The Strokes became hard to see at just the moment that they became hard to listen to. Their two early 2010s offerings, Angles and Comedown Machine fell a long way short of capturing what had […]

Northern Ireland’s finest, ASH are pleased to announce a headline Belfast show at The Limelight 1 on Friday 29th May 2020 to celebrate ’25 years of Ash’, joined on the night by The Wood Burning […]

Liverpool legends Cast celebrate the 30th Anniversary of their classic debut album ‘All Change’. Originally released on 16th October 1995  it became the highest-selling debut album in the history of the Polydor label. The album […]

On May 15 Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) will release his 5th studio album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, via Matador Records. Today, he shares the first single, ‘Describe’, a track that captures a sense […]

After Björk ’s most elaborate stage performance to date, ‘Cornucopia’, she announces today that she will embark on a new tour in 2020, ‘Björk Orchestral’. Unlike Cornucopia’s elaborate stage production, Björk orchestral will focus on […]

Coldplay have today premiered the video for Champion Of The World, from their acclaimed number one album, Everyday Life. The video was filmed in Los Angeles by French director Cloé Bailly. You can watch it […]

Ian Brown has today announced that he will headline a tour of Ireland in May 2020. Tickets go on sale at 9 am on Friday 28th February. This will be Ian’s first solo headline tour […]

Mogwai today announce a run of three UK shows for February 2021, that will see the band return to London’s Roundhouse and the scene of their biggest headline show to date, the SSE Hydro in their hometown […]

Northern Ireland Music Prize-winning musician Ciaran Lavery has shared a new single October’; an atmospheric track with subtle electronic instrumentation that features American indie-rock artist Liza Anne. The track follows the release of Ciaran’s recent […]

American indie singer-songwriter Damien Jurado is coming to Belfast for the first time this coming Thursday 27th February. He will be showcasing his critically acclaimed 14th studio album, ‘In the Shape of a Storm’, with a solo show in the Ulster […]

With his recently announced 2020 May tour already sold out, Paul Weller gets back on the road in October and November to play a further 19 dates across the UK and Ireland. This tour takes […]

Pet Shop Boys and New Order have today confirmed a co-headlining tour of North America. The two British electronic bands have announced that ‘The Unity Tour’ kicks off on September 5 in Toronto and sees […]

With over 20 million streams to her credit already and 7 Top 15 New Music Friday placements on Spotify, Lilla Vargen is Ireland’s fastest rising new artist. Having recently released her current song ‘Cold’, Lilla […]

Songwriter Izzy Frances has placed herself firmly on the radar as one of the most exciting up and coming songwriters to look out for in 2020. Last year, she embarked on her musical journey with […]

Last year XS Noize had great pleasure in reviewing BRITs Week who together with O2 has brought some of the renowned acts including Ed Sheeran, alt-J and Enter Shikari who blew away the 500 capacity […]

John Andrews has been plying his trade as a singer-songwriter for 3 years and is now firmly established as one of the finest talents on the Belfast scene. He has combined the harmonic complexity of […]

Striding out to the menacing music of ‘The Terminator’, Kevin Jones and Andrew Davie from Bear’s Den, ironically are two of most unintimidating characters in the business. Perhaps, that’s why they chose that particular intro […]

Being on the cusp of becoming a quarter of a century old and three years and counting since they released an LP; people would naturally question if the Boston boys would be coming back. However […]