For the late-night drives, heartbreaks, friendships blossoming and wilting, growth, love and lessons in romantics, Mayday Parade have been a band to lea...
From the moment their single ‘Chaise Longue’ landed, there was little doubt that Wet Leg were instantly elevated to buzz band status. What’s followed is anything but ordinary.
By Jake Hawkes
Only a few tracks into a promising future, and Willow Kayne already has a bloody Ivor Novello gong in the bank. Not bad going for a popster who has the personality to hit the top.
By Jamie MacMillan
With live music back in full-flow and a new year round the corner, the future looks bright for Liverpool’s new favourite sons.
By Jamie MacMillan
With every new music drop, it feels as though Wolf Alice couldn’t possibly get any better. Then, they do another album and deliver something that’s once again surprising, innovative, and ridiculously special. Magic.
By Jamie Muir
From unexpected superstars to returning heroes, here’s the year in its standout records.
By Dork
The last 18-months, like for so many, put a temporary pause on Wage War’s ascent, but channeling that into a new album, ‘Manic’, they look set to soar higher than ever before.
By Dork
Remi Wolf may not consider herself strictly ‘a pop star’, but with one of the biggest, most fun records of the year so far, we certainly do. There’s no room for boring here.
By Ali Shutler
Moving on from the coming-of-age uncertainty of her debut, Snail Mail’s second album establishes her as a force to be reckoned with.
By Neive McCarthy
Freshly inked with Dirty Hit - home of The 1975, Wolf Alice and Beabadoobee - it’s safe to say that alt-popster Wallice is on the right track to hit the very top.
By Ali Shutler
If you already know about CMAT, you’ll know she’s potentially the greatest pop star on the planet - mostly because she makes everyone else seem boring.
By Martyn Young
It started with a tweet. "Drunk. Miserable. Depressed. August 4, 2019," read the caption accompanying a photo of Wade MacNeil onboard a plane, drink in...
With his smash hit debut album, 'Hypersonic Missiles', Sam Fender headed straight for the stratosphere. One pandemic later, surrounded by division, despair and rampant culture wars, he's refusing to lose track of the roots that brought him here.
By Jamie MacMillan
Long established at the head of their scene, it's time for Employed To Serve to plant their flag. And haven't they just? With their new album 'Conquering', nothing more needs to be said. But let's try anyway...
By Dork
As Self Esteem, Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s first solo effort was a much-acclaimed critical success. Her follow up - ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ - is quite probably one of the albums of the year.
By Martyn Young
Lockdown turned everything upside down for pretty much everyone on the planet last year, and being a global rock superstar gave little extra protection....
Sarah Tudzin is in demand. Not only is she one of indie rock's most sought-after sound engineers and producers, with recent work including Sad13's 'Haun...
Ross and Rocky Lynch are back with the second album from The Driver Era, and it’s a record born from love. Aw.
By Jessica Goodman
Every band looks to level up with a new record, but with latest album ‘Don’t You Feel Amazing?’, Trash Boat’s Tobi Duncan is holding nothing back.
By Dork
London collective NiNE8 are pooling their resources to promote a new, more sustainable way of working - one that puts community, support and creativity to the fore. Some of the group's leading names give us a the low-down.
By Martyn Young
Debut album 'Kid Know' made Conan Gray a star. Now, with its follow up approaching, he's determined to keep it real.
By Ali Shutler
Back with their first album in six years, indie darlings Spector are a testament to hard work and not giving up.
By Alex Cabre
West London five-piece Chubby and the Gang are unabashed in addressing society’s ills.
By Jamie MacMillan
Self-described "fetish rapper" Tommy Genesis is breaking into the unknown with her new album, 'goldilocks x'.
By Abigail Firth
Just over a year ago, Sports Team released their debut album and promptly shot to Number Two in the UK Official Albums Chart. Finally able to take it on the road properly for the victory lap it so deserves, they’re already thinking about what’s next.
By Jake Hawkes
In a time where genre means nothing and attitude means everything, daine's universe simply refuses to be labelled.
By Dork
Sports Team's annual Margate bus trip has levelled up for 2021. Unfortunately for them, they've yet to stop us tagging along for the ride.
By Dork
The latest signing to Ed Sheeran’s own record label, it’s debut album time for singer-songwriter Maisie Peters.
By Neive McCarthy
Four albums in, and CHVRCHES have probably been through the toughest part of their story to date. Returning with their new full-length ‘Screen Violence’, they’re backing down for nobody.
By Ali Shutler
If you were to ask us who All Time Low were going to collaborate on a single with this summer, it would have taken an awfully long time before we guessed Pale Waves, but here we are.
By Steven Loftin
David Hasselhoff is Superman. Chelsea Wolfe is Wonder Woman. Andy Biersack from Black Veil Brides? Yeah, he is Batman, of course. Manchester Orchestra's...
Three decades in, and AFI are more fearless, bold and evolved than ever before.
By Dork
In terms of apt titles, Inhaler’s debut album - ‘It Won’t Always Be Like This’ - is the kind of hopeful prophecy we’re all yearning for. For a band long predicted to make it to the big leagues, they’re ready to take the limelight on their own terms.
By Jamie MacMillan
We’ve all spent far too much time stuck in our rooms over recent months - but for Drug Store Romeos, that’s a whole universe of possibilities.
By Jamie MacMillan
If ever a band understood the power of a good death, then it's Creeper. And if ever someone understood the even greater power of a good resurrection sto...
As with all unexpectedly great ideas, Cory Castro's one to form Free Throw nearly a decade ago in his basement with a few pals has escalated. In fact, i...
Wolf Alice are returning with a new opus right at the time we need them most. Head away for a ‘Blue Weekend’ with one of the very best bands on the planet.
By Ali Shutler
Fed up of a year of being stuck inside? Fancy a bit of disorganised mayhem? You’re in luck. Waterparks are back, and they’re better than ever.
By Dork
Critical acclaim, start of year hype lists, big US telly performances and superstar collaborations - Holly Humberstone is ticking off all the checkpoints on her route to the top. As her new EP approaches, she’s just trying to stay true to herself.
By Martyn Young
With her rich and confessional third album ‘Home Video’, Lucy Dacus is interrogating the past as a means of moving forward.
By Alex Cabre
Six months on from appearing on every new year tips list going, and our Griff is living up to the mountains of hype with a BRIT Award and a brand new mixtape.
By Neive McCarthy
With a new outlook, a revolutionary new record and even An Actual Book, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is in full bloom.
By Martyn Young
Fiddlehead - the punk powerhouse featuring members of Have Heart, Basement, and more - are back with their second album, ‘Between The Richness’. Singer...
For a band who claim they don’t know what they’re doing, Easy Life sure seem like they’re on a charge. With their debut album finally here, it’s bucket and spade time for one of the hottest new acts on the planet.
By Jamie Muir
A weird, winding, tooting troupe - Squid aren’t your standard bunch of lads in a band.
By Martyn Young
In this darkest of timelines, dodie is back to remind us it’s okay to be grey.
By Abigail Firth
From teen with a ‘uke’ to bubblegum pop rock brilliance, Chloe Moriondo’s new album is a vital signpost to just how far she’s come.
By Martyn Young
K-pop sensation Wonho has - with the help of his fans - risen to new heights.
By Abigail Firth
Meet Me @ The Altar could well be the next iconic band from a genre that defined a generation. Time to say hello...
By Dork
girl in red may just be about to release her debut album, but it already feels like it might be something important.
By Ali Shutler
"I'm not afraid to show off who I am," starts LILHUDDY. A bold declaration for most fledgeling musicians but for Huddy, there's already a huge audience...
Pop punkers in the studio with rappers. A common scene in recent few years, but step back to 2006, to Fall Out Boy's reappearance with 'This Ain't A Sce...
As they deliver their really very good debut album ‘New Long Leg’, sud-cess beckons for Dry Cleaning. (Sorry - Ed)
By Jamie MacMillan
“Shit’s fucked up!” Offspring guitarist Kevin ‘Noodles’ Wasserman says with a hearty chuckle, before adding wryly: “I wonder who said that?”
Back for album three, and sounding bigger than ever, Royal Blood are a band reborn.
By Dork
A vital cog in the PC Music collective machine, Danny L Harle’s new album and immersive digital experience, ‘Harlecore’, is beyond ambitious.
By Martyn Young
Zara Larsson has already proven herself as one of pop’s main characters, and with album two, she’s embracing fun.
By Abigail Firth
Dork fave Alfie Templeman stands on the edge of something massive.
By Jamie Muir
After landing a Top 15 album chart position with their debut ‘Mixtape’ EP, Scottish indie rockers The Snuts have unveiled their debut album proper.
By Finlay Holden
Chase Atlantic want to be better. They’re the kind of band who, while the world has been completing Netflix, baking sourdough bread and exploring every...
Conducted as the band released their outstanding second record 'Visions of a Life' - an album that would go on to win the Mercury Prize.
By Ali Shutler
Architects have already secured their position at heavy music's top table. With their latest album, they're letting instinct reign supreme.
By Dork
Pale Waves’ first album came with a lot of buzz and lots of time on the road. Its follow-up has been far from an easy affair, though. With changes made and lessons learned, Heather Baron-Gracie reveals a band who have grown to be comfortable with who they are.
By Ali Shutler
With their place as one the biggest K-pop groups in the world right now firmly secured, Shownu, Minhyuk, Kihyun, Hyungwon, Joohoney and I.
By Abigail Firth
As they wrap up their ‘Hideout’ series, we caught up with the group to chat about their new record, inspirations (hint: they LOVE Monsta X), their journey so far, and what the future holds.
By Abigail Firth
Few bands have been through the things Architects have, but with critical acclaim and commercial success overflowing, the scene leading metallers are entering a new phase.
By Jack Press
The Smashing Pumpkins are an institution. Back with ‘CYR’ - their first album in over twenty years to feature iconic frontman Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin - they still have something to prove.
By Dork
"Not everyone knows what the La Brea Tar Pits are? OK, yeah, I mean they're quite well known here in LA, but I guess it makes sense that they wouldn't b...
Cult London faves Goat Girl are taking on the world with their much-anticipated second album, ‘On All Fours’.
By Aleksandra Brzezicka
With a fresh EP ‘Music For Winter Vol. 1’, Another Sky are getting ready for a whole new phase.
By Sam Taylor
Sinead O'Brien is at the forefront of a new wave of Irish poets.
By Blaise Radley
Chess Club Records’ latest signee Pixey is among a long list of hugely talented artists, and she herself is certainly not one to let that reputation down.
By Finlay Holden
