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 […]

Courting The Squall, the debut solo album by Guy Garvey is an album full of variety, the song’s ‘don’t fit the Elbow template’, instead bringing the singer to new ground, with its quietly experimental approach. […]

It has been a busy year of recording and touring for the Cheatahs. In February 2015, the band released their EP, Sunne, and followed it up with Murasaki in late March. The band ended the year with their second full-length […]

The fog is so thick tonight that flights in and around London have been cancelled, Autumn is most definitely here. As I stroll up to the pub-come-music venue, The Lexington on Pentonville Road, London, some […]

…..What Became Of what We Used To Be Did anyone out there party in Manchester back in the day when it was Madchester? Did you “Sit Down” with James or “bang the drums” with the […]

2015 sees one of the UK’s most enduring award-winning songwriting duos, ERASURE (Andy Bell and Vince Clarke), mark the 30th anniversary of their first release. As part of Erasure’s 30th Anniversary celebrations we have 3 […]

Coldplay’s seventh album, A Head Full Of Dreams, will be released worldwide on Friday, December 4 via Parlophone Records. The first single from the album, ‘Adventure Of A Lifetime’, is available from today to download […]

New Order have announced full details for Tutti Frutti the latest single to be taken from Music Complete, out on 11 December 2015. Tutti Frutti, featuring Elly Jackson aka La Roux on guest vocals will […]

Following on from the news that Lush are to reform next year, the band have announced the full details of their extensive anthology, Chorus, and the first time vinyl pressing of Ciao! Best of Lush. […]

London duo Pertini have released a stream of their catchy, new electronic pop single, Ally Pally released digitally on November 30th. Following the release of their debut single, Blackfriars Bridge, that amassed over 10,000 plays, […]

London four-piece Red House Glory have revealed their new single ‘Pray Now’, taken from the upcoming All Out Of Love EP released on December 11th. With its crisp riffs rifling through the lush, driving harmonies […]

Space are back with a new single ‘Strange World’. The band began their extensive UK tour of the same name in late October which sees them on the road until mid-December. The release a new […]

After recently sharing “Dopamine,” the first taste from their forthcoming sophomore album Is the Is Are, DIIV are back today to share a new song in addition to details about the album’s release. Is the […]

The name Billy Bibby will be familiar to early fans of Catfish and the Bottlemen or to anyone who has perused the credits of the band’s début album, The Balcony. Billy was founding member and […]

Glasgow’s The Deadline Shakes are Greg Dingwall (lead vocals, guitars and keys), Iain McKinstry (guitars and vocals), Martin McLeod (bass), Thomas Booth (drums) and Sam Clark (piano), with Michael Muir (violin) and Kiera Pollock (vocals). […]

The North Carolina-based band Mount Moriah – composed of McEntire (lead vocals, guitar), Jenks Miller (lead guitar, keys), and Casey Toll (bass, keys) – seem insistent to grow. If Mount Moriah’s self-titled debut showed them […]

Do the demonic clergymen from Sweden hold the key to the salvation of metal, or the entire world? When Ghost entered the Internet’s collective consciousness* with their tongue-in-cheek Satanism and incense-filled rituals (please don’t call […]

Bjork, that one name conjures images of Bjork throughout the years, the wild child, swan dress-wearing, gamine girl and on and on. It is no exaggeration to state that Bjork is one of the most […]