The boutique record label Blowtorch Records, based in Galway, Ireland, put on its first showcase festival in the city's Róisín Dubh on 1 May 2025. Cheekily ...

Powerplant’s band leader Theo Zhykharyev advises us as the London-based project release their latest single, ‘Crashing Cars.’  The song “signals the return to ...

Big Stir are rightly very proud of their prolific artist Chris Church, and are often quick to point out that he "never makes the same album twice." They're ...

Not every band could pull off an ambitious show like 'Live at the Acropolis', but James are never shy of a challenge - and it’s part of the reason for their long-lasting success.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. We're off to Wrexham, some bands we shall check them, and have lots of beer. It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Why we love it: because fuuuuucking heeeeelll it’s melting my face. There’s so much fuzz distortion that it strips the skin, the cartilage, the tendons from your skull and leaves puddles of goo on the ...

But for all that, cards on the table, I’ve never heard one single from Andy Bell's previous solo output, of which Ten Crowns is proper album number three, for ...