The Listening Post

The Missendens are a rare breed: a band of likeminded individuals who have all earned their stripes the hard way, treading the boards at countless gigs for countless bands before coming together to create songs […]

Like the changing of the days in Belfast, Beauty Sleep’s new single is very much in a different season to the bands debut back in winter, suitably named ‘The Dark’. As the days are significantly […]

Daughter have launched a new single from their critically lauded second album, Not To Disappear. Entitled ‘No Care’, the propulsive song finds lyricist/vocalist Elena Tonra at her most direct and unflinching, spitting embittered words against […]

This summer German house music legends Milk & Sugar return with new mixes of their anthem “Ready Or Not”, which has been leading them back to their roots of funk, soul and disco music. Whilst […]

This Spring saw The Dandy Warhols release their newest album Distortland (Dine Alone Records) and today they are happy to share a Gerald Casale (Devo) remix of their track “Pope Reverend Jim.” It premiered via […]

Colchester’s Animal Noise release their second single ‘How Can You Love Me?’ from their ‘Sink or Swim EP’ on August 19th 2016, a date that also sees an official CD release of the EP on […]

A little while ago, not many people outside of a small Scottish town had heard of singer songwriter Michael Forsyth. That changed when his second album ‘Stop For the World’ reached number one in the […]

When it comes to music described as psychedelic or drone-rock, one band have been ploughing this particular furrow for over fifteen years. Ahead of the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘Attack’, Three Dimensional […]

Every pop era has its defining female pianist: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple. For 2016, it’s 25-year-old Sarah Walk, a major new talent armed with a cannon of songs that […]

It’s been less than a year since Alex Lowe reformed Hurricane #1 and released their critically acclaimed album Find What You Love and Let It Kill You. They have finished recording the follow up album […]

Northern Uproar exploded onto the Britpop scene in 1995 when teenagers Leon Meya (vocals/bass) and Jeff Fletcher (guitar) began writing music together, recruiting their friends Paul Kelly (guitar) and Keith Chadwick (drums). The band became […]

The new danish duo AyOwA has emerged from a musical companionship between the two long time friends – Nicolai Kornerup and Hannah Schneider. The sound of AyOwA is electronic with an improvisational approach, appealing in […]

Inspired by the fierce and animated Japanese Princess of the same name, Mononoke is set to release her debut EP on 15th July 2016 and has just released the title track Silence For You’. The […]

Psych outfit Palm Honey have announced the release of their latest single You Stole My Blackout. The track, their first release in 2016, is a short and snappy slice of psychedelic pop that wastes no […]

Responsible (with The Futureheads) for some of the biggest indie hits the UK has produced in the last decade – Decent Days and Night, Skip To The End, Meantime, Beginning Of The Twist, Heartbeat Song […]

The music has flowed from Beck without pause since 2014’s Album of the Year Grammy-winner Morning Phase: from globe-spanning live shows consistently hailed as the best of Beck’s storied career to the 2015 psych-dance summer […]

Inspired by an out-of-body experience on-stage, Charlotte Carpenter has revealed the dark and momentous ‘Electric’, a brand new cut taken from the forthcoming How Are We Ever To Know EP, due June 10th via Charlotte’s […]

VYNCE have just unveiled the ultra-tasty tropical track ‘Taste’ from their debut ‘Lust’ EP ahead of their slot at The Great Escape and some new dates with Lisbon. Bold, cinematic and infectious, Liverpool’s VYNCE come […]