Lime Gardeb have shared new single ’23’ ahead of the release of second album ‘Maybe Not Tonight’ via So Young Records on 10 April, 2026. The band have also announced details of an extensive UK tour in October. Vocalist and guitarist Chloe Howard says the song was ‘born from a dream I had where I…
Now expanded to a five piece, Arcane Roots have made a welcome return with the release of ‘A Wave, Across the Sea’ – the band’s first new music since 2018. Opening with swathes of feedback and gentle but eerie piano that has a touch of Radiohead in it, the song finds guitarist and Andrew Groves…
Tigers Jaw have shared ‘Ghost’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Lost On You’ via Hopeless Records on 27 March, 2026. The song was inspired by a chance run-in with someone vocalist and guitarist Ben Walsh grew up with and how ‘the quick flash of memories with this person felt like a glimpse into…
‘Rainy Day Afternoon’ (out on 19 September, 2025) is the thirteenth album from The Divine Comedy, and it feels luck is in for Neil Hannon following the top five charting of 2019’s album ‘Office Politics’ and blockbuster success of his soundtrack to the Wonka film. Neil has been thinking about mortality, memories, relationships and political…
Transport yourself back to the time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth when The Lost Kingdom tour roars into both Southampton‘s Royal Victoria Country Park (23 August to 7 September) and Manchester‘s Tatton Park (18 October to 8 November). The biggest Jurassic event to come to Britain, it finds the cities hosting over 50 animatronic beasts…
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…
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…
While the sure-to-be triumphant headline sets from Kneecap, PVRIS, Taking Back Sunday and Alexisonfire and long-awaited Upcote Farm debuts from the likes of Million Dead and Letlive capture many of the headlines, one of the best things about 2000trees is the festival’s dedication to smaller or lesser-known acts – this year, they even have BAFTA…
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…
LA-based singer-songwriter Will Paquin has shared new single ‘Hahaha’ ahead of his first shows in the UK and Ireland. Power-pop hooks that have elements of Cake and early Ben Kweller are mixed with the energy of Bleachers as the proudly independent Will talks about unattainable lust – ‘You let me get so close to you,…
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