Oct 17

Magnetic Skies ‘Everything’s Alright’ final single before Fragments album release

The long-await­­ed album by dark­wave syn­th­pop supre­mos Mag­net­ic Skies called Frag­ments will be out on 7th Novem­ber. Till then we’ve been lis­ten­ing to sin­gles from the upcom­ing release and the final drop, Every­thing’s Alright is out today. Front man Simon Kent has this to say about the track: “This is the most hope­ful, pos­i­tive track on the album,…

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Oct 15

Sparks first EP ‘Madder’ out now

There seems to be no stop­ping Sparks who have just added to their pro­lif­ic out­put with a new EP called MADDER!, a exten­sion of the recent MAD! album. The Mael broth­ers have described the birth of this new work: “Not want­i­ng the Mad!ness to end and buoyed by the phe­nom­e­nal reac­tion to MAD!, we made…

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besnard lakes
Oct 10

The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation album review

The Besnard Lakes’ pre­vi­ous album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thun­der­storm Warn­ings, was cre­at­ed after the death of the father of Jace Lasek in 2019. The Besnard Lakes’ front man cre­at­ed songs that helped him work through his emo­tions as he explored the dark­ness of death, while search­ing for light and…

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jaime-rosso
Oct 3

“Frames” – the soulful single from Jaime Rosso’s EP “Away”

Mar­­gate-based elec­tron­ic artist and pro­duc­er, Jaime Rosso has announced his debut four-track EP Away – due for release on Novem­ber 7th via Domi­no.  He has just released the sec­ond num­ber Frames as a sin­gle. The track radi­ates a breezy, coastal ener­gy, no doubt influ­enced by his Mar­gate back­ground. It’s a soul­ful piece, dri­ven by slinky bass notes that send a…

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Oct 1

Bearded Theory festival 2026… tickets on 4th release

Tick­ets for Beard­ed The­o­ry 2026 are fly­ing out super fast this year. So if you’re think­ing about it I’d advise you to say yes! pron­to, to the friend­liest fest out there and nab those tick­ets now. There’s more pres­sure than ever this year on fes­ti­val tick­ets, in part due to Glas­ton­bury’s upcom­ing fal­low year. Beard­ed Theory…

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PETER-PERRETT
Sep 26

Peter Perrett shares new David Holmes remix and tours UK

The track in ques­tion is WMG/WMD – a remix by David Holmes, with that riff giv­en a scuzzy qual­i­ty, com­bin­ing with Peter Per­ret­t’s dis­tinc­tive care­worn and vul­ner­a­ble vocals. At the end of last year, Peter Per­rett released The Cleans­ing – his third album for Domi­no which fea­tured John­ny Marr, Fontaines D.C.’s Car­los O’Connell and Tom Coll, Bob­by Gille­spie, Dream Wife gui­tarist Alice Go…

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Sep 25

Review: Scaler album ‘Endlessly’

Scaler (for­mer­ly Scalp­ing) have part­ly built their rep­u­ta­tion on intense and immer­sive per­for­mances and while noth­ing could have pre­pared me for that first expe­ri­ence of see­ing them live, I’ve con­tin­ued to be blown away by their raw vis­cer­al ener­gy. They man­age to trans­fer that pow­er to their record­ed out­put too. Debut album Void was released in…

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Sep 9

Mutations Festival 2025: here’s the lineup

Brighton fes­ti­val announces its sev­enth edi­tion of Muta­tions, tak­ing place on Fri­day 7th and Sat­ur­day 8th Novem­ber 2025. There’s an excit­ing mix of estab­lished and new inter­na­tion­al artists, all per­form­ing across nine of the city’s Grass­roots Music Venues. Head­lin­ing this year’s fes­ti­val are – on Fri­day – post-punk quar­tet Dry Clean­ing, fresh from record­ing their third album with…

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Sep 5

Sparks release first song Porcupine from new EP ahead of North American tour

First sin­gle ‘Por­cu­pine’ is released today on Trans­gres­sive and Four-track EP MADDER! will be eleased Octo­ber 3, 2025. ‘Por­cu­pine’ is a song of a guy’s fas­ci­na­tion with a woman who pos­sess­es, shall we say, a prick­ly per­son­al­i­ty, all to a verse with a high­ly infec­tious organ riff that yields to heavy gui­tars in the choruses.…

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