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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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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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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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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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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Textural and atmospheric, Animal Collective’s Deakin and Geologist’s original soundtrack to the 2025 documentary Jetty has just been released by Domino Soundtracks. The soundtrack is available digitally, with a vinyl release set for April 17th. Jetty is a new nonfiction film by Sam Fleischner (Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Wah Do Dem and he also has created music videos…
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Australian alt folk-pop duo Charm of Finches – sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes – are back. Their beguiling new single is called Meteor, the first of a series of planned releases over the coming months that will form their highly anticipated fifth album. Inspired by the powerful forces of nature that reflect a tumultuous inner world,…
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Pitchfork Music Festival London ended on Saturday with Dalston Takeover. This was an incredibly diverse showcase of primarily US artists, encompassing a wide mix of genres. One minute you’re sitting in Earth Hackney’s beautiful theatre watching dreamy shoegaze by Full Body 2, the next you’re in the tranquility of St Matthias Church for the clear-voiced…
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As Halloween morphs into an ever-more garish orgy of plastic spiders, eyeballs and and other assorted landfill, how much more satisfying it is to turn to its more ancient and spiritual side. Samhain, the ancient Gaelic festival, marks the end of the Celtic year, it’s a time when ‘the veil between the supernatural and the physical…
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Wet Leg fans – we have news. They have announced their biggest headline shows to date, performing at iconic outdoor venues in Manchester, Leeds and London in July 2026, with special guests English Teacher. The three-date run begins at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl on 8th July, followed by Leeds Millenium Square on the 9th, concluding at London’s Alexandra Palace Park on 10th July. Tickets go on…
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