Isaiah Hull – the self-proclaimed “stand-up tragedian” from Old Trafford, Manchester – unveils his extraordinary new body of work: POCOMANIA. The ten-track project marks his first album for Young Recordings, and is both a spiritual reckoning and sonic eruption. Co-created with acclaimed producer Kwes Darko, POCOMANIA sees the pair exploring what mania sounds like in today’s Black Briton. The title POCOMANIA references a Jamaican spiritual practice that creolises African ritualism...
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Gilla Band Ireland’s favourite Avant-punk quartet has re-issued The Early Years EP, a collection of out of print 7” singles and covers originally released on Any Other City Records and The Quarter Inch Collective and then on Rough Trade Records in 2015. The re-issue features new artwork based on the original colour blocks plus ‘The Cha Cha Cha’ has now been remastered alongside the rest of the tracks and is...
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Singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist Patrick Watson has released ‘The Wandering’, a new collaboration with Portuguese artist MARO. A ghostly duet of wordless harmonies, eerie orchestration, and a subtle bossa nova groove, the new track is featured on Watson’s forthcoming album Uh Oh, out September 26. An official music video will premiere on Watson’s YouTube Channel this Friday at NOON ET, with an afterparty available for premium users, a conversation between him and director Jacob Jonas....
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By popular demand, Queens of the Stone Age release the audio of their spellbinding Alive in the Catacombs performance. Appropriately, the music arrives Friday the 13th across all digital platforms. The band has also announced a limited vinyl edition of the AITC audio. Only 5,000 copies will be pressed of this special one-sided vinyl edition. Housed in a gatefold jacket with foil print inside and out, the AITC vinyl edition...
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David Byrne is proud to announce Who Is the Sky?, his first new album since 2018’s acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia, which will be released September 5th. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. Musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile...
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Jamaica Moana announces her new EP BUD & DENI, released August 1st. Following a first play on triple j Unearthed’s TOPS, she releases fierce new single, and ode to Western Sydney, ‘LIVIN’ OUT WEST’. “I’m extremely proud to be from The West. It’s a beautifully diverse melting pot of cultures, with a plethora of connections to home as diasporic people. I had to honour this with a sound that took me...
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John Maus returns with a new single and music video: ‘I Hate Antichrist,’ his first new music in 7-years, which arrives via his new label home YOUNG. Built around a rhythm that feels both ritualistic and futuristic, ‘I Hate Antichrist’ is a spiritual confrontation – part protest, part prayer, part digital exorcism. Delivered with Maus’ distinctive raw conviction, repetition of the titular phrase becomes more like a mantra than a lyric – its...
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Kim Gordon released ‘BYE BYE 25!’, a remake of ‘BYE BYE!’ from her critically acclaimed second solo album, The Collective. Proceeds from the sale of ‘BYE BYE 25!’, both song and t-shirt, will be donated to reproductive rights nonprofit NOISE FOR NOW. Both ‘BYE BYE 25!’ and The Collective were nominated for GRAMMYs at the 2025 ceremony. Of the ‘BYE BYE 25!’, Gordon says: (Producer and collaborator) Justin Raisen had...
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Anyone who follows electronic music will know Mechatok – aka Emir Timur Tokdemir – as the defining architect of contemporary experimental pop and rap. From globe-spanning live shows to collaborations with some of the decade’s most forward-thinking artists – including Drain Gang (Bladee, Ecco2k, Whitearmor, Thaiboy Digital), Lorenzo Senni, and Charli XCX – Mechatok has subtly shaped the direction of club and pop music over the past ten years. The...
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The Barr Brothers have announced that their new album Let it Hiss will be released October 17. Their long simmering and long-awaited fourth studio album isn’t just a collection of 10 vital new songs, it’s a document of transformation. The result of a pivotal shift: a pause for reflection, a reckoning with vulnerability, and a reconnection between two brothers – Brad and Andrew Barr – who’ve spent their entire lives making music...
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An ode to island youth, club shapeshifters 15 15 release their latest single, ‘āfa’. Touching on the luminous rays of a Tahitian summer party, a yearly tradition that’s deeply rooted in Tsi-Min and Ennio’s culture (both were born there) ‘āfa’ radiates in breezy, communal energy that lingers like salt in the air. The past 12 months have marked many standout performances, notably Pitchfork Festival London at Camden’s Roundhouse, a European...
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Queens of the Stone Age have released Alive in the Catacombs and an accompanying behind the scenes documentary, Alive in Paris and Before. Both films are available now to purchase or rent via qotsa.com. For the next 48 hours, fans who purchase Alive In the Catacombs for download or stream will also receive Alive in Paris and Before: an exclusive behind the scenes chronicle of the tumultuous days leading up to the Catacombs performance. An unflinching document of...
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More just in….. Pulp have released their first album in nearly 24 years – and they have a little surprise for fans attending. Recorded late in 2024 with producer James Ford, More is Pulp’s eighth studio album and features the singles ‘Spike Island’ and ‘Got to Have Love’. The album has been universally acclaimed by critics prior to release and is now available to buy and stream worldwide. “The day an album is released to the...
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Out now, Ripped and Torn is the eagerly awaited debut album by Chicago trio Lifeguard. Also released is the band’s churning third single ‘Like You’ll Lose’. The dub-inflected track takes inspiration from Lee Perry’s tight drum sound and expansive lo-fi atmospherics, with Asher Case’s bassline providing a center of gravity for skittering rhythms and tumbling echoes. The band has also been profiled by Rolling Stone, who write “Ripped and Torn...
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Big Thief will release their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, on 5 September 2025. Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia share album opener, ‘Incomprehensible’. Double Infinity is the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-nominated album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, recorded last winter at the Power Station, New York City. For three solid weeks, the trio would ride bicycles on frozen streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, meeting in...
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It’s a Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness....
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