What a way to begin the year?! We are barely into the New Year and already a contender for best new debut of 2016 has arrived. The bewitching and spellbinding release Confessions of a Romance […]

Gwen Stefani’s latest Top 20 smash, ‘Used To Love You’ has received a club ready re-work courtesy of Los Angeles based electronic duo MAIZE. The new take on the track is an absolute dance floor […]

Following two acclaimed albums on Sub Pop (2012’s METZ; 2015’s II) and a deeply impressive amount of touring, this Three One G single is the band’s first recording for the esteemed CA-based label, and their […]

Blasting straight into 2016 comes Bristol three-piece IDestroy, mixing teenage rock’n’roll rebellion with riot grrrl sensibilities, bubblegum pop melodies and a whole heap of sneering, yet charming attitude. Their debut EP, ‘Vanity Loves Me’, is […]

Wednesday 6th January marks what would have been the 70th birthday of Syd Barrett, founder member of the Pink Floyd and one of the most influential musicians in British pop history. To mark the occasion, […]

2015 proved to be something of a seminal year for Stockport five-piece Blossoms. Hotly tipped for this year the band have today been announced as number four on the BBC Sound of 2016 list as […]

Tim Hecker has announced several North American and European tour dates for Spring 2016, ahead of a new album for 4AD. One of the most celebrated electronic composers of his generation, the record follows the […]

After recently announcing news of their debut LP ‘Resort’, which compiles their three EPs to date as one 15-track record, due Jan 29th via Lost Map Records, Glaswegian guitar-pop duo Tuff Love share a kaleidoscopic […]

What have lost Samurais, early Bjork, The Streets and Lord Kitchener have in common? It sounds like the punchline to a particularly surreal riddle, but the answer is that they are the wellsprings of the […]

Tuff Love are the sound of rainy mornings spent in cafes at the threshold of adulthood. Bonfires on the beach at summer’s end. Friends cracking inside jokes and living outside the lines. Alcohol and fights […]

Somewhere Dave Grohl is smiling; he has frequently opined the fact that rock and roll are no longer kids picking up instruments and heading to the garage to figure it out. Instead, American Idol and […]

Bernie Mcallister was on hand to capture The Coronas at the Ulster Hall, Belfast on 20th December.        

Hi, every week I have to coax the XS Noize writers away from listening to the latest Justin Bieber and One Direction albums to listen to some decent stuff to keep the music police away […]

Iconic Swedish avant-punk rock band Refused will be touring throughout Europe in February, March and April 2016. The tour will include the headlining shows, as well as three festivals: Swedish West Coast Riot Festival in […]

Forward from the release of their debut electro album Emerge, Rob Bradley and Mark Bebb of Shelter have kept themselves occupied in the studio concentrating on a new collection of songs due out next year, […]

Somewhere along the line I’ve missed this band. How so? I must have had my back turned. However I’m glad I’ve discovered them. Tell Me I’m Pretty is the fourth album from Kentucky based rock […]

Terri Hooley is a legend among the Belfast music community and beyond. During Northern Ireland’s troubled dark times Terri Hooley’s Good Vibrations record shops and label survived in countless locations around the city, selling and […]

Pastoral pummel. Listening to Heron Oblivion’s album feels like sitting in a lovely meadow in the shadow of a dam that’s gonna heave-ho’ any minute. Members of this new San Francisco combo have put in […]