Category: Recommended

Jan 20

Jon Hopkins and Biggi Hilmars release the soundtrack for documentary “Wilding”

Jon Hop­kins and Ice­landic film com­pos­er Big­gi Hilmars dig­i­tal­ly released the sound­track of Wild­ing, via Domi­no Sound­tracks, on 16th Jan­u­ary, and there’s a phys­i­cal release due on April 3rd. The doc­u­men­tary Wild­ing was released in 2024. Wild­ing fol­lows the sto­ry of farm­ers Isabel­la Tree and her hus­band Char­lie Bur­rell, who embarked on an envi­ron­men­tal project aimed at breathing…

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Jan 16

Tessa Rose Jackson: new single ‘Built to Collide’ and album to come

A vibrant new sin­gle has just been released this week by singer-song­writer and com­pos­er Tes­sa Rose Jack­son called Built to Col­lide. The track is out just before her lat­est album called The Light­house drops on 23rd Jan­u­ary. Tes­sa calls it her ‘rant song’, which she describes as “A song about accept­ing that some­times you live…

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Jan 13

Juni Habel releases new track and album Evergreen in Your Mind

There’s a puri­ty and sim­plic­i­ty to the delight­ful track Ever­green In Your Mind, just released as a taster from the upcom­ing album of the same name by Nor­we­gian singer-songr­writer Juni Habel. The album will be released on April 10th on Basin Rock and Koke Plate. It’s a song that man­ages to lift you and project…

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Jan 11

Winter festival guide 2026

Leave the foul weath­er rag­ing out­side and get all toasty inside your favourite venues with a ver­i­ta­ble feast of music. Here’s a list of some of the win­ter (and spring!) festies hap­pen­ing around the coun­try, hope­ful­ly you’ll find some­thing to float your musi­cal boat. And if you know of an event we’ve left off our…

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Dec 24

ENRG Liverpool with IPC, Joy Orbison, Mall Grab, Effy and more

Here’s some­thing you won’t want to miss! Tick­ets have just gone on sale today, Weds 24 Dec and they are fly­ing out, so treat your­self to a last-min Xmas present. IPC, Joy Orbi­son, Mall Grab, Effy, MPH, Saint Ludo & Daisy come to Black­stone St Ware­house for this long-await­­ed event!  It takes place on Sat­ur­day 7th…

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Dec 13

Favourite albums of 2025

This year has pro­duced a boun­ty of rich­es of incred­i­ble vari­ety and wild imag­i­na­tion, com­menc­ing in Jan­u­ary with a top­i­cal­ly suit­able release by Brid­get Hay­den called Cold Blows the Wind, before mov­ing on to the sun­ny sounds of Divorce (if that does­n’t sound too odd). And there’s a bit of a Bru­tal­ist theme going on…

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Dec 8

Trixies – Squeeze new release of earliest songs

Squeeze have just dropped the sec­ond track from upcom­ing album Trix­ies (6th March 2026). Rather than pre­sent­ing us with a set of new songs, Chris Dif­ford and Glenn Tilbrook have wound back the years, dust­ing off a cas­sette of their ear­li­est mate­r­i­al – a con­cept album they wrote and record­ed when Glenn was just 16…

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Dec 3

Wet Leg unveil new video for album track Pokemon

With a strong nar­ra­tive and sat­u­rat­ed colours, up comes the new egg-themed video by Wet Leg for the song Poke­mon. The video was direct­ed by Elliott Arndt of Faux Real – a fre­quent tour sup­port for Wet Leg. It’s a sto­ry about a girl (played by Alice Longyu Gao) in an unusu­al rela­tion­ship with a giant egg,…

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Nov 28

The Maccabees to perform at the Harbourside Ampitheatre, Bristol, 23rd July

For the first time in 14 years, The Mac­cabees return to Bris­tol per­form­ing at the beau­ti­ful Bris­tol Har­bour­side Amphithe­atre for an out­door sum­mer show. Pre­sale tick­ets are already sold out. Pub­lic sale tick­ets sale com­menced Fri 28th Nov 10am – tick­ets are still avail­able. Since The Mac­cabees reunit­ed in 2024, things have been going well them…

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Nov 22

Squeeze announce Tried, Tested and Trixies tour

Tick­ets go on gen­er­al sale Novem­ber 28, 2025 at 09:30. The tour will sup­port grass­roots venues, artists and pro­mot­ers, plus the anti-pover­­ty char­i­ty Trussell Trust. And the new album Trix­ies is set for release March 6, 2026. Fol­low­ing the announce­ment of their new stu­dio album Trix­ies, Squeeze announce the most ambi­tious UK tour of their 50+ year career. Found­ed in…

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