The already-stacked line-up for The Maccabees big comeback show at All Points East on Sunday 24 August, 2025 has just got even better with the addition of CMAT, Black Country, New Road, Everything Everything, Sorry, Katy J Pearson, Youth Lagoon, TTSSFU, Max Baby and The Juice. A tantalising combination of acts that played with The Maccabees back before their hiatus…
Following standout shows at both The Great Escape and Dot to Dot, Bedford-London goths Dog Race have shared the video for ’40 Winks to Wyoming’, a song that features on debut EP ‘Return the Day’, which is out now. Vocalist Katie Healy says the themes of the EP include ‘sleepless nights, intrusive thoughts and the…
Having shared stages with Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Tori Amos in the states, Brooklyn-based piano and violin duo Gracie and Rachel are now making waves in the UK with the release of new single ‘WTF’ ahead of some shows supporting Ani DiFranco on these shores. Dreamy and poignantly powerful from its very first note,…
Chicago-via-Grand Rapids indie rockers Pretoria have shared ‘Selfish’, a song that features on their new EP ‘If We’re Pretending’ (out on Friday 13 June). Opening with a recollection of smoking on the sidewalk after playing a show and being paid a pittance (‘makes me want to get a job ’cause I hate being poor’), while…
Biffy Clyro have returned with ‘A Little Love’, a short, sharp and spiky song that celebrates love in all its forms – and the realisation that you don’t always know what you have until it’s gone: ‘This ain’t Utopia, but it’s better than Hell’. It has all the Biffy trademarks – chunky riffs, festival-ready singalongs…
Patrick Wolf releases ‘Crying the Neck’, his first album in 13 years, on 13 June, 2025. While addiction, bankruptcy and recovery influenced 2023’s ‘The Night Safari’ EP, this new record finds Patrick in more confident mood with inspiration from nature, the East Kent landscape and folklore – albeit tinged with his grief following the death…
We’re rapidly approaching festival season and there’s so much to look forward to this summer. Once again, some of the finest acts from the alternative sphere will be descending upon Upcote Farm in Gloucestershire for 2000trees Festival 2025. We’ll be there once again – and here are just five of the bands from the stacked…
On the eve of the release of ‘More’, their first album in 24 years, we thought we’d take a look at our Top 5 Pulp songs. What are your favourites? ‘A Little Soul’ Following the runaway success of ‘Different Class’, Pulp changed direction on the dark and brutal ‘This is Hardcore’ album. But that pop…
Elisabeth Elektra’s second album, ‘Hypersigil’, is named after Grant Morrison’s definition of a work of art that also acts as a spell. It takes in themes of magic, empowerment and self-realisation while working through trauma and reclaiming your true self. Elisabeth says: ”Hypersigil’ is about taking the fragments of my past, the pain and the…
Turin Brakes have returned with ‘Spacehopper’ – their first new music in over three years and 10th studio album overall. The record found the band heading back to Konk Studios, where they recorded debut album ‘The Optimist’ for the first time in a quarter of a century with Olly Knights saying: ‘We honestly don’t normally…
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