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So it’s been raining in Houston for something like 400 days it seems like. My first Free Press Fest begins with some cool but random interviews with Doug from Built to Spill, and local Houston […]

Tampa art punks Merchandise have returned with ‘Flower of Sex’, the first new single since their critically acclaimed 2014 release After The End. The song is accompanied by an engrossing new video juxtaposing flora and […]

Psych outfit Palm Honey have announced the release of their latest single You Stole My Blackout. The track, their first release in 2016, is a short and snappy slice of psychedelic pop that wastes no […]

Leeds quartet FURR have revealed the video for their debut single ‘Think Sharp Kid’. The video sees the band rocking out amidst a neon glow stick haze with a performance that perfectly complements the angsty […]

Bear’s Den have unveiled ‘Auld Wives’, the first single to be taken from the band’s upcoming second album, ‘Red Earth & Pouring Rain’, released on 22nd July on Communion. ‘Red Earth & Pouring Rain’ is […]

Lea Porcelain last month gave us their Out Is In EP, the first release from the Berlin/London duo. Consisting of producer Julien Bracht and singer Markus Nikolaus, Lea Porcelain have been gaining international recognition and […]

Last week, not many people outside of a small Scottish town had heard of singer songwriter Michael Forsyth. This week his second album ‘Stop For the World’ reached number five in the UK iTunes Singer […]

Responsible (with The Futureheads) for some of the biggest indie hits the UK has produced in the last decade – Decent Days and Night, Skip To The End, Meantime, Beginning Of The Twist, Heartbeat Song […]

For the first time in 4 years, and following the April release of her UK #1 album ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’, PJ Harvey returned to the world stage with a storming headline performance at […]

Former Mansun front-man Paul Draper returns with his long awaited ‘EP ONE’ Friday 10th June on KScope. XS Noize Editor Mark Millar had a chat with Paul ahead of the release.   Hi Paul how does […]

It’s been less than a year since Alex Lowe reformed Hurricane #1 and released their critically acclaimed album Find What You Love and Let It Kill You. Alex Lowe and the boys don’t waste any […]

Stu Whiston is an indie singer/songwriter (with a live band) based in Stoke-on-Trent. Stu has recently released a track called ‘Dirty Day” that was produced by Rich Turvey (Blossoms) and mixed by Jim Spencer (Oasis/Charlatans/Johnny […]

BRONCHO’s new album Double Vanity is out next week (STREAM BELOW). Blasted grassland, the thin ribbon line of the freeway unspooling beneath wheels, skies stretched wide between mountaintop. It is dream music, foggy, atmospheric, the […]

Twin Atlantic have announced the release of new album ‘GLA’ on 9th September 2016, through Red Bull Records. Twin Atlantic will be playing a string of intimate fan shows in the UK including a secret […]

Si Wolstencroft is among the many near-mythical figures of the Manchester music scene. Si parted ways before The Patrol became the Stone Roses and he turned down The Smiths. Right place, right time, wrong choices? Timing […]

Hurricane #1 Front-man Alex Lowe received a death threat today on the eve of the release of their new single ‘I Wanna Kill You’. The band have had to rush forward new artwork to be […]

The music has flowed from Beck without pause since 2014’s Album of the Year Grammy-winner Morning Phase: from globe-spanning live shows consistently hailed as the best of Beck’s storied career to the 2015 psych-dance summer […]