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 […]

Currently putting the finishing touches to their tenth studio album, due later this year, and twenty years on from the release of their debut album “Londinium”, South London collective ARCHIVE have just announced news of […]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree, will be released globally on vinyl, CD and across all digital platforms on 9th September 2016. This follows the Bad Seeds’ most critically and […]

Doesn’t Kill You will knock you back on your heels, the song is shimmering and enchanting. Davies voice is mesmerizing on this ballad. The song is beautifully conceived, performed and produced. The best words to […]

Having released their debut single ‘Messina’ on May 12th through AWAL, Leeds five-piece Modern Pleasure today share a brand new track ‘White Heels’. A preview of what’s to be expected from their forthcoming headline shows […]

Swans have shared the first full track from the forthcoming album, The Glowing Man, out on Mute / Young God (N America) on 17 June 2016. The Glowing Man, announced as the last album release […]

Fast-rising Irish indie-rockers 5 Dollar Shakes have released their new single Auxiliary Love. The song is lifted from their recently released second EP Come & See Enough To Stay & showcases shimmering guitar lines, brooding […]

Singer/songwriter Will Toledo, or as he is better know as the originator of Car Seat Headrest, is releasing his 15th, that’s right 15th long play release, Teens of Denial. The new release is the following […]