Cruz Beckham
A route through Olivia Dean’s second album, from playful attraction and self-belief to songs that ask harder questions about closeness and care.
By Claire Jacobs
John Glacier’s ‘Floette’ rework and Jacques Greene’s ‘Heaven’ remix extend Arlo Parks’ club-minded third album through collaboration and release.
By Olivia Thomson
Choose Resident Evil 4 for pressured action, Portal 2 for test-chamber puzzles, or BioShock for an authored world built around exploration and combat.
By Tyler Cook
ADÉLA, Boldy James and G Herbo all use ‘In My Father’s House’ by God’s Gospel Angels, reshaping the 1986 gospel recording in different ways.
By Lena Hunt
Madonna, RAYE, Sienna Spiro, Shaboozey and more were confirmed for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, held in Los Angeles on Sunday 27th September.
By Andrew Wescott
Thor, Black Panther and The Dark Knight borrow Shakespeare’s pressures of inheritance, loyalty and moral collapse, then give them capes, kingdoms and impossible choices.
By Finnley Mcdonald
Ten years into a career spent taking K-pop to new places, NCT 127 are back together, re-energised and ready for ‘BLINGY’ to fly.
By Abigail Firth
A decade of lore leads to this weekend in a park in east London, at the only UK Twenty One Pilots show of the year. Plus Wunderhorse return - maybe with new material to show - and a lower order of some of the most engaging and exciting rock has to offer.
By Dan Harrison
Maisie Peters returns to Reading Festival with ‘Florescence’, huge ambitions and plenty of new music already taking shape.
By Ali Shutler
With her Reading Festival debut behind her, Absolutely finally feels like the universe she imagined with ‘Paracosm’ is fully alive.
By Ali Shutler
Heartbreak, health struggles and horrible depressing songs? Nieve Ella’s dancing her way through all of it on her debut album, she explains at Reading Festival.
By Ali Shutler
Co-CEO Michał Nowakowski said the studio now stops development the moment any platform falls behind, rather than trying to catch up later.
By Lucy Phillips
Burnt out, unable to safely travel to the country half his fanbase resides in and watching the news like the rest of us (through his fingers), NOAHFINNCE did the only sensible thing: turned the dread into a character, wrote him a banger, and got himself booked for one of the biggest bills of the year in London’s Victoria Park. All Points East, meet your new favourite anxiety.
By Dan Harrison
Opus Kink have spent years building a world entirely of their own. Now, with debut album 'The Sweet Goodbye', they're inviting everyone else into it.
By Steven Loftin
Three years after an early afternoon slot, Teddy Swims returns to Latitude as a headline act with fatherhood, heartbreak and a new album shaping his future.
By Ali Shutler
Fresh from a whirlwind festival run, Florence Road are looking ahead to new music, bigger shows and their debut album.
By Ali Shutler
Kicking off Dork’s big Latitude 2026 opening party takeover - Swim Deep took us deep into the Suffolk forest for a warm-up performance on the Piano Stage.
By Dork
The tool maker says the tailored version will support Netflix's expanding video game division.
By Lucy Phillips
Madra Salach only released their debut EP in January, but they're already emerging as one of the most exciting bands in a growing folk revival.
By Jake Hawkes
Makeshift Art Bar make some of the most punishing noise that stays on the right side of actively enjoyable. Ask them to account for it and they would rather not. As second EP ‘Marionette’ arrives, the Belfast four-piece field the big questions and bat nearly all of them back.
By Dan Harrison
Awsten Knight opens up about the exhausting road to 'Jinx', the pressures of modern fandom and finding excitement again after rebuilding Waterparks from scratch.
By Steven Loftin
Static Dress might be one of rock's most uncompromising bands, but Olli Appleyard has no interest in being a rock star. As the band release 'Injury Episode', he explains why making things matters more than fame, metrics or expectations.
By Steven Loftin
‘Payback Is A Dog’ captures Nia Smith at a turning point. As she looks back on the journey to her second EP, she reflects on finding her voice - and why she's already excited about what comes next.
By Martyn Young
Septet share title track and reveal instore tour ahead of October release
By Felicity Newton
Friendship is woven through every corner of Lucia & The Best Boys' upcoming album 'Picking Petals'. As new single 'Big Romance' arrives, Lucia Fairfull and Abigail Morris reflect on creative support, finishing songs that refuse to go away and the people who keep you going.
By Ali Shutler
With her debut album ‘Be Sweet To Me’, Violet Grohl is embracing grunge, punk and pop instincts alike while figuring out how to exist under one of rock’s most recognisable surnames.
By Ali Shutler
Drawing from dreamy guitar textures and unfiltered emotion, Brighton’s Opal Mag arrives with debut EP ‘Goodbye Lavender’.
By Felicity Newton
Inspired by loss and shaped by dreams, Heidi Curtis’ debut EP 'Hollow Heart' turns grief into six huge, haunting songs. Here’s the story behind all of them.
By Dork
thistle.’s new EP 'backflip' is loud, messy, emotional and really very good. To celebrate its release, the Manchester band break down the whole thing track by track.
By Dork
Pierce the Veil, Morrissey, Iggy Pop and Pixies join the Chicago weekender
By Andrew Wescott
Nearly three decades on from ‘LP1’, American Football return with their most emotionally direct and sonically ambitious album yet, confronting middle age, regret and reinvention on ‘LP4’.
By Alexander Bradley
Best known for her time with Black Country, New Road, Nina Lim is now leading her own project as Ninush.
By Steven Loftin
With a new album on the way, Sydney trio DMA'S are stepping further into the driving seat and seeing where it takes them.
By Sam Taylor
These are the hard-hitting facts the music industry needs right now.
By Dork
Stopping off at The Lower Third in London during her sold-out run of tiny rooms that saw tickets vanish in about ten minutes, Nieve Ella takes ‘Drive’ for a spin before anyone else got in.
By Dork
Punk veterans return with Will Yip-produced LP led by single 'Chance Encounters'.
By Felicity Newton
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.
By Abigail Firth
Written in the wake of relocation and reflection, Courtney Barnett’s new album finds her trusting the subconscious - and a well-timed mantis.
By Ciaran Picker
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.
By Rob Mair
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
Watch the first episode of Dork's new Before Doors sessions, filmed at Future Yard, Birkenhead while on Dork's Round The Houses tour this March.
By Dork
Their second single arrives via Young ahead of a packed summer touring schedule.
By Felicity Newton
DEADLETTER’s Zac Lawrence has two jobs: gardener by day, frontman by night. On ‘Existence Is Bliss’, the sextet bottle the tension between going through the motions and grabbing life by the collar.
By Ciaran Picker
Grace Inspace’s ‘Heavy Hair’ finds the LA-born, London-raised artist unpacking where emotion lives.
By Steven Loftin
After line-up shifts, a necessary break and a record that “didn’t sound like Varials”, the band rebuilt from the ground up. ‘Where the Light Leaves’ is their biggest, boldest statement yet.
By Steven Loftin
Existential dread, shoegaze noise, Ross MacDonald in the studio and four dogs at home. Rosie Carney's 'Doomsday... Don't Leave Me Here' is the end-of-the-world album that feels like coming home.
By Felicity Newton
Inspired by artists like RAYE to go it alone, Leigh-Anne has poured everything into ‘My Ego Told Me To’ – a fearless solo debut built on evolution and hard-won self-belief.
By Ali Shutler
Their tour includes supporting Chapterhouse on their first North American tour in 16 years.
By Felicity Newton
Arcane Roots are back as a five-piece, armed with new single 'A Wave, Across The Sea' and festival slots at 2000trees and ArcTanGent. From Iceland studios to “beauty and chaos”, Andrew Groves and Daryl Atkins unpack how time away sharpened the band’s ambition.
By Alexander Bradley
Joyce Manor worried a break might make people forget them. Instead, it reset the band and set up a run of bigger tours, bigger co-signs and their tightest songs yet.
By Rob Mair
Pem is juggling touring, gardening, chatting, and writing a novel, somehow. She also has a new EP, ‘other ways of landing’, and it starts with a tiny oak seedling in a crack in the paving.
By Felicity Newton
Lime Garden explain how Tuesdays spent writing, crying and screaming became the backbone of their second album.
By Felicity Newton
Here’s a peek at just a few of the future stars on show.
By Dork
The new album will be released later this year via Insanity Records.
By Felicity Newton
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