A very special night has been announced at the Limelight 1 in memory of musical pioneer, The Specials’ lead singer Terry Hall who passed away following a brief illness in December. The celebration falls on […]
Lemonade Shoelace aims to load up the senses with colour, rich melodies and textures of sound that embrace the last 50 years of popular music. The tracks are written, recorded and produced entirely in a […]
U2 has a long storied history of releasing interesting live recordings and album compilations between their official studio releases. Their latest compilation Songs of Surrender is released on March 17th following up their 2017 album […]
With their upcoming third album fast approaching, IST IST unveil the latest track to be cut from the record: “Nothing More Nothing Less”. Chiming with the overarching concept of ‘Protagonists’ (out 31 March, via Kind […]
Killing Joke announce the release of a brand new single, ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’, via Spinefarm, to celebrate their sold-out headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on March 12th. The epic ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ has […]
John Fogerty will perform his iconic songs from Creedence Clearwater Revival and more on The Bad Moon Rising Celebration Tour at 3Arena Dublin on 23 May. John Fogerty is a true American treasure. As the […]
Northern Irish rock outfit, THERAPY? announce their colossal new studio album ‘Hard Cold Fire’, a spiralling, hypnotic melange of grunge-rock and towering melody that sees the trio steadfast and reinvigorated. ‘Hard Cold Fire’ is set […]
Experimentation is at the core of Robocobra Quartet, whether it be in the fluid line-up (six musicians tagging in and out to make up the live touring quartet) or in their unique self-produced records made […]
New York native Taali released her first album I Am Here in 2019. In the four years since she has been hard at work creating music that not only speaks volumes about her life and […]
2023 is still relatively young, yet already it is proving to be a year of challenges. Ongoing war. Crippling inflation. Food bank dependency. Austerity hangover. Unparalleled energy prices. A rigid and unresponsive political class. Enduring […]
Depeche Mode has unveiled the second single from the upcoming album ‘Memento Mori’. ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’ is darker than the first single ‘Ghosts Again’ and opens the new album which will be released March […]
In episode #121 of The XS Noize Podcast, Mark Millar catches up with Robert Robertson lead singer with Glasgow-based 4-piece, Tide Lines to talk about their new album ‘An Ocean Full of Islands’ An Ocean […]
Radical Romantics sees one of music’s favourite provocateurs return to us as Fever Ray. After a five-year break from the alias, we finally get a third chapter in the mysterious, experimental pop landscape few can […]
Multi-platinum-selling Scottish rockers Travis have revealed ‘Sing (Live)’, taken from the band’s forthcoming Record Store 2023 release, The Invisible Band (Live). The album will be dropped as a special one-off live album on vinyl on April […]
Five years ago The Levellers released their Abbey Road recorded and John Leckie produced acoustic LP We the Collective. Two new songs and eight original Levellers classics were reimagined as part of an ensemble of […]
Creative force Róisín Murphy announces her signing to the revered record label Ninja Tune, which arrives hand-in-hand with Murphy’s first new music since 2021, “CooCool”, produced by electronic music auteur DJ Koze. Murphy once again […]
Musician, writer and Renaissance man Baxter Dury returns with his new track “Aylesbury Boy”, taken from his seventh studio album I Thought I Was Better Than You. Due for release June 2, 2023, through Heavenly […]
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds today unveiled the Robert Smith remix of ‘Pretty Boy’. The Cure frontman has taken the driving urgency of the original and transported it into a gloriously spangled, spaced-out new dimension, complete […]
Van Morrison’s latest album sees him return to his roots in some style, sharing with us a modern, fun-filled and exciting take on what many label as music’s forgotten revolution – skiffle. Made popular in […]
Following their SOLD OUT Custom House Square show in 2022, Legendary NI Punks STIFF LITTLE FINGERS return to Custom House Square for another special night in Belfast on Saturday 19th August 2023 alongside an all-star […]