Bob Vylan, the most important band in the country, have shared new single ‘Hunger Games’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Humble as the Sun’ on 5 April. Bobby Vylan says: ‘’Hunger Games’ is like a rallying cry for everybody that’s sick of suffering due this economic crisis that we’re living with.’ Opening with…
The Lemon Twigs have shared brand new single ‘My Golden Years’. A song about ‘making every minute count and living up to your potential’, it’s a jangly and breezy three minutes that recalls The Band or Love with its freewheeling harmonies, irresistible sense of nostalgia and self-confidence pep talk: ‘I know of only I try…
With parenthood, redundancy, job hunting, a very busy new job and a steam-powered laptop all taking up time, we’ve not been able to post anywhere near as much as we’d like to throughout 2023 – but we still love music and what’s December without some Top 5s. Here is five of our favourite tracks of…
As mentioned in our Top 5 Songs of 2023 post, there are a number of reasons why we haven’t posted as much as we’d like over the past 12 months – and these equally apply to our lack of gigs. We did still make it to a few unforgettable shows though – here are our…
Five years ago, Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia were strangers meeting for the first time but it didn’t take long for these two talented artists to form a bond and write the ‘Among Horses III*’. 15 million streams later and the duo have reunited to write a new single each to celebrate the anniversary of…
‘In many cultures children born with a dominant left hand were taught not to use that hand, and were told that using the right hand was ‘normal’ and ‘correct.’ Similarly, queer children are often times told that it’s not ‘normal’ for them to love who they love and that they need to change’. ‘Left Hand’,…
Written collaboratively from start to finish in Seattle, ‘The Window’ is the fourth album from Chicago’s Ratboys – and it finds the four-piece ruminating on love and grief. ‘Making Noise for the Ones You Love’ opens the album with a burst of intense feedback and pulsating drums that recall Deerhunter or The Walkmen. Julia Steiner’s…
There have been a lot of changes in The Xcerts’ camp over the past few years… A change of label, management and other personal and global challenges have made the release of their fifth album ‘Learning How to Live and Let Go’ a triumph in itself. Seeing it as a cathartic unshackling, the band promise…
Lilts – a collaboration between Wild Pink’s John Ross and Laura Wolf – have shared ‘Dodge Street’, the first single to be taken from their debut EP ‘Waiting Around’ (out on Better Company Records on 13 October). Written ‘about the disappointment of living for someone else’s dreams’, the song found the duo exchanging and tweaking…
Fatherson have returned after fifteen months away with new single ‘Piece of Mind’ – a song that Ross Leighton says combines his love of The Rat Pack with Radiohead in an ‘Ode to friendship and knowing that people have got your back even if you feel like you’ve got ten brains and haven’t figured any…
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