
Camera Obscura announce long-awaited 2024 UK tour
After a decade-long hiatus, Camera Obscura returns to the music scene with a UK tour in 2024, promising new music and nostalgic nights.
After a decade-long hiatus, Camera Obscura returns to the music scene with a UK tour in 2024, promising new music and nostalgic nights.
★★★★☆ Genre-bending psych outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard engage an arsenal of synthesisers for their 25th studio album, leaving their comfort zone for a galactic robo-rave.
The Velvet Hands, the London-based Cornish quintet, have reemerged with an extended edition of their second album Sucker Punch.
Post-punk band The The is set for a 2024 UK headline tour, with performances in Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, London, and Manchester.
The perfect antidote to the end of summer slump, it’s the perfect time to get to know Life Aquatic Band. We sat down with Ben for the low-down…
Following their June release, Australian rock outfit King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are set to deliver their 25th album, The Silver Cord, in October.
★★★☆☆
Josh Kiszka’s vocals are Greta Van Fleet’s prized possession on the Michigan rocker’s third studio album Starcatcher.
One gig-goer tells a tale of two shows, almost twenty years apart, from the plucky New Jersey band Screaming Females, and asks: what keeps a band persevering after all these years?
After a handful of EPs and smattering of singles, Nottingham band Do Nothing are on the verge of dropping their debut album, Snake Sideways. An impressive, pensive record, in many ways it’s an album about making an album. We speak to the band’s lead singer and lyricist, Chris Bailey, to discover more.
Upon the release of the first part of their endearing animated musical album, we speak to Rare Americans frontman James Priestner.
The Goa Express have at long last announced their debut album, with the self-titled record set to arrive in October.
With a new EP, Not The Baby, out now, we speak to Louise and Kristin, about how Prima Queen formed as a band, their mammoth touring efforts and their love of service stations – especially new ones.
This goth-pop quartet used Ouija boards and seances to write their new debut album. Matt Mills interviews bassist Benjamin Mainwaring and explores the Welshmen’s obsession with the paranormal, as part of our series on emerging acts.
With their new album, The Seventh Sun, out now, Emma Wilkes speaks to Bury Tomorrow frontman Dani Winter-Bates about how the Southampton metallers went from the brink of calling it a day to becoming a rejuvenated outfit.
★★★★☆
Dry Cleaning brought their strange, surreal and often sublime sound to the Roundhouse – where they’d even put a real-life Gary Ashby on the guestlist.
Ahead of their new album, From Nothing To A Little Bit More – the follow-up to their chart-topping debut – we speak to The Lathums’ lead singer Alex Moore about their biggest headline show to-date, song-writing and a special voice-note from Brandon Flowers.
We speak to frontman Rob about how the band came together thanks to his dad’s job in a coffin factory, developing their live shows and their second EP, One Shade Darker, set for release this week.
Irish outfit M(h)aol are fresh from releasing their debut album, Attachment Styles, earlier this month; a bristling record that’s as direct lyrically as you’d want (and expect) from a feminist punk band.
★★★★★
Toronto rock paragons Metric embraced avant-garde synthpop on 2022’s Formentera. During their supporting tour (and first UK run in half a decade), Emily Haines et al. match the ambition of their album with a two-hour career retrospective stuffed with hooks.
Pop-rock outfit Panic! at the Disco have announced they’ll call it quits after their forthcoming European tour.
Manchester outfit The Courteneers have bagged their first ever UK number one album, setting a new record for the time taken between an album’s release and it topping the charts.
★★★★☆
Released fully independently, The Reytons’ second album, What’s Rock and Roll?, might be imitative of others in parts, but has plenty of guitar-heavy strength in its own right, writes Greg Wetherall.
You Me At Six have announced the postponement of their forthcoming album, Truth Decay, “due to vinyl production issues”.
Alan Rankine, guitarist, producer and co-founder of the Scottish band The Associates, has died aged 64.
The Twang’s lead singer Phil Etheridge chats Birmingham’s influence on their music, Mike Skinner and The Streets, watching American Pie to calm down, and not wanting to become a washed-up pisshead in the corner of the pub talking about the good ol’ days.
White Lung's first album in six years seems set to be their last. If this sadly proves to be the case, it's a terrific way to bow out. Find our Premonition review below.
It’s been a wild ride for the beloved Welsh rock band Trampolene. Growing through genres and band names, they've managed to stay together and now, they're talking about it.
A new documentary premiering at Raindance Film Festival this week, Fall To Pieces, not only explores the rapid rise and capitulation of Razorlight, but also plays something of an active role in their recent reunion.
A little over a month from the release of their debut album Sugar Daddy, we went for a beer with south London duo Scrounge.
With their debut full-length album out now via esteemed label Dirty Hit, I Love To Lie, we speak to the pair about the Atlanta scene they developed in, working with respected producer Catherine Marks, and life on the road.