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Long-time readers will have heard of Bushbaby. We frequently encountered them playing live up and down the country alongside greats […]

I absolutely love Chvrches. They have been on my radar since ‘Gun’ and they have quickly gained a respect amongst […]

Treading Water is the first release from The Dead Love in a year. It’s a collection of two songs, ‘Pulling […]

Can you save me from myself? So it starts as Old Neon conjure the feels in their latest single, ‘Save […]

Dropping just in time for her UK and European tour, ‘Boom’ is a frantic and explosive track from Cassyette that […]

Lahey is releasing their third album, The Answer Is Always Yes, in May 2023, and out of the ten songs, we can already listen to three. Spoilers alert, all three are worth your time!

I’m back with a new (gar)batch of music but this time, I’ve decided to leave the team out because they’ve been mostly either pulling sickies or going on holidays.

It’s not often you hit play on a song and immediately imagine it being performed alongside the legendary Jools Holland […]

Royal & the Serpent lands at the heavier end of edgy pop-punk, close to the crossover with metalcore. The sweet […]

Aided and abetted by Ethan Ross, the heavy-hitting ‘Do Or Die’ with scratching, synth, MC-ing, and viscerally emotional vocals is […]

Taken from forthcoming long-player, The Price of Progress, ‘Sideways Skull’ is a great fuzzy slice of Minnesota’s alt-rock legends, The […]

This is an instant classic from Stand Atlantic. ‘kill[h]er’ chugs, splashes, and rocks its way straight onto my playlist with […]

Matt Pless delivers a folk-country song with warm-hearted cheeky humour in ‘Thirst Trap (Smash Your Like Button)’. It all starts […]

Released two weeks apart, Martyn J Collins has given us two distinctive songs. Let’s start with the most recent of […]

Rachel Chinouriri has an amazing voice, and ‘Maybe I’m Lonely’ is a great demonstration. This song vibrates with shimmering emotion, […]

Every time Magnolia Park surfaces on our playlist, we talk about how great they are. Baku’s Revenge is their second […]

Twenty-five years after his debut album, James Tristan Redding has lived through panic attacks, Lyme disease, Covid, salmonella, a breakup, […]

In this fourth instalment of the Banyard and Mingle mysteries, Seraph of the Sallow Grove, it starts strong. Within a […]

Starting with a solid EMO riff, Old Neon’s latest single, ‘Autum’, morphs into a fast-paced nod to punk revival. In […]

Die So Fluid are gradually working their way towards an EP or album, and ‘We Are The Virus’ is the […]

Some English-speaking folks tend to shy away from songs written in another language, but The Mono Jacks could be your […]

Candi Carpenter’s single ‘Exorcist’ is an acoustic storytelling masterpiece. There’s much to unpack in this single, but let’s start with […]

Bleach Lab hail from Buckinghamshire originally, though I believe they are now based in South London. However, they have a […]

Arriving on January 6th, Contact is the second long-player from Engines Made From Soup, following up on their 2020 release, […]