There’s always a bittersweet feeling on the final day of a festival, especially one as welcoming and glorious as 2000trees. On the one hand, you’re going to miss watching bands all day long but on the other, some time out of the sun – especially after a year as hot as 2025 – is most…
Adeline Hotel has shared new single ‘Came True’, Dan Knishkowy’s first new material since 2024’s ‘Whodunnit’ album. It’s a beautiful and evocative two and a half minutes that finds Dan recalling waking up happy but then feeling it wasn’t to be: ‘I was laughing with you, still I couldn’t smile’. He continues to struggle to…
Following a run of shows supporting Chalk and Sprints, Irish punks Adore have signed to Big Scary Monsters, shared new single ‘Show Me Your Teeth’ and announced details of an extensive tour throughout the rest of the year. Guitarist and vocalist Lara Minchin says the song was written during a five-month period where she was…
Tummyache have shared new single ‘Stop, Drop Roll’. In this song, Soren Bryce takes aim at big government and big corporations who do nothing but take advantage of their workforces and public: ‘Look at your empire, stop and smell the rose’. It’s all delivered against a defiantly DIY art rock sound that’s equal parts Malkmus…
Frankie Cosmos have shared new single ‘Bitch Heart’ and announced details of a world tour ahead of the release of new album ‘Different Talking’ vis Sub Pop on 27 June. The breezy (it clocks in at scarcely over 2 and a half minutes) slice of slacker-style indie-pop harks back to a time when we weren’t…
Club Night follow up their 2019 debut album ‘What Life’ with ‘Joy Coming Down’, a record that has themes of loss and mortality at its core – albeit with hope shining through. Opener ‘Expo’ is all twinkly and intricate emo guitar work to start with before quickly changing course into something more mathy with post-hardcore…
Keg release their debut album ‘Fun’s Over’ via Alcopop! Records on 14 March, 2025. Known for their infectious live performances, this record finds the seven-piece showcasing a more vulnerable, human side amidst the chaos of synths, trombone and barbed guitars… Album opener ‘Photo Day’ has a long, mathy, post-rock-inspired build up that makes for a…
‘Clover’ is the debut record from Chicago-based folk duo Sleeper’s Bell (Blaine Teppema and Evan Green). The nine songs find Blaine revisiting her teenage journals and writing letters to her younger self, bringing in her lived experiences as she tries to offer advice that can heal… The title track opens the album with a genteel…
The Goa Express have shared new single ‘It’s Never Been Better’ ahead of the release of their self-titled album on 1 December. With a shoegaze sheen and power-pop hooks, the band sing wistfully about past summers and past relationships – no matter how fleeting – that make you who you are…
The Antlers make a welcome return with new single ‘I Was Not There’, a song Peter Silberman says is about ‘the elusive experience of complete presence. Across three scenes, the song describes fleeting moments of clarity and wholeness, and the accompanying feeling of leaving yourself’. It opens in evocative style as Peter sings about the…
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