Today, seminal indie rockers The Kooks announce a UK arena tour for November, including a date at London’s SSE Arena, Wembley. The announcement follows the release of their new single ‘Be Who You Are,’ one […]

Howie Payne has premiered The Stands ‘Some Weekend Night (Remix)’ – a track originally from their 2004 debut album ‘All Years Leaving’ – which features lead guitar by Noel Gallagher. “We recorded it at Olympic […]

Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers are re-issuing their 2007 album Send Away The Tigers as a 10th anniversary album offering 2cd and a DVD bookset. The band stated Send Away The Tigers was a […]

Danish electronic duo Blondage (comprising of Esben Andersen and Pernille Smith-Sivertsen) have released their new single “Stoned” – a badass love anthem for the summer of 2017. With a production full of attitude and playfulness, […]

The Dears have announced the release of their seventh studio album, Times Infinity Volume Two, due July 14, 2017 through Dangerbird Records. The album is the second instalment of a two-album project from the Montréal […]

Avant-garde Saxophonist Colin Stetson returns in 2017 to bring us his first non-collaborative album in nearly four years, since the final installation in his “New History Warfare” album series. Stetson has been busy the past […]

Following the release and acclaim of recent single ANARCHY AND ALCHEMY, Echobelly have announced the release of their sixth album, their first in 11 years. Reinvigorated after a long hiatus, Echobelly founders SONYA AURORA MADAN and […]

London-based dark-pop collective .imp release their debut single Sex & Power today Friday 5th May. The topical opening track of their debut EP was inspired by the dizzying last 12 months in politics and society, and […]

ERASURE (Andy Bell and Vince Clarke) release a brand new track today, ‘Still It’s Not Over’, taken from their forthcoming studio album, World Be Gone – out on 19 May 2017. Listen to the track […]

Black Grape return with the brand new album ‘Pop Voodoo’, which will be released on UMC (Universal Music) on 7th July 2017. The album showcases the band’s first new material in 20 years and is […]

The Twang IS the ‘Best New Band in Britain’ (NME). Every A&R man in the country has been hot footing it up the M40 to Birmingham to snare the signatures of this band, and shows […]

It is safe to say that Gorillaz are back. After 7 years since their previous album The Fall, it is safe to say that Humanz provides us with the same sound that was produced back […]

The past 12 months has seen Tom Chaplin step out from the multi-platinum selling band Keane to both critical and commercial acclaim, with his extraordinary debut solo album ‘The Wave’ entering the UK Album Chart […]

Fresh from a support slot with Grammy Award Winner Beck and shows with The Hot 8 Brass Band, Soulwax and Calvin Harris, the Liverpool trio unleash a new single ‘Just Because You Can’. The track […]

‘Sleeping’ is an epic and brooding masterpiece. Co-written by Rikki Turner (Paris Angels) and Stephen Evans of Cabbage, the song is dark and beautifully sinister; Lo-fi American Gothic meets Cave and Cohen. Turner’s baritone is […]

Each week we will be putting together Spotify playlists featuring music from artists and bands that we have been swinging our pants to at XS Noize Towers. Since this is our first playlist we have included […]

After a run of sold out acclaimed shows in 2016 and early 2017 (including three London Palladiums), The Divine Comedy announce a new 8 date UK tour for this November/December. Since The Divine Comedy’s inception […]

Lea Porcelain give us a new single, “Remember,” from their forthcoming full-length debut Hymns To The Night, out June 16th. Lea Porcelain explain “the meaning of ‘Remember’ sounds romantic by its first impression – like […]