Myles Smith has gone from playing open mic nights in pubs to hearing his own songs while on hold to the broadband company. Somewhere between billion-stream hits, Ed Sheeran stadium tours and Arsenal group chats, the Luton songwriter is still trying to make sense of how any of this became his life.
By Jake Hawkes
One of the UK's fastest-rising indie bands, overpass have built their reputation on soaring hooks and an unshakeable belief in the power of live music. With debut album 'Elsewhere, Always', they're turning years of momentum into their biggest statement yet.
By Ciaran Picker
From childhood fame and early scepticism to Download Festival main stages and stadium tours with AC/DC, The Pretty Reckless frontwoman has found freedom in being unapologetically herself.
By Ali Shutler
With new EP 'I Really Mean It This Time' out now and a growing reputation stretching far beyond Manchester, pyncher are learning to embrace uncertainty (and spend a surprising amount of time watching snooker).
By Felicity Newton
After stepping back to reassess what she wanted from music and from herself, Ama has returned with a new album built on joy and trust.
By Felicity Newton
There'll be an intimate London party to preview her new 'Confessions II' record
By Andrew Wescott
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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