‘Death Hilarious’ is a battle-ready hammer throw of a fifth album from Pigs x7. Lifting off with G-force rocket speed, opener ‘Blockade’ is a searing tornado of sludgy space rock, Matthew Baty’s Lemmy ...

With a live reputation that precedes them and fingers in just about every slice of pie that the various music scenes in Leeds are cooking up, with ‘Zero Guilt’, Fuzz Lightyear look well poised to ...

Kings of Leon’s fifth record was always going to be the one that defined them. No-one was going to write them off after they changed their sound for ‘Only By The Night’, moving towards slick, polished ...

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Perhaps it’s turned out to be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth, because ‘Double Roses’ feels weirdly half-baked.

After releasing debut single ‘Norwegian Wood’ in 2023, Picture Parlour were met with an immediate cascade of praise - one which even included an endorsement from Courtney Love. Two years later, their ...

After spending over a year off the road, Arlo Parks has announced plans for three very special live shows later this month, billed under the title of “Sonic Exploration”. The singer, who released her ...

Having recently returned with indie earworm ‘easy come, easy go’, Lava La Rue is now back with another new single - entitled ‘JET LAGGED’ - which sees the alt-pop polymath team up with 2000s faves ...

There aren’t too many ways to get straight into the hearts of Team DIY, but launching your career with a KFC-inspired anthem will definitely go a long way towards it. And so, for the better part of ...

Charli xcx has returned with ‘House’, a spectacular sonic left-turn from her ‘BRAT’ era that sees her join forces with none other than John Cale of The Velvet Underground for a dissonant, strings-led ...

The second album is usually a tipping point for a band; a key factor in deciding whether they will go on to flourish and develop or drift off in to obscurity. Fortunately, for Los Angeles quartet The ...