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’…
Kalamazoo, MI emo-rockers saturdays at your place have shared new song ‘Waste Away’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘these things happen’ on 12 September. The video was co-directed by Michael Herrick and Hot Mulligan vocalist Tades Sanville, who also makes a cameo in it. Clocking in at just over three minutes, the song…
For Those I Love (David Balfe) has shared new single ‘No Scheme’ – a spiritual successor to ‘Top Scheme’, the emotional centrepiece of his self-titled debut album – ahead of the release of new record ‘Carving the Stone’ on 8 September. Contrasting a cathartic and hedonistic teenage life with the mundanity of modern life (‘We’ve…
Tor Maries, also known as Billy Nomates, is set to release her third album ‘Metalhorse’ via Invada Records on 16 May, 2025. This is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio with a full band – bassist Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX…
Fresh off the back of their hundredth gig and rave reviews at SXSW, Man/Woman/Chainsaw release ‘Adam & Steve’. The London-based six piece’s ’bittersweet take on the heart-on-sleeve love song’, it features dual vocals from Billy Ward and Vera Leppänen pining over what could have been: “Now you’re going overseas, why’d you have to up and…
Florist have shared ‘Moon, Sea, Devil’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Jellywish’ via Double Double Whammy on 4 April, 2025. The stripped-back two-minute piece of majestic alt-folk finds Emily Sprague questioning how our actions can ripple across alternative worlds – she talks about making memories and being invested in chaos – before celebrating…
Edinburgh duo No Windows have shared ‘Return’, the first single to be taken from upcoming EP ‘The Great Traitor’ (released on 9 May via Fat Possum Records). Described in the press release as ‘A slow burning mixture of 90s alt rock and pastoral indie that sounds like something Buffy would have swooned to at the…
Michael Cera Palin, an Atlanta trio made up of Elliott Brabant (vocals/guitar), Jon Buncic (drums – Chad Miller joined after the album’s completion) and Jon Williams (bass), release their debut album ‘We Could Be Brave’ via Big Scary Monsters on 7 March, 2025. A clattering of drums and Kinsella-esque guitar noodling signals the start of…
Ben Kweller has shared the video for new song ‘Dollar Store’, the second single to be taken from upcoming album ‘Cover the Mirrors’ (out on 30 May). The album is Ben’s first since his son Dorian Zev died in 2023 and ‘Dollar Store’ finds him talking about walking away, hiding and facing panic attacks –…
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