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Worm School climb high with a dream-soaked debut in “Jacob’s Ladder” L’orne drift into beautiful madness on “Talk To Me Too” Nightbus travel a dark route on “Passenger” Westside Cowboy saddle up with new label, tour and brand new EP Blondshell brings fresh voices and new takes with companion album “Another Picture”
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Nightbus travel a dark route on “Passenger”

October 10, 2025 Matt
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Pynch soundtrack what it is to try and be alive on “Beautiful Noise”

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Worm School climb high with a dream-soaked debut in “Jacob’s Ladder”

October 24, 2025 Matt
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Why Horses? Stalk Cardiff’s indie underground with feverish debut EP

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WOOM finds stillness on “To Slow You” EP

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Worm School climb high with a dream-soaked debut in “Jacob’s Ladder”
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Worm School climb high with a dream-soaked debut in “Jacob’s Ladder”
L’orne drift into beautiful madness on “Talk To Me Too”
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L’orne drift into beautiful madness on “Talk To Me Too”
Nightbus travel a dark route on “Passenger”
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Nightbus travel a dark route on “Passenger”
Westside Cowboy saddle up with new label, tour and brand new EP
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Westside Cowboy saddle up with new label, tour and brand new EP
Half Happy mixes dream pop and post-punk on new single “Well Done Honey”
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Half Happy mixes dream pop and post-punk on new single “Well Done Honey”
Half Waif shares moving new single “Figurine” from her upcoming album “See You At The Maypole”
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Half Waif shares moving new single “Figurine” from her upcoming album “See You At The Maypole”
Kelly Lee Owens drops summer “Sunshine” ahead of new album
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Kelly Lee Owens drops summer “Sunshine” ahead of new album
Ellur is searching for answers on soaring new single “God Help Me Now”
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Ellur is searching for answers on soaring new single “God Help Me Now”
Worm School climb high with a dream-soaked debut in “Jacob’s Ladder”
Track Review
Worm School climb high with a dream-soaked debut in “Jacob’s Ladder”
L’orne drift into beautiful madness on “Talk To Me Too”
News
L’orne drift into beautiful madness on “Talk To Me Too”
Nightbus travel a dark route on “Passenger”
Album Review
Nightbus travel a dark route on “Passenger”
Westside Cowboy saddle up with new label, tour and brand new EP
News
Westside Cowboy saddle up with new label, tour and brand new EP
Track Review

WELLY flex their pop muscles with “The Roundabout Racehorse”

February 20, 2025 Matt

WELLY’s back with their latest single, “The Roundabout Racehorse,” a riotous indie-rock anthem that perfectly captures the surreal nostalgia of returning home and realizing that, while everything looks the same,…

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Bria Salmena unveils bold new single “Stretch the Struggle”

February 7, 2025 Matt

Bria Salmena, long known for her commanding presence as the frontwoman of FRIGS and a key vocalist in Orville Peck’s band, is stepping boldly into the spotlight with her debut…

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ELLiS·D drops epic new single “Drifting” ahead of upcoming EP

February 7, 2025 Matt

Brighton’s goth-punk dynamo ELLiS·D is back with a bang, dropping the electrifying “Drifting,” the latest track from his upcoming sophomore EP Spill, due March 21st via Crafting Room Recordings. “Drifting”…

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Mogwai drop “Fanzine Made Of Flesh” ahead of new album release

January 14, 2025 Matt

Scottish rockers Mogwai have been teasing their new album “The Bad Fire” over the last few months and ahead of its release on January 24th they have dropped a surprise…

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Glixen announce new EP, tour and drop the swirling “lick the star”

November 29, 2024 Matt

Phoenix shoegaze four-piece Glixen has spent most of 2024 building upon its fine reputation for creating sonic mystery and whipping up a fanbase of like-minded souls prepared to be absorbed…

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ElliS-D gets fretful and fearful on new fuzzed out single “Shakedown”

November 15, 2024 Matt

With trademark Goth atmospherics and anxiety-ridden jitters, ELLiS·D returns with a fearful and fretful single in “Shakedown.” The fuzzed-up white noise and disassociated-sounding vocals pile on layers of bewildered overthinking,…

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Westside Cowboy meld country, rock and lo-fi power pop on new single “I’ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)”

November 15, 2024 Matt

Opening with an acerbic and zestful declaration brand new four-piece Westside Cowboy from Manchester, England possess a youthful zeal and energy that accompanies their penchant for magpie musical cherry-picking on…

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M(h)aol share resplendent new single “Snare”

November 8, 2024 Matt

Freshly signed to Merge Records and now playing as a three-piece Irish intersectional feminists M(h)aol return to the pop rock fray with a gloriously, typically spikey sounding “Snare.” The single…

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Hotgirl announce arrival with blistering single ‘In Your Head’

November 1, 2024 Matt

Besides playing some raucous live shows and festival dates, Hotgirl has been hunkered in the studio recently, escaping the confines of lead vocalist Ashley Abbedeen‘s previously DIY bedroom project. They…

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Mamalarky return with the sweet and hooky love song “Nothing Lasts Forever”

October 28, 2024 Matt

Mamalarky, the tri-coastal indie rock quartet of Livvy Bennett, Noor Khan, Michael Hunter, and Dylan Hill, has signed to Epitaph Records and released a new single, “Nothing Lasts Forever”, the…

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The Horrors emerge from the darkness with “The Silence That Remains”

October 11, 2024 Matt

What a week to be goth! The Cure releases their first new music in sixteen years and now The Horrors, Faris Badwan and his crew of Robert Smith‘s musical descendants…

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Paige Kennedy decides not to live “Life In Fear” on new single

October 4, 2024 Matt

Being yourself, your true authentic self is something many of us will encounter in our lives. Those who don’t or aren’t able to may be living in fear of judgment,…

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ALPHABET’s debut single “Artificial Light” shines brightly

September 27, 2024 Matt

Relative babes in arms ALPHABET have only been playing live for around a year or so. While that’s probably akin to a decade to any eager new band seeking to…

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A Place For Owls ponder the Earth’s plight on their new single “broken open seed”

September 13, 2024 Matt

Self-described as a Denver, Colorado-based emo band, A Place For Owls is an emotive guitar five-piece that has been crafting a brand new album how we dig in the earth,…

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Wings of Desire command us to “Shut Up And Listen” on their new EP

September 6, 2024 Matt

As the hazy, anthemic wash of guitars and dual vocals surrounds you on the opening title track of this four-track EP, you’re transported into an energetic musical world bristling with…

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