The second hour today features some incredible new music by artists from Melbourne, Nashville, the UK, Dublin and Los Angeles – including a wonderful new tune for our times by the great Billy Bragg from his forthcoming album The Million Things That Never Happened. Here is the playlist:

* Playground – ere lo

* I Will Be Your Shield – Billy Bragg

* If I Could Be Your Lover – The Winnie Blues

* Get It Right – Elle Bird

* Mother Please – Riley Catherall

* Bones – Telenova

* Heaven on Earth – Paula Standing

* Cherry in Tacoma – Benjamin Francis Leftwich

* My Brilliant Friend – Saint Sister

* You’ve Got a Woman – Natalie Bergman & Beck

Above: Billy Bragg’s The Million Things That Never Happened album cover; photo by Jill Furmanovsky, design by Chemical X