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Two Gallants’ fifth album, We Are Undone, drops next week. To mark the occasion, the folk-punk duo – a San Francisco institution — performed two new songs for KQED’s cameras. “Incidental” watch BELOW: “My Man […]

Riot !n Magenta share their new single ‘Voices’ (the title track from their forthcoming EP), with DJ Mag. The track sees the Singaporean quintet take a different direction blending ambient rhythms and guitars with languid […]

Stockholm based Honeymilk had a great 2014 with two new singles, a UK tour and ever growing presence on US college radio. KEXP are spinning their tunes, Q Magazine likes it, Music Week choose the […]

Following the release of a few infectious singles, Brooklyn-based doom/blues trio GHXST have released their latest ‘Nowhere EP’ last week through CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH. The EP has been recorded over the last year between New Orleans, Nashville […]

Orphan Boy have announced details of the release of a new single, the first to be taken from their forthcoming third album. Beats Like Distant Tides will be released digitally though Concrete Recordings on Monday […]

The Lucid Dream’s 2nd album follows on from 2 hugely successful singles taken from the long player, ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘Unchained’, both released in 2014. Between them the singles gained support from BBC Radio 1, 2 […]

Ribbon Music is pleased to announce the third album from Baltimore’s Lower Dens, Escape from Evil on March 30, 2015 (March 31, 2015 in the USA). On Escape From Evil, Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter emerges: […]

Liverpool’s The Little Secrets are Kevin Dixon and Stacy Jo. Formed in 2010 after meeting at Liverpool’s world famous Cavern Club, Stacy was singing with another band when Kevin spotted her. Blown away by her […]

It’s been an exciting week for Courtney Barnett fans after the Melbourne-based artist dropped her explosive and awesomely addictive first single “Pedestrian At Best” last week, along with the news that her debut album Sometimes […]

Sick of living in a time where money, rather than talent, warrants success and minimum wage jobs won’t pay the rent? So Are SHINERS. SHINERS grew up at the height of Britpop with their parents’ […]

BC Camplight – How To Die In The North, Mini Documentary. Shot at EVE Studios, Manchester, while BC Camplight was making his new album How To Die In The North. Featuring the track Atom Bomb […]

One of the biggest collaborations in music history, Rihanna has teamed up with Kanye West and Paul McCartney for a new song ‘FourFiveSeconds’. The campfire song is taken from Rihanna’s as-yet-untitled forthcoming album and is […]

Noel Gallagher has offered to write songs for his brother Liam Gallagher should he start a solo career. Speaking to NME, Noel said that he would be happy to write songs for his brother and […]

With their highly anticipated new album ‘Smoke + Mirrors’ out imminently, US chart phenomenon Imagine Dragons play ten UK arena shows this November including their biggest UK show to date at London’s The O2 on […]

Twenty years on, Laid and Wah Wah have finally been reunited, and will be reissued together as the band originally intended. The two albums were recorded simultaneously at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio in 1993; […]

Following the recent release of their fourth full-length, Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave, Scotland’s The Twilight Sad have unveiled the second official single from the album. It comes in the […]

Beth Jeans Houghton will release a brand new album this spring on Mute under the name DU BLONDE. The new moniker is a fresh start for Beth whose forthcoming album is a big change in […]

Pandora (NYSE: P), the leading internet radio service, partnered with Jack White and Third Man Records to livestream White’s sold out Madison Square Garden show last Friday. The career-spanning set which The New York Post […]