Waxahatchee: Let The Light In

On her sixth album ​‘Tigers Blood’, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield is distancing herself from her demons and embracing home in all its forms.

20th March 2024

Cosmorat: “Even if something really bad is going on, it’s still okay to go out with your friends and forget it”

The genre-hopping transatlantic trio, gooping their way to the top of this year’s must-see new live acts.

15th March 2024

Another Sky: How The Light Gets In

Upon the release of their second album ​‘Beach Day’, the band’s Catrin Vincent talks us through the anger, hurt and challenges that fed into the record, and the glimpses of hope they’ve felt as a result.

14th March 2024

Caity Baser: Life Lessons

Putting sassiness and self-worth firmly back on the pop menu, Caity Baser might still be a student in the school of life, but on new mixtape ​‘Still Learning’, she’s thriving.

12th March 2024

Women and Equalities Committee Misogyny in Music Report: What Comes Next?

We gathered a group of artists and industry professionals for a conversation about what they hope could be the next steps in addressing misogyny in music.

8th March 2024

Everything Everything: Human/Kind

Over the course of six albums, Everything Everything have confirmed their position as art-rock’s premier futurists. However for their seventh trick, ​‘Mountainhead’ sees the band retreating from the technological precipice and seeking (relative) simplicity.

7th March 2024

Green Day: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

The original daft punks are back with their 14th studio album ​‘Saviors’ and a renewed fire in their bellies. Lighting the torch paper once more to set the modern political landscape ablaze, there’s no band who do it quite like Green Day.

4th March 2024

Get To Know… EFÉ

The buzzy indie-pop aficionado who’s set to take 2024 by storm — her way.

28th February 2024

Bob Vylan: “This album is a lot more inspiring and hopeful”

We catch up with the powerful punk duo ahead of the release of their empowering new LP, ​‘Humble As The Sun’.

27th February 2024

SPIDER: “What feels authentic to me is telling [haters] to go fuck themselves”

Meet the fun but fearless artist, dead-set on creating more space for Black, female creatives in alternative music.

26th February 2024

Rachel Chinouriri: “I hope listeners feel a weight lifted off their shoulders”

Excavating trauma through the medium of indie-pop earworms, the London singer’s debut is set to be a multi-faceted, star-making turn.

23rd February 2024

MGMT: A Golden Age

With a new generation of listeners tuned into their next moves, MGMT are relishing the moment with an album — ​‘Loss Of Life’ — that looks for the light amongst the world’s darkness.

22nd February 2024

Remi Wolf: “I will always just do what I want; I don’t think I will ever conform”

Striding out onto the arenas of the world in support of musical juggernauts Paramore and Olivia Rodrigo, Remi is roadtesting an ambitious second record in equally massive fashion.

20th February 2024

serpentwithfeet: Let’s Get Physical

An album that prioritises intimacy and human sensation, ​‘GRIP’ finds serpentwithfeet simultaneously softer and stronger than ever.

19th February 2024

Lambrini Girls: “It’s about making people question themselves - I wanna piss some people off”

The modern successors to X‑Ray Spex, Lambrini Girls are on a mission to exorcise society’s demons, one mosh pit at a time.

16th February 2024

Declan McKenna: Beach Boy

With his alt-popstar status firmly cemented, Declan McKenna is spending the next portion of his career bending the term to his own shape. Third album ​‘What Happened To The Beach?’ finds the 25-year-old enjoying ​“creative spontaneity” and a deserved chunk of self-belief.

15th February 2024

Lime Garden: Perfect Harmony

Four mates whose fully-bonded friendship has allowed their band to blossom and evolve, on Lime Garden’s debut album ​‘One More Thing’, no ideas are off limits.

14th February 2024

Letting Off Steam: IDLES

Featuring love songs, crooning and production credits from Nigel Godrich, ​‘TANGK’ is perhaps IDLES’ biggest curveball yet. For LP5, say Joe Talbot and Mark Bowen, they just wanted ​“to be the sun”.

13th February 2024

Crawlers: Strength In Numbers

After a dizzying few years of viral hits, sold out tours and huge festival spots, Liverpool’s Crawlers are finally ready to dive headlong into their ambitious, heady next chapter. It’s time to join them for the ride.

8th February 2024

Holly Macve: “I’ve always been scared by the passing of time, but now I’m embracing it”

With her star on the rise, we talk to Holly Macve about how she met Lana, the suburban house that inspired it all, and living in between wall-to-wall Elvis memorabilia.

2nd February 2024

Marika Hackman: “That’s so much of what I explore - the stuff that unites us, even in its ugliness”

It’s been five years and one pandemic since her last studio album, and Marika Hackman has had a lot on her mind. Reflective, immersive, and — as ever — deeply personal, ​‘Big Sigh’ is the sound of an artist getting it all off her chest.

17th January 2024

Bill Ryder-Jones on expansive new album ‘Iechyd Da’: “It isn’t necessarily upbeat, but it’s a version of hope”

Featuring string sections and a kids’ choir, the Wirral songwriter’s fifth solo LP marks his most ambitious yet.

12th January 2024

The Vaccines on sixth LP ‘Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations’: “Whatever you may think of us, I don’t think you could accuse us of running out of ideas”

Frontman Justin Young is digging deep into the confusions of adulthood on the indie stalwarts’ latest.

10th January 2024

Gossip: Power Surge

Returning with a new single and album — this year’s ​‘Real Power’ — that marks their first as a band since 2012, Gossip are injecting a super-charged shot of big-hearted humanity into the world once more…

5th January 2024