Westside Cowboy have shared new single ‘Dobro’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘It Goes On’ via Island Records on 21 August, 2026. Guitarist Jimmy Bradbury takes on the lead vocals for this razor-sharp slice of slacker pop, a song the band say could be ‘For perhaps a younger self? For that moment…
Jenny Hollingworth, one half of Let’s Eat Grandma, has shared new single ‘Good Intentions’ ahead of the release of debut solo album ‘Quicksand Heart’ via Transgressive Records on 9 January, 2026. Jenny said: ‘I wrote Good Intentions as a reflection on challenges I’ve faced in the past and how I relate to them in the…
dog eyes, a Bay Area indie-folk duo made up of Hailey Firstman and Davis Leach, have shared the sublime ‘nano’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘blue bird rain cloud’ on 25 July via Grand Jury. Reminiscent of this year’s Great Grandpa album but mixed with the sensibilities of Loney, Dear and the gentle…
Melbourne five-piece Delivery have shared new single ‘The New Alphabet’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘Force Majeure’ on 17 January 2025 via Heavenly Recordings. ‘The New Alphabet’ finds the band delving into a post-punk sound, complete with scattergun riffs and wonky, scuzzy Cribs-esque interludes. The band say the song takes ‘on the…
‘An I LIKE TRAINS record doesn’t really start to take shape until there’s a theme’, says the group’s vocalist and lyricist David Martin. ‘That point came following Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks in 2013.’ The band’s new album ‘KOMPROMAT’ (the Russian term for compromising political material) finds the Leeds-based five-piece tackling current affairs and the amount…
Bright Eyes return after a nine-year hiatus with the brilliantly titled new album ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’. The past (almost) decade has seen a huge amount of upheaval on a global and personal scale for Conor Oberst and this record focuses on the profoundness of mortality, broken relationships and grief.…
Kevin Allan’s Fair Mothers project releases the second, more experimental project of 2020 with ‘In Monochrome’. Featuring guest appearances from Faith Eliott, Dana Gavanski (vocals), Esther Swift (harp), Pete Harvey (cello) and Jonny Lynch from Pictish Trail, the album was recorded at The Happiness Hotel in Edinburgh over the past couple of years and expores…
Alt-rock legends Semisonic (1998’s ‘Feeling Strangely Fine’ is a phenomenal album) have shared the video for ‘You’re Not Alone’ – the Minneapolis trio’s first new material in almost 20 years. The song will feature on the forthcoming EP of the same name (out via Pleasuresonic Recordings and Megaforce Records on 18 September). The video was…
High On Stress describe themselves as a ‘power pop rock & roll band out of Minneapolis’ and their sound has already been praised by The Replacements manager Peter Jesperson (‘this is exceptional work’) and James Alex of the one and only Beach Slang (‘This record is F*CKING KILLER’). Their new record ‘Hold Me In’ is…
We first saw British Sea Power supporting The Strokes at Alexandra Palace in 2003 and they stole the show. Three weeks later, we saw them play a stunning New Year’s Eve show at Highbury Garage and have continued to be wowed by their albums, gigs and festivals for almost two decades since. Over the course…
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