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Lily Allen today releases ‘Lost My Mind’, the latest song to be lifted from her highly anticipated upcoming fourth album, No Shame, released on June 8th. Powerful in its vulnerability, ‘Lost My Mind’ is an […]

Tomberlin, the Louisville, KY-based artist, has shared a video for ” Self-Help,” the lead single from her deeply moving Saddle Creek debut album, At Weddings. Stereogum, who premiered the video today, profiled Tomberlin and named […]

Liverpool singer-songwriter, Mel Bowen, brings colour to his sound with elements of folk, New York soul, the jazz of Montmartre pavement cafes, and the heat of Ipanema evenings. His instinct with an idea played out […]

Bristol 5-piece IDLES (“the UK’s best punk band” – The Guardian) have confirmed details for their anticipated second LP – ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance.’ will be out August 31st via Partisan Records. IDLES […]

Suede has today shared a video for their new track The Invisibles. The song is the first music to be heard from the band’s upcoming, eighth album The Blue Hour, which is released on 21st […]

Beck has reunited with U2 to remix another track from the band’s international #1 album, Songs of Experience (Interscope). This time, current single “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way” gets the Beck remix […]

Preoccupations today release a live video for the song “Decompose” which was filmed at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. Directed by Evan Henderson and shot on film which had been boiled for 2 weeks […]

The UK’s hottest band, Pale Waves have announced a huge Belfast headline show at Elmwood Hall on Friday 05th October 2018. Fresh after the release of new single ‘Kiss’ and a sold-out night at London’s […]

“Time to stop this war, I’m too tired” Mwita Matar sings, underlined by the cool sound of Austria’s most talented current English speaking Indie Pop band. At Pavillon, the four romantic rebels, with their smooth […]

Zurich is an Alt-Rock band from Oxford who plays Widescreen Post Punk Rock with a nod to the darker side of 80s Electronic Pop. Earning an impressive live reputation with comparisons to bands such as […]

Welcome to the wonderful, twisted world of Stockholm based five-piece The Scrags who are just about to release their second album ‘Anything’ on Canadian Indie label The Grizzlar. The album is an energetic mix of […]

Partisan formed in Manchester, UK, early 2013. As the name implies they are passionate about their cause, which is to inject some authentic rock into the limelight, as serious contenders to pick up the music […]

Black Sedan is a collective of musicians rallied by the journalist/author/publisher, Mark Hodkinson. Mark began the project two years ago. He explains the name. ‘‘When I was growing up, there was a record shop in […]

It’s Rap and Roll, a mash-up of styles, all under one album… Trying to explain the immoral wrongs of the world within the words of where they come from. Re-educating themselves and saying what they believe […]

Today The 1975 Release New Single ‘Give Yourself A Try’. ‘Give Yourself A Try’ is the first single from their third studio album “A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’. Check out the video – BELOW: […]

Following two sold-out shows at London’s Roundhouse at the end of last year, Nothing But Thieves today announce their biggest tour to date. The fourteen-date tour takes in five cities in the UK, including a […]

Southampton based alt/prog rock duo BirdPen will release their new studio album, ’There’s Something Wrong With Everything’, in the early autumn. It is preceded by a single, ‘This Is Your Life’, which comments on our […]

Indisputable legends of rock The Darkness have today released a new live version of their huge hit ‘Solid Gold’, taken from their upcoming live album Live At Hammersmith, out on June 15th via Cooking Vinyl. […]