New Zealand’s The Beths return with their fourth (and first for new label ANTI-) album ‘Straight Line Was a Lie’. With a focus on how life, no matter how difficult or transformative it seems, has a habit of feeling like it’s taken you back to where it started. It follows Elizabeth Stokes taking medication as…
We’re excited to premiere ‘Ode to Carl Dennis’, the new single from lo-fi singer/songwriter Alexei Shishkin ahead of the release of new album ‘Good Times’ via Rue Defense on 5 September, 2025. The slacker-pop stylings have a baroque tone and air of sadness as Alexei talks about not answering the phone, because he’s ‘damn sure…
David Balfe returns with ‘Carving the Stone’, the second album to be released under his For Those I Love moniker. While the debut self-titled record offered meditations on grief and loss following the death of his best friend, this record finds David focusing on life in working-class communities, familial life and how Irish capitalism is…
Swaggering superstar-in-waiting De’Wayne releases his third album, ‘June’, via Fearless Records today (30 July, 2025). There’s no messing around with this record, opener ‘Lady Lady’ combining Aerosmith-style hooks with copious amounts of funk and one-liners about his love life: ‘Great conversation, I don’t think she’ll be staying’. This is followed by an old-school countdown to…
20 years after their classic debut ‘With Love and Squalor’, We Are Scientists are set to release their ninth album ‘Qualifying Miles’ on 18 July, 2025. With themes of ‘nostalgia, loss and the bittersweet ache of the past’ and inspiration from ’90s guitar rock bands, the record finds the duo in introspective and reflective mood.…
With a weather forecast in the 30s and a fully stacked line-up, it was clear 2000trees Festival 2025 was going to be a scorcher. Amidst the backdrop of a world in turmoil – something the vast majority of acts were keen to acknowledge – this year’s festival was needed for the whole community that calls…
There are even more reasons to be excited about The Maccabees’ upcoming show at All Points East in Victoria Park, London on Sunday 24 August, 2025. Not only will you get to see the headliners and CMAT following their triumphant Glastonbury appearances, but now the Radio X Presents YALA! Records Stage has added even more…
Kalamazoo, MI emo-rockers saturdays at your place have shared new song ‘Waste Away’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘these things happen’ on 12 September. The video was co-directed by Michael Herrick and Hot Mulligan vocalist Tades Sanville, who also makes a cameo in it. Clocking in at just over three minutes, the song…
Shame have shared new single ‘Quiet Life’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Cutthroat’ – an album ‘about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of them around right now’ – on 5 September via Dead Oceans. ‘Quiet Life’ is a rockabilly punk song about someone who’s in a…
Trout has shared new single ‘Bone’, the artist’s first new material since her debut EP ‘Colourpicker’ in 2023. Written following a move from Liverpool to the south coast, the song finds Trout in reflective mode as she faces up to past mistakes and quietly yearns for a change -all against scuzzy, grungey guitars that fall…
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