The Jam’s 1979 masterpiece Setting Sons is being expanded and reissued on November 17th 2014 as super deluxe and deluxe editions which feature unreleased demos and live tracks. Setting Sons was originally conceived as a […]

The Scenes are a 6-piece  experimental band from Oulu, Northern Finland, who sound like something between art pop, hardcore punk and progressive rock. They have just finished a tour of the UK supporting The Specials. I caught […]

Can it really be 18 years have passed since a group of guys barely out of high school formed Modest Mouse in Issaquah, Washington? Time has flown for the fans of the esteemed post grunge […]

Channelling influences from the likes of Badfinger, Nick Lowe and Oasis, The Shining Stars unashamedly come up with their own 21st century take on a classic rock’n’roll/power pop hybrid. ‘Glorious Mess’ is possibly the only […]

London based Rumble-Bop Trash Blitz 5-piece band Oh! Gunquit release a brand new single “Sinkhole” backed with instrumental “Stampede” via new One Little Indian imprint Winwin Records on 1st December. Oh! Gunquit have been performing […]

Hot on the heels of October’s single ‘I Should Have Gone To Uni’, West Yorkshire psychedelic alt-rock-grunge-pop weirdos Allusondrugs offer the world a new slice of what they do best, in the form of live […]

James Atkin has topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, enjoyed platinum-selling album success, received an Ivor Novello nomination for his songwriting and toured the world many times over. He is now about […]

Welcome to XS Noize MixTape #9, to showcase well known and up and coming bands/artists we have been spinning over the past few weeks. Featuring: Black Rivers, Empires That Dance, The Talks, Sol Flare, and […]

Petite Noir is to release a new 5 track EP entitled ‘The King Of Anxiety’ on 19th January 2015. The lead track Chess features lyrics directly lifted from an instant-messaging conversation that Petite Noir (Yannick […]

Nervous Nellie feature two sets of Swedish brothers (two of them grew up in Chicago) and are currently based in Stockholm. They have announced they’ll be releasing new album ‘When the Nightmare Gets In” on […]

Do-it-yourself Bristol musician Trust Fund has taken a step from small cassette runs on bedroom labels to sign to much-esteemed label Turnstile for the release of his debut album ‘No one’s coming for us’, out […]

Youth Club have premiered their new video for ‘People’ – the band’s new EP ‘Brothers’ is available for pre-order at iTunes now. Southend indie-pop band Youth Club have signed to LAB Records and will release […]

THE CORONAS ANNOUNCE UK TOUR IN MARCH TO SUPPORT THE RELEASE OF THEIR ALBUM ‘THE LONG WAY’ ON 9TH MARCH 2015 ON ISLAND RECORDS Boasting 3 double platinum albums in their homeland of Ireland, The […]

For a new label, Hotgem is pretty impressive. Not only have they just put out the new Machines In Heaven e.p. but one week after that, the new Atom Tree e.p. follows hot on its’ […]

As I listen to Damien Rice’s latest album I have to remind myself that this is only his 3rd full length album.  How can one artist seem so prolific after releasing just 3 albums in […]

Produced and written by Seasick Steve and recorded in his front room at the little farm where he lives, it’s his seventh studio record and most ambitious work yet. Along with longtime drummer Dan Magnusson, […]

Following yesterday’s announcement, and due to popular demand American Football have added two further shows to their UK tour The band said “We were just blown away by the demand for tickets in the UK […]

Fiction play an EP Launch show at Total Refreshment Centre in London on Friday 28 November 2014, with support from Crushed Beaks and Seraphina Steer. Fiction formed in South West London in the late-2000’s by […]