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Today's Top Tune

by KCRW

A free weekday download of standout songs, including advance releases, exclusive live tracks recorded at KCRW, remixes, and an introduction to new artists on our radar.

Latest episodes

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Fat Dog ‘Snakes’

South London seven-piece Fat Dog return with Cancel Me (I’m Tired), a wild sophomore release that expands their electro-punk into rave bangers, bombastic strings, psyched

Oct 23
4 min

Danielle Ponder ‘Laurel Canyon’

In 2022, at the age of 40, Danielle Ponder left her longtime job as a public defender to pursue a career in music. For her debut album, Some Of Us Are Brave, she poured h

Oct 22
4 min

Ferdi ‘jazz sculpture’

Ferdi is a French saxophonist and music producer now based in Brussels. On his new album, The Sound of Art, he reimagines jazz as a contemporary, free-flowing dialogue be

Oct 21
4 min

DJ_Dave ‘Hard Refresh’

This LA-based experimental artist, producer and DJ redefines electronic music through live coding. DJ_Dave treats code as a creative instrument, bypassing traditional DAW

Oct 20
3 min

Andy Shauf ‘eyes of them all (demo)’

Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf is one of the greatest songwriters of his generation. His quietly devastating masterpiece album The Party gets a 10th Anniversary Ed

Oct 16
4 min

The Kilans ‘Oh, Lucy’

Formed just three years ago, the Salt Lake City band The Kilans close their debut album with a song called “Oh, Lucy,” a haunting meditation on death and the potential of

Oct 15
5 min

tickertape ‘Crocodile Song’

Fronted by newcomer Joseph Ritchie, Brisbane, Australia's tickertape just dropped their debut EP, a 6-song collection exploring the highs and lows of navigating young adu

Oct 14
4 min

Stef Chura ‘Lovesick’

Idiosyncratic indie rocker Stef Chura is a Detroit native whose new album touts an amazing pedigree, with members of Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremo

Oct 13
3 min

Marina Herlop ‘Heladas’

A classically trained pianist, Catalan artist Marina Herlop was spellbound by the power of music at an early age. But once she started writing lyrics, she fell into the i

Oct 9
1 min

Danz CM ‘Bontempi Pop 3’

New York native Danielle Johnson first gained notoriety under the moniker of Computer Magic in the 2010s. A true DIY artist - singer, songwriter, producer, graphic design

Oct 8
3 min

SYML ‘I Was Stone’

SYML is the Welsh word for "simple", but it's also the solo project of Seattle musician and producer Brian Fennell, whose music explores the instincts that draw us toward

Oct 7
3 min

Agnes Obel ‘The Meaning of Flowers’

The new album from Berlin-based, Danish-born singer, pianist, composer Agnes Obel is a deep dive into the impact that motherhood had on her creative process. Dedicated to

Oct 6
3 min

Antonio Zepeda y Eugenio Toussaint ‘Viento De Lluvia’

A new compilation, decades in the making, brings together 25 pioneering experiments between musicians working with pre-Columbian instruments and artists working with more

Oct 2
5 min

Lucy Dacus ‘No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye’

The latest from Lucy Dacus is “No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye”, a song that she wrote 10 years ago, originally set to be part of her debut album, "No Burden". Although

Oct 1
2 min

Dillom ‘La Nueva Violencia’

The innovative Argentine rapper Dillom came up in Buenos Aires' trap scene, but on his latest, he pushes further into post-punk, new wave and electronic rock. The new alb

Sep 30
2 min

Harmony Index ‘Trust’

Under the artist banner Harmony Index, LA songwriter and producer Nico Leibman creates a world where dream pop, trip-hop, ’90s dance and R&B meet. Her debut album, Lights

Sep 29
5 min

Benny Sings ‘Syllable Salad’

Dutch artist and producer Benny Sings studied sonology at The Hague’s Royal Conservatory before becoming a cult figure in the indie pop world. An early win was co-writing

Sep 25
3 min

Alewya ‘Selah’

Born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Shepherd’s Bush in West London, Ethiopian-Egyptian artist Alewya sees herself as a painter who makes music. Following critical acclaim

Sep 24
3 min

La Vacanza ‘Tuoi occhi’

La Vacanza, which translates to "The Vacation", is an Italian pop band based in Bergen, Norway. Led by Sofia Guidi’s dreamy vocals, their debut EP In Riva Al Mare, Italia

Sep 23
4 min

ZEP ‘FIGURE IT OUT’

Dutch multi-instrumentalist ZEP channels punk, alt-rock, hip-hop and electronic music into a restless, genre-blurring sound. Raised around live music and originally train

Sep 22
2 min

Chart trend

Position in the Music chart (US), last 90 days.

#84
all-time peak
2
days in the top 100 since Nov 2024

Chart positions

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#181 NEW Music US

What listeners say

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KCRW, my hometown public radio station, really has a lock on the best DJs and music curators. Their picks for daily songs are the best and most interestingly eclectic I have ever heard. Subscribe and you won’t regret it!

jimicahuenga · Feb 2018

I'm an LA girl so I've been listening to KCRW for years. and even work the pledge drives. TTT is such a great service - it's rare that I don't like the selection and it's a particularly great way to introduce yourself to world music since quite a few of the selections are from international artists. Thanks so much KCRW :-)

PJFBook · Jul 2014

Pros: 1. Great variety of music posted by people who clearly care a lot about and listen to a lot of music. 2. Of the 3 podcasts KCRW is the best about posting information about the musicians they post. 3. Pretty good about getting back to you and fixing the problem when they have a problem with their feed, as occasionally happens. Cons: 1. They take yesterday's song off after 24 hours, so if you go on vacation or simply don't open up iTunes and push the refresh button in your podcast folder, you're out of luck. This strikes me as parsimonious as both KEXP and MPR have found a way to keep their posts up for a while. 2. While most of the posts are current and are a good sample of what the california musicophiles are listening to, there are occasional eccentric choices where we're suddenly listening to a Ray Charles song from 1972 or something, which is not really why I personally subscribe to a podcast like this. Having said that, I would absolutely recommend this as a necessary addition to your iTunes experience. You should definitely subscribe to this podcast and start building some cool playlists to impress your friends with how current you are.

Slowlane · Apr 2010

A great way to expose yourself to new music genres and musicians. Fantastic variety to challenge one's music-snobbery. Musicians - please continue to contribute your work. I have bought many new songs after learning aobut them via this podcast.

CNF1311 · May 2009

This has always been a hit or miss podcast depending on the song. But I appreciated being able to decide right away if a song was for me. Now each song is preceded by a 15-30 second promo or ad. Please stop this! It’s incredibly annoying when you just want to hear a song. Keep the ads on your talk podcasts, that’s fine, but not here please.

jta848 · Dec 2024

I have long been a subscriber to KCRW’s Top Tune. For many years, the tune would show up daily in my iTunes. Since the move to Apple Podcast, the Top Tune episodes appear erratically in Podcasts on my MacBook. Sometimes once a week. Sometimes once a month. In trying to fix it, I have wound up with two subscriptions to it - but neither get a daily song. Also, as others have said, it is hard, if not impossible, to search for episodes that I haven’t received. I have emailed KCRW several times about these issues but have never gotten an actual reply.

mgbee06 · Jan 2022

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