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

DIY & Musosoup’s Stand Out Tracks: TYGERMYLK, Moon Construction Kit & more

We’ve teamed up with music promotion platform Musosoup to highlight some of their best recent releases.

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

Kae Tempest: The Bold Future

Fresh from his powerful appearance at Glastonbury, and having just dropped his affirming new album ​‘Self-Titled’, Kae Tempest is feeling reflective, excited, and lucky all at once. Most importantly, though, he’s feeling himself.

9th July 2025

Get excited about… 2000trees Festival: A quick guide to the UK’s worst-kept festival secret

Ahead of this year’s huge edition, here are our top tips for the annual celebration of broad-reaching alternative and rising talent.

8th July 2025

Ashleys, Rodrigo Ramírez, Miss Blanche & more: meet the winners of Mad Cool Talent 2025

Ahead of the Spanish weekender kicking off this week, we take a glimpse at some of the more local, emerging artists who are set to take to the stage.

7th 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

Antony Szmierek: “Not many people have done Glasto, Hay Festival and Parklife in the space of two weeks”

Ahead of his set at Poland’s epic weekender Open’er, we caught up with everyone’s favourite Mancunian poet to reflect on the last six months.

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

On The Record: “Not only has Olivia Rodrigo got the ‘GUTS’ to headline Glasto, you bet she’d have the glory too”

Ahead of next week’s Worthy Farm extravaganza, we revisit our predictive pitch — originally published back in 2023 — for why Olivia Rodrigo topping Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage would be a headline set for the history books.

20th 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