Ride’s Andy Bell has shared ‘Love Comes in Waves’ ahead of the release of his debut solo album ‘The View From Halfway Down’ on 9 October. Engineered by former Oasis bandmate and mastered by Heba Kadry, Andy says ‘I’ve always wanted to make a solo album, I’ve always said I would do it, although I…
Phoenix have shared ‘Identical’ – their first new material since 2017’s brilliant ‘Ti Amo’ album’. The song features on the soundtrack for Sofia Coppola’s new film ‘On the Rocks’, starring Bill Murray, Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans. The band have also written the score for this film. ‘Identical’ opens with stop-start synth beats before Thomas…
Pillow Queens follow up the success of ‘Handsome Wife’ with ‘Holy Show’. The stirring and spine-tingling new single comes ahead of the release of debut album ‘In Waiting’ on 25 September and you can watch the video, directed by Kate Dolan, below. It’s an emotive, ready-made festival anthem about the insecurities and intimacy that comes…
DIY heroes TV Priest have shared ‘This Island’ ahead of the release of their eagerly awaited debut album ‘Uppers’ on 13 November (Hand in Hive). Entirely self-recorded, it follows 6 Music plays for all of their previous singles and has cover artwork from the band’s frontman Charlie Drinkwater (who also designed the latest Fontaines D.C.…
China Bears have shared new single ‘Statue Still’ and announced details of a show at the Boileroom on 5 March next year (buy your tickets here). Released once again via the legendary Fierce Panda Records, the latest single from the four-piece is all about ‘those initial stages of loss and healing’ and the way that…
2020 is the longest we have gone without live music in almost 20 years. We miss them so much and our hearts go out to everyone in the industry who has been affected (mentally, physically and financially) by the devastation caused by both the pandemic and lack of adequate government support. It’s incredible to think…
London’s Dream Nails had already wowed audiences across the country with their spiky live show and now they’re set to release their debut self-titled album via Alcopop! Records. It’s packed with empowering messages of solidarity and support for the LGBTQ+ scene while also offering an insight into – and a rally against – the daily…
‘An I LIKE TRAINS record doesn’t really start to take shape until there’s a theme’, says the group’s vocalist and lyricist David Martin. ‘That point came following Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks in 2013.’ The band’s new album ‘KOMPROMAT’ (the Russian term for compromising political material) finds the Leeds-based five-piece tackling current affairs and the amount…
Bright Eyes return after a nine-year hiatus with the brilliantly titled new album ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’. The past (almost) decade has seen a huge amount of upheaval on a global and personal scale for Conor Oberst and this record focuses on the profoundness of mortality, broken relationships and grief.…
Leeds-based Magick Mountain have shared new single ‘Infinity X2’ ahead of the the release of their debut album ‘Weird Feelings’ on 23 October. The trio, made up of Lins Wilson (Grammatics), Tom Hudson (Pulled Apart By Horses) and Nestor Matthews (Sky Larkin) make a fuzzy, addictive noise that recalls Fugazi, but with a psychedlic side…
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