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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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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Green Man 2025 photo gallery and mini review

We gath­ered once again at Glanusk Park in the beau­ti­ful moun­tains of the Bre­con Bea­cons for Green Man – one of our favourite fes­ti­vals of the year. Here’s a lit­tle roundup of our high­lights. Thurs­day opened with a mini line­up that includ­ed W H Lung, mak­ing their sec­ond appear­ance at Green Man. It was a…

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