The 1975 are planning some “very very small shows”
It looks like the band will return to the stage prior to their UK arena tour next year.
8th October 2018
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8th October 2018
7th October 2018
In Full Colour: MNEK
Stepping out of the shadows of his world-beating collaborations, MNEK’s debut album is set to see him truly arrive as a superstar in his own right.
7th October 2018
Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and Chvrches bring the hits to TRNSMT 2018
Liam Gallagher, Pale Waves and The Xcerts also shine over two sunny weekends in Glasgow.
7th October 2018
5th October 2018
Human after all: Robyn
After eight years away, Robyn is returning as one of pop’s modern icons with new album ‘Honey’, no longer content with running head first through heartbreak but searching for a deeper connection.
5th October 2018
Drenge — Autonomy
4 Stars
By all means, this is straight up riff-rock, but with each release, Drenge add an additional element of gloom.
5th October 2018
Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
4 Stars
As beautiful as it is disarming.
5th October 2018
Swearin’ — Fall Into The Sun
4 Stars
The best Swearin’ record yet.
5th October 2018
Cat Power — Wanderer
4 Stars
An essential compass for finding your way through the dark.
5th October 2018
Estrons — You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough
4 Stars
It shouldn’t be made to look quite this easy.
5th October 2018
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4 Stars
A comprehensive collection of everything the band do so well.
5th October 2018
Cursive — Vitriola
4 Stars
A razor-sharp lament of America in 2018.
5th October 2018
You Me At Six — VI
4 Stars
It may not have the depth of some of their counterparts, but it easily makes up for it with refreshing, confident fun.
5th October 2018
Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
4 Stars
Her stories worm their way into your consciousness immediately.
5th October 2018
Steady Holiday — Nobody’s Watching
3 Stars
Both otherworldly and unsettling.
5th October 2018
Petite Noir — La Maison Noir / The Black House
3 Stars
The lack of variety means that, by the end, you may feel slightly bludgeoned by it all.
5th October 2018
Johnny Hostile — (dys)function
3 Stars
Every track is cut from the same cloth.
5th October 2018
Connan Mockasin — Jassbusters
3 Stars
The album of a musician who knows what he wants and more importantly how to get it.
5th October 2018
Bastille add further dates to UK & Ireland tour
New shows in Birmingham, London, Glasgow and Manchester have been added to the 2019 run due to demand.
5th October 2018
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan share ‘1999’
Time to go back to the 20th century, folks.
5th October 2018
Sigrid shares the huge ‘Sucker Punch’
The track follows her recent EP ‘Raw’.
5th October 2018
Watch Alex Turner joining Miles Kane on stage in Paris
Miles is currently on tour behind this year’s ‘Coup De Grace’.
5th October 2018
Hear Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar’s new track ‘Tints’
The track’s lifted from the former’s upcoming LP ‘Oxnard’.
5th October 2018
Anteros announce debut album ‘When We Land’
The record — out next March via Distiller — is being previewed by new single ‘Ordinary Girl’, and we chatted to Laura Hayden all about it!
5th October 2018
Tracks: Sigrid, Charli XCX ft Troye Sivan, Anderson .Paak ft Kendrick Lamar & more
All the biggest and best tracks of the week, rounded up and reviewed.
5th October 2018
The new issue of DIY — ft Robyn, MØ, John Grant and Fucked Up — is out now!
DIY is free — pick up a copy in our usual, beloved UK stockists or read for free online.
5th October 2018
OUTLYA make huge pop tunes to lose yourself to
Still in their infancy but already possessing an arsenal of pop belters that could headline festivals, OUTLYA are onto something very big indeed.
5th October 2018
Courtney Barnett shares new track ‘Small Talk’
The song was recorded as part of the ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ sessions.
5th October 2018
4th October 2018
Basement release new track ‘Be Here Now’
It’s taken from the band’s upcoming album ‘Beside Myself’
4th October 2018
Skepta announces two London shows
The rapper will come to Printworks in December.
4th October 2018
George Ezra announces new 2019 live dates
He’s just announced three new huge shows in Cork, Dublin and Belfast.
4th October 2018
Little Simz stages a dance-off in energetic new video for ‘Offence’
The rapper returned with the new track last month.
4th October 2018
Jessie Ware shares new single ‘Overtime’
The track is a return to her “early days”, says Jessie.
4th October 2018
Dream Wife have announced who has been selected to support them on their upcoming tour
The band put out an open call for female and non-binary support artists back in July.
4th October 2018
Swimming Girls conjure up another indie banger on ‘Beneath You’
The Bristol band are currently on a UK tour in support of Pale Waves.
4th October 2018
Iceland Airwaves announces final additions to 2018 line-up
The Rhythm Method, Team Dreams, Fufanu and more will join previously announced artists such as Blood Orange, Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail.
4th October 2018
ALMA talks festival season, her stage show & Eurosonic Noorderslag
We also spoke to her about her involvement in Eurosonic’s European Talent Exchange Programme.
4th October 2018
Kate Bush is to release remastered versions of her studio albums for the first time
The catalogue will include all of her studio albums, as well as cover versions and rarities.
4th October 2018
Watch Arctic Monkeys bring ‘One Point Perspective’ to the telly
The band played the new track on James Corden’s Late Late Show
4th October 2018
Mumford & Sons announce world arena tour
The band are heading out on sixty dates over the next few months!
4th October 2018
Kurt Vile releases new single ‘One Trick Ponies’
The musician’s new album ‘Bottle It Up’ is out next week.
4th October 2018
3rd October 2018
Para Alta’s new single ‘Turn The Lights Out’ is a brilliant rush of blood
The band are releasing a compilation called ‘Greatest Hits 2016 – 2019’ next March via Kissability.
3rd October 2018
Fontaines DC, Squid, Pip Blom & more to play The Great Escape’s First Fifty
The Brighton festival will once again be launching next year’s event with a series of shows in East London next month.
3rd October 2018
St Vincent announces ‘MassEducation’, a stripped down reimagining of ‘MASSEDUCTION’
The record is out next week(!) and being previewed by a new version of ‘Savior’.
3rd October 2018
Thom Yorke shares new track ‘Has Ended’
It’s the latest preview of his ‘Suspiria’ film soundtrack.
3rd October 2018
SOAK returns with new single and live dates
‘Everybody Loves You’ is the first preview of a new album(!).
3rd October 2018
The National recreate their ‘Dark Side Of The Gym’ video on Fallon
The band were joined by dancers while bringing ‘Sleep Well Beast’ to the telly.
3rd October 2018
Phoebe Bridgers shares deluxe version of ‘Stranger In The Alps’, shares Tom Petty cover
The record came out last year via Dead Oceans, and includes her version of ‘It’ll All Work Out’.
3rd October 2018
Dilly Dally announce UK/European tour dates, share ‘Doom’ video
The band’s new album ‘Heaven’ will be taken on an early 2019 jaunt.
3rd October 2018
Miles Kane shares ‘Killing The Joke’ video
The black and white clip comes ahead of a huge UK tour.
3rd October 2018
Brighton venue Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar to close
“There are far too many issues that cannot be resolved to make carrying on viable,” they say in a statement.
3rd October 2018
John Grant shares new single ‘Is He Strange’ and performs ‘He’s Got His Mother’s Hips’ on Jools Holland
The singer’s new album ‘Love Is Magic’ is out next week.
3rd October 2018
Mellah - What It Is
Liam’s voice is thrust to the front, and given a cleaner expression: it’s one he uses to hammer home a vital message.
3rd October 2018
Julia Jacklin returns with new single ‘Body’ and UK dates
The new track also comes complete with its own video.
3rd October 2018
Riz MC (Riz Ahmed) shares new track ‘Mogambo’
The track comes along with a stunning new video.
3rd October 2018
Jockstrap — Joy
The first track and video from the London duo’s upcoming debut mini-album are unsettling in the best way.
3rd October 2018
Thom Yorke talks politics and ‘Suspiria’ soundtrack in new interview
The Radiohead frontman sat down with Matt Everitt on BBC 6 Music.
3rd October 2018
2nd October 2018
Ride announce 30th anniversary acoustic shows
The band will play a series of small shows later this year.
2nd October 2018
Get To Know… Tamino
The Antwerp-based singer has collaborated with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on his delicate, soaring debut EP ‘Habibi’.
2nd October 2018
Manchester’s Big Society melt the sleazy and the tender together on debut single ‘17’
The four-piece’s first impression is today’s Neu Pick.
2nd October 2018
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan announce new duet ‘1999’!
The pop collaboration of our dreams, tbh.
2nd October 2018
Sharon Van Etten returns with ‘Comeback Kid’ from new album ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’
The new record comes out in January via Jagjaguwar.
2nd October 2018
Titus Andronicus release surprise new EP ‘Home Alone On Halloween’
It features a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Only a Hobo’ and a reimagining of ‘Home Alone’
2nd October 2018
Robyn covers the October issue of DIY, out this Friday
Also in the new mag are MØ, John Grant, Fucked Up, Basement and alt‑J.
2nd October 2018
“I can’t be writing sad love songs for the rest of my life” — Robyn talks changing herself on ‘Honey’
The singer appears on the cover of the October issue of DIY, out Friday (5th October).
2nd October 2018
Phosphorescent shares ‘C’est La Vie No. 2’
It’s the title-track from Matthew Houck’s new album.
2nd October 2018
LIFE share new track ‘Niceties’, recorded as part of Jäger Curtain Call 2018
The Hull quartet play at Manchester’s Night and Day Cafe this Thursday.
2nd October 2018
Watch The Breeders’ new Richard Ayoade-directed video for ‘Spacewoman’
The track is lifted from this year’s ‘All Nerve’ LP.
2nd October 2018
1st October 2018
The Japanese House announces headline UK tour
Amber Bain is heading on the road this November!
1st October 2018
Bastille announce intimate UK & Ireland tour
The early 2019 haunt will preview songs from the band’s third album.
1st October 2018
Surprise! Kero Kero Bonito have released new album ‘Time’n’Place’
The new record follows the trio’s ‘TOTEP’ EP from earlier this year.
1st October 2018
Brockhampton land US number one album with ‘iridescence’
The band have also shared short new song ‘Bankroll’.
1st October 2018
Oscar shares new track ‘Runaway’
The new cut follows comeback single ‘1UP’, released earlier this year.
1st October 2018
Go inside the studio with LIFE ahead of their Jäger Curtain Call show in Manchester this week
The band will be unveiling a new track recorded for the programme tomorrow!
1st October 2018
Wolf Alice, The Vaccines, Interpol and more are headed to Hong Kong’s Clockenflap Festival
David Byrne, Shame and Alvvays are also headed to Asia next month.
1st October 2018
Orri Páll Dyrason leaves Sigur Rós following sexual assault allegation
The drummer announced his resignation in a Facebook post, which the band have confirmed in their own post.
1st October 2018
Yowl and Drahla lead the charge for a feral first night of Hello 2018
Crewel Intentions, Hotel Lux and Sistertalk opened up our new band knees-up
1st October 2018
Looking back on Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled debut album
Spiky, sexy and impossibly exciting, Franz Ferdinand’s art rock debut slinked its way to the top of the mid-’00s pile with the aim of “making music for girls to dance to”.
1st October 2018
Swimming Tapes share new single ‘Easy Strand’
It’s the band’s first new music of 2018.
1st October 2018
28th September 2018
Hippo Campus — Bambi
3 Stars
The Minnesotan four-piece’s reaction to these times is like many others’ — confused and anxious.
28th September 2018
Bondax — Revolve
2 Stars
For something that has the promise of hitting bullseye, too many of the darts miss the board entirely.
28th September 2018
Doe — Grow Into It
4 Stars
The riffs are catchier, the heavy parts even more crushing, and the drum parts are wonderfully intricate.
28th September 2018
Mini Mansions — Works Every Time
3 Stars
It suggests that the trio’s next full-length should be anything but lacking in ideas.
28th September 2018
Amber Arcades - European Heartbreak
3 Stars
Nostalgic for a dream.
28th September 2018
The Joy Formidable — AAARTH
4 Stars
An album of compositional daring and fierce experimentation.
28th September 2018
alt‑J discuss new album ‘Reduxer’: “Music fans are a lot more open now”
Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton spoke to us about their new remix album for our forthcoming October issue.
28th September 2018
Fucked Up share two new songs, ‘Dose Your Dreams’ and ‘Accelerate’
The band’s new album is out in just a week!
28th September 2018
St Vincent welcomes a ‘Slow Slow Disco’
A new piano-based version of the ‘MASSEDUCTION’ closer follows the recent ‘Fast Slow Disco’.
28th September 2018
Brockhampton mingle with the crowd in ‘New Orleans’ video
Another ‘iridescence’ visual is here!
28th September 2018
Juanita Stein announces UK tour
The Howling Bells frontwoman turned solo artist will play seven shows this November.
28th September 2018
Yellow Days shares new single ‘How Can I Love You?’
George van den Broek is back with his first track in 6 months.
28th September 2018
The Japanese House — Lilo
There’s an unavoidable sense of serenity to the track, fuelled both by the continually assured sound of her music, and her new start in life.
28th September 2018
Tracks: The Japanese House, Robyn, Westerman, Yaeji & more
All the biggest and best tracks of the week, rounded up and reviewed.
28th September 2018
27th September 2018
The Japanese House returns with ‘Lilo’
Amber Bain’s new single follows last year’s ‘Saw You In A Dream’ EP.
27th September 2018
Peakes mix minimal ambience and emotive tenderness on ‘Still Life’
It’s an engaging reflection on isolation and introversion.
27th September 2018
Watch LCD Soundsystem’s new ‘Oh Baby’ video
The clip was previously a TIDAL exclusive.
27th September 2018
R.E.M. release 2004 recording of ‘E‑Bow The Letter’ ft Thom Yorke
The Radiohead man stepped in for Patti Smith on the song for the band’s show at St James’ Church in London.
27th September 2018
King Nun share ‘Family Portrait’ video
The band’s new EP ‘I Have Love’ is out in November via Dirty Hit.
27th September 2018
Robyn shares ‘Honey’
The long-awaited title track of her new album is here!
27th September 2018
Get To Know… Viagra Boys
The Stockholm punks release their debut album ‘Street Worms’ tomorrow (28th September).
27th September 2018
Neu Recommended (No Rome, Italia 90, Squid & more)
Our monthly guide of the buzziest new acts around.
27th September 2018