Music is good for your mental health – according to science

We knew this all along but Brits turn to music to boost their mental well-being.  Millions of stressed Britons are turning to their music collections to help them de-stress, according to new research1 specially commissioned for this year’s National Album Day this Saturday. The results, announced also ahead of tomorrow’s World Mental Health Day, indicate…

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Hawthorne Heights announce ‘Lost Frequencies’

Check out the band’s new video and cover of the Ramone’s Pet Sematary.  Hawthorne Heights have announced they will be releasing a collection of B-Sides and Rarities titled Lost Frequencies, out 8 November via Pure Noise Records. In addition to today’s announcement, the band released a brand new single and music video for Hard To…

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Killjoys share new single ‘This Hollow Heart’

The emerging Welsh four-piece have also dropped a video for the new track.  Previously supported by BBC Introducing Wales and Airplay, KILLJOYS, formed of guitarist Joe Disson, powerhouse drummer Ty Walker, Chris Edwards and fronted by the charismatic Jess Perry’s combination of pop and rock is set to make waves. Speaking about the track, KILLJOYS…

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EP Review: Like Giants – Sovereign

Pop-punk four-piece Like Giants have self-released their debut EP Sovereign and here’s why you need to listen to it. Speaking on the new EP frontman Daniel Kai said “We recorded the EP with Matt O’Grady (You Me At Six, Deaf Havana, Don Broco). We wanted to create something that infused elements of bands that we…

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Cory Wells announces new album ‘The Way We Are’

The album is set for release on 15 November, watch the vide for his new single Wildfire now.  Acoustic singer/songwriter Cory Wells has announced that he will be releasing his debut full-length album, The Way We Are, on 15 November via Pure Noise Records. He has also released new video Wildfire taken off the upcoming album. “Four…

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Vukovi announce new single and album

Fall Better is set for release on 24 January 2020 via VKVI Records. Janine Shilstone, singer with Glasgow’s own Vukovi, has a simple mission statement for her band’s music. “I want our songs to let people know that they’re not alone in feeling crazy,” she says. “I want to give people who feel that way…

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Memphis May Fire plot UK headline tour for December

Memphis May Fire have announced their return to our shores this winter with a nine date UK run. The band will also go onto Europe, ending in Vienna on 18 December. This will be the bands first time in the UK in support of the latest record, Broken. Speaking on coming back to the UK…

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Album Review: The Menzingers – Hello Exile

Hello Exile is everything we love about The Menzingers and so much more.  Philadelphia-based punk band The Menzingers are set to release their brand new record Hello Exile via Epitaph tomorrow and we’re here to tell you it’ll be one of the best records you listen to this year. Hello Exile is the band’s most diverse and lyrically heavy album…

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Don Broco, State Champs and more announced for Slam Dunk 2020

Set to return after the festival’s biggest year yet, Slam Dunk Festival have announced the first wave of bands for 2020. With an incomparable charismatic mix of 80s pop inflections and the hardest-hitting riffs on daytime radio, Don Broco’s powerful party-starting tunes have taken the Bedfordian four-piece to astronomical heights. No strangers to Slam Dunk…

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Rebellion Festival returns in August 2020

Over 39 bands  already confirmed, plus many more to be announced. Although the memories, the hangovers and the hearing loss of this August’s immensely successful Rebellion Festival are still vivid and fresh, with hardly a pause for breath, the Rebellion Family are already hard at work planning next year’s event and 39 bands have already…

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