For French 20-something, Owlle, music is a way to tell stories, a way to embrace freedom and other worlds, and very much expose two sides of the same coin. In Owlle’s world, the things that […]

Marshalltown, IA USA- Modern Life Is War, not only one of the most beloved bands in the punk rock/hardcore world, but one of the most important of the last decade, are set to return to […]

New Forest rockers Natives have announced a headline tour for February – and strictly limited pre-sale tickets come with a signed poster and are available now at the band’s website. Full dates are: 16 February […]

Birmingham punk trio Youth Man have premiered their new video for ‘Joy’ with Clash Magazine. After a summer of festival appearances and the addition of new bass player Miles Cocker, the band continue their relentless […]

  Manchester based Indie/electro band The Slow Readers Club follow the huge success of their last single ‘Don’t Mind’ with the re-release of fan favourite, the stunning ‘Forever In Your Debt’, a taut, energetic and […]

  John MacLean’s first couple of albums on the permanently superb DFA label perhaps, as all acts on the label were bound to do, were obscured by the genius of LCD Soundsystem who WERE the […]

  Dan Snaith aka Caribou is back with a brand new album that is surely one of the electronic albums of the year. Our Love, the fourth Caribou album, beeps, bleeps and pulses in all […]

  Scottish band We Were Promised Jetpacks is back with their third album, Unravelling, and they deliver their most mature sounding album yet.  This is an accomplishment considering the relative youth of the band.  When […]

Today Noel Gallagher announced a new album ‘Chasing Yesterday’ to be released next year 2nd March 2015. a new single ‘In The Heat Of the Moment’ will be released on 16th November 2014. Noel will […]

Springtime Carnivore, aka Los Angeles-based Greta Morgan, will release her debut album of ebullient pop next month via Aquarium Drunkard’s Autumn Tone Records. Produced by Morgan and Richard Swift (Foxygen, The Black Keys, The Shins), […]

Welcome to XS Noize MixTape #3, this is a taster of what we have been mostly listening to this week. Featuring: U2, Kele Okereke, , Purple Heart Parade, Wampire, Captivves, Jennie Vee and more.

Endless ink and computer bytes have been spent discussing, arguing, moaning and praising U2’s surprise release ‘Songs of Innocence’. For an enlightened review you need go no farther than my colleague Mark Millar’s excellent review […]

David Bowie returns with the premiere of his brand new single, “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)”. Marking Bowie’s first piece of new material since last year’s LP, The Next Day, it was recorded […]

“Is this not the sickest and most totally believable heavy rock motherfucker ever?”, are some of the words The Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor used to describe The Vincent(s) new belter, ‘Song for the Sea’. So […]

Merchandise are on tour right now supporting star-turn After The End, and in the midst of their travels they’ve shared the video for album highlight “Telephone.” It’s directed by the band and features Scottish playwright […]

Apple say that a total of 81 million people have “experienced” ‘Songs Of Innocence’, by either downloading some of its songs or streaming them. Vice-President Eddy Cue told Billboard: “To help put this into perspective, […]

Catherine A Davies AKA The Anchoress today premiered the video for ‘One For Sorrow’, a song from her forthcoming ‘One For Sorrow EP released on 3rd November. The EP will come in limited edition 12″ […]

Play Ball, the first single from AC/DC’s eagerly awaited new album Rock Or Bust, received its first radio plays earlier today, and is available now to anyone pre-ordering the digital edition of the album. The […]