Write a comment Canadian punk rockers PUP only dropped their third album Morbid Stuff last year, but already the frantic four-piece are back with a new single called Rot, taken from their upcoming new six-track EP This Place Sucks Ass, which is due out through Little Dipper/Rise on 23 October.
Write a comment New York rockers American Authors burst into the mainstream more than half a decade ago with their hit singles Believer and Best Day Of My Life taken from their 2014 debut album Oh, What A Life. By that point though, the band had been together for almost a decade, having met while in college in Boston and played together under the moniker The Blue Pages until they rebranded in 2012. A heavy touring schedule and follow up albums What We Live For in 2016, and last year’s Seasons continued to win the group fans for their eclectic, party-starting anthems.
Write a comment After dropping her debut album On Hold in 2018, Bristolian singer songwriter Fenne Lily toured Europe and spent time on the festival circuit, before holing up in Berlin to pen a follow up. That new record, Breach, is a deeply personal offering, much like her first, only this time there are a far wider range of elements under the microscope, which isn’t surprising. On Hold was written when Lily was just a teenager, while this record, in her own words, “is proof that I can be emotionally stable, even if right now I feel a little bit up and down”.
Write a comment Justin Bieber’s latest single ‘Holy’ featuring Chance the Rapper is a sweet, serendipitous exploration of love at its most sacred and innocent.
Write a comment Ali Gatie’s latest single ‘Welcome Back’ would have been a pleasing, catchy tune on its own but Alessia Cara’s inclusion takes it to the next level.
Write a comment Astrid S’s new single ‘It’s Ok If You Forget Me’ functions as an adorable nostalgia piece that will transport you straight to the last 1990s.
Write a comment Kygo once again travels back to the late seventies to seek inspiration for his latest mix ‘Hot Stuff.’
Write a comment Few bands remain as synonymous with their biggest hit as Semisonic, whose 1998 smash hit Closing Time has become the band’s legacy, the kind of signature track that has far outlasted the group itself. More than that, Closing Time has passed into wider popular culture, appearing in a wide variety of films and TV shows, and will probably remain on karaoke playlists for centuries to come. It’s not ridiculous to speculate that more people know that song than know who wrote it.
Write a comment Doves were always a tricky band to place precisely within the UK’s early noughties musical landscape: Britpop without the youthful swagger of Oasis or Blur, psychedelic but without the menace of Primal Scream, soulful indie without the pop sensibilities of Embrace. Despite, or perhaps because of, their slightly indefinable qualities, they amassed a loyal following, releasing four studio albums between 2000 and 2009, two of which reached number one in the UK album charts.
Write a comment Eels, the melodic, low-key indie-pop moniker of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett’s band, have released a second new song in as many months with the unexpected arrival of Who You Say You Are.
Write a comment Swedish rockers Perfect Plan are back with their second album Time For A Miracle, the followup to 2018’s All Rise.
Write a comment British singer, songwriter and model Foxes has continued her busy year by releasing her third new song of 2020, titled Friends In The Corner.
Write a comment Hailing from Georgia, USA, Lauren Alaina first appeared in the public eye as a 15-year-old on series ten of American Idol, where she eventually finished as runner-up to Scotty McCreery. Her performances though earned her a record deal and her first album Wildflower followed later that year, debuting at number five in the Billboard 200 chart, and making Alaina the youngest female artist to debut that high since LeAnn Rimes.
Write a comment Navvy is the stage name of Auckland-born Phoebe Lee Jasper, the latest graduate from Oceania’s apparent fast track development programme for smart, female electro-pop solo artists that launched the careers of household names such as Sia and Lorde (who even comes from the same town as Navvy).
