Frank Turner has announced his new single ‘Brave Face’, which is available now through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records. Taken from Turner’s recent album Be More Kind, ‘Brave Face’ feels, he says, “like one of the most important tracks on the album to me. It brings together the twin themes of the record, the romantic and the political, which feels ever more apt – the world keeps getting crazier, and I just got engaged!” 2018 has…
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After a hiatus of four years, David Gray is back with a hopeful new single, ‘The Sapling’ from his soon-to-be released new album, Gold In A Brass Age. The album, due out on the 8th of March, on IHT Records/AWAL Record-ings, is in advance of a host of headlines shows in March including Cardiff’s St David’s Hall, London’s Royal Festival Hall and Dublin’s Bord Gais Theatre. (Find more tour information here). Gray is back in…
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You’d be forgiven for the thinking the duo Ward Thomas were a Nashville-based country act but they are not even American, they are actually from Hampshire in the UK. The twin sisters, Catherine and Lizzy, who comprise Ward Thomas, started writing songs during their teen years borne out of passion for the US Country Stars, The Dixie Chicks. However, they have focused their attentions on home ground and have built a loyal following on British…
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When you think of the huge success stories that pop out from the X Factor woodwork, you think Leona Lewis, One Direction and Olly Murs. Perhaps the most influential act to win big after the talent contest is Little Mix. The band consists of the fabulous four- Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. They are not only one of the biggest girl bands around, but they were the first ever band to…
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We recently sat down with the Spitfires to discuss all things music and how the process has been for them as a band and how the new album came together. What brought you together as a band? I suppose being mates firstly. I was looking for a band and I asked Sam to play bass just because he liked the same music and the same clothes. I don’t think he’d even played a bass before….
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David Gray today confirms release details for a new album Gold In A Brass Age – his first album of new material in four years – alongside a seventeen-date tour of the UK for 2019. The album will be available on March 8 through IHT Records / AWAL Recordings, with first single ‘The Sapling’ out today. Produced by Ben DeVries, son of producer and soundtrack composer Marius, Gold In A Brass Age finds Gray in…
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Distinguished song craftsmen Tom Baxter made his long-awaited return to record on October 5, 2018 with his first official release in a decade, The Other Side of Blue. Baxter will support the new release with a full UK/IRE tour, taking in a date at London’s Union Chapel on November 6, 2018. It was in 2008 that Tom brought out the self-funded Skybound, the follow-up to the 2004 Feather & Stone, which first alerted the wider…
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Australian indie-rockers The Dizzy Kids have just released their brand new single, ‘Criminal’, an up-tempo guitar driven anthem, lifted from their debut album ‘21’. The Dizzy Kids were formed by brothers Dizzy and Kid Hudson in the summer of 2018, brought together by their love of old school rock ‘n’ roll and indie music. Which is plain when you listen to the track, it screams an homage to bands like Green Day and Blink 182. …
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There are just those artists that intrinsically move you because they come from a place of such creative depth that they win you over without hesitation and wholly from the first. Lord Huron, for me, are those artists. As they humbly took to the stage on Thursday at the Junction in Cambridge, (on tour of for their new album, Vide Noir), I was already impressed having listened to their music, but it was about to…
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Alternative rockers, The Super Pumas, have released their huge new single, ‘Circles Roaming’, the first song from their soon to be released debut album, and it lives up to every expectation fans will have of the massively talented trio. The Super Pumas are a three-pieced alternative rock band from Inverclyde, Scotland. The band have been racking up the gigs since they formed and released their debut EP almost three years ago and now they’re back…
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On 23 November 2018, Bradford bornAsher Knightwill release a single