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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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Punk abrasion meets warehouse euphoria on CHALK’s debut ‘Crystalpunk’ – a record rooted in place and powered by possibility.
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Tigers Jaw confront past, present and future on ‘Lost on You’
Two decades in, Scranton emo mainstays Tigers Jaw are still evolving. Their new album ‘Lost on You’ finds the band reckoning with time, growth and the people they’ve been along the way.
MAR 27, 2026•By Rob Mair
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Good Kid – Can We Hang Out Sometime?
'Can We Hang Out Sometime?’ chases the pure pleasure of great guitar pop.
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Courtney Barnett – Creature of Habit
It’s still recognisably Barnett - observational, dryly funny, emotionally candid - but presented through a process that feels newly energising.
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Snail Mail – Ricochet
Rich, charming and deeply comforting, it earns an immediate replay.
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Robyn – Sexistential
A lesson in exactly what Robyn can do that nobody else quite can.
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Nothing – a short history of decay
'a short history of decay' is the Philadelphia band's most personal and most structurally ambitious work.
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'HELP(2)' corrals 23 tracks from a roster deep enough to fill three festival main stages.
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"It does sometimes feel like a private joke": Getdown Services explain themselves
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SOFY has returned with ‘Wishbone’ and a horror video where she plays a serial killer
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Basement have dropped ‘The Way I Feel’ ahead of their first album in eight years
It's about standing on the edge of a really important decision.
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Hayley Williams opened her solo tour with 14 live debuts from 'Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party'
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