Lava La Rue, Joy Crookes and John Glacier lead our Hot New Songs playlist
Check out new music from Lava La Rue, Joy Crookes, John Glacier and more.

New music is great, but it’s increasingly hard to find your latest obsession when approximately 840,000 songs land on streaming services every week. So that’s where we come in. Every Friday, the team at Rolling Stone UK will update our Hot New Songs playlist with the stuff that we think you should be getting your ears around this week from the UK and Ireland. Simple.
This week we’ve highlighted the brilliant return of Lava La Rue with an indie anthem, Joy Crookes‘ team-up with Sam Fender and a new track from the deluxe version of John Glacier’s excellent debut album Like A Ribbon among many others.
Listen to the playlist below and follow us on Spotify here.
Rolling Stone UK’s picks for August 15 2025
‘easy come, easy go’ – Lava La Rue
‘Away’ – Jaime Rosso
‘Chateau Photo’- Vegas Water Taxi
‘Girls Are God’s Machines’ – Etta Marcus
‘bad turn’ – shortstraw
‘G.OA.T remix’ – Kasabian & Cristale
‘Couldn’t Get Back’ – John Glacier
‘Somebody to You’ – Joy Crookes ft Sam Fender
‘Catching Bodies’ – Sekou
‘Prayer’ – LeoStayTrill
‘Bite’ – Amie Blu
‘We Were Just Here’ – Just Mustard