is this music? with Stuart McHugh: July 21st 2022

With time for listening to new tracks at a premium, we select only the best from our mailbox and pad out, sorry, enhance the show with a few choice oldies – so, The Thermals, Hen Ogledd and The Unwinding Hours contrast with the best of this week’s releases – including Gordon McIntyre, Hamish Hawk, Bert Jansch, Waleed, and Telefis.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: July 14th 2022

60 minutes of tunes where Panda Bear & Sonic Boom is about as familiar as it gets, with Amateur Cult and Reverse Cowgirls the possibly new-to-you acts alongside material from Blue Orchids, Mood Taeg, Wo_rkspace, Poster Paints and Starry Skies

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: July 7th 2022

New tunes from Bunkhouse, Ty Segall, Mood Taeg, Slagheap, Sampa The Great, Moni Jitchell, Jamie Button and Kar Stanton, old but new-to-you music including Moebius, Wire and David McClymont, plus genuine bona-fide classics by That Petrol Emotion and Augustus Pablo

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: June 30th 2022

New music from The Burning Hell, Superorganism, Max Tundra, John Robertson, Keeley, Susan Bear, Disco Mary and Woodooman, plus much much more…

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: June 23rd 2022

With new music from Efterklang, Kathryn Joseph, Pizza Crunch, They Might Be Giants, and Damaged Goodz, an archive release from The Wake, a guest appearance from Wolfgang out of Kraftwerk, and a ‘supergroup’ featuring members of Life Without Buildings, Happy Particles and F-Off Machete.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: June 16th 2022

Bookended by indie and metal legends and with some summer sounds inbetween, we have music from Scotland, the US and Ukraine, new tunes from Trail of Dead, Jon Hopkins, the latest signings to Mogwai’s label, plus new tunage from former Cocteaus, Curators, Laki Meras, and Aphrodisiacs.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: June 9th 2022

A heritage rock special today, albeit unintentionally – re-releases and reworkings of tracks from Monochrome Set, The Orchids, The Wolfhounds, Wire, Black, Helen Love (less ‘vintage’ to be fair), and Arthur Brown (quite the opposite). Plus mere striplings in the form of (not aptly) Vintage Crop, Ruins, Interrogacion Amor, Sub Cultures, Maranta, I Solar, and the (it’s a pleasure to say it) the reformed Delgados.

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: June 2nd 2022

Favourites old and new – Frank Turner & KT Tunstall, Admiral Fallow, Port Sulphur, Blue Orchids, Keeley, Isobel Campbell, Superorganism, Shredd, Dutch Wine, Luxury Car, Conscious Route, Herman Dune, 1990s, Ultras, Au Suisse, and John Robertson out of Luxury Car

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: May 26th 2022

Paying tribute to the artists who have left us this week – Cathal Coughlan, Grandmaster Gareth and Vangelis – plus cheerier music from, er, Pet Deaths, Sun’s Signature, The Nightingales, HAVR, Sons Of The Descent, Gabriels Dawn, and the artist sometimes known as Caribou

is this music? with Stuart McHugh: May 19th 2022

Greek shoegaze, Anglo-French electro, and drone from New Zealand are just a few of the genres and nationalities smugly covered in a playlist which also includes less obscure tracks from Bob Mould, Gentle Sinners, She & Him, and The Burning Hell.