The Hightown Pirates’ formed by Simon Mason release their debut album Dry and High this month. The conception began through Mason’s friendship with Mick Head (Pale Fountains and Shack) in Liverpool and also a tour […]

In 1994 Echobelly debuted on the music scene creating a positive buzz with their combination of Blondie and The Smiths stylings. Like many bands from the era they experienced highs and lows in their career […]

The bewitching video for Saint Leonard’s Horses single ‘Little Girl Scientist’ features Sophie Kennedy Clark (Nymphomaniac, The Danish Girl) as a tortured soul who uses witchcraft to conjure up her lover. It is book-ended with […]

After the atrocities at the Manchester Arena last month, the people of the city did what they do best, pulled together and showed the world their amazing spirit. Nothing can change what happened on that […]

Coldplay have today released a brand new song, All I Can Think About Is You, from their upcoming Kaleidoscope EP. The song, which builds from a rolling bassline to a hypnotic climax, is available now […]

Creature Comfort, the new track from Arcade Fire’s forthcoming new album Everything Now, is available now. The new album, out 28th July, is Arcade Fire’s first release under its new partnership with the global media […]

Queens Of The Stone Age have announced their Irish return as part of the Villains World Tour at 3Arena, Dublin on Friday 24th November 2017. Ticket Information Tickets priced from €50.65 including booking & facility […]

Liverpool promoters EVOL have teamed up with Deltasonic Records and the group leading the current and future musical charge The Vryll Society to produce a summer residency at The Magnet consisting of three headline shows […]

DMA’S are back in the UK for a handful of Summer shows. Tickets go on sale today 14th June 10am and can be purchased through the bands website. Full tour dates are below… Since DMA’S […]

The lovable pop trio are back: Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell with here their ninth album. St. Etienne began life in 1990 with Wiggs and Stanley originally just wanting guest singers. But in […]

Clair McAllister was on hand again to capture the first night of Belsonic at Belfast’s Ormeau Park featuring Arcade Fire with another batch of stunning images.  

Wolf Alice, one of the biggest breakthrough independent bands of recent years, today make their eagerly anticipated return, announcing new album Visions Of A Life and a run of shows worldwide, including a UK & […]

The Coronas’ new album, Trust the Wire, has today entered the Irish charts as the official No.1, the band’s first No.1 album. Fighting off new releases from U2 and Alt-J, Trust the Wire has knocked […]

Paul Weller has announced his Irish return at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 13th February & Belfast’s Ulster Hall on 15th February 2018. Special guests for both shows are Touts. See ticket details below. 2017, marks […]

The Horrors today announce their first release in three years, as they reveal their new single ‘Machine’. The industrial, dark and brooding opus shows the band in all their idiosyncratic, magisterial glory. LISTEN HERE: ‘Machine’ […]

Welcome to episode #34 of the XS Noize Music Podcast. This episode Mark Millar is joined by Hightown Pirates frontman Simon Mason to talk about their debut album, Dry and High, will be released June […]

Ahead of the imminent release of their brand new album ‘Spitting Image’ on Friday, today The Strypes share another new track ‘Great Expectations’, along with a string of UK headline tour dates for the autumn. […]

Following the announcement of their 5th album A Black Mile To The Surface, and the release of its first single ‘The Gold’, Manchester Orchestra today share news of their first UK and European tour in […]