Class Of 2019: Sports Team

Injecting guitar music in 2018 with a bravado often left in the ​‘90s and possessing an arsenal of indie hits that could become classics, this six-piece want to inspire devotion and community.

12th July 2018

Daydream Believers: Black Honey

Coming four years and four EPs since they arrived on the scene in a haze of attention-grabbing mystique, is Black Honey’s debut album worth the wait? Well, we put them on the bloody cover didn’t we…

6th July 2018

Matt Maltese: A different kind of love song

On debut LP ​‘Bad Contestant’, London boy Matt Maltese is ripping up the modern singer songwriter rulebook and emerging with an album that tackles love and life in all its good, bad and ugly truth.

6th July 2018

Drahla are the UK’s most uncompromising new band

Touring with Ought and METZ and penning warped, dark post-punk, things are looking up for Drahla.

2nd July 2018

“My voice isn’t made to sing happy songs” - Protomartyr are continuing to rage

Releasing new EP ​‘Consolation’ — featuring Kelley Deal of The Breeders — Joe Casey talks the band’s slow and steady evolution.

27th June 2018

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: “People seem to find a lot of nostalgia in our music”

On their debut album ​‘Hope Downs’, these Aussie indie-rockers find hope from the great expanse of their homeland.

14th June 2018

Drenge: “We wanted to come back and remind people what we stand for”

Fresh from their Grand Re-Opening UK tour and ferocious new single ​‘This Dance’, the Derbyshire duo are prepping a new album and ready to get firmly back in the ring.

12th June 2018

CHAI are the Japanese dance-pop group bringing NEOKawaii to the masses

We meet the quartet promoting positivity and genre-fusing joyfulness.

11th June 2018

Everything Everything discuss ‘A Fever Dream’: “It was more about collective shock”

Frontman Jonathan Higgs gives us an insight into their Hyundai Mercury Prize-shortlisted fourth album.

9th June 2018

Out Of The Cage: Spring King

Returning with huge new single ​‘Animal’, and with album two on the way, Spring King are beefed up and ready to go all over again.

6th June 2018

Boy Azooga: fast as lightning

Armed with a myriad of influences and a DIY spirit, Davey Newington invites you into his rhythmic, propulsive and dynamic world.

3rd June 2018

The 1975: Resistance Is Futile

They’re one of the biggest bands in the world, about to launch one of the most anticipated album campaigns of the year. And this is their first interview about it. Welcome to the new era of The 1975.

1st June 2018

Switched on, turned up: Parquet Courts

After a more melancholic turn on 2016’s ​‘Human Performance’, Parquet Courts have reignited the fires for ​‘Wide Awake!’: their most direct, confrontational and downright important album to date.

21st May 2018

TT: “I used the pain as an art form instead of letting it distract me from my music”

As Warpaint’s Theresa Wayman gears up to release her solo debut as TT, she tells Cady Siregar just how liberating it was to work on her own terms.

16th May 2018

Bodega: “We want to inspire a little more fearlessness”

Whip-smart, surprisingly funny and with an arsenal of society-shaking deadpan anthems to boot, Bodega are the Brooklyn band embracing pretension and moulding it into their own shape.

15th May 2018

Pip Blom: “We will definitely play a few new songs”

It’s ​“the calm before the storm” for Pip and band, as she looks forward to their Brighton trip.

15th May 2018

Inside Courtney’s Barnett

Delving inside her own brain for second album ​‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’, the Melbourne musician has finally grown accustomed to her out-of-the-blue success and the glare of the spotlight.

14th May 2018

Viva La Revolución: Shame take the charge across Europe

We head to Spain to spend two chaotic days on the road with the band lifting a generation out of apathy and having a hell of a good time along the way.

6th May 2018

Live at Leeds: A roundtable interview

We chat to a range of key players from Leeds, including James from Pulled Apart By Horses and Matt from Jumbo Records.

4th May 2018

Anything But… with Zac Farro

We talk travel, photography and more with the HalfNoise and Paramore man.

3rd May 2018

Love & Rockets: Speedy Ortiz

Speedy Ortiz were all ready to go with a curveball album of love songs, until the election of Donald Trump shook the world. Heading back to the drawing board, ​‘Twerp Verse’ is the result of a rethink.

23rd April 2018

Two Door Cinema Club talk new album - “we’re getting ready”

Back in 2016, Two Door Cinema Club came blazing back into view after three years of silence with ​‘Gameshow’. Now they’re at work on the follow-up, Alex Trimble tells us.

17th April 2018

Sofi Tukker: Batshit Crazy

Melding Eurotrash and euphoria into deliciously unpretentious dance music, Sofi Tukker are doing things their own way with ​‘Treehouse’.

16th April 2018

Declan McKenna talks 2018 festivals and…uh, door hinges

Ahead of his Coachella sets this month, everyone’s favourite dungaree-prince tells us all about his favourite festival accessories.

12th April 2018