Articles by XS Noize

Perhaps Cocoa Futures’ most direct offering of sparkling, upbeat indie pop, ‘The Grey’ is all driven groove, sonorous dancefloor bounce and soaring vocal hooks. Such pull-no-punches positivity stems straight from the tune’s lyrical subject matter, […]

Welcome to episode #24 of the XS Noize Music Podcast with Mark Millar. On This weeks show Mark Millar is joined by Liam Croker from The Winachi Tribe. The Winachi Tribe are sonic soul collective […]

Amy Macdonald announces her first UK tour in 4 years, playing a run of 13 dates in March and April 2017. The tour will take in cities including Birmingham, Manchester, London and Dublin, opening in […]

Kate Bush has released a special piece of film to accompany the release of her new single ‘And Dream Of Sheep’. Watch below: The vocal was performed live while filming Kate lying in the huge […]

Christine And The Queens today announces the release of the deluxe version of her smash hit, breakthrough album Chaleur Humaine, with six bonus tracks available digitally today and the full physical deluxe, containing bonus tracks […]

Frank Turner has announced release details for a new single ‘Get Better’, the latest to be lifted from the singer-songwriter’s critically-acclaimed sixth album Positive Songs For Negative People. The track will impact on December 12 […]

The Wedding Present presents their track ‘Kill Devil Hills’. Referencing a sensual encounter and predatory lust, this is one of the more robust tracks from their new album ‘Going, Going…’ These UK indie darlings’ widely […]

Kate Bush releases the track “And Dream Of Sheep” this Friday, November 18. The track will be available to download from midnight on Friday morning. Kate recorded the lead vocal of the song live whilst […]

Today London based quarter Novella announce the release of their sophomore album Change of State, the follow up to their debut LP Land. Alongside this they share a first taster of the record, the album […]

Today Boxed In share the lyric video for their new single ‘Melt’, taken from their critically-acclaimed second album which is out now via Nettwerk Records. Currently on tour with Crystal Fights, December will see the […]

Following a string of sold out and critically acclaimed headline shows in 2016 (including a raucous show at Electric Ballroom last week) Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes announce a full UK tour for 2017 in […]

Ahead of the release of her new album, ‘Live at Urchin Studios’ which is out on 9th December 2016, Lucy Rose has unveiled a video of the live recording of ‘Shiver’. Recorded in just one […]

Today, Grammy nominated Americana troubadours, The Lumineers, reveal the video for ‘Sleep On The Floor’. Directed by Isaac Ravishankara (Ellie Goulding, Hosier, Phantogram), it is the third in a series of videos depicting the stories […]

‘A Room With A Zoo’ is the new single from Manchester Soul collective The Winachi Tribe, a band that are firmly on the ascendant. This trajectory is marked by the ten minute short film which […]

Norwich four-piece Peach Club, comprised of Katie Gilbert, Rebecca Wren, Charlie Hart and Amanda MacKinnon, describe themselves as an activist punk band, with a frenetic and grimacing Riot Grrl ethos embedded deep into their core […]

Brian Eno discusses Reflection – Reflection is the latest work in a long series. It started (as far as record releases are concerned) with Discreet Music in 1975 ( – or did it start with […]

Akiva are a Bedforshire based band made up of brothers and school mates, who for twenty-five years have been bonded by a shared love of Stonesy guitar licks, rolling basslines, Newsnight, Krautrock, Manchester bands, political […]

Wendy James is releasing her second 7” single taken from her new LP ‘THE PRICE OF THE TICKET’. The two tracks, double a-sides, are YOU’RE A DIRTBOMB, LESTER + FAREWELL TO LOVE. Both are live […]