Alias Kid has released their BRAND NEW single ‘Beat Up Your Soul’ today May 10th.  The new track is a mix of upbeat rhythms and soaring guitars, with great ambience from the punchy verses and […]

Sam Wickens, from Bangor Co. Down, Northern Ireland is a mesmerising solo performer, gifted with the talent to arouse the soul with haunting melodies laced with poignant lyrics sung with his trademark transparency of spirit. […]

Avicii’s new track “Tough Love” from the upcoming album TIM, is out now. Produced and written by Tim Bergling, Vincent Pontare and Salem Al Fakir (Vargas & Lagola), the track stays true to the infectious […]

With their eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find due out next Friday 17th May, The National has announced their final UK live dates for 2019. The headline shows in Brighton, Leeds, Cardiff and […]

Mercury-nominated Northampton composer/producer Maps is set to release his fourth album ‘Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss.’ on the 10th May 2019 through Mute. ‘Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss.’ is a career-defining, ambitious album that sees the bedroom […]

No strangers to the music world, Watford’s Other Nature are multi-instrumentalist and producer Sena Verdi AKA Lyonheart, and singer/writer Tariq Khan. Friends since high school, today they announce the release of their brand new single […]

The new monthly XS Noize playlists on Spotify bring together the most essential new music of the last month that has been featured on the site. The April 2019 edition features tracks from Tame Impala, […]

We are Strangers is the brainchild of T.V and Film composer, Josh Kramon. He’s best known for his weekly instrumental music for such acclaimed shows as “Veronica Mars”, “iZombie,” “Party Down” and “Lethal Weapon.” In […]

Smooth, soulful and resonating with a message of revolution, ‘We Get By’ is Mavis Staples’ twelfth studio album, but her first collaboration with GRAMMY Award-winner Ben Harper. The Rock’n’Roll hall of famer turns 80 next […]

Metallica’s WorldWired Tour comes to Slane Castle on Saturday 8th June. Ghost, Stiff Little Fingers, Bokassa and Dublin band Fangclub have been confirmed as special guests. This will be Metallica’s first Irish show in a decade. Tickets from €89.50 including booking […]

In the of Summer 2018, Roger Daltrey and his band toured the USA performing The Who’s classic album ‘Tommy’ with some of the finest symphony orchestras that America has to offer, an experience that Daltrey […]

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has revealed the group will take a hiatus after performing live at the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final Opening Ceremony presented by Pepsi at the Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on […]

Lewis Capaldi almost missed out on his smash hit ‘Someone You Loved’ as he wasn’t going to bother completing the track because he was fed up with writing songs about teenage romances. The 22-year-old Scottish […]

Andy Rourke has opened up about his “colourful” former Smiths bandmate Morrissey and his unbreakable bond with guitarist Johnny Marr. The 55-year-old bassist co-founded The Smiths with frontman Morrissey in Manchester in 1982, and he […]

Fuzz-powered alt-rock duo Rival Karma is back today with their rollicking new single Go!, the first track to be lifted from their upcoming new EP A.Y.N (Are You, Ninja?). The EP is set for release […]

Alan McGee – one of the most important names of the music industry of the last 30 years and now the subject of a film by Trainspotting creators Danny Boyle and Irvine Welsh, will be doing an exclusive Q&A […]

San Pedro is the brainchild of Rikki Turner, ex-lead singer of seminal Mancunian Electro/Indie band Paris Angels and more recently The New Southern Elektrik and The Hurt. The name ‘San Pedro’ comes from Rikki’s love […]

Keith Flint’s coroner’s report has revealed the Prodigy frontman died from hanging with unspecified amounts of cocaine, alcohol and codeine in his system. Keith Flint’s death has not been ruled a suicide because there is […]