Month: January 2016

Turin Brakes release their 8th Studio Album, Lost Property on 29th January 2016. Always evolving, the London duo-come-quartet strive to do something new with each release and Lost Property is no exception. Often compared to […]

Suede’s 2013 album Bloodsports was a sensational comeback for a band whose last album, 2002’s underwhelming A New Morning seemed destined to be a flat end to what was a wonderful catalogue. Bloodsports showed that Suede […]

“Farewell to my only friend, you’ve been so good to me,” sings Conor O’Brien. These lyrics open Villagers’ new album, and in the wake of David Bowie’s sudden passing they assume an added poignancy. January […]

London-based psych-folk outfit The Hanging Stars release their much anticipated debut album Over the Silvery Lake in March 2016 via The Great Pop Supplement/Crimson Crow. Blending folk pastoralism with swampy 60s Americana, they sound like […]

Ships Have Sailed, an alternative pop-rock duo hailing from Los Angeles, debuted their first EP ‘Someday’ in 2014, gaining extensive airplay on College, NPR, and commercial radio in the US and Canada. The EP’s success […]

Ahead of the album release, Suede have revealed a hauntingly poignant video for the track ‘Pale Snow’, taken from the album’s accompanying film. The band will be appearing at a special series of in-store shows […]

Ost & Kjex are a Norwegian electro duo whose new album Freedom Wig amply shows how difficult it can be to translate electronic music from DJ sets to an album. They are obviously influenced by […]

Norwegian psych-rock quartet Electric Eye are back with a new song and accompanying visuals – ‘Mercury Rise’ (which can be seen below). It’s the second piece of new material to surface since 2013’s ‘Pick-Up, Lift- […]

Daughter is the name for the three piece indie-folk band from North London. The band formed in 2010 and since releasing their debut EP, His Young Heart, in 2011, the band have continued to go […]

Cassette tapes have been used and abused for decades, being used to compile collections of saccharine love songs by unwanted admirers and tunes chopped abruptly before a radio DJ cuts in. The Coral have followed […]

Following on from highly successful 2015 dates in UK, Europe and North America John Rotten Lydon’s Public Image Ltd (PiL) are pleased to announce a further UK/Europe summer tour kicking off in Valencia, Spain on […]

Field Music have just shared another new track “Disappointed,” in the wake of the sax-punctuated groove of the BBC 6 Music A-listed “The Noisy Days Are Over.” “Disappointed” was premiered last night by Zane Lowe […]

Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles are the recently formed and freshly christened band fronted by former lead guitar and founding member of Catfish and the Bottlemen, Billy Bibby. XSNoize has reported on Billy previously […]

The multi-platinum, Grammy-Award-winning, masked beast that is SLIPKNOT will play The SSE Arena, Belfast on 15th February. After their triumphant return headlining this year’s Download Festival at Donington Park, the metal icons return to these […]

Kula Shaker have finally emerged from the silence and mark their return with a new album a series of special live dates throughout the UK & Beyond. On 12 February 2016 the band will release […]

M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, has announced an initial series of North American tour dates including special performances at the renowned Coachella festival in Indio, CA and The Governor’s Ball in NYC. This summer will see […]

After an epic 2015, They Might Be Giants will return to the UK for a run of live shows beginning at the end of January 2016. After a busy 2015, releasing a new song (and […]

Extending the prolific tear that kicked off with the 2012 release of Silver Age and intensified with Beauty & Ruin in 2014, Bob Mould confirms the release of Patch The Sky out March 25th, 2016 […]