Maximo Park’s Paul Smith announces UK tour

Check out his latest single Silver Rabbit now.  With the release of recent single Silver Rabbit – the first to be taken from forthcoming album Diagrams – we find Smith conjuring a story of self-doubt and regret, setting it against the low-budget romance of the seaside, and channelling all of that through overdriven guitars. On an album…

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The Pearl Hearts release new single ahead of UK tour

Listen to Different Kinda Girl now.  The Pearl Hearts have released a video to new single Different Kinda Girl, a sharp shot of garage rock adrenaline which nods to the riot grrrl movement and 90s girl power. Lyrically Different Kinda Girl pays homage to Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and paraphrases suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Combining The Pearl…

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EP Review: Brigades – True Blue

South Caroline pop-punk/post-hardcore outfit Brigades’ fifth EP is out now.  Pop-punk is currently seeing its biggest rise since the early noughties, waves of new bands emerge on both sides of the Atlantic on both ends of the pop spectrum. Brigades have been around for quite a while but have now released their first new music…

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EP Review: Bang Bang Romeo – Shame On You

Huge vocals and catchy melodies anyone? Bang Bang Romeo have got just the thing for you.  Doncaster three-piece Bang Bang Romeo released their debut EP Shame On You last month via Five Seven Music. Speaking about the EP, vocalist Anastasia “Stars” Walker reveals, “This is a biggy, isn’t it?  I mean, this EP includes songs that myself and Ross…

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Album Review: Thrice – Palms

Thrice are back with new music – and you’ll wanna hear it.  Orange County-based four-piece Thrice have released their latest effort via Epitaph this week. Co-produced by the band and Eric Palmquist and mixed by John Congleton, Palms encompasses everything from viscerally charged post-hardcore to piano-driven balladry. Near the end of last summer and a national tour,…

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Saharas reveal catchy new single

Shake My Fever is your perfect introduction to Windsor four-piece Saharas.  Supercharging their sound with a revitalised approach to their arrangement, Saharas have revealed their latest single Shake My Fever that advances their swift emergence as a band. Their conscious decision to distance themselves from their synth-lead sound of past releases has evolved into delivering the smooth, immersive…

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Listen to the new 5SOS single

Valentine is the latest release form the band’s record-breaking album Youngblood.  Having already made global chart history with their latest album Youngblood, cementing them as the only band (not vocal group) in chart history to see its first three full-length studio albums enter the US chart at #1 – 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) reveal the official…

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Barns Courtney shares new video for ’99’

Ahead of his UK headline tour, Barns Courtney has revealed the video for his latest single.  Barns Courtney has released the official music video to match his new single 99. Speaking of the video, Barns says; “99 is a song about losing touch with your former self and the needless formalisation of fun in our daily…

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Dr Phil joins Good Charlotte on stage

Yes, you read that correctly –  you know you want to see this.  Good Charlotte released their highly-anticipated seventh studio album Generation Rx via MDDN/ BMG on Friday. The band celebrated the release of the album with an extraordinary performance of their latest single Prayers on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. The…

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Listen to She Makes War’s newest single

Undone is taken from new album Brace For Impact – out on 5 October.  Bristol based producer and creative indie powerhouse She Makes War just released her new single Undone, the first installment of the double A side Undone \ London Bites, taken from the forthcoming album Brace For Impact, which is out on 5 October. The…

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