Andy Bell has announced his debut solo album ‘The View From Halfway Down’ will be released on 9th October via Sonic Cathedral. The announcement comes the same day Bell turns 50 years old. The first single to be taken from the new album ‘Love Comes in Waves’ is available now. Bell has this to say […]
London based 4-piece Slender Pins will release new single ‘Apprentice to Life’ on 14th August. A video for the song is available now. The band describe their sound as “combining the grit of garage rock with the bounce of dance and rock n’ roll”. Guitarist Alex speaking about the new song he wrote with the […]
London-based trio Girls In Synthesis have announced their debut album ‘Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future’ will be released on 28th August via Harbinger Sound. Alongside the announcement they have released a video for ‘They’re Not Listening’ taken from the album. The group and their collaborators have created all their own artwork, videos, photos […]
Glasgow based 6-piece Walt Disco have released the video for their new single ‘Hey Boy (You’re One Of Us)’. The track is from their recently announced debut EP ‘Young Hard and Handsome’, due out on September 30th via Blood Records. The video for the song was shot by the band with the help of their […]
The Bird and The Bee vocalist Inara George has teamed with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters for a new single ‘Sex In Cars: Road Angel Project’. The song is a duet version of the same song from George’s latest album ‘The Youth of Angst’. Of the song, George said: “I wrote ‘Sex In Cars’ after […]
Nashville’s Bully, the project of Alicia Bognanno, has released new single ‘Hours and Hours’, taken from her upcoming album ‘SUGAREGG’ due to be released on 21st August on Sub Pop. Bognanno says of the song: “‘Hours and Hours’ is about my mother and I finally figuring out our relationship. She and I had a really […]
Thunder Jackson has announced his self-titled debut album will be released on October 1st. New single Institution’ is available now. The self-directed video for the song features Thunder Jackson in stop-motion. Jackson explains: “‘Institution’ is one of the most personal songs on the record. It’s about my adolescence, specifically the period during which I was […]
Songwriter, singer, and author Jehnny Beth has unveiled a video for ‘We Will Sin Together’, taken from her debut solo album ‘To Love Is To Live’ released earlier this year. The track also features backing vocals from The XX’s Romy Madley Croft. Beth explained: “Romy sings the backing vocals on the choruses. She followed the […]
Saunder Jurriaans has unveiled new single ‘Easy Now’, taken from his debut solo album ‘Beasts’, which is due to be released on September 18th via Decca. A video accompanying the song has been made by Brady Corbet and features award winning choreographer and film director Celia Rowlson-Hall dancing on the back of a lorry at […]
London 5-piece Bad Nerves have announced their self-titled debut album will be released on 23rd October via Killing Moon Records. Alongside the announcement, they have released single ‘Baby Drummer’ taken from the album. Vocalist Bobby Nerves says of the song: “Baby Drummer is about longing for something exciting to happen in music again. For a […]
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