Adult Mom (an indie-rock quartet made up of Stevie Knipe, Olivia Battell, Allegra Eidinger and Lily Mastrodimos) release their fourth album ‘Natural Causes’ on 9 May, 2025 via Epitaph Records. Inspired by R.E.M and Lucinda Williams, the album finds Stevie examining their own queerness, separating it from learned straightness, and chronicling their battle with cancer.…
9Bach have shared new single ‘Llaw – 101 Mix’ exclusively on Bandcamp ahead a run of headline shows. This is the first song to be released showcasing their collaboration with Andy Gangadeen, an artist who’s worked with acts ranging from Chase & Status to Lava La Rue. With big beats and a touch of acid…
Spectral Nights favourites Tugboat Captain have shared new album ‘Dog Tale’. Written and recorded in just one week, it finds lead singer Sox ruminating on London life when you’re navigating your mid to late 20s: ‘I feel like this album is a ‘Dog’s Tale’ of love, relationships, family and domesticity. I feel like lyrically, I’ve…
Bleach Lab have shared ‘Feel Something’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Close to the Flame’ on 18 July, 2025. Frontwoman Jenna Kyle says the new single is ‘About being locked in a slowly dying relationship, where you’re heavily dependent on another.’ This feeling of devastation and being stuck as you only bring out…
Scottish sisters Brèagha Cuinn (Guitar and vocals) and Onnagh Cuinn (Bass and vocals) – Bratakus – have signed to Venn Records and released new single ‘Final Girls’, ‘a song about the horror movie trope of the ‘Final Girl’ and all the rules they have to follow in order to survive the movie. The song talks…
Symbol Soup (known to family and friends as Michael Rea) has shared ‘Miniatures’ via Sad Club Records. With themes of detachment at its core, the song finds Michael looking at his own life as if it were a miniature model world. This feeling of being out of control is delivered against a crescendo of guitars…
Inspired by former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s infamous interview where he claimed to know what poverty was like because he grew up with no Sky TV (join the club), Those Fucking Snowflakes return with the appropriately titled ‘No Sky for Rishi’. A singalong, old-school punk anthem with gonzo drumming, stop-start riffs and witty lyrics explaining…
Love Rarely have shared ‘Disappear’ ahead of shows with Sweet Pill and appearances at 2000trees and ArcTanGent Festivals. The melodically mathy song finds Courtney Levitt letting her frustrations about being made to feel shit loose with primal, raw emotion: ‘You said I should disappear’. With quieter interludes and healthy doses of screaming amidst the hardcore…
Exeter’s Soot Sprite have shared new single ‘Vicious Cycles’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. A reflective and slow-burning piece with gothic atmospherics that bring to mind Anna Calvi or Hovvdy – but with the edgier emo stylings of Sweet…
Suds have shared new single ‘State of Everything’, their first new material since 2023’s debut album ‘The Great Overgrowth’. Falling between Cursive and Sweet Pill, the emo hit finds the band trying to make sense of the internal conflicts over the past couple of years that threatened to tear the band apart. With pulsating drums…
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