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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 ...

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 ...

The album that will see her make the leap from cult country-pop favourite to bona fide star.

This debut solo record from Sydney Minsky Sargeant might represent the most dramatic change of pace by an artist all year, the frontman of doomy dark electronica merchants Working Men’s Club swapping ...

Not content with releasing one of the year’s biggest albums - seventh LP ‘MAYHEM’, obvs - Lady Gaga has now treated us to an early Halloween banger in the form of new track ‘The Dead Dance’. Just like ...