Newest songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

2XS Radio playing 'Pavlov's Bell' - AIMEE MANN (from Lost In Space 2002). The former Til Tuesday singer is also the wife of songwriter Michael Penn

2XS Radio playing 'Comeback Kid' - KASABIAN (from Comeback Kid 2017). Tom Meighan, Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards, Ian Matthews put Leicester firmly back on the music map. This was their eponymous debut album

2XS Radio playing 'You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty' - THE CHARLATANS (from Wonderland 2001). Tim Burgess leads the Northwich musos (known in the USA as The Charlatans UK)

2XS Radio playing 'Susie Q' - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (from Creedence Clearwater Revival 1968). This excellent rendition of the Dale Hawkins classic is from the first album - John Fogerty's band

2XS Radio playing 'D'Yer Mak'er' - LED ZEPPELIN (from Houses Of The Holy 1973). The acclaimed fifth album from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

2XS Radio playing 'Disappear' - INXS (from X 1990). The Australian band was formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. For twenty years, they were fronted - Michael Hutchence until he was found dead in his Sydney hotel room on 22 Nov 1997. This w

2XS Radio playing 'Know' - SOFT SCIENCE (from Maps 2018). Hailing from the Sacramento Valley, Soft Science rose from the ashes of indie pop band California Oranges prior to releasing their last album in 2008. Katie Haley is the sublime vocalist, with Mat

2XS Radio playing 'Supermassive Black Hole' - MUSE (from Black Holes And Revelations 2006). This was the fourth album - Matthew Bellamy's Teignmouth superstars

2XS Radio playing 'Longsight M13' - IAN BROWN (from Solarized 2004). This was the fourth solo album of original material - Manchester's talented and versatile Stoned Rose

2XS Radio playing 'The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks' - EAGLES (from The Long Run 1979). Originally going to be a double album but reduced to a single, this was the last No 1 LP of the 70s in the USA

2XS Radio playing 'Twilight Zone' - GOLDEN EARRING (from Cut 1982). Formed in 1961 as The Golden Earrings, George Kooymans and his fellow Dutchmen prove there's more to the band than 'Radar Love'

2XS Radio playing 'Boy, Girl' - U2 (from Three (EP) 1979). Released in Sep 1979 in Ireland only, this was their very first release. The EP had an initial run of 1000

2XS Radio playing 'You Learn' - ALANIS MORISSETTE (from Jagged Little Pill 1995). It was straight to the top for Ottawa's Alanis Nadine Morissette, and then horribly out of fashion. But still an impressive debut album

2XS Radio playing 'On Time' - FOLKS (from Ten From Ten Manchester 2004). Manchester's Folks cover Manchester's Bee Gees. This is the band's contribution to a collection of Manchester tributes

2XS Radio playing 'Already Gone' - WOODEN SHJIPS (from V 2018). The inspired shoegazing psychedelic quartet are from San Francisco

2XS Radio playing 'I Love This Life' - THE BLUE NILE (from 1981). The "perfectionist CD pop" Glaswegians are Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell & Paul Joseph Moore. Rickie Lee Jones is a fan

2XS Radio playing 'Fruitflies' - GALLUS (from 2022). Gallus are a five piece from Glasgow, here with an impressive debut aingle

2XS Radio playing 'Feast Or Famine' - K MICHELLE DUBOIS (from 2019). Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Dubois counts Blondie & Divinyls among her influences, along with Stevie Nicks, Roxy Music, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, and Fever Ray. So that's all good! This

2XS Radio playing 'Call Me The Breeze' - LYNYRD SKYNYRD (from Second Helping 1974). This cover of J.J. Cale's song appears on LS's second album, which included their biggest single 'Sweet Home Alabama'

2XS Radio playing 'She's Always On The Run' - DEVILFIRE (from Rhapsody In Motion 2017). Davey Bennet's Birmingham rockers include former members of Hanging Doll, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Uli Jon Roth Band, Anger Rising and Vampires Rock

2XS Radio playing 'Less I Try' - LUDWIG HART (from 2023). Sweden's Ludwig Schollin played ice hockey until he was 18. He's since become a consummate singer and songwriter. This comes from his third album

2XS Radio playing 'Not Beautiful' - AUDIOGENE (from 2004). A brilliant song - the 2XS Barn Session veterans, John, Daniel, Joe and Chris. They'd been previously known as 'Bottlerocket', where their 'christian' bent had been more obvious

2XS Radio playing 'Fearless' - PINK FLOYD (from Meddle 1971). The Floyd's 6th album was was recorded at a series of locations around London, including Abbey Road Studios

2XS Radio playing 'Gloria' - SIMPLE MINDS (from Neon Lights 2001). This was Jim Kerr and his mates' tribute album to their favourite songs, in this case the song made famous - Van Morrison and Them

2XS Radio playing 'Stuck To Yous' - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (from The Future Is Your Past 2023). Anton Newcombe started the BJM in San Francisco in the early 90s. The name is a mix of Stones' guitarist Brian Jones and the mass cult suicide in Jonest

2XS Radio playing 'Devil's Answer' - ATOMIC ROOSTER (from 1971). Released on 28 May 1971, this track was a UK hit single. The band was led - organist Vincent Crane who had previously been with the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown but sadly ended up in Dexy'

2XS Radio playing 'Beacons' - NERVOUS NELLIE (from Where The Nightmare Gets In 2014). Nervous Nellie feature two sets of Swedish brothers (two of them grew up in Chicago). They are currently based in Stockholm

2XS Radio playing 'Here's The Thing' - FONTAINES D.C. (from Romance 2024). Previously The Fontaines, this is the fourth album - the Dublin based band which comprises Grian Chatten (vcls), Conor Deegan (bass), Carlos O'Connell (gtr), Conor Curley (gtr),

2XS Radio playing 'That's When I Reach For My Revolver' - GRAHAM COXON (from The Golden D 2000). Blur's Graham Leslie Coxon was born in Hamburg. This was his first solo album which contained this cover of the 1981 Mission Of Burma song (also covered - M

2XS Radio playing 'My Country' - MIDNIGHT OIL (from Earth And Sun And Moon 1993). Known to Oz fans as 'The Oils', the activist band started out in Sydney as Farm in 1972

2XS Radio playing 'North American Scum' - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (from Sound Of Silver 2007). LCD SS is New York's James Murphy

2XS Radio playing 'The Ocean' - LED ZEPPELIN (from Houses Of The Holy 1973). The acclaimed fifth album from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

2XS Radio playing 'There's A Ghost In My House' - R. DEAN TAYLOR (from 1967). The Toronto singer and songwriter, Richard Dean Taylor, was the first white male to record for Motown. This is the original U.S. mono version of the song he wrote with Holland

2XS Radio playing 'Trouble' - KEITH RICHARDS (from Crosseyed Heart 2015). The Stoned Survivor returns

2XS Radio playing 'The Glass' - FOO FIGHTERS (from But Here We Are 2023). Dave Grohl's corporate rock machine rolls on with their 11th album, and their first since following drummer Taylor Hawkins' death in 2022

2XS Radio playing 'Turn To Stone' - JOE WALSH (from So What 1975). Born in Kansas in 1947, Joseph Fidler Walsh is one of the great US rock guitarists, first with the James Gang, then Barnstorm, solo, and on to The Eagles

2XS Radio playing 'Born Of Frustration' - JAMES (from Seven 1992). Tim Booth's Manchester indies started out in 1982 but were most successful during the 1990s. This was their 4th album

2XS Radio playing 'Do I Wanna Know?' - THE ARCTIC MONKEYS (from A. M. 2013). Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders, the Sheffield wunderkinds from High Green, return with their 5th album

2XS Radio playing 'Forever Man' - ERIC CLAPTON (from Behind The Sun 1985). The title of the album comes from a line from Albert King's 'Louisiana Blues'

2XS Radio playing 'Letters' - LIBERTY LIES (from It's The Hope That Kills You 2020). Liberty Lies are a four piece band from Wednesbury in the Black Country

2XS Radio playing 'Runaway Train' - SOUL ASYLUM (from Grave Dancer's Union 1992). This was from the 6th album - Minneapolis' David Pirner, Daniel Murphy, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley

2XS Radio playing 'Another Likely Story' - AU REVOIR SIMONE (from Still Night, Still Light 2009). Brooklyn's ARS began in 2003 as a quartet with Sung Bin Park, Erika Forster, Heather D'Angelo and Annie Hart. Park left in 2005. The band's name comes from

2XS Radio playing 'Crimson And Clover' - JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS (from I Love Rock 'N Roll 1982). The former Runaways member, Joan Marie Larkin, covers the 60s classic - Tommy James & The Shondelles

2XS Radio playing 'Bugman' - BLUR (from 13 1999). The chirpy cockneys were Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree

2XS Radio playing 'Poor Moon' - CANNED HEAT (from 1969). This was released as a single in Oct 1969

2XS Radio playing 'Out On The Highway' - KULA SHAKER (from Strangefolk 2007). Back after 10 years on, Crispian Mills declared: 'The world's a more exciting place than 10 years ago. War, oppression, skinny jeans...'

2XS Radio playing 'Relief' - OUR GIRL (from The Good Kind 2024). The Brighton trio are Soph Nathan (gtrs, vcls), Josh Tyler (bass) and Lauren Wilson (drms)

2XS Radio playing 'Time For Action' - SECRET AFFAIR (from 1979). A slice of classy chart punk for the Londoners who achieved three chart singles

2XS Radio playing 'Goodnight' - BABYBIRD (from Ugly Beautiful 1996). Babybird is Telford's Stephen Jones, who made his name after moving from Nottingham Trent Uni to Sheffield in the early 90s

2XS Radio playing 'Sticks'N'Stones' - JAMIE T (from Kings & Queens 2009). From Wimbledon, this is Jamie Alexander Treays's second album