Vegas Water Taxi, the new-ish project from Lazarus Kane’s Ben Hambro, has shared ‘Chateau Photo’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Long Time Caller’ (out on 25 October via PNKSLM Records). Opening with a declaration that all his friends are getting sober, the break-up anthem finds Ben trying to negotiate newly single life with…
Wednesday have shared ‘Pick Up That Knife’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Bleeds’ on 19 September via Dead Oceans. The band have also announced tour dates for the autumn. Inspired by the ‘feelings of helplessness, when every minor inconvenience hurts double because you’re close to giving up’ and the time their pedal steel…
Transport yourself back to the time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth when The Lost Kingdom tour roars into both Southampton‘s Royal Victoria Country Park (23 August to 7 September) and Manchester‘s Tatton Park (18 October to 8 November). The biggest Jurassic event to come to Britain, it finds the cities hosting over 50 animatronic beasts…
We’re excited to premiere ‘Ode to Carl Dennis’, the new single from lo-fi singer/songwriter Alexei Shishkin ahead of the release of new album ‘Good Times’ via Rue Defense on 5 September, 2025. The slacker-pop stylings have a baroque tone and air of sadness as Alexei talks about not answering the phone, because he’s ‘damn sure…
David Balfe returns with ‘Carving the Stone’, the second album to be released under his For Those I Love moniker. While the debut self-titled record offered meditations on grief and loss following the death of his best friend, this record finds David focusing on life in working-class communities, familial life and how Irish capitalism is…
Pip Blom and Willem Smit of Personal Trainer have joined forces to form Long Fling – and their self-titled debut album of out on 3 October. Debut single ‘Flung’ pulls together elements of Beck, Radiohead and Times New Viking – and layers this over some filthy Krautrock-inspired beats… Long Fling EU / UK Tour 13th…
La Dispute have shared the video for ‘Saturation Diver’, a song that features as part of Act IV on forthcoming record ‘No One Was Driving the Car’. Heavily inspired by the film ‘First Reformed’ , this act of the record follows two characters as they move into an otherworldly beyond. This song in particular follows…
Swaggering superstar-in-waiting De’Wayne releases his third album, ‘June’, via Fearless Records today (30 July, 2025). There’s no messing around with this record, opener ‘Lady Lady’ combining Aerosmith-style hooks with copious amounts of funk and one-liners about his love life: ‘Great conversation, I don’t think she’ll be staying’. This is followed by an old-school countdown to…
The Maple State have returned with wiry and energetic new single, ‘Zero Days Since Last Incident’. Drawing influence from cult emo legends Braid and Hey Mercedes but with the zeal and drive of Cloud Nothings, the instant earworm finds Greg Counsell looking back at a tough time in his life and asking over deliriously catchy…
Other Lives have shared ‘Show Us Some Love’ ahead of their appropriately titled fifth studio album, ‘Volume V’ (out on 10 October via Play It Again Sam’. An orchestral love song (of sorts) between the Gods and man, the song follows this complex relationship as the parties plead with each other to ‘make it easier’…
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