Articles by XS Noize

October Drift announce their debut EP Stranger Days for release via Scruff Of The Neck Records on March 25th, with a subsequent UK tour beginning with a sold-out show at Manchester’s St Phillips Church. Lead […]

Lucy Rose has unveiled a video for her new single ‘Nebraska’, starring Danny Dyer. The collaboration between Lucy and Danny is the result of a conversation the pair had last year after Dyer, who is […]

Amen & Goodbye, the fourth studio album from Brooklyn-based band Yeasayer, will be released worldwide via Mute on 1 April 2016. Today, Yeasayer offer a peek into the world of Amen & Goodbye with ‘I […]

The wait for DMA’S debut album is over with ‘Hills End’ released February 26th on Infectious Music to wide critical acclaim and 8/10 from XS Noize Following on from Radio One A-listed single ‘Delete’ ‘DMAs […]

Firecracker is the new single from Victoria+Jean, an extraordinarily creative duo linked artistically and romantically. Originally a smoky blues song, Firecracker mutated into a full on electric anthem, with punchy guitar and an insistent beat. […]

Radiohead will play a series of live shows later this year which, together with the festival dates already announced and a few more international festival dates to follow, will complete their touring schedule for 2016. […]

Rising new London psych pop artist Hudson Scott has revealed the joyous, mesmeric visuals to his debut track, ‘Clay’. Hudson has also confirmed a first headline show, The Nines, Peckham, on 24th March. Oxford raised, […]

James Atkin is responsible for singing one of the biggest hits of the 90s, ‘Unbelievable’, with the band EMF. He went on to have massive success clocking up a No. 1 American single, platinum album […]

When Animal Noise self-released their debut album ‘Run Loose’ in 2012, they quickly went from playing in their rehearsal studio, an old cowshed on bass player Birdy’s farm, to the stages of Bestival & T […]

Birdy transforms into a mermaid in a mesmerising underwater video for new track ‘Wild Horses’. The song is available immediately when pre-ordering her new album ‘Beautiful Lies’ out on March 25th. Birdy said – “I’m […]

The Community of Hope is the second single taken from PJ Harvey’s forthcoming album, The Hope Six Demolition Project released 15th April on Island Records, and is available to stream below: The Hope Six Demolition […]

Shiiine On Weekender has announced its latest line-up additions to the 2016 edition of the hugely popular festival. Following the sell-out success of the 2015 Shiiine On Weekender, the festival which showcases the best of […]

Skellums’ last release, their EP Clarion Call, received worldwide airplay and was championed by BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq. Following its success, the band return with a double A side single ‘Art of Dying Young […]

Moniker formed when Jordan Scott, the band’s multi-instrumentalist songwriter and vocalist moved to New York City at the beginning of 2015 and reconnected with an old friend TD Crowley through their work at WCWM college […]

Pet Shop Boys have announced a remix package of “The Pop Kids”, to be released on March 18th. The release, available via digital formats only, will consist of four tracks remixed by MK, Offer Nissim […]

The Last Shadow Puppets return with their new album Everything You’ve Come To Expect out April 1st via Domino. The album finds Alex Turner and Miles Kane reunited with James Ford (production and drums) and […]

Garbage (Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson and Butch Vig) today announced Strange Little Birds, their sixth studio album, which will be released on June 10th on the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. The band recently […]

Tennent’s Lager and MCD confirmed that Tennent’s Vital is back for 2016 with a red hot line up for Boucher Road Playing Fields on Thursday 25th August. Taking to the main stage for what promises to […]