It’s been one long year since The Last Dinner Party’s game-changing debut album, ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’. The world hasn’t yet moved on from earworm ‘Nothing Matters’ and still can’t get enough of Emily ...

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“What do I live for? Who do I live for? I don’t know anymore,” asks Helen Ballantine, aka Skullcrusher, during the opening chimes of her second full-length. Written in the mire of a series of great ...

Featuring The Last Dinner Party, Jay Som, Kojey Radical, Militarie Gun and more.

Following up a Mercury Prize-shortlisted debut album in two years, as Barry Can’t Swim - aka Joshua Mainnie - has done with ‘When Will We Land?’ successor ‘Loner’, is no small feat. But with his ...

In a way, it’s a bit of a shame that Good Neighbours’ debut didn’t land just a couple of weeks earlier, such are the summery vibes that flow through ‘Blue Sky Mentality’. After a truly rapid rise ...

The sound of modern pop, modern love — and heartbreak.

Perhaps unexpectedly for a band whose name was built on an ability to channel a restless anxiety into song, tracks sitting permanently on a knife-edge ready to turn at a moment’s notice, the gut-punch ...

Open’er Festival has confirmed that goth-rock titans The Cure will be topping the bill in 2026, taking to the stage in Gydnia, Poland, next July. The band - fronted by enduring music icon Robert Smith ...

Let’s get this out of the way immediately. Tiny Masters of Today are young. Really young. Good, now that’s sorted let’s take a look at the group’s music. First up on ‘Skeletons’ (the brother/sister ...

The Streets - the musical moniker of Mike Skinner and his band - have announced that they’ll be hitting the road in 2026 for a special eight-date tour around the UK, on which they’ll play iconic 2004 ...

Feminist force to be reckoned with Paris Paloma has shared ‘Good Boy’, an eviscerating exploration of men’s patriarchal complicity, which has arrived accompanied by a striking, star-studded video. If ...