All of us football fans are excited for the delayed Euro 2020 tournament to kick off next month… Ever the optimists, we still believe this will be the year that football finally comes home – with England talisman and captain Harry Kane leading the way with his goalscoring (and creating) exploits. To celebrate the tournament…
Japanese Breakfast has shared the video for new single ‘Savage Good Boy’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Jubilee’ on 4 June. The video features The Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli and offers an interpretation of the song’s main theme. Michelle Zauner says: ”Savage Good Boy’ came from a headline I read about billionaires buying…
Brighton-based four-piece FUR have shared the video for new single ‘The Fine Line of a Quiet Life’ and announced their signing to Boy Pablo’s 777 Music. The band’s previous single ‘If You Know That I’m Lonely’ is set to hit 20 million views and the band are already a firm favourite with 6 Music. Produced…
Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen have teamed up on the beautiful new stand-alone single, ‘Like I Used To’. The two artists have admired each other from a distance over the years and over the course of lockdown, Sharon had this song ready: ‘I always felt supported by Angel and considered her a peer in…
Roddy Woomble’s fifth solo album ‘Lo! Soul’ finds Idlewild’s frontman in contemplative and gently experimental mode – exploring different sounds to the acoustic folk he’s delved into previously. The new record was recorded remotely between Roddy’s home in the Hebride and producer/collaborator (and Idlewild bandmate) Andrew Mitchell’s studio in Dundee over the course of last…
Manchester-based singer-songwriter has shared ‘Calling Mullingar’, a song based around a train journey from Dublin to visit family on the west of Ireland. It finds Alf reflecting on his Catholic Irish upbringing and the beliefs that played a huge role in his younger years but are not so prominent now: ‘Writing this song was quite…
Bleachers have shared new single ‘Stop Making This Hurt’ ahead of the release of third LP ‘Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night’ on 30 July via RCA Records. Jack Antonoff and co have also announced they’ll be the first band in over a year to perform in the studio of NBC’s The Tonight Show…
Watford six-piece Lakes have shared the title track of their forthcoming album ‘Start Again’ (out on 30 July via Big Scary Monsters in the UK and Know Hope Records in the US). Produced and mixed by Neil Strauch (Owen, Owls, Joan of Arc), the album tackles themes of anxiety, depression, addiction and toxicity. ‘Start Again’,…
Keaton Henson has shared new single ‘Limb’. a poignant piece that finds the singer-songwriter – at first – willing to let someone into his life in the hope of a bright future: ‘Lay down your guns for me’. Sounding somewhat akin to a stripped-back Mew, Keaton’s ethereal vocals glide over the warming soundtrack as things…
Blackpool’s Strange Bones have shared ‘England Screams’ ahead of the release of their debut album of the same name on 20 August via FRKST/300 Entertainment. Frontman Bobby Bentham says the new single focuses on the tumultuous thought process behind human behaviour: ‘It’s like we’re living in a pantomime, everyone is waiting and expecting for something shocking…
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