Following an amazing kick-off to the Meltdown Festival by Nile Rodgers & CHIC, the “Good Times” rolled on with Johnny Marr with support from the Mystery Jets. At a first glance, the choice of Johnny […]
Meltdown festival returns to London Southbank Centre for its 26th run. The festival will run from 3 – 11 August 2019 and will be curated by Nile Rodgers. Meltdown will see performances from Nile himself […]
You know a singer/songwriter has achieved “cult” status when every side project they do despite seldom publicity receives mass interest and each live show they do sells out. The singer/songwriter in question is Conor Oberst […]
In aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, for the nineteenth year now, the Royal Albert Hall has annually hosted gigs from some of the biggest and acclaimed global artists including Kasabian and Nile Rogers & […]
Last year Manchester indie legends James released their fifteenth LP, Living in Extraordinary Times. XS Noize found Living in Extraordinary Times was an essential and sacrosanct addition to the James back catalogue giving it a […]
Normally when a van gets stolen there is seldom interest, however when Palaces’ tour van got stolen around a week before the Village Underground gig; there was a media storm. Upsetting as this was; it […]
Normally when a van gets stolen there is seldom interest, however when Palaces’ tour van got stolen around a week before the Village Underground gig; there was a media storm. Upsetting as this was; it […]
Fairport Convention have had much disruption and turbulence since they began in 1967. Despite only having released one single (which didn’t even make the top 20) and only one top 10 album; Fairport Convention have […]
To coincide with the release of their new album, Five on February 1st, 2019 via [PIAS] Recordings and a decade of their existence; White Lies have embarked on an international tour. XS Noize caught up […]
Last year XS Noizereviewed the best of In the Round which saw The Levellers triumph, performing an elated acoustic rendition of their hits spanning across a career which is now over thirty years old. In […]
Despite not having a top 40 single or a top 10 album to his name or a name that comes to mind concerning a household name; Tom Baxter’s most well-known track “Better” featured on the […]
Unloved, the band made up of vocalist and songwriter Jade Vincent, her partner the producer/composer Keefus Ciancia, and the DJ and producer/composer David Holmes, have shared a new track, Heartbreak, their first for Heavenly Recordings. […]
Xs Noize was invited to celebrate the London Folk Festivals fifth year at Cecil Sharp House. This event hosted by Folkonmonday offered a programme of sixteen acts across three categories of events: 1. live concerts, […]
This year would have marked Michael Jackson’s sixtieth birthday, so the time feels right to commemorate the King of Pop. To say he was iconic wouldn’t do him justice. With the many creative accomplishments Jackson […]
2018 was always going to be the year where hopes of a triumphant return of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) would materialize after all 2018 is the bands twentieth anniversary and the tenth year since […]
In 1997, Paul Draper, with his band Mansun, released their debut album, Attack of the Grey Lantern. XS Noize recently reviewed the twenty-first-anniversary re-issue, finding that this Mansun debut had stood the test of time, […]
To mark 100 years since Jazz reached Britain, Two Temple Place reopened to the public with its seventh annual winter exhibition, Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain which ran until 22nd April […]
On Friday 27th April 2018, to commemorate Two Temple Place’s Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain 2018 exhibition, celebrating the age of Jazz in Britain (running until Sunday 22nd April 2018 ), […]
In 2017, The Telegraph included The Levellers 1994 Glastonbury performance in the “top 50 best Glastonbury performances ever”. This performance drew the biggest crowd the Pyramid Stage ever saw with up to “300,000 people” seeing […]
There has been a lot of international excitement with Placebo’s “A Place for Us to Dream – 20 Years of Placebo” tour. There was dismay when Placebo cancelled and didn’t reschedule the Perth leg of […]
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