, Outlander, PHIA, Sara Devoe, Poppy Wizard, Sea of Days, […]

May 31, 2024 131 2

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, February 24-26, 2023

More than fifty brand new tracks, sorted and rotation-weighted, to get the balance right. And we're thrilled to be able to present it to you. As for headliners? We've got the advance on the new album from Uniforms (pictured above): Trance is due 3 March, and it's a more-than-welcome return to glory from these Seville, Spain sonic standouts. We'll tease you with some choice cuts in anticipation of the full […]

February 24, 2023 244

2

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, November 11-13, 2022

Didn't seem like we were overbooked this weekend, until we began the painstaking process of sorting and rotation weighting, and wow... we're well and truly packed. Headliners this weekend include Singapore's Motifs (pictured above), whose full length debut album fulfills all the promise of their early singles (and puts whipped cream on top), Life on Venus (broadcast premiere on Drowned in a Sea of Sound), Lumari (featured here), and a […]

November 11, 2022 280 2

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, March 25 2022

We're packed to the rafters this weekend. The debut from Avalyn (pictured above) causing much murmuring this week, and all of it positive. We're rolling out the latest and greatest from Hatchie, Whale Done!, Greet Death, Soccer Mommy, T. G. Shand, Foliage, Stellar Ruins, twen, Castoff, Mercvrial, Gone, and a sparkler from Primitive Heart. And that's just the stuff we can recall at the moment. And that's in addition to […]

March 25, 2022 184

4

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, July 23-25

Speaking of infectious transmission... we've got a stellar sonic weekend to roll out this weekend. Wall-to-wall stars (and ought to be stars, in a better world than we inhabit), many impeccable songs. Of course our headliner is today's album release from Piroshka, reviewed here. But we're keen to introduce our listeners to so much more, including Lithia (pictured above). Introduced to us by a listener, and a Bandcamp/Last FM follower, […]

July 23, 2021 262 4

4

Audio

Premiere: T. G. Shand – “Lemony”

No, not "Lemmy", that's Motörhead. "Lemony". It's like a fresh lemon tart with powdered sugar sprinkled generously on top. Coming from T. G. Shand, formerly of station standouts Miniatures, but now a solo songwriting powerhouse, it's another impressive chapter in a fresh and surprising sonic evolution. The first new single since February's "The Ease", it's got so many engaging elements competing for your ear, and it's all sonic sugar. Guitar […]

July 18, 2021 265 4

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, February 12-14

We'll celebrate this Valentines' Day weekend in style, from the sublime, to the ...also sublime (at least that's how it seems in our first hour). Headliner album releases from UJU (pictured above) and Heligoland (first album in a decade) lead the parade, as do the hottest new singles from Winter, Fauvely and XO. And that's just the topline frontline, there's so much more to celebrate! We're long on the newest […]

February 12, 2021 87

t. g. shand