When We Were Young gets even bigger. Remember at the start of 2022 when When We Were Young Festival absolutely decimated the Internet with the announcement of their line-up? Well, the event is fast approaching, […]
The race for the UK’s Number 1 album is already heating up; as Beyoncé and Eminem are currently duking it out to see who will triumph at the top of the Official Albums Chart this […]
After a two-year hiatus, Osheaga came back with a bang as over 120,000 fans descended upon Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau to celebrate live music from artists all over the world. The energy was palpable, the crowd was civil, and […]
Pallbearer have announced a 10th anniversary deluxe reissue of their debut album Sorrow and Extinction. The band is teaming up with its original label 20 Buck Spin for the release, which comes in a trio […]
Five years ago, the festival industry, prone to hand-wringing about where younger headline acts might spring from, pledged to redress the gender imbalance across their lineups. Strides have been made, notably at Latitude and Glastonbury, […]
Maggie Rogers has released her sophomore album, Surrender, via Debay Sounds/Capitol Records. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below. The studio effort arrives three-and-a-half years after Rogers’ breakout solo album Heard It in a […]
Whitney are gearing up to ring in autumn with their new album SPARK. Before it’s out on September 16th, the Chicago duo have shared a pair of singles today: “TWIRL” and “BLUE.” “TWIRL” and “BLUE” are, in […]
First-time nominees dominate the 30th anniversary of the Mercury prize, which celebrates the best British and Irish albums of the year, making up 11 of the 12 shortlisted albums. Little Simz is the only artist […]
Photo courtesy of POND Creative Hot on the heels of their signing to Grand Jury Music and the release of their first single for the label “L-Train,” TOLEDO have announced their debut album How It […]
The Maccabees‘ Felix and Hugo White have formed a new band. The siblings have joined forces with their brother Will and drummer Jamie Morrison to create a new group called 86TVs and they have promised […]
Luke Pritchard, vocals, guitar, songwriter I wrote Naive when I was 15 or 16 – before we had the band – but I didn’t like it. I was quite a paranoid, unconfident kid and I […]
“Still in shape, my methods refined,” sings Paul Banks on Toni, the opening track of Interpol’s seventh studio album. Banks is a lyric writer who, throughout his career, has tended to deal in allusion and […]
3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Greg Puciato, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Guided By Voices Greg Puciato image via Jim Louvau July 4, 2022 There’s so much good music out […]
Half Waif goes back to the basics today with a surprise-released EP called Portraits. The four-track project sees the band’s Nandi Rose take two tracks each from her two previous full-length albums — 2020’s The Caretaker and […]
By Grant Sharples From the first few moments of “With U,” cascading synth arpeggios crest an enormous wall of sound. It’s not a texture that you’d typically associate with Soccer Mommy, the performing/recording sobriquet that […]
Festival goers were treated with a euphoric set of dance classics and special guests from headliner Pete Tong and The Essential Orchestra yesterday, for the Saturday instalment of cinch presents The Isle of Wight Festival […]
Alex G-has announced that his next proper studio album will be out September 23rd via Domino. It’s called God Save the Animals, and he’s previewing the record with the new single “Runner.” Alex G tends […]
A minute in to recent single Hold the Line, Bartees Cox Jr – AKA Bartees Strange – tees up a wrenching slide-guitar solo. It is not caked in slacker scuzz, nor is it a knowing […]
Sam Fender is to move to a “dancey” new sound in a bid to crack America. The ‘Seventeen Going Under’ singer has teamed up with producer Markus Dravs – who has worked with the likes […]
Surging synthwave outfit The Midnight have announced a brand new album. Set for release September 9th via Counter Records, Heroes is the final album of a trilogy that spawned in 2018 with Kids, which was followed by the […]