The countdown to kick-off starts here! Euro 2020 starts today and social media sensations Woody & Kleiny have teamed up with The Hoosiers to get the party started with the new England anthem ‘Route 66’.  […]

Short, sharp and frank reviews from a confessed vinyl junkie. I’ll be posting my most loved records and most recent purchases right here for your perusal every week. Newly released second album from the Mancunian […]

The Fratellis have today released a new studio single version of their cover of ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’ on Cooking Vinyl. The band originally performed Baccara’s1977 disco classic live on Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show […]

As an admirer of Garbage since my first encounter with their 1995 hit track, “Stupid Girl”, I have kept an eye on the band that represented the zeitgeist of the late Grunge era. Garbage was […]

Nashville-based Glass Dove, aka Josh Benus, unveils his brand-new single, “On My Own,” lifted from his forthcoming debut album, Half Life Wilderness, produced by Owen Biddle. Talking about the album’s genesis, Benus says, “It started […]

Singer-Songwriter Don Mai is back with the new single ‘Better’. The follow up to ‘Caught Up’ which was released last month, Don once again puts his pop sensibilities on display. Influenced by the likes of […]

Electro-rock outfit Jimkata introduces the music video for “Writing on the Wall,” a track from their forthcoming album, Bonfires, slated to drop this summer. “Writing on the Wall” was inspired by a blitzkrieg of distressing […]

Life on the road isn’t all glamour and rock’n’roll excess and Motörhead’s punishing tour schedule in 1981 took them all over the globe as they rode high on the success of Ace Of Spades. One […]

In episode #43 of The XS Noize Music Podcast, Mark Millar catches up with AJ Dean-Revington, Tara Wilcox and Chess Whiffin of The Wandering Hearts about their new album and upcoming tour.  After shooting to […]

Over the course of their first two albums, ‘Silhouettes’ and ‘ii’, Aquilo earned the duo a legion of global fans, exceeded 250 million streams, and picked up Radio 1 airplay plus praise from the likes […]

Unafraid to be unique, newcomer Brave James blends dreamy alt-pop, maximalist electroproduction and multi-layered psychedelic vocal harmonies as he whips up a whirlwind of multi-generational influences into a sound that sits right at home in […]

‘As Days Get Dark’, Arab Strap’s seventh studio album and their first for 16 years, was a record that managed to feel like both evolution and revolution: a continuation of what has come before whilst […]

Manic Street Preachers have released a short film to accompany their recently release single ‘Orwellian’. The track gets a new visual accompaniment from the archive as well as improvised footage, beautifully constructed and directed by […]

Echo Beach premiere the video of their second single ‘On My Mind’ today with XS Noize. The synth-pop outfit that formed in early 2021 has been making waves in Leeds following the release of their […]

Inhaler releases their new single It Won’t Always Be Like This on June 9th on Polydor. The song will launch as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World on Radio 1 alongside a video directed […]

Montreal band SUUNS – comprised of Ben Shemie, Joe Yarmush, and Liam O’Neill – announce their new album and Joyful Noise Recordings debut, The Witness, out September 3rd, and share the lead single/video, “Witness Protection”. […]

Today, AC/DC have shared their brand new video for “Witch’s Spell”. Directed, edited and animated by Wolf & Crow using band performance footage shot by Clemens Habicht, the band and their creative director Josh Cheuse […]

Colin Geddis makes his post lockdown return to stand-up at The limelight Belfast for an evening of stand-up comedy, new material, special guests and a lot of General Banter. In the last ten years, Colin […]