Bitters‘ latest single, ‘Loving Me’, provides a gentler take on their sound. Lighter and more plaintive than ‘Stole Your Car’, […]
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If you’ve seen Pale Waves live this year, the opening riff of ‘Jealousy’ is going to be enough to trigger […]
Distant Drums, written by Madu Messenger, tells the story of Reggae Sound System culture through music, visuals, and dance. It […]
With a Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoken intro, Lylyth’s ‘Fight Back’ is an angry and direct response to the US Supreme […]
A neatly assembled genre merge awaits for Willow’s ‘<maybe> it’s my fault’ as it dials up and down the scale. […]
Skunk Anansie are one of those bands that surprise you every time you hear them live. Yes, they really can […]
Get ready for some indie-pop sparkle for Rachel Chinouriri’s excellent summer-haze song ‘All I Ever Asked’. A sweet ‘woo-hoo-hoo’ vocal, […]
Homesick is the second long-player from Sea Girls. Like many recent albums, it was shaped by the lock-down. Based in […]
Playing a festival on home turf, Wet Leg delivered a set worthy of their #1 smash album. We also heard […]
It seems like only 21 minutes ago that the tap was dripping, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip… though […]
Featuring Perfume Genius (Michael Alden Hadreas), Yeah Yeah Yeahs make their return with ‘Spitting Off the Edge of the World’, […]
The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a non-profit organization representing the rights and interests of UK artists has launched a new […]
Rock and roll with a classic swing, playful lyrics, and a steamy lyrics video! The Dan Gootner Band, from Boynton […]
When Beabadoobee released her Space Cadet EP in 2019, we hadn’t developed our sophisticated release alerting and scheduling reminder tool […]
Arriving like the most tingly surprise – a brown package with something delightful inside – ‘Something Loud’ is one of […]
What a slick and driven song Blind Channel have dropped with ‘Don’t Fix Me’! Their signature sound is firing on […]
If there was a resurgence of the werewolf genre in the movie theatres – another wave of Underworld or, perhaps, […]
With increased interest thanks to the courtroom controversy of John Lydon’s attempt to stop Sex Pistols’ music from being used […]
For those unfamiliar with Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw, they are the detective duo of the modern era. Like Holmes […]
As Pale Waves get ready for the release of their third album, Unwanted, on 12th August, ‘Reasons to Live’ arrives […]
There are two important translations of The Mabinogion. Lady Charlotte Guest created translations starting in 1838, which were the main […]
Midnight Mass is a limited series set on an isolated island. The story is set around the dilapidated, but still […]
Quirky alt-pop with a buzzy edge, Lauran Hibberd’s ‘I’m Insecure’ has a stuttery format with a great flowing chorus. You […]
The Sand and Shadows series spins out of the Shelby Nichols series of books and remains close-knit to the original […]