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Two years have passed since Gothenburg-based band Pale Honey (Tuva Lodmark and Nelly Daltrey) released their critically acclaimed, self titled debut album. This year the band will release their second full length album Devotion, a record of real honest and maturity. More »

With over 14 million albums sold, multiple JUNO Awards and Grammy nominations, world renowned rockers Barenaked Ladies are excited to announce the release of their fifteenth studio album, FAKE NUDES, on November 17, 2017 via UMC. The new album features fourteen freshly minted tracks including catchy lead single “Lookin’ Up” written by BNL frontman Ed Robertson, Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra) and Sam Hollander (who has co-written with Weezer, Fitz & The Tantrums and Train). Beginning Friday September 8, 2017 Fake Nudes will be available to pre-order on CD or digitally. More »

Barely Dressed Records is delighted to welcome fast-rising Brisbane punks Good Boy to their roster for the release of their brilliant impending EP Shirk Life, due November 10. More »

Nitin Sawhney is a busy man. Across nearly three decades, he has created award-winning, seminal studio works including 10 albums, scores of TV and film soundtracks, dance and theatre productions, as well as DJ sets. So, it is timely that Nitin is set to release his second live album ‘Live At Ronnie Scotts’ with Gearbox Records on 1st December. More »

Following the release earlier this year of her critically acclaimed debut “Gilded” on ANTI-, and an extensive US tour in support of Social Distortion, Jade Jackson will make her first trip to the UK with a headline show at The Slaughtered Lamb on November 13th. More »

When Band Of Gold released their debut album in the autumn of 2015, they were surprise for many people. The duo of Nina Elisabeth Mortvedt and Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen had been staples of the Norwegian music scene for a while but Band Of Gold was a project that they very much worked on quietly in the background. Upon release it was clear that the album deserved its chance to live, as critics clamoured to praise it, eventually awarding them the 2016 Nordic Music Prize. More »

Last month, for the first time in four years, the acclaimed and beloved Providence, RI band Deer Tick released new music into the world in the shape of two new albums; Vol.1 and Vol.2. Riding a wave of support from media and fans on both sides of the Atlantic, the band can now announce that they’ll bring their exhilarating live show back to the UK / EU early next year, playing at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, as well as what will be a huge headline set at London’s Islington Assembly Hall. More »

Lonely The Brave have been deliberately quiet these last few months, working on new material and reassessing what has come before. This has been all the more noticeable because before then, they had never stopped: last year alone saw them secure a no.1 on the rock chart with their second LP “Things Will Matter”, sell-out a headline tour and play main support on a hugely successful European tour with Biffy Clyro, followed with a thematically linked series of EP’s which have shown the sheer depth of strong material that was available to them around that second record. More »

The Young’uns today share the video for “Be The Man”, a track from their acclaimed new album “Strangers”, out now on Hereteu Records. “Be the Man” was inspired by the story of Matthew Ogston, who founded the Naz and Matt Foundation to tackle religious and cultural homophobia following the tragic death of his fiancé. More »

Slaughter Beach, Dog (Jake of Modern Baseball) are now streaming their new song”Acolyte” via Noisey. Noisey calls “Acolyte” a “perfect love song,” saying, “Slaughter Beach, Dog, softens the lines between reality, fiction, and metaphor like a drunk memory.” “Acolyte” comes off of Slaughter Beach, Dog’s new album Birdie, out October 27th on Lame-O Records. Pre-orders for Birdie are available now physically and digitallyvia Lame-O Records, in the UK/Europe via Big Scary Monsters, and in Australia via Cooking Vinyl. More »

Mr Yolk premieres today the ‘rapturous’ new single ‘Star Light Head Light’ at The 405 where it was described as ‘an awestruck, slow-jam that tells a story of youthful amazement, rendered delightfully through patient and practiced instrumentation, ‘Star Light Head Light’ shows that Jones is a man more than capable of expressing his emotions aurally’. More »

Irish band, Bell X1, undoubtedly one of Ireland’s most beloved bands, is back with their seventh studio album, ARMS, out in the UK on July 21st 2017.  ARMS is the follow up to their 2013 critically acclaimed album Chop Chop, which became the trio’s third #1 album on the Irish Album Charts and their fourth consecutive album to be nominated for a Choice Music Prize for “Irish Album of the Year.” More »

Galax pays tribute to the powerful music and rugged landscape of Southwest Virginia, where both Wild Ponies’ members Doug and Telisha Williams were born and raised. There, in mountain towns like Galax, oldtime American music continues to thrive, supported by a community of fiddlers, flat-pickers, and fans. The stripped-back album nods to the band’s history while still pushing forward. Recorded in the shed behind Doug’s old family farm in the Appalachians (steps away from the site where Doug and Telisha were married), Galax returns Wild Ponies to their musical and geographic roots. More »

I’m With Her, the band of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan, have released a live-video rendition of Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” – watch the video at Clash. The performance (featuring Punch Brothers bassist Paul Kowert) was recorded at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati in August during the American Acoustic tour. I’m With Her will be donating proceeds from the live recording, also available on streaming and download services, to Thistle Farms, a Nashville-based nonprofit that heals, empowers and employs survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction. More »

Yesterday, Northern Irish rock band And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA) have announced a new single titled ‘Dying Giants’ from their forthcoming record ‘The Endless Shimmering’. This will be the eclectic quartet’s fifth full length album following on from their widely acclaimed album ‘Heirs’. More »

On Friday 6th October, Sophia Marshall is celebrating the release of her debut album ‘Bye Bye’ with a full day of exciting pop-up gigs, in-store performances, and house concerts, across the East Midlands with stops in Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester and more. The mini tour will take place from 2pm – 11pm on 06/10. More »

Fearless Records alternative-rock band MOVEMENTS has announced that their debut album Feel Something will be released on October 20, 2017. Billboard is exclusively streaming “Colorblind”, the first single off the album, which they called “a cohesive vision of muscular rock energy and melodic songcraft”. More »

Wild Ones (Portland, OR) are sharing another single in advance of the release of their sophomore album, ‘Mirror Touch’, out October 6th on Topshelf Records. ‘Invite Me In’ is a sensuous pop cut, which The Line Of Best Fit called “crisp, clean, and understated, with a funky bassline.” More »

Marking his third solo album, singer-songwriter Glen Hansard will release Between Two Shores on January 19, 2018 via Anti-. Following up 2015’s GRAMMY nominated Didn’t He Ramble, and his 2012 solo debut Rhythm and Repose, the ten-track collection was produced by Hansard himself for the first time.The culmination of more than six years of writing and recording, Between Two Shores came together in only a matter of weeks. More »

The forthcoming album, “Las Napalmas”, is a “to be or not to be” project, both for the listeners and the band. If you throw yourself into its musical whirlwind, which Tobias and Simen from Aiming For Enrike do every time, we’re pretty sure that you soon will catch on as well. Inside it’s atmospheric, it’s staccato, it’s fierce and it’s fascinating. But most of all it’s a lot of fun. More »

Son Little has just announced an exciting UK and Euro ‘New Magic Tour’. After the release of the brilliant ‘New Magic’ album via Anti- he will be hitting the road this December to perform across the UK and Europe. The tour begins in Manchester and includes a date at London’s Omeara from which he will then be travelling on to dates in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and more. More »

Craft Recordings, the Catalog division of Concord Bicycle Music, is proud to announce the release of King Of The Boogie, a career-spanning retrospective, honoring blues icon John Lee Hooker. Due out 6th October, the five-CD set delves deep into the catalog of the influential artist, featuring not only his iconic hits, but also rarities, live recordings and several previously unreleased tracks. Housed in a 56-page book, the collection includes a wide selection of photos, taken throughout the musician’s life, plus new liner notes by writer and John Lee Hooker historian Jas Obrecht, as well as by the artist’s longtime manager and friend, Mike Kappus. More »

It is now almost 40 years to the day since the Sex Pistols ‘Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols’ was released and to mark this significant anniversary USM/UMC are proud to revisit the out-of-print super deluxe edition of the album, which was originally issued in 2012. More »