This is the one I’d play first if I could only play one. It’s about something I care about a lot: the moment you start calculating, you ruin things. A hundred-dollar bill waved in your face and ...

Like Roses have taken their influences and run with them. As we’re flung into ‘Nowhere’, the realisation hits; ‘After It Ends’ is the female response to all the whiney pop-punk protagonists who have ...

Moni Jitchell’s live set-up is stark; A drumkit, twelve strings, two amps, two people, one microphone. That’s basically the sound of ‘Aware’. It’s similar to bands like ’68 or Jamie Lenman’s new ...

If we’re going by endorsements alone, Like Roses are the new gold standard. Sleeping With Sirens have deemed the Bay Area pop-punkers to be the perfect tour mates for their next outing, and the New ...

Half the tracks are well known to the growing Unpeople fandom already. We open with the deceptively cute ‘Clouds’ that disintegrates into heavy optimism of the distinctly Britpop variety, and ‘Friends ...

Love Is Noise are exploring a new pathway. ‘The Space Between Happiness And Heartache’ sounds too sure of itself to be a creative experiment. Like Harry, you can be disappointed what the EP isn’t, or ...

The war that Beartooth are winning, however, is one against the haters and the doubters as much as it is against their own demons. In the last two years since Beartooth played London, frontman Caleb ...

You may be wondering why a platform whose coverage is famously centred around punk, hardcore, metal, and emo music is publishing an article on this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. If you’re a frequent reader ...

As the saying goes, there’s no ‘I’ in ‘Team’. Apparently there’s also no ‘U’ in Colorblind, but of course this is the name of a band, and they’re not British. Hailing from Austin, Texas the four-piece ...

Moving on after the exit of an integral band member is never an easy task, but for Mastodon the circumstances were infinitely harder. Five months after their friend and guitarist of twenty-five years ...

There’s an energetic first-day-of-the-main-festival kind of buzz on this sunny day in Walton on Trent. It can only mean one thing – Welcome to Bloodstock Open Air 2026. Tents have been pitched. Huge ...

There are many types of Chelsea Wolfe; the doom folk poet, the goth overlord, the master of all things hypnogogic. Wolfe’s covered a vast landscape of mystery and occultism over the past two decades, ...