As if you need any reminders that you are getting older, try getting your head around this one, Beck’s blockbuster album Odelay turns 20 this month. It feels like just yesterday that this quirky but ever […]

Crystal Castles have unveiled a video for frenetic new track ‘Concrete’. It follows a preview for a new track titled ‘Femen’ which emerged on the band’s Facebook page last week. In addition, the duo of […]

Deacon Blue further their huge creative and commercial renaissance with the release of their brand new studio album, ‘ Believers’ on September 30. ‘Believers’ is the third part of a trilogy begun with ‘The Hipsters’ […]

Tim Burgess and Peter Gordon have announced details of a new album. ‘Same Language, Different Worlds’ will be released through Burgess’s own label O Genesis on 2nd September 2016. The pair will also embark on […]

Pixies announce that their sophomore “post-reunion” album, Head Carrier, will be released on September 30 (Pixiesmusic/Play It Again Sam) The 12-track collection of the band’s unique aural mix of surrealism, psychedelia, dissonance and surf rock […]

The past few years have seen the meteoric rise of Courtney Barnett to the higher echelons of indie rock superstardom. If her debut LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit finally […]

Hilary Woods is a music and visual artist from Dublin, Ireland. As a teenager she recorded two double platinum selling albums on Columbia Records as bass player in Irish indie trio JJ72, touring extensively in […]

Holy shit so this is what the world looks like when hell freezes over. If you’ve been living under a mainstream rock for the last 16 years or so, you won’t know that the Australian […]

Following a hugely successful Big Top Headline slot at this summer’s Isle of Wight festival, British rock heroes FEEDER (Grant Nicholas & Taka Hirose) today announce their full live return to the UK and Ireland […]

London quartet The Boxer Rebellion today reveal the video for their anthemic single Weapon. It’s the opening song from their highly anticipated fifth album Ocean By Ocean which is out now. The new video cleverly […]

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Natasha Khan or as she is better know Bat For Lashes is releasing her fourth album, The Bride on July 1st. This ambitious concept album follows the critically touted 2012’s The Haunted Man. There has […]

At XS Noize, new music is dear to our hearts and we believe that genuinely talented fresh artists deserve a platform to share their material with the world. As such, we will now be showcasing […]

Nap Eyes’ premiered the hilarious new video for “Click Clack”, one of the best loved songs on their latest album Thought Rock Fish Scale (out now on Paradise of Bachelors), which features some Weird Science […]

Life On The Road is the debut album by David Brent & Foregone Conclusion, available on CD, LP (12- inch vinyl), and digital download from August 19th, and available to pre-order from July 1st. David […]

The now Nashville based Civil Twilight are living proof of what happens when you stop worrying about being the chosen one and make music built on both the roots that grew you and the love […]

When it comes to music described as psychedelic or drone-rock, one band have been ploughing this particular furrow for over fifteen years. Ahead of the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘Attack’, Three Dimensional […]

Grieving are a new, unsigned band from Cambridge, playing direct, twisting art-punk. Their first demo was debuted by The FADER in March and their second track – the raw, dual vocalled post-hardcore / 90’s indie-rock […]