Album Review: Muncie Girls – Fixed Ideals

Following up a killer debut record can be hard – but Muncie Girls smash expectations and then some on their new album.  In 2016 Muncie Girls released one of the most critically acclaimed UK rock debut albums of the year (if not decade), and now they’re back with follow-up Fixed Ideals. On it, the band explore a…

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Joshua Hedley’s UK tour starts next week

Kicking off at London’s Old Blue Last on Monday, you really shouldn’t miss these shows.  With the release of his highly anticipated debut album Mr. Jukebox via Third Man Records, Joshua Hedley will embrace the role he was born to play: this generation’s classic country champion. Ahead of his UK tour next week, he’s released…

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Album Review: WSTR – Identity Crisis

Liverpool pop-punks WSTR are releasing their sophomore record this Friday. Working once again with long-time friend and producer, Seb Barlow (Neck Deep, As It Is), WSTR channeled the energy of the classics they grew up on and blasted forward with guitar solos, ad libs, and sing-a-long choruses that defiantly punches through the crowd. Speaking to…

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Barns Courtney shares new single ’99’

Get a taster of Courtney’s new music ahead of his UK headline shows in November. Airing on the side of retrospect, the uplifting new indie anthem 99 is a throwback to the glory days of the late nineties. Speaking of the track, Barns comments “This is the first song where I’ve ever been able to inject…

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Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers set to release debut album in November

Bought To Rot is out on 9 November via Bloodshot Records.  Bought to Rot spans 14 tracks and focuses on Grace’s fractured relationship with her adopted hometown of Chicago, true friendship, complicated romance, and reconciling everything in the end.  The record stands as the most musically diverse collection of songs Grace has written to date. Inspired in large…

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Dance Gavin Dance’s Tilian Pearson shares new video

Taken off his new album The Skeptic, out on 28 September via Rise Records.  Dance Gavin Dance frontman, Tilian Pearson, has released a new video for Hold On which explores two different father-son dynamics within a family. The song is taken from Tilian’s upcoming album The Skeptic.  According to Tilian, “Hold On is about mutually surrendering yourself to another…

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7he 7ouch share new single ‘You Can’

The track is taken from their upcoming EP Seventyseven, out 29 October.  From Athens to London, emerging modern rock outfit 7he 7ouch have released their new single You Can. A melodic rock belter with slick guitar licks, popping vocals and a stadium-sized chorus, it’s taken from their upcoming EP Seventyseven. Underneath the soaring mix, the lyrics reflect…

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US indie-punks The Nectars set to return to the UK

Plus: Check out their new video for Holy.  Following the release of their debut album Sci-Fi Television, New Jersey’s hottest rising indie-punks The Nectars have shared the video for the opening track Holy. In less than one and a half minutes of frantic guitars and energetic beats, the video sees lead vocalist Jessica Kenny in a…

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Album Review: Foxing – Nearer My God

Foxing’s Nearer My God is the dark, epic and beautiful record you need in your life in 2018.  On 10 August, St Louis outfit Foxing released their latest record Nearer My God. Having taken three years to complete, the record is probably one of the best things you’ll hear in 2018. Produced in St. Louis and Montreal by…

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That’s a wrap – Here’s what went down at the 2018 Heavy Music Awards

Get the deets on all the winners, performances and more.  Last Thursday night, the community of heavy music lovers, industry peeps and performers gathered at Camden’s KOKO to celebrate the genre’s best artists over the past twelve months. Now running in its second year, The Heavy Music Awards crown the UK’s most outstanding bands, international…

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