A further 50+ bands have been added to 2000trees’ already stellar 2024 festival line-up. Joining the already-announced The Gaslight Anthem, Manchester Orchestra and The Mysterines are The Chats (headlining their first ever UK festival) the incredible and awe-inspiring Nova Twins and a much-anticipated set from Spanish Love Songs. Although there’s so much to enjoy and…
Indoor Pets make a most welcome return – and announce they’ve re-signed to the mighty Alcopop! Records – with the release of ‘London (Love to Hate)’. As fuzzy, crunchy guitar riffs and ferocious drums stop and start behind him, Jamie Glass takes aim at how hard it is to make ends meet in our capital…
NewDad release their long-awaited debut album ‘Madra’ (which means ‘dog’ in Irish) this January. A guitar-heavy record that explores themes of self-exploration, destruction, mental health and resistance, it’s one that we’ve been excited about since first hearing them on BBC 6 Music and then seeing them at 2022’s Glastonbury Festival. ‘Angel’ opens the record with…
My Life Story have shared ‘Running Out of Heartbeats, the opening track from their forthcoming album ‘Loving You is Killing Me’ (out on 9 February). The song – inspired by a quote from Neil Armstrong about how ‘every human has a finite number of heartbeats’ and his subsequent vow not to waste any of his…
English Teacher have shared new single ‘Albert Road’ ahead of the release of their debut LP ‘This Could Be Texas’ (out on 12 April via Island Records). The ballad opens in sparse and introspective fashion as Lily Fontaine opens up about how it feels to be a mixed-race individual in an increasingly intolerant and divisive…
Divorce have shared the video for ‘Sex and the Millennium Bridge’, a song that can be found on their recently released ‘Heady Metal’ EP. While the video finds the band channelling their inner Alice Coopers or Motley Crue, the song itself is more in line with Big Thief or Better Oblivion Community Center – albeit…
bedbug – previously the lo-fi DIY project of Dylan Gamez Citron but now a fully fledged indie rock four-piece – have shared ‘halo on the interstate’ ahead of the release of fourth album ‘pack your bags, the sun is growing’ on 15 March through Boston’s Disposable America label. With breezy and potent guitar Real Estate-style…
Formerly known as The Holy Road, multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Stolber has shared ‘Scattered Red, Blue & Black’ – the first release under his new moniker, A Knife Ballet. Challenging himself to lean more into exploring different types of guitar sounds, but with a powerful cello from guest Maddie Cutter (Martin Grech) underpinning the seven minutes, this…
Dana Gavanski has shared ‘How to Feel Uncomfortable’ ahead of the release of third album ‘Late Slap’ via Full Time Hobby on 5 April. Promising that the record will celebrate the ‘disparate aspects of my character that I sometimes tried to repress’, this song – which opens the album – finds Dana in more confident…
Glasgow post punks Pizza Crunch follow last year’s debut EP ‘That Serene Age’ with new single ‘Advertised Enlightenment’. This new song finds Ewan Heards trying his best to find meaning and awakening but only ending with disappointment – something many of us have experienced only all too well over the past few years. Mixing the…
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