The Monday Morning Brew Playlist

This week’s brew draws the lens onto some of the new releases that are brightening up the short days of winter, including new tunes from Dry Cleaning, Iron & Wine, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Buck Meek and more.

Kick off 2026 with the first Monday Morning Brew. This week’s playlist was partly inspired by the film The Holdovers. Expect two hours of warm, diverse, and uplifting tracks designed to cut through the winter fog. Enjoy the music and happy New Year!

The Latest Monday Morning Brew Playlist features several artists from the French label PAGANS, including the Occitan polyphonic duo Cocanha, Tal Coal (violinist Maud Herrera) and D’En Haut from Gascony, in southwestern France. There’s also music from French bassist Kham Meslien, Lucrecia Dalt, Mark Fosson, Steve Gunn & David Moore, alongside the ‘pensive countrified psychedelia’ of Edith Frost and more.

I put this playlist together on an early Sunday morning after a foggy, cold walk, back at my desk, drinking my first cup of coffee of the day. That early-morning stillness is captured in the calm waves of Passerpartout Duo (pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito) and in the otherworldly sounds of Tarawangsawelas and their contemporary interpretations of sacred music from Sundanese West Java.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist. This selection leans heavily into UK and US folk traditions, featuring artists like Steeleye Span, Lal Waterson, John Jacob Niles, and contemporary torchbearers such as Jake Blount and Lisa O’Neill. There’s a nice emotional resonance between some of those featured, including Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, and Sufjan Stevens, as well as some newer inclusions from the likes of Ganavya & Sam Amidon.

We bring you another Monday Morning Brew playlist, one that is far removed from the commercial world of AI-music & payola. This isn’t background easy listening…it champions creativity and the diverse, challenging music that enriches our lives.

A curated expedition through the dusty backrooms of musical history. This set blends the raw soul of Darondo and the Afro-funk of Karl Hector with the avant-jazz of Gábor Szabó. It embraces global rhythms and cinematic textures, moving seamlessly from the 1960s underground to modern experimentalism. From Buddy Rich’s big band swing to Caribou’s electronic pulse, this is a sophisticated soundtrack for the discerning listener.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Joseph Shabason & Thom Gill, Stranded Horse & Boubacar Cissokho, Iona Zajac, Zeferina, Samantha Crain & Kimya Dawson, Ballaké Sissoko & Piers Faccini, Steve Gunn, Lefty Parker, The Weather Station, Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover, Sam Amidon, Jesca Hoop, Suss & Six Missing, Glyders, Laura Baird, Marta Del Grandi, Lila Tristram and more.

A New Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Kíla & OKI, Damien Jurado, Adrianne Lenker, Joshua Burnside, Ye Vagabonds, Brigid Mae Power, Circuit des Yeux, Jana Horn, Theo Angell, David Greenberger, L’Oumigmag, Valerie June, Tōth, Bill Callahan, Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Alasdair Roberts, Don DiLego, David Dondero and Emma Kupa.

Our latest Monday Morning Brew features Elanor Moss, Damien Jurado, Dawn McCarthy, Mike Tod, Lily Lyons, The Magic Lantern, Sabine McCalla, Andrew Bird, Cat Power, Nora Brown & Steph Coleman, Kevin Farge & Little Wings, Steve Gunn, Dominie Hooper, Josienne Clarke, Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Jesca Hoop, Old Saw and lots more.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Hurray for the Riff Raff, Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, Cleveland Francis, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Weirs, Shirley Collins & Davy Graham, Bridget St John, Way Dynamic, Lefty Parker, Ballaké Sissoko & Piers Faccini, Jesca Hoop, Sabine McCalla, Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Julie Doiron, English Teacher, Iona Zajac, Evan Cheadle, Spencer Cullum, Phylipe Nunes Araújo and Jack Rose.

Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Daniel Gadd, Seamus Fogarty, Ohtis, Steve Gunn, Kathleen Mary Lee, Acetone, Camp Saint Helene, Alice Faye, Amen Dunes, Kim Deal, Evan Dando, Jackie Cohen, The Clientele, Josephine Foster, Timber Timbre, Fruit Bats, Little Wings, Six Organs of Admittance, and Kurt Vile.