Mar 5

Review: Squeeze release their ‘first’ album Trixies

You can imag­ine the scene. Teenagers Glenn Till­brook and Chris Gif­ford are rif­fling through an old card­board box in the attic. Noth­ing much here… but what’s this? Glenn brush­es a few decade’s worth of dust off a cas­sette, snaps it into the play­er, press­es PLAY… and the years melt away. The two are trans­port­ed back…

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Mar 3

Review: new track Full Moon by Luke James Williams unveiled

All the signs are there that ris­ing folk singer Luke James Williams’ upcom­ing album is going to be some­thing spe­cial. There has already been one release, Hol­lows and Branch­es, from the album so far and tonight Full Moon (out March 3rd) is unveiled… to coin­cide with the full moon – just to make it extra…

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upchuck at pitchfork festival
Feb 24

Upchuck release new track Last Breath plus tour dates

Fero­cious, explo­sive tunes, fuzzy dirty bass and the out-there ball of ener­gy that is the front-woman KT are the hall­marks of riv­et­ing Atlanta out­fit Upchuck. And new track Last Breath is out today.  The Atlanta band – gui­tarists Mikey Durham and Hoff, bassist Ausar Ward, and drummer/vocalist Chris Sal­a­do, now signed to Domi­no, released album I’m Nice Now in autumn, before touring…

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Feb 16

Hiss Golden Messenger lush new single “In The Middle of It”

Hiss Gold­en Mes­sen­ger is the North Car­oli­­na-based project of MC Tay­lor, who unveils his new album I’m Peo­ple, on May 1st via Chrysalis Records. Our first glimpse of the mate­r­i­al is the uplift­ing sin­gle, In The Mid­dle Of It, just released. The “intense­ly human record” injects a much-need­ed note of opti­mism – it’s can only…

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Feb 16

Groove Armada Groovebox, Sheffield. Tickets

Groove­box day raves return to Steel­Yard this April Bank Hol­i­day, we can­not wait to wel­come head­lin­ers GROOVE ARMADA to kick off the sum­mer sea­son! Fri­day 3rd April, at SYSh­effield (Steel Yard), in Sheffield. Plus Andy Wad­low, Eljohno, Mar­tin Beirne, Rudi Josef.  1:00pm til 11:00pm (Last entry 5:00pm)

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Feb 10

Anna Calvi to unveil EP: Is this all there is? featuring Iggy Pop

Anna Calvi’s song­writ­ing is pow­er­ful and pas­sion­ate, while her stage pres­ence is intense and quite inward look­ing. She does­n’t go for dra­mat­ics and audi­ence-pleas­ing dra­mat­ics. She does­n’t need to – those astound­ing vocals — oper­at­ic, unwa­ver­ing, and rich with emo­tion are enough. Beyond the impact of her live per­for­mances, she has been shift­ing her focus…

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Feb 9

IST IST new album Dagger plus upcoming tour

Dag­ger, the fifth album for Ist Ist, was only released last Fri­day, but is already rid­ing high at num­ber 3 in the Offi­cial Charts.  Say IST IST: “So we may or may not be in a chart bat­tle here… we’re very much in the hunt for our first ever Top 20 album and we might…

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crowd shot at dalston takeover 2025
Feb 4

The Indoor Music Festival Guide: Winter-Spring Edition

Here’s our guide to cozy indoor UK music fes­ti­vals up to May. Leave the foul weath­er rag­ing out­side and get all toasty inside your favourite venues with a ver­i­ta­ble feast of music. Hope­ful­ly you’ll find some­thing to float your musi­cal boat and put a spring in your step. And if you know of an event…

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Jan 30

Love to Be…festival launches phase one at The Stray

Tick­ets are fly­ing out for Love to Be… fes­ti­val so get on this! Leg­endary house music brand Love to be… returns to Har­ro­gate on Sat­ur­day 5th Sep­tem­ber 2026 for anoth­er full-scale open-air cel­e­bra­tion at The Stray. Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of pre­vi­ous edi­tions, the fes­ti­val returns with an expand­ed vision, three stages, enhanced pro­duc­tion and a phase…

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