The Slacker Podcast started a year ago and since starting has topped the podcast charts throughout UK and Ireland. It’s hosted by Radio 1 Irish man Phil Taggart. Each week a different musical guest joins […]

‘White Xmas Lies’ is the third solo album by A-ha co-founder and keyboard player Magne Furuholmen. As the title suggests, it is an album with a different take on Christmas. A melancholic winter album, it […]

Level 42 will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of their first-ever single ‘Love Meeting Love’ [which was recorded and released in 1980] in 2020 and will do so with all cylinders firing and […]

Today WIRE has announced details of a new album, ‘Mind Hive’, set for release on January 24th 2020 via the band’s own label pinkflag. The band’s seventeenth studio album sees the definitive post-punk group continue […]

Keeping abreast of the release schedules of Californian garage rock musicians can be a full-time hobby. A scene spearheaded by Ty Segall, John Dwyer and Tim Presley, each year brings about any number of studio […]

Last year saw the 10th Anniversary of Atlantic Sessions and its sell-out success was proof that the festival continues to grow from strength to strength. Audiences travelled from right across the province and further afield […]

Bingo is one of the most popular communal games in the entire world, with a purpose that actually transcends far more than simple gambling. For instance, it is a critical tool in the education of […]

Today, Ben Watt releases “Irene,” the six-minute centrepiece track of his forthcoming album Storm Damage out January 31, 2019. Atmospheric and without drums, it features Watt on finger-picked metal resonator guitar over an insistent synthetic […]

Mercury-nominated UK composer/producer Maps shares a Mark Peters (Engineers/Ulrich Schnauss) mix of the expansive orchestral gem ‘Surveil’, as he takes to the stage for the Sonic Cathedral 15th Anniversary show at Bush Hall on 4th […]

Following the success of their reunion gig at Belfast venue Voodoo in June, Silent Running has announced details of a follow-up gig at the same venue on Friday, November 15, 2019, and the release of […]

Today XS Noize is pleased to premiere ‘Indigo Fever’ by Sophie Kilburn. Born in Derbyshire, Sophie Kilburn has been working tirelessly to create some of the most exciting & fiery alt-indie around in her upcoming […]

Multiplatinum Icelandic quintet OF MONSTERS AND MEN play the Ulster Hall Belfast on 24th October in support of their new album FEVER DREAM. XS Noize is giving away tickets to the show. For a chance […]

What promises to be one of the highlights of 2020, Kasabian has announced a massive hometown show at Leicester’s Victoria Park for June 20th, six years on from their triumphant first show at the venue. […]

Brix & The Extricated are back to release their third studio album Super Blood Wolf Moon on 25th October nearly a year on from their last one Breaking State, which saw them move on from […]

It was announced today that due to phenomenal demand, Fontaines D.C. has upgraded their SOLD OUT headline show at Empire Music Hall to Belfast’s Ulster Hall, 12th December 2019. Extra tickets to be released this […]

Steven Wilson has announced details of The Future Bites tour – a series of European shows due to take place in September 2020. Following the massively successful tour for 2017’s To The Bone album, Steven […]

The manga graphic novel is nothing new, it originated in Japan many decades ago. Unfortunately few manga graphic novels (especially not music related manga novels) get translated into English so an audience outside Japan can’t […]

If ever a band’s sound is matched so perfectly to the name of the band itself, it’s this one. Cigarettes After Sex’s music is cinematically seductive and intensely visual – a description that would certainly […]