Swervedriver announce their first album in 18 years ‘I Wasn’t Born To Lose You’ 8 January 2015 Yes, one of the finest rock bands ever to grace Creation Records’ roster back in the early 1990s, […]

To celebrate their forthcoming UK arena tour, Kaiser Chiefs are set to release a brand new stand-alone single. “Falling Awake” was written during sessions for the band’s last album ‘Education, Education, Education… & War’ and […]

Writing about current events without coming off cliché, preachy or cynical is a tricky business. During the struggle for civil rights and the protests against Vietnam, the adaptability of the folk genre to political statement […]

Pikara is the solo project from Sara Johanne who grew up on Rindö, Sweden, an island outside Stockholm where she studied violin at Malungs Folkhogskola. Though Sara Johanne currently resides in the sinuous hills of […]

Offering an unrivalled opportunity to see discover the most exciting emerging artists active on Liverpool’s vibrant music scene right now, we are delighted to present The 2Ube and introduce you to some of the musicians […]

The Australian Psychedelic rock group Pond have released their sixth album, Man it Feels Like Space Again. Pond are the front, left and center of the Australian Psychedelic Pop scene. They put the fun in […]

Check out this weeks ‘Vinyl Five for Monday 2/2/15’, The essential vinyl you should own this week, carefully selected by Kenny Murdock from Belfasts best vinyl record store ‘Sick Records Belfast‘. Sick Records Belfast 78 […]

March 23rd 2015 will see the much-anticipated release of the debut LP proper from Courtney Barnett, “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit”. Recorded in the autumn of 2014 in an intense […]

Ahead of their show in Dublin’s Sugar Club this coming Saturday, January 31st, Darling have released the video for their new single, It’s Just One Look. The track, available to buy from iTunes now, is […]

The Kaiser Chiefs released their brilliant fifth studio album ‘Education, Education, Education & War’ last year which went to No.1 on the UK Album Chart. With the lads embarking on a headline UK tour, we’ve […]

The latest chapter in the electronic evolution of guitarist John Frusciante features a new project under his Trickfinger guise and has him utilizing the classic hardware that spawned the eternal acid template. Frusciante’s desire to […]

The Prodigy have shared the video of the title track of their long-awaited new album, The Day Is My Enemy. Watch the video below. The Day Is My Enemy, The Prodigy’s 6th Studio Album will […]

Welcome to XS Noize MixTape #11, to showcase well known and up and coming bands/artists we are currently excited about and have been spinning over the past few weeks. Featuring: The Charlatans, BC Camplight, The […]

Legendary Post – Punk band Dub Sex announce first headline show in London at Camden’s Dublin Castle – Saturday 31st January 2015 Dub Sex frontman Mark Hoyle: “The shows this year have been very special, […]

Liturgy have announced their first run of live dates for 2015 today with the band playing shows along the East Coast and through to Chicago in April. It will be the first time US audiences […]

When legendary Nirvana producer Butch Vig announced he had formed his own band in 1993 many in the music world figured it was a hobby project he would be complete before moving on to another […]

COLD SPECKS are currently on tour in Europe (full dates below), and recently posted an update of ‘Holland’, from the debut album. ‘We Are Many (Revisited)’ is a powerful, political track, borne from Cold Specks’ […]

From their new EP released 23 January. Engineered and Mixed by Matt Labozza Produced by Matt Labozza and Phone Home Written and Performed by Phone Home. Phone Home are an instrumental duo consisting of Michael […]