Happy Accidents have shared new single ‘Dog Day’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Edit Undo’ on 27 September via Alcopop! Records. Co-written with Phoebe Cross’s cheerbleederz bandmate Sophie MacKenzie, ‘Dog Day’ finds the band in somber and reflective mood as they discuss the changing of the seasons and how it feels to believe…
Wednesday guitarist MJ Lenderman has shared new single ‘Joker Lips’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Manning Fireworks’ via ANTI- on 6 September. A song about feeling pushed out by everyone else, there’s a slacker undercurrent running behind the alt-folk yet shoegazey sound as he pleads with people to ‘Please don’t ask how I’m…
Man/Woman/Chainsaw have announced they have signed to Fat Possum Records and announced details of their debut EP ‘Easy Peazy’, which will be released on 8 November. The EP is preceded by the stunning new single ‘Ode to Clio’. The band say they ‘thrive on the thin line between pretty and noisy’ and that’s certainly the…
Efterklang have shared ‘To a New Day’, the fourth single to be taken from new album ‘Things We Have in Common’ (released via City Slang on 27 September). Collaborating with talented musicians including vocalists Rune Mølgaard and Sønderjysk Pigekor plus Hector Tosta (additional arrangement, guitar, percussion), Jarrett Gilgore (alto sax), Mabe Fratti (cello), Damian Dalla Torre (bass clarinet, tenor sax), Christian Balvig (piano, Rhodes, vibraphone), Tatu…
Militarie Gun have shared ‘Thought You Were Waving’ – their first new music since the release of their debut album ‘Life Under the Gun’ in 2023. The song – created with Zachary Dawes (Lana Del Rey, Sharon Van Etten) – finds the Los Angeles-based four-piece in a scuzzy and desperate mood from its opening moments:…
Saturday 13 July After a whirlwind three days, 2000trees wrapped up with a much-anticipated headline set from Don Broco. But things were again kicking off from 10.30am and there was a hell of a day in store with some of our personal favourites making welcome returns or debuts on Upcote Farm… Who wants circle pits…
Friday 12 July With typical Spectral Nights timing, a car-related emergency meant we only made it onto Upcote Farm in time for Sl0tface’s appearance on the main stage, missing our tips for Ones to Watch Buds and Bex in the process. We heard great things about both and will endeavour to see them soon. Sl0tface were…
After some worrying weather in the build-up to the event, the sun shone on Upcote Farm as 2000trees 2024 got underway. Wednesday 10 July After our annual rounds of hugs and catch-ups with friends and Trees regulars, we kicked off the festival with Exit Child‘s final (well, penultimate – they played as a last-minute replacement…
Bright Eyes have shared ‘Bells and Whistles’ ahead of the release of their tenth studio album ‘Five Dice, All Threes’ on 20 September via Dead Oceans. With its whistling, stomp-along intro, ‘Bells and Whistles’ is a jaunty song that celebrates the little details in life that can form your destiny. From not feeling well and…
Movements have shared ‘Afraid to Die’, ahead of an EU and UK tour (dates below). Patrick Miranda said the song ‘is so different than anything we’ve ever done, and yet I think it still pulls on the heart strings as a lot of our older music does’. Sitting in a space between Foxing and Minus…
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