It is always fascinating to attend the launch of a new festival. How well-organised will it be? What disasters might unfold?

The Wolfgang Press have announced details of their ninth studio album, Asylum Variations. It will be released via Downwards ...

It’s 45 years since Metallica formed in Los Angeles. Back then the likelihood of the band selling out the 50,000 plus Hampden Park might have seen remote, but there’s a multi-generation crowd here ...

Phoebe Bridgers will release her third album Lost Weekend on August 14 on Dead Oceans. While the tracklisting for the album has yet to be released at the time of writing, the first track to be ...

In an ever more challenging UK festival scene, 2026 is seeing a new entrant to the fray: State Fayre. Backed by big hitters ...

The legacy of Pixies was set back in the late 80’s. Since then, they have simply added to it and whilst their most recent albums fail to be as dynamic as their 80’s and 90’s output, live they remain ...

There's a bolero buried in Downtown Boys' new album Public Luxury, hidden under serrated guitars and squelching drum machines ...

I wanted to write an album about the transformative power of love” says Gabi Garbutt in advance of their third album Radical ...

I met Alex Dugan and David Grayson (respectively the lead singer and drummer of the Austin quintet Culture Wars) via Zoom on ...

But here in Leeds this sentiment is not even remotely true. As the world’s largest greenfield music and performing arts festival takes a breather in 2026, the ...

Green Man, Wales’ largest independent music, arts and science festival and whose tickets for 2026 all sold out within an hour of them going on sale last September without a single act then being known ...