Down With Boring

This week on Down With Boring - special guests Fickle Friends, a release of the week from Bree Runway, new tracks from Baby Queen, Blossoms and Courting, plus loads, loads more.

This month, Mez is joined by brother Mick for a lovely family outing, soundtracked by some excellent musical picks.

In this month's show you'll hear:

Viagra Boys - Aint Nice

TV Priest - Decoration

Fleet Foxes - Can I believe you

Leonard Cohen - Lover Lover Lover

Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy

Yard Act - Fixer Upper

This week's special guests are APRE. Plus we focus in on the new album from Ariana Grande, check out new tracks from Coach Party, Pixey, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, and loads, loads more.

This Week's Down With Boring features special guests Walt Disco! PLUS! Boy Pablo, Arlo Parks, Easy Life, Inhaler and MUCH MORE.

This week, we're breaking the usual format on Down With Boring, as we launch 2020's Dork Reader's Poll.

We're asking you to vote for your favourites from the past year over on readdork.com so we can crown the best of the last twelve months in our final issue of the year.

To help jog your memory, we've invited a few Dork scribblers to run through some of the categories and pick a few possibilities. Feel free to disagree at will.

This week, we're joined by slacker pop queen and Friend of the Magazine Lauran Hibberd as our Very Special Guest. Plus, an album of the week chat about Beabadoobee's much anticipated debut, new tracks from MICHELLE and newcomer MAY-A, Phoebe Bridgers becomes a label boss and loads more.

Things get spooky as LIFE's Mez recalls moomin ghosts in the latest episode of our Sunday spread.

Featuring:

Dead Kennedys - Halloween

PJ Harvey - Good Fortune

Courting - David Byrne's Badside

Nadine Shah - Club Cougar

Jape - Floating

Liquid Liquid - Cavern

Working Men's Club - John Cooper Clarke

This week! A chat - and LIVE MUSIC - with-slash-from those glorious upstarts Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, plus our album of the week from Working Men's Club, and loads, loads more. We spoil you, really we do.

On tonight’s Down With Boring - special guest Will Joseph Cook, a dive into *that* new album from IDLES, the latest new music, a cake in the shape of a pop-punk star’s head, and ‘more’.

The Portlanders, courtesy of The Portlanders and KBOO

This week, we're joined by Mercury Prize nominees Porridge Radio (oooo, swish). Plus, all the latest new music, our album of the week from Gus Dapperton, and a warning to please, please not play with knives.