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Celebrity Sin

Celebrity Sin

As they gear up for Dot To Dot, Lambrini Girls break down their ferocious new single ‘Cult Of Celebrity’ and why celebrity culture should make you incredibly uneasy...

by Felicity Newton

BEFORE DOORS

Antony Szmierek offers up his Really Very Good new single, 'The Heron' at Birkenhead's Future Yard as the first edition of our brand new Before Doors sessions.

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The Great Escape 2026 has added 100+ new names ahead of its 20th anniversary
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The Great Escape 2026 has added 100+ new names ahead of its 20th anniversary

Y, Bimini, Do Nothing and PVA are among the names joining the Brighton festival's milestone edition.

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Opus Kink have announced their debut album ‘The Sweet Goodbye’ and dropped early single ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’

The six-piece also have extensive autumn tour plans.

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SOFY has returned with ‘Wishbone’ and a horror video where she plays a serial killer

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GET IT DONE

After a chance Coachella meeting with Kenneth Blume (FKA Kenny Beats), New York duo Fcukers scrapped the overthinking and sprinted toward their debut ‘Ö’. The result is a high-octane collage of 90s house and club chaos; a record born from nightlife revival.

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Courtney Barnett lets instinct lead the way on ‘Creature of Habit’
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Courtney Barnett lets instinct lead the way on ‘Creature of Habit’

Written in the wake of relocation and reflection, Courtney Barnett’s new album finds her trusting the subconscious - and a well-timed mantis.

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Snail Mail stares into the void and finds herself
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Snail Mail stares into the void and finds herself

On her third album 'Ricochet', Lindsey Jordan swaps teenage romance for mortality, time and the terror of loving anything too much. It's her most expansive and emotionally ambitious record yet.

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CHALK are choosing the future on their debut album ‘Crystalpunk’
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CHALK are choosing the future on their debut album ‘Crystalpunk’

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What happens when Ego Ella May stops overthinking?

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Witch Post take us inside every track on their new EP 'Butterfly'
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Witch Post take us inside every track on their new EP 'Butterfly'

As the duo return with their new EP 'Butterfly', Alaska Reid takes us inside every track from folk-horror imagery and county-fair nostalgia to anxious inner voices and bruised devotion.

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Here's 5 things we learnt about Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming album from her new British Vogue profile
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Here's 5 things we learnt about Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming album from her new British Vogue profile

Sad love songs, London as muse, and a deliberate step back from the pop machine. Here’s what Olivia Rodrigo told British Vogue.

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Conan Gray’s ‘Wishbone’ is getting the deluxe treatment, led by new track ‘The Best’

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Naomi Scott is the special guest on tonight's edition of Down With Boring
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Naomi Scott is the special guest on tonight's edition of Down With Boring

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Dua Lipa has been tapped to curate the London Literature Festival 2026

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Tigers Jaw confront past, present and future on ‘Lost on You’
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Tigers Jaw confront past, present and future on ‘Lost on You’

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Arthur Hill has returned with ‘Working On It’ after his Wembley Arena headline show

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underscores' 'U' is a proper pop album, not in spite of its oddness, but because of it.

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a short history of decay by Nothing
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'HELP(2)' corrals 23 tracks from a roster deep enough to fill three festival main stages.

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Lost On You by Tigers Jaw
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'Lost On You' sounds like a record made by people who know exactly what they do well.

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Until You're Satisfied by YONAKA
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Theresa Jarvis and co. arrive with a new clarity of purpose.

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U by underscores
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Florence Road have released ‘Spring Forward’ as they hit the US with The Last Dinner Party
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Florence Road have released ‘Spring Forward’ as they hit the US with The Last Dinner Party

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Fcukers said “fuck it” and made an album in two weeks
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Fcukers said “fuck it” and made an album in two weeks

After a chance Coachella meeting with Kenneth Blume (FKA Kenny Beats), New York duo Fcukers scrapped the overthinking and sprinted toward their debut ‘Ö’. The result is a high-octane collage of 90s house and club chaos; a record born from nightlife revival.

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