As the nation eagerly anticipates the roadmap out of lockdown, there’s more potential good news for UK musicians and artists.
Author: Tom Curtis-Horsfall
King Gizz announce new album L.W., share new track ‘Pleura’
The remarkably prolific psychsters reveal details of their 17th studio album, the companion piece to 2020 album KG, which is set for digital release next week.
Iceage announce new album, Seek Shelter, and reveal new video for ‘Vendetta’
It’ll be the Copenhagen post-punks first full-length and highly-anticipated release on Mexican Summer.
The White Stripes’ make From The Basement standalone set available – watch here
Filmed at London’s Maida Vale Studios in 2005, the entire performance has been made available for the first time.
METZ provide the soundtrack to shred it with new video for ‘Sugar Pill’
The video, for the latest single from 2020 album Atlas Vending, sees the Toronto noisemakers pay homage to the irrepressible spirit of skateboarding.
Motorama: “We are tired of the global political media.”
The Buzz speaks to Vlad Parshin, bandleader of Russian post-punks Motorama about how he ignores outside opinion and uses the past to paint his vision of the present.
Bella Union holding auditions for “exceptionally talented” drummer
The label, run by former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde, is looking for a budding British-based drummer to join one of their roster’s touring bands.
Django Django: “On our previous two albums we were so bogged down, we got lost.”
Ahead of 4th studio album Glowing In The Dark, we spoke to Django Django bassist Jimmy Dixon about how the explorative four-piece escaped the malaise of previous methods, and freed themselves to have fun.
Gŵyl 2021: Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys, Tim Burgess, Arlo Parks lead lineup for new online festival
Festival of Voice, FOCUS Wales, Other Voices Cardigan and Aberystwyth Comedy Festival come together to bring us the online celebration of music and comedy this March, broadcast on the BBC.
Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood on post-Brexit touring: “This is a tragedy of deferred dreams.”
As MPs discuss the issue today, Greenwood penned an open letter warning that the “costs of touring Europe will kill off careers and diminish our national culture”.