Terri Hooley is a legend among the Belfast music community and beyond. During Northern Ireland’s troubled dark times, Terri Hooley’s Good Vibrations record shops and label survived in countless locations around the city, selling and […]
Crystal Castles have unveiled a video for frenetic new track ‘Concrete’. It follows a preview for a new track titled ‘Femen’ which emerged on the band’s Facebook page last week. In addition, the duo of […]
Deacon Blue further their huge creative and commercial renaissance with the release of their brand new studio album, ‘ Believers’ on September 30. ‘Believers’ is the third part of a trilogy begun with ‘The Hipsters’ […]
Tim Burgess and Peter Gordon have announced details of a new album. ‘Same Language, Different Worlds’ will be released through Burgess’s own label O Genesis on 2nd September 2016. The pair will also embark on […]
Pixies announce that their sophomore “post-reunion” album, Head Carrier, will be released on September 30 (Pixiesmusic/Play It Again Sam) The 12-track collection of the band’s unique aural mix of surrealism, psychedelia, dissonance and surf rock […]
The past few years have seen the meteoric rise of Courtney Barnett to the higher echelons of indie rock superstardom. If her debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit finally […]
Hilary Woods is a music and visual artist from Dublin, Ireland. As a teenager she recorded two double platinum selling albums on Columbia Records as bass player in Irish indie trio JJ72, touring extensively in […]
Following a hugely successful Big Top Headline slot at this summer’s Isle of Wight festival, British rock heroes FEEDER (Grant Nicholas & Taka Hirose) today announce their full live return to the UK and Ireland […]
London quartet The Boxer Rebellion today reveal the video for their anthemic single Weapon. It’s the opening song from their highly anticipated fifth album Ocean By Ocean which is out now. The new video cleverly […]
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Nap Eyes’ premiered the hilarious new video for “Click Clack”, one of the best loved songs on their latest album Thought Rock Fish Scale (out now on Paradise of Bachelors), which features some Weird Science […]
Life On The Road is the debut album by David Brent & Foregone Conclusion, available on CD, LP (12- inch vinyl), and digital download from August 19th, and available to pre-order from July 1st. David […]
The now Nashville based Civil Twilight are living proof of what happens when you stop worrying about being the chosen one and make music built on both the roots that grew you and the love […]
When it comes to music described as psychedelic or drone-rock, one band have been ploughing this particular furrow for over fifteen years. Ahead of the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘Attack’, Three Dimensional […]
Grieving are a new, unsigned band from Cambridge, playing direct, twisting art-punk. Their first demo was debuted by The FADER in March and their second track – the raw, dual vocalled post-hardcore / 90’s indie-rock […]
Every pop era has its defining female pianist: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple. For 2016, it’s 25-year-old Sarah Walk, a major new talent armed with a cannon of songs that […]
Welsh singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist The Indigo Palms (Johnny Boon, previously known as The Lost Embers) releases is soon to release his brand new single, Live It Up. Live It Up is the first taster […]
Following the extremely positive reaction last month, White Room have revealed their video for new single Think Too Much. The track, a serrated blend of sky-gaze psychedelia and raucous distortion, showcases the Brighton rockers’ undoubted […]
THE KILLING FLOOR combines the best of British and American rock music and delivers an electrifying blend of alternative, rock, pop, punk and grunge. Raw visceral power combines with impassioned melody and accomplished songwriting to […]
The legendary Van Morrison will release his brand new album ‘Keep Me Singing’ on September 30th through Caroline Records. The album’s lead single, ‘Too Late’, will also be released that day. Van will perform seven […]