The Strokes have made a welcome return with the release of ‘Going Shopping’ ahead of seventh studio album ‘Reality Awaits’ on 26 June via Cult Records/RCA Records. Opening in more mellow fashion than you may expect, there are some trademark scuzzily retro guitar hooks before Julian Casablancas starts to ramble – in the most delightful…
Manchester-based trio thistle. have shared ‘Pylon’ ahead of the release of their ‘Backflip’ EP via REX RECS on 29 May, 2026. They’ve also announced an extensive run of live dates, including slots at the Alternative Escape, Bearded Theory and 2000trees Festival. Powered by a glug load of Monster Energy drink, ‘Pylon’ is a wiry slice…
After four years away, Life have returned with ‘The Dollywaggon’, the first single to be taken from upcoming fourth album ‘ABSTRACT / NATURAL’ (out on 19 June, 2026). Written while frontman Mez Sanders-Green was walking the 193-mile coast-to-coast route (starting in the West Coast, over the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, across the Moors and…
Holly Head have shared ‘No Country Is an Island’ ahead of their tour opening for Westside Cowboy. Equal parts Squid-esque experimental post punk and agit Afrobeat – with a funk-meets-trip hop edge – the song takes aim at the ‘every person for themselves’ culture that has engulfed the nation in a huge game of divide…
Cork’s rising stars Cardinals have shared ‘I Like You’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Masquerade’ on 13 February bus So Young Records With an accordion at its core and Conor Oberst-esque angst around the edges , there’s a traditional and anthemic feel to the song – coming across as the love child…
Following shows with Adore, US Girls and The Belair LipBombs, Dublin-based duo Burglar have shared new single ‘Lovey’. Originally written a week after Eduardo Pinheiro went through a break-up, he revisited the words a year later by commenting on the embarrassing first thoughts – although there’s an underlying tenderness shining through the Tigers Jaw-esque soundtrack:…
Bleech 9:3 have shared their third single ‘Cannonball’, a song that vocalist and guitarist Baz Quinlan says is ‘a reflection of how bad worship in the form of a lover has made life itself into something else’. Starting with shoegazey guitar hooks before morphing into something heavier in the vein of Oceansize, it finds Baz…
Nottingham trio Bloodworm have shared ‘Bloodlust’ ahead of an extensive tour of the UK supporting Suede – after being personally invited by guitarist Richard Oakes after he caught one of their London shows. With a devilishly brooding bass line and darkly tinged lyrics – ‘You come for me, I’ll come for you’ – this is…
Night Swimming have announced they’ve signed to Venn Records and shares new single ‘Submarine’, a deeply emotional three minutes that tries to make sense of grief – and how people ‘who have experienced loss will often notice it in others’. Hauntingly beautiful with layers of shoegaze guitar hooks, there’s a fragility in lyricist Meg Jones’…
Free Throw have shared ‘Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend’ ahead of shows with Prince Daddy & the Hyena and a UK tour. A song about feeling misunderstood or how sometimes there is ‘something a little more serious hiding slightly beneath the surface’, it’s filled with irresistible, emo-tinged hooks as Cory Castro sings about how anxiety has…
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