ANTON NEWCOMBE – frontman, songwriter, composer, studio owner, multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, force of nature – returns with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s 19th full-length studio album Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees, which will be released on […]
Making up for lost time, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls played a fantastic headline show at Limelight 1 on Friday, April 08th 2022 as part of their The Never-Ending Tour of Everywhere. Bernie Mc […]
Ards International Guitar Festival is back! After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the much-loved festival will rock into Newtownards from 7 – 10 April. Guitar fans will be delighted with the eclectic programme […]
New York trio Sunflower Bean—vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/they)—are gearing up to release their long-awaited new album, Headful of Sugar, next month. Today […]
Following the success of his three previous solo albums, ‘The Kundalini Target’ (2009), ‘Peace City West’ (2011) and ‘Travel Wild – Travel Free’ (2013), Steve Cradock reveals a different side to his musical talents with […]
Today, Fantastic Negrito (neé Xavier Dphrepaulezz) reveals “Trudoo,” the “chase scene” in the movie that is his forthcoming visual album White Jesus Black Problems, out June 3 via Storefront Records. On the third single from […]
With over a billion streams to date and Top 10 chart positions across Europe, Alice Merton established herself as a major player on the alt-pop landscape with her debut album ‘MINT’. But as shown by recent tracks ‘Same Team’, ‘Vertigo’, ‘Hero’ and ‘Island’ is presenting a confident new sound […]
Portaferry singer-songwriter Ryan McMullan released new single ‘Static’ on 1st April. A captivating mid-tempo pop tune with a hauntingly rhythmic chorus, ‘Static’ just gets even better with every listen. Ryan explains further, ‘…written in the […]
Transgressive Records celebrate an exciting release year for The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows with a 4-disc digital deluxe edition of the critically acclaimed second solo album from Damon Albarn. Available now. This special edition comes almost […]
Bullet For My Valentine will release a deluxe version of their current, self-titled album on July 8th 2022 via Spinefarm/Search and Destroy. This extended-release features 4 brand new tracks, plus “Stitches”, a song previously only available as […]
In episode #78 of The XS Noize Podcast, Mark Millar catches up with Darius Keeler from the acclaimed South London collective, Archive to talk about their brand new album ‘Call To Arms & Angels’ The […]
Whilst it’s been over 70 years since George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) died, his legacy appears to be eternal. We are barely in the first quarter of 2022, and Orwell has already been referenced copious […]
The opening sentence “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” from the Dickens classic A Tale Of Two Cities best summarises Pavement’s atmosphere when they made their fifth and final […]
Belfast born singer-songwriter and producer Gareth Dunlop has been recognised as an accomplished talent ever since the BBC tipped him as ‘one to watch in 2010 – when he was not long out of his […]
Popular music, popular artists should always strive to surprise listeners – with good ideas, powerful and at times unexpected content, as well as great songs – something that Rammstein succeeds in doing again and again. […]
“Still in shape, my methods refined,” sings Paul Banks on ‘Toni’, the opening track from Interpol’s 7th LP The Other Side of Make-Believe, released July 15 on Matador. The album breaks fresh ground for the […]
From the runaway success over lockdown of Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties to his stance on issues such as band merchandise, and his amplification of the Broken Record campaign (let alone albums, festival stage curation, DJ […]
Today BMG release Take Love, the first single to be taken from Gilbert O’Sullivan’s twentieth studio album, Driven, out on 22nd July. Take Love finds Gilbert and guest vocalist, Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall trading lines […]
The Chemical Brothers have announced details of a 25th-anniversary reissue of their visionary breakthrough second album. Dig Your Own Hole was recorded and road-tested in the underground. On its release on 7th April 1997, the […]
Today, GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum band Imagine Dragons unleash an epic video for their latest single, the defiantly upbeat “Bones.” In the clip, directed by visual pioneer Jason Koenig, a zombie apocalypse plagues Wall Street, turning the […]