Black Orchid Empire announce tours with InMe and Black Map

Their new single Celebrity Summer coming 6 April 2018 via Long Branch Records. London rockers Black Orchid Empire have announced live dates throughout May and June which sees them play six shows opening for InMe in the UK, followed by a ten-date run throughout Germany and the UK as main support for Black Map. The band…

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Forever Cult share new video for Ursurper

The band have also announced select shows with Queen Zee and confirm festival appearances. Leeds quartet Forever Cult have unveiled a video for latest single Usurper. Abrasive, fuzzy and oscillating, the track is a sonic depiction of a night out escalating. Usurper is also the first track featuring the band’s newly recruited second guitarist Wilko.…

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Asylums reveal new single and announce new album details

Asylums return with the feel-good hit of the summer in the shape of new single When We Wake Up.  The track s built for throwing warm lager in the air at Reading Festival, for pogoing in your kitchen just because you can, for shoulder-barging your best mate on the dancefloor. It’s a chorus that still gives…

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Emily Faye has a new EP for you this month

Here I Am is set for release on 27 April and was recorded in Nashville and the UK. English singer-songwriter Emily Faye will be sharing her brand new EP Here I Am in April. Recorded between Southern Ground / Sound Emporium studios in Nashville, TN and The Banger Hanger in Essex, UK, the EP features lead single…

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Mayor of London launches #SoundsLikeLondon campaign

Grassroots Music Venues across London unite to create month long festival of music as part of Sounds Like London – Fightback London. Music Venue Trust have announced Fightback London, a key component of Sounds Like London, the Mayor’s month long celebration of London’s vital Grassroots Music Venues that will take place in June 2018. Sounds…

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Emo Nite LA set to host pre-Slam Dunk Party in London

To get you in the spirit for Slam Dunk South, Emo Nite LA will come to the UK for the first time ever.  Emo Nite LA, the event that started at a dive bar in Los Angeles and now has spread to over 30 cities across the United States is going international. On 25 May,…

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There’s a new 5SOS video to obsess over!

Watch the band’s first new video in nearly two years for single Want You Back.  Want You Back has already amassed over 30 million streams on Spotify since it’s release on 23 February. After 18 months on the road in support of their No. 1 sophomore album Sounds Good Feels Good, the band have spent the…

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Listen to The Faim’s new track

Midland Line is out now and it’s really catchy!  Perth, Australia’s newest export, The Faim have shared their latest single, Midland Line. The track follows the huge debut single Saints Of The Sinners which lead to Kerrang! calling it “massive.. you have to hear them right now” and Rock Sound say The Faim “prepare to make 2018…

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Check out Tom Waits’ personally curated career-spanning playlist

For everyone who loves Tom Waits and those who want to explore more of him.    Tom Waits’ first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s are now out. All seven titles – many of which have been long out of print – are to be re-released on high quality 180-gram…

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Johnny Cash’s new record is going to be oustanding

And here’s why. Last week John Carter Cash, son of one of the most iconic couples in music Johnny Cash and June Carter, came to London to launch Johnny Cash: Forever Words– an album that sees Johnny Cash’s unpublished letters, poems and writings adapted into brand new musical pieces by the likes of Elvis Costello,…

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