Hyde and Beast return with new EP ‘Hard Times Good Times’ on 24th July on Tail Feather Records via Caroline International. Hyde and Beast released their second studio album ‘Keep Moving’ last August to critical […]

The psychedelic funk of George Clinton, the brooding menace of Massive Attack, the rolling hypnotic beats of Happy Mondays and the vision and flow of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five are all essential ingredients […]

New Order have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on 25 September 2015. The long awaited album will be New Order’s first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s […]

Bella Union are excited to announce the long-awaited return of US alt-rock legends Mercury Rev whose new album The Light In You will be released 18th September via the label and is available to preorder […]

New York City’s Jack + Eliza have released the latest song from their upcoming debut album, Gentle Warnings, out August 7th on Yebo Music and available for pre-order now on iTunes. Paired with footage of […]

There’s a quote tucked into the recent documentary film about the iconic design duo Charles and Ray Eames, commenting on the symbiotic nature of Charles and Ray’s marriage, their work life in Venice Beach, their […]

I Don’t Want To Let You Down is a somewhat surprisingly quick follow up to Sharon Van Etten’s highly acclaimed album Are We There? released around the same time last year with 4 brand new […]

On June 29th Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe release the results of their exciting collaborative effort entitled I Declare Nothing. It is an enticing and tempting creation that combines Newcombe’s legendary psychedelica with Tess Park’s smoldering […]

Mogwai, Scottish Post-Rock pioneers, are currently on a tour of shows celebrating their 20th anniversary of being a band. As part of this tour the band came back to the Olympia Theatre in Dublin for […]

IRON MAIDEN’s eagerly awaited new studio album The Book Of Souls will be released globally on 4th September through Parlophone Records (Sanctuary Copyrights/BMG in the U.S.A.). It was recorded in Paris with their longstanding producer […]

Following the news of their new album ‘Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied’, The Fratellis are proud to announce a 12 Date UK tour for November 2015. The headline tour, includes a show at London’s Electric Ballroom, […]

The Cheap Thrills’ release their new single ‘Rusty’ on July 13th, encapsulating the band’s energy and youth with an added Psych/Pop vibe. Aged just eighteen and nineteen, the band have already headlined 02 Academy shows, […]

Fiona Soe Paing featured as one of my New Bands of 2015 a while ago, a feature that was borne of my failure to pick up on her superb work earlier than this year. Rather […]

North London’s psych-pop four piece Gengahr release their Debut LP A Dream Outside on 16th June. Falsetto vocals and psychedelic guitars bathed in a good measure of melancholic beauty makes this album a stand-out contender […]

Swans are notorious for being one of the loudest and most brutal live acts ever and while they have greatly differentiated and softened up over the past thirty years, they show absolutely no sign of […]

Universal Road is the new album by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and Mark Gardener (Ride). Their former bands’ work ought to give hints as to where a collaboration between the pair might lead, but this […]

Next month, RATATAT, the duo of Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, will release their fifth studio album Magnifique on July 17 via Because. The 14-track album includes the recently released single “Cream On Chrome,” which […]

Jamie XX’s debut solo album follows the excellent Gil Scott Heron collaboration We’re Not Here which was one of 2011’s best albums. Like the first The XX album, it was innovative and a breath of […]