Bruce Springsteen has marked the release of his 19th studio album ‘Western Stars’ by sharing the Thom Zimny-directed video for the title track. Following his record-breaking stint on Broadway where The Boss admitted the persona of ‘Bruce Springsteen’ is as much of a facade as ‘Ziggy Stardust’ or ‘Lorraine Kelly’ and that he’s never actually…
Team Me have shared ‘Does Anyone Know How to Get to the Heart of This’, the third single to be taken from their forthcoming new EP. The song continues the narrative of previous release ‘The Future in Your Eyes’ and finds frontman Marius Drogås Hagen taking you back to the post-apocalyptic world where our cyborg heroes are…
Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Harry Harris has shared the video for ‘Apocalypse’, a song that will feature on his upcoming album ‘I Feel Drunk All the Time’ (out on 21 June). Filmed at Home Farm Festival by Stephen Rötzch-Thomas, the video is a live illustration by the political cartoonist and former Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell. The sparse,…
Liam Gallagher has swaggered back into the spotlight with ‘Shockwave’ and now the former Oasis frontman has shared a video (directed by the award-winning Francois Rousselet) for the single that literally sees him burning down the house as he walks through America’s deep south. It even gives a cheeky nod to THAT viral video of…
The Xcerts kicked off their ‘Hold on to Your Heart’ album campaign with Daniel P. Carter playing ‘Feels Like Falling in Love’ twice in a row on the Radio 1 Rock Show and a packed tent singing along to it less than a week later at 2000 Trees. Headline tours, main stage festival appearances and…
Hailing from just north of Birmingham, Super Lemon Days have already released a couple of EPs and played shows with emo heroes including Drug Church, Radiator Hospital and Apologies, I Have None. Now, they’re set to release ‘No Slackin”, a three-and-a-half-minute song that wonderfully blends in elements of slacker pop (of course) and more experimental…
Brooklyn-via-Burlington VT power-poppers Little Slugger have shared ‘You’re On Your Own’, the first single to be taken from new album ‘I Want to Live Here Forever’ (out on 19 July and available to pre-order now). Formed by childhood friends Sam Bevet and Ben Chugg, the Little Slugger sound is HUGE. It’s packed with killer…
Columbus, Ohio four-piece Trying describe their wholesome indie-pop sound as ‘somewhere between Frankie Cosmos and Slowdive’ and ‘If I Don’t Get a Job’ is the first single to be shared from their new EP ‘I Won’t Let You Lose the Rhythm’ (out on 26 July via Bandcamp – pre-order now). The song is only 1…
San Francisco band Lofi Legs live up to their name with the short and sweet ‘Dreamin’. Appearing on their upcoming debut album ‘Lamb’, the song finds the real-life couple of Maria Donjacour and Paris Cox-Farr sharing their love in a way that is reminiscent of Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) or The Moldy…
Toronto native Deanna Petcoff writes ‘happy songs about sad things’ and new single ‘Stage Lights’ captures this perfectly. Opening with a Kim Deal-esque bass line, Deanna starts to look back on a night where she felt a spark with a touring musician and asks ‘What if?’ She wonders what might have been if instead of…
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