There is a well-known saying to fans in awe of their favourite musicians: “Don’t meet your heroes” or else you will be disappointed.  Thomson’s experience with Joan Baez is a testament that this saying is […]

Smashing Pumpkins’ Jimmy Chamberlin on the newest chapter of his jazz experiments. Honor released by Jimmy Chamberlin Complex is not the only example of how different individuals brought together different influences, energetics, and ideas. But […]

Today at Belfast’s Custom House Square, over 500 members of the live events community gathered in a socially distanced, COVID-compliant display. Another 100 squares were marked out for those unable to join. The event organised […]

It’s been almost 20 years since Midnight Oil unveiled a new long-form release. That wait will finally be over on October 30 when their seven-song mini-album, THE MAKARRATA PROJECT lands online and in stores on […]

Today Kylie releases her brand-new single and video for ‘Magic’, taken from her forthcoming album ‘DISCO’, out November 6 via BMG Recordings. Produced and mixed by PhD (also known as Peter Wallevik & Daniel Davidsen), […]

Ulysses Wells talks to Victoria Pearson about his new EP ‘Can’t Take It Much Longer’ He also as discusses sobriety versus drunkenness and French cafe culture.  You are releasing your debut EP on 25th September […]

Today XS Noize is pleased to premiere ‘Homeland’ by Captain of the Awesome Machine. Captain of the Awesome Machine is a project that presents some of the music written by Oberon King for his band, […]

Kurt Vile’s Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep) was recorded and mixed in sporadic sessions that spanned four years at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, TN. It includes five songs — covers of John Prine […]

The Shins break an extended silence with the viscerally beautiful new song “The Great Divide.” The first official release from the band in over two and a half years, “The Great Divide” is available now […]

Since signing to Atlantic Records and Universal Publishing in 2001, Bristol singer-songwriter Gavin Thorpe has written and recorded 5 albums, as well as performing, recording and co-writing with other artists. Gavin’s new single ‘From Now […]

Le Volume Courbe releases a brand-new EP, Fourteen Years, via Honest Jons Records on November 13. It is the first in a series of three EPs that will combine to make up the third album […]

Ireland’s modernlove. have rapidly become one of indie-pop’s brightest and most talked about new bands. This October they will make their ‘Ireland Music Week’ debut and are releasing a new single, the upbeat synth-infused ‘Use […]

Last month, producer/musician Kelly Lee Owens released her new album, Inner Song, on Smalltown Supersound to incredible acclaim. Today, she unveils a video for “Corner of My Sky,” an Inner Song track born out of […]

The Waterboys have released their brand new single ‘(You’ve Got To) Kiss A Frog Or Two’, from their rave-reviewed new album Good Luck, Seeker on Cooking Vinyl. The new video features Mike Scott and band […]

Jealous of the Birds – the musical project of Northern Ireland-based singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton – release “Epistle,” the last track on the upcoming LP Peninsula, out now via Canvasback/Atlantic. Jealous of The Birds will perform […]

Goldfish is the brand new single from Matinee. Produced by Julian Corrie from Franz Ferdinand. The video to the single stars National Television Award winner and former EastEnders actress Tamzin Outhwaite. Goldfish explores how the […]

Glass Animals – who recently made headlines with the release of their magnificent third album ‘Dreamland’ – continue to defy what is possible in 2020 with the announcement of their ‘Live In The Internet’ broadcast. […]

Today, Yo La Tengo share a second song from their forthcoming EP, Sleepless Night. ‘Bleeding’ is the record’s standalone original composition, a windswept ballad where delicate guitar melodies give way to cyclonic fuzz. The five-song […]