6 Music Recommends The Best of 2018 so far

Kendrick, Gwenno & Superorganism are some of the artists 6 Music has championed this year.

Childish Gambino, Khruangbin and Warmduscher are all in Lauren's best of the year.

Peggy Gou, DJ Khalab and Sudan Archives are in Ravers Best of the Year show.

Mary Anne Hobbs curates an hour of her favourite tracks of 2018.

Idles and Bodega are in the mix, plus a session and interview with Fontaines DC.

And Cat Power chats in the Music News.

It's all about the new music, as Gilles plays favourite tunes from 2018.

Stuart plays a selection of his - and Mark's - favourite tracks of 2018 so far.

As part of Recommends day Steve shares some of his favourite tracks of the year so far.

Dublin 5 piece Fontaines DC do their 1st ever radio session for 6 Music Recommends Week.

Warmduscher perform '1000 Whispers', one of Lauren's Recommends tracks of the year.

Sudan Archives performs 2 of Tom's tracks of the year; Oatmeal & Come Meh Way.

London MC Flohio performs 'Bands' exclusively for Recommends Week,