BRIGHTON BLUES-ROCKERS OTHER STATES RELEASE ‘ANNABEI’ – LISTEN HERE

Other States have released ‘Annabei’, the B-side to their latest single ‘Come Back To Me’. Born from a 10 hour bus trip between Dallas and El Paso taken by writer-keyboardist Mike Lord, Other States is as much about place as it is sound, with songs weaved out of imagined tales from abandoned towns and wild […]
Sparked by an interest in the craft of solo performance, Islet member Mark Daman Thomas’s latest project Farm Hand takes his musical explorations into a more solitary terrain, drawing inspiration from his homeland in the sparsely populated hills of Mid-Wales. Freewheeling and full of deep, cyclical melodies, Farm Hand’s debut LP International Dreams, due Friday 3rd November 2017 on Shape Records, was […]

ISLET MEMBER MARK DAMAN THOMAS ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM PROJECT AS FARM HAND ALONGSIDE HIS NEW VIDEO FOR ‘SOLUTION’

Louder than Words

LOUDER THAN WORDS ANNOUNCE 2017 FESTIVAL FULL LINE-UP

Louder Than Words celebrates that essential, magical relationship between music and writing. Whether it’s Guy Garvey talking lyrics; Edwyn Collins performing his own music or Hugh Cornwell talking about life in The Stranglers, the Festival has something for anyone with a love for music, and the way words are used to inform and contribute to […]
“The music industry really feeds toxic masculinity by putting male artists on a pedestal,” observes Slowcoaches vocalist / bassist Heather Perkins. “‘Complex’ is a response to the sexual assault allegations against artists that were in the press at the time I wrote it. There’s still a really dirty side to the industry – particularly with the […]

SLOWCOACHES RAIL AGAINST MASCULINITY IN NEW SINGLE ‘COMPLEX’ – WATCH THE VIDEO NOW PLUS UK TOUR STARTS THIS WEEK

REPTALIENS SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘666BUS’ – DEBUT ALBUM ‘FM-2030’ OUT NOW

Reptaliens, the Portland husband-and-wife duo of Cole and Bambi Browning, share their breezy new single ‘666Bus’. The track finds Reptaliens pondering love and mortality, with Bambi singing, “Maybe I’ll get hit by a bus while I was dreamin’ of falling in love / Or maybe I’ll fall in love and die of a broken heart.“ […]
‘Broken Hands’ is the latest track to be revealed from Samoans’ recently released second album Laika and it’s a song that’s expansive as ever, fully demonstrating the band’s wealth of influences, which range from Radiohead to Nine Inch Nails to Mogwai. SAMOANS NOVEMBER 2017 UK TOUR DATES Thur 09 Bristol – Hy-Brasil Music Club Mon […]

SAMOANS RELEASE ‘BROKEN HANDS’ FROM RECENTLY RELEASED SECOND ALBUM ‘LAIKA’

ARE THEY THE ‘RIGHT WORDS’ FROM CULTS LATEST ALBUM ‘OFFERING’?

Cults share a new single, ‘Right Words’, from their recently released album, Offering, via Sinderlyn.  Of the track they note, “We are excited to share ‘Right Words,’ the third single off of Offering. This song was like the nebula of the album. We worked on it forever because it kept breeding new parts that would go on […]
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CHECK OUT DRESAGE’S NEW TRACK ‘RENAISSANCE’ HERE NOW

PROTOMARTYR SHARE ‘DON’T GO TO ANACITA’ – LISTEN HERE

Protomartyr have just released their fourth album, Relatives In Descent, their debut for new label home Domino.  Prior to its release, the band share the third single off the album, and perhaps one of their most straight-forward and anthemic songs to date. ‘Don’t Go To Anacita’ takes place in a fictional town of singer Joe […]
Ryan Vail returns with his brand new single, ‘Shadows’, a blissfully nuanced track with delicate synth, and an even softer vocal delivery. His songwriting retains the ambience of his previous releases, though distinct flourishes create a new dance-ability not quite as evident before. Ryan explains some of the deeper meaning behind it: “The song deals […]

DERRY-BORN ARTIST RYAN VAIL RETURNS WITH HIS VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK ‘SHADOWS’ – WATCH NOW