VIPERSNATCH offer ‘Therapy,’ along with a call for acknowledgment, healing, and empowerment.

FRESH from signing with Golden Robot Records, Central Queensland’s rising alternative trio VIPERSNATCH have released the powerful single, ‘Therapy.’ At its core, ‘Therapy’ delves deeply into the trauma and emotional scars left by sexualisation, abuse, and sexual assault experienced by many young women. ViperSnatch confront these realities head-on, exploring how the experiences shape a woman’s view of intimacy…

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Shake, RATTLE, and double-drum roll. It’s ‘Your Move’

NOTTINGHAM’s double-drummer duo RATTLE – Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley – have today shared the single and video ‘Your Move (Upset the Rhythm),’ the first from February 2025’s album, ‘Encircle.’ The fifteen-minute masterpiece is mesmeric and boundless, hypnotic in its drumming minimalism and often wordless, almost tribal vocals of Eira Brown.  “The images in my…

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SAHG – You won’t fool these children of Norway’s metal revolution

NORWAY’s heavy metal stalwarts SAHG are celebrating the release of their ‘More of Nothing’ EP, a collection of four new songs, along with an outrageous version of the T.Rex classic, ‘Children of the Revolution.’ “We have worked onward as the ’Toxic Trio’ since our latest album ‘Born Demon’ and passed even new limits for what…

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The Fall, a bizarre pilgrimage, The Stooges, and feeble-minded parasites. THEE HEADSHRINKERS put ‘Head Cheese’ on 2024’s musical menu

DROPPING somewhere between The Fall, and The Stooges, East Sussex’s masked mavericks THEE HEADSHRINKERS have just released debut album, ‘Head Cheese.’ Chaotic and tight in equal measure, it arrives just four months on from a three-day recording session at the home of the ‘Medway sound,’ Ranscombe Studios. Head Cheese is the title of a short…

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VELVET MOON go there own way on Fleetwood Mac inspired ‘The Hour of King Kong’

CHANNELING a prime Fleetwood Mac vibe, Stockholm’s dreamy indie trio VELVET MOON have shared latest single and video, ‘The Hour of King Kong,’ (via Argle Bargle Studios). “The song evokes a powerful, almost mythic moment of transformation where struggle and ecstasy intertwine,” said lyricist and vocalist, Sandra Bjurman. “An instant marked by surrender to primal…

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Out of the dark, into the light. ‘Battle Scarred’ JULIET’S NOT DEAD return with new single

OUT now via TMR Records/Earache Digital Distribution, ‘Battle Scarred,’ the latest single from north-east rockers, ‘JULIET’S NOT DEAD.’ “The song is so powerful, not just in sound but in its meaning,” said frontman, Stevie Stoker. “Many of us have had moments where we have suffered from depression. A couple of years ago I was in…

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JASON ISBELL announces London Barbican solo show

AS ‘Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’ complete their hugely successful UK tour, the GRAMMY-Award winning musician today announces a special run of 2025 solo shows – with the EU/UK leg kicking off February 2nd, including one night at London’s Barbican on February 10th. Six-time GRAMMY-winner and North Alabama native Isbell possesses a rare penchant…

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Pump up the volume: LOU DUFFY-HOWARD’s ‘There and Back’ is a journey into sound

FROM LOU DUFFY-HOWARD, bassist with visionary UK indie outfit Red Guitars, one of the more beguiling concept albums of recent times, ‘There and Back,’ released via DHM. A combination of songs, spoken word, instrumentals and soundscapes illuminating a series of railway journeys, the solo video album comprises eleven tracks, each one telling a story of…

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EARLY JAMES teases January album with new single, ‘Rag Doll’

FROM January’s Dan Auerbach produced ‘Medium Raw’ album, EARLY JAMES today releases latest single, ‘Rag Doll.’ The accompanying video – directed by Tim Hardiman – takes place at the Sloss Furnaces factory in Birmingham, AL, a national historic landmark, with James wandering around the factory, filmed in black and white, before finding his bandmates and…

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meka’s ‘Temperance’ – an elegant, sun-kissed California sound

WITH a nostalgic sun-kissed California sound blooming with bass, piano and elegant strings, ‘Temperance’ is the latest single from Prague-based, American singer-songwriter, meka. “The song is my attempt at explaining the haze of memory and desire to feel something other than numbness after a loved one died suddenly,” she said. “To cope, I clung to…

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