Interviews

Wake up call: Two Door Cinema Club

When Two Door Cinema Club returned from the brink with 2016’s ‘Gameshow’, it was sink or swim. Now, they’re ready to float right to the top of the pack with their most experimental album yet.

22nd May 2019

Back Like Eight Track: Avey Tare

With new album ‘Cows on Hourglass Pond’, Dave Portner proves just how effective you can be when you keep things simple.

21st May 2019

Get to know… Haze

The Bristol newcomers mix ramshackle punk with incisive lyrics.

15th May 2019

Unite and conquer: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Over the last five years, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have blazed a cathartic trail across the world. As they release third album ‘End of Suffering’, they dig deep for the sake of sparking hope.

14th May 2019

Anarchy In The UK: slowthai

How slowthai became the mouthpiece for young broken Britain.

10th May 2019

Back In The Club: Bombay Bicycle Club

After literally having the blues and shaking them loose, Bombay Bicycle Club are rejuvenated and ready to take on the world again.

9th May 2019

Bare Necessities: Ezra Furman

Stripping things back to their rawest, most unfiltered form, ‘Twelve Nudes’ finds Ezra Furman tackling the world and himself head on, and coming out fighting.

8th May 2019

Filthy/Gorgeous: Filthy Friends

Ideas around climate change and environmental ruin hang heavy over ‘Emerald Valley’ — the second album from Portland’s Filthy Friends. But there’s hope there too.

6th May 2019

In The Fair City: Fontaines DC

Ahead of the release of their explosive debut, we meet Fontaines DC in the city that shaped them, to unpack the creative ethos driving their success.

4th May 2019

Burning down the house: The Japanese House

The Japanese House’s long-awaited debut is fuelled by death and heartbreak, but there’s a defiance to it too. We meet Amber Bain in Berlin to talk mushrooms, weird dreams and new beginnings.

3rd May 2019

Other People’s Problems: Foxygen

Refusing to tour, railing against the industry and sitting on a tell-all memoir, with new LP ‘Seeing Other People’, LA duo Foxygen are teetering on the edge of collapse – or is it all just an act?

30th April 2019

Get To Know… BE GOOD

The promising new Oxford bunch have just returned with new track ‘God Of Nowhere’.

30th April 2019

Get To Know… Talk Show

Watch the band play debut single ‘Fast & Loud’ in a Yala! Records session alongside our interview.

29th April 2019

In the studio with… LIFE

Having broken through with debut LP ‘Popular Music’ and the most DIY punk ethos imaginable, Hull’s LIFE are gearing up for round two and turning the political into the personal.

25th April 2019

Keep the fire burning: The Murder Capital

Currently recording a debut album to back up their buzzy beginnings, this Dublin five-piece channel intensity and anger into tangible social change.

25th April 2019

Get To Know… Barrie

We meet the Brooklyn bunch set to release their jangly, summertime debut album ‘Happy To Be Here’.

25th April 2019

Rock steady: Jade Bird

After years of displacement as an army brat, Jade Bird is back on the road, this time with a debut album in tow.

23rd April 2019

Second Light: Whitney

With instant breakthrough debut ‘Light Upon The Lake’, the lovelorn Chicago boys won hearts all over the world. Now, they’re finally ready to lift the lid on its hugely-awaited follow up.

23rd April 2019

Show Me The Body: back in the New York groove

World tours and a hype-harvesting debut album made this trio one of America’s most essential groups. Back home in New York, they explain how ‘devotional’ new LP ‘Dog Whistle’ expanded their horizons.

17th April 2019

PUP: Dead Funny

The Toronto punks return with third album ‘Morbid Stuff’, a record that laughs and rages in the face of death and despair with bags of wit, humour and defiance.

15th April 2019

Suspending the madness: Hayden Thorpe

On his debut solo album ‘Diviner’, the former Wild Beasts frontman finds spiritual freedom in surrendering yourself to the universe, and the power of carving out new beginnings.

12th April 2019