is this music? with Stuart McHugh: 27th October 2022

Small names even by our standards – Poster Paints lead us off in a Hallowe’en non-special with Scunner and My Name is Ian hopefully adding scenes of mild terror to a playlist which also includes some mysteriously pseudonymed acts and a couple of artists whose names begin with ‘Q’. Curiouser and curiouser…

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: 20th October 2022

Big names by our standards: John Cale and Ballboy to start, then Conscious Route, Limo Cunningham, James Yorkston with Nina Persson, Darren Hayman, Michael Timmons, Chris Connelly, Archers of Loaf, plus Aidan Moffat in a new guise.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: October 13th 2022

An hour of the best new and hopefully unfamiliar sounds including Deadletter, Starry Skies, Post Coal Prom Queen, Fenella, Dutch Wine, and The Orchids

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: October 6th 2022

Including The Artists Formerly Known As… Smog, Germlin, Okkervill River, Thee Moths, Die Krupps, The Starlets, and various former members of Microdisney, Compulsion, Hoboken, The Starlets

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: September 22nd 2022

Featuring new releases from Anna B Savage, Popup, Nightingales, Smashing Pumpkins and Prolapse, plus Nunny Boy, Lewis McLaughlin, Quiet as a Mouse and Have Mercy, Las Vegas…

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: September 15th 2022

For reasons unknown, a rather electronically-slanted show, with John Carpenter, Stephen McLaren, Blancmange, Chris Connelly, Fenella, Callum Easter, Herman Dune, Makeness, Skelf, The Big Moon, and Conformist.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: September 8th 2022

Back from a holiday hiatus, we also welcome back Unkle Bob and Night Noise Team, plus deliver new tunes from Vanishing Twin, Telefis, Los Bitchos, Sorry, Poster Paints, Dutch Wine and Lambchop, amongst many others.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: August 18th 2022

All packed into an hour-long extravaganza are Hot Chip, Louise Connell, They Might Be Giants, Celestial North, Pictish Trail, Blush Club, The Big Moon, Lisbet Russo, Made Kuti, Lloyd’s House, The Mysterines, a Porridge Radio/Joanna Gruesome supergroup, and (yes) MUCH MUCH MORE!

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: August 11th 2022

Seven months early for St David’s Day, we do have by some odd coincidence a glut of Welsh music on the show – John Cale, Dub War, JOhn Mouse and Gruff Rhys – as well as new tunes from Port Sulphur, Charlie Clark, The Offspring, and Elton John (with Yard Act).

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: July 28th 2022

Nostalgia rules with re-releases from Orbital and Barry Adamson, a Townes van Zandt cover, a (new) cover by the Bluebells, and in the young hip and trendy category, the latest from The Murder Capital, Popcorn Fiend, Arbo, The Tropicanas, and Dry Cleaning.