It’s the final trip for the Rocktober 2025 New Music Train, so why not make it a special one and pick up Liam McIndoe in Dublin? Liam climbs aboard with a trio of picks featuring new music from Lisa O’Neill, Just Mustard and Lankum. 

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The Rocktober 2025 New Music Train makes one of its famous cross-continental journeys today, going from Sweden to Illinois. That makes Niklas Nygards and Sunny Varney your guides and they will bring you the latest on new material from Nektar, Courtney Marie Andrews, Moundrag, Southern River Band and Laura Cox.

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It's a trip through upstate South Carolina for the Rocktober 2025 New Music Train. Harris King is your guide and the soundtrack comprises new releases from The Bats, Possible Humans and Upchuck. 

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The Rocktober 2025 New Music Train doesn’t stray too far from home on today’s episode, going from just outside Baltimore to onboard Kevin Porter, and then heading to Washington, D.C. to pick up a first-time passenger, Michael Zwirn. Along the way, you’ll hear about new releases from Snocaps, The Belair Lip Bombs, Flock of Dimes and Mirah.

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Our old pal Brad Maylor is aboard the Rocktober 2025 New Music Train today and he steers it up to NYC to pick up Jason Goebel. The pair tell us about tunes from Snocaps, Big Thief, Spiritual Cramp and Rosalia. 

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It’s right back to Scotland for the Rocktober 2025 New Music Train, where Roger Grace is waiting on the platform with a bundle of new music picks. As we speed through the lowlands, Roger unwraps songs by The Last Dinner Party, James Bruner and Autumn Kings.

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The Rocktober 2025 New Music Train sets off for its journey with the listeners today, leaving Scotland and heading for Illinois for a ride with Steven Routledge and Paul Hayden. They will give you the lowdown on new tunes from An Abstract Illusion, Friendship Commanders, Guided By Voices and Belair Lip Bombs.

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Jim gets the new music train a-rollin' with tunes by Bar Italia and Cusp. Plus, an Eddie Cochran cover by the Stray Cats.

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This week, we tune our ears back 50 years to 1975 and flip through some of the albums released in that year. Each episode will examine those records from a different angle. In the series finale, Patrick discusses three of his favorite albums from ‘75, releases from Richard and Linda Thompson, Burning Spear and Brian Eno. 

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This week, we tune our ears back 50 years to 1975 and flip through some of the albums released in that year. Each episode will examine those records from a different angle. In part four of the series, we take a closer look at some of the groundbreaking and influential records released in the country, funk and R&B genres in 1975. 

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