DIY Label Spotlight #8: Sad Club Records
A monthly focus on those crucial cogs in the wonderful new music wheel.
4th August 2025
Interviews
Indigo De Souza: Glass Half Full
Harnessing grace and joy, Indigo De Souza’s fearless fourth album flips uncertainty into opportunity through magical pop sensibilities.
1st August 2025
Folk Bitch Trio: “We love and admire folk music, but we’re not very orthodox or traditional”
Fresh from releasing their debut album ‘Now Would Be A Good Time’, best mates and Aussie exports Folk Bitch Trio are primed and ready for their next adventure.
31st July 2025
The New Eves: “We really try to not put ourselves in any box or genre”
Since dropping their debut single in 2023, Brighton quartet The New Eves have garnered a cult reputation for their delightfully unconventional, discipline-spanning wares. And with debut album ‘The New Eve Is Rising’, the band are broadening their horizons even further.
29th July 2025
Kevin Abstract: Heartbreak Kid
Three years after BROCKHAMPTON’s split, Kevin Abstract is tenderly exploring what self-preservation through grief looks like. His new album, ‘Blush’, is a callback to his Texan roots; a mystical A24-style meditation on surviving heartbreak and the rose-tinted gloss of Hollywood.
28th July 2025
Jessica Winter: Songs Of Innocence And Experience
After over a decade of working in the industry in various different guises and genres, Jessica Winter has finally arrived with her long-awaited solo debut, and it’s a distillation of everything she’s been through so far.
24th July 2025
Nectar Woode: “I don’t want to just make the easy breezy positive songs”
Gearing up to release new EP ‘It’s like I never left’, Nectar Woode is the captivating soul star ready to get deep.
16th July 2025
BIG SPECIAL: “The identities of most cities up and down the UK are seeping away, being replaced by the capital’s standard”
The Black Country pair tell us more about the “strangely isolating” experiences that informed their powerful second album, ‘NATIONAL AVERAGE.’
10th July 2025
Franc Moody: “At festivals, you kind of have to make sure you deliver the best show you can”
Ahead of their slot playing at Lisbon’s NOS Alive festival this weekend, we caught up with the London duo to reflect on their year so far.
10th July 2025
Alessi Rose: “I’m a big venue girl; I feel so at home in an arena”
From headlining 120-capacity venues a year ago to playing Wembley Stadium, Alessi Rose has firmly secured her status as pop’s hottest new It-girl.
7th July 2025
Refused: Death Knell
As the Swedish punk legends prepare to bow out for good, Dennis Lyxzén reflects on the band’s turbulent past, the joy of their present, and why the eternal seeds of their legacy are only just being sown.
3rd July 2025
Garbage: Let The Light In
30 years on from their eponymous debut, Garbage are still a formidable force to be reckoned with. Now, returning with the band’s eighth studio album ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’, Shirley Manson is wielding love as her primary weapon of choice.
24th June 2025
Jacob Alon: Legend Has It
With their unforgettable croon, Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon conjures up dark fairytales and intimate fables — but ‘In Limerence’ is a debut album that’s as much rooted in fact as it is fiction.
23rd June 2025
Cliffords: “We don’t want to be a great Irish band, we want to just be a great band”
One of 2025’s most thrilling new prospects, Cork quartet Cliffords aren’t interested in flash-in-the-pan industry fads — they’re in it for the long haul.
23rd June 2025
Finn Wolfhard: New Horizons
As he rapidly approaches the end of a trajectory-changing chapter in his life, Finn Wolfhard is blowing out the candles on the next with his debut solo album, ‘Happy Birthday’.
19th June 2025
McKinley Dixon: For His Next Trick…
A master of genre-bending, boundary-pushing reinvention, on fifth studio album ‘Magic, Alive!’ McKinley Dixon is casting story-led spells of a different kind.
19th June 2025
Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs For The Dead
Fulfilling a vision that’s been brewing for two decades, QOTSA bassist Michael Shuman and director Thomas Rames discuss stripping things down alongside the Parisian dead for their eerie, one-of-a-kind concert film, Alive In The Catacombs.
18th June 2025
Westside Cowboy: “It’s really important to feel that healthy sense of pushing each other up”
Rapidly climbing the rungs and notching up the wins, Westside Cowboy are the buzzy Britainicana newcomers determined to let down the ladder behind them.
18th June 2025
Sprints: Bring It On
After celebrating debut album ‘Letter To Self’ with 103 shows last year, Dublin quartet Sprints are set to be one of the highlights of 2025’s festival season. With a packed live schedule on the horizon, it’ll double as the perfect opportunity to road test some new material…
17th June 2025
DIY Label Spotlight #7: Big Scary Monsters
A monthly focus on those crucial cogs in the wonderful new music wheel.
16th June 2025
London Grammar: “We want to evolve, but we’re not chasing commercial goals”
The Nottingham-formed trio talk ‘The Greatest Love’, headlining London’s LIDO Festival, and looking ahead.
10th June 2025
ratbag: “I really don’t want to be restricted by anything, in any capacity”
Meet the 21-year-old Auckland multihyphenate who is taking world-building to a whole new level.
3rd June 2025
House Of Protection: “We’re in this for the long haul - we’re going to outrun everyone”
Two EPs into their new joint venture, longtime friends and hardcore veterans Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta are establishing themselves as one of the most versatile, forward-thinking acts in heavy music.
2nd June 2025
Rico Nasty: Killer Instinct
After beginning to feel pigeonholed by internal doubt and industry pressure, Rico Nasty realised she needed to go back to basics and trust her gut: on third album ‘LETHAL’, she’s unearthed the most potent version of herself yet.
29th May 2025
Festival special! Featuring Wolf Alice, Kasabian, Lykke Li, Marmozets, Genesis Owusu and more.