Swedish singer-songwriter Winona Oak unveils her new record.

Bloom, ‘reflects transformation’, Winona Oak has said, ‘the idea that even after pain life still finds ways to grow’, after setting her second studio album for release on September 25th.

It’s being previewed with the lead single Breaking Point, which she’s added is about, ‘the moment when the illusion finally cracks’:

I wrote it from a place of realizing that sometimes we hold onto a version of someone that isn’t real, or a version of a relationship that only works because we’re overlooking what’s happening. Once that clarity hits, you can’t

Massive Attack have released their new single Boots On The Ground featuring Tom Waits, while Waits will provide a spoken word B-side exclusive to vinyl entitled The Fly.

“It’s a career honour to collaborate with an artist of the magnitude, originality and integrity of Tom, but this track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos,” Massive Attack said.

Across the western hemisphere, state authoritarianism and the militarisation of police forces are fusing again with neo-fascist politics. Seen within the American emergency, at home and overseas, this track contains pulses of callous

One of the main departures My New Band Believe allows – never on the table with Black Midi – is being able to pick through relationships.

Things come in and out of fashion over time, but revenge never loses its appeal.

As if proof, My New Band Believe starts with Target Practice, a two-minute hate letter to a guilty as charged third party who is repeatedly assured, ‘Don’t cry, you deserve this’, strings frizzling, a finger jabbing meter giving the whole thing a slightly cartoonish air.

On screen we admit it sounds like an in joke at best; in sounds …

The Ordinary Boys return after more than a decade.

The Ordinary Boys are marking their 20th anniversary with the release of a brand new track entitled Peer Pressure.

If frontman Preston running to Celebrity Big Brother summed up the fame hungry superficiality of much of the mid-noughties’ UK indie scene, the band’s new single is looking to define some of the more grown up problems faced by the world in the current decade.

“Peer Pressure is a song about the stories we tell ourselves to rationalise our excesses, and how we ignore the real problems of life in a …

Jessie Ware’s sixth studio record is out today.

Jessie Ware has released her new album Superbloom on New Music Friday ahead of tour dates in North America, Europe and the UK later this year.

“I love dance music and still think this is a dance and groove record, but I was ready to write about connecting with real relationships and appreciate the love I have, and the fears I have of losing it,” she’s said.

Whether it’s the Garden of Eden or a garden of fertility and fecundity where goddesses play, the main inspiration here was the goddess Juno…I’m not

holybones and Baxter Dury collaborate on new music.

Baxter Dury has said the track is, ‘unsettling and sleazy just how it should be’, after working with holybones on the band’s new single ‘SLUGBOY’.

“We’ve been fans of Bax’s for a long long time, so it was great to get in the studio and write SLUGBOY with him,” the group, who have also self-directed the track’s video, added.

We found the places in each other’s worlds pretty neatly on this one. Go be a SLUGBOY. We wanted this to feel somewhere between a punchline and a fever dream – something

The Strokes announce a second London gig.

The Strokes will be stopping for an extra night at the O2 Arena in London when their Reality Awaits world tour reaches Europe in October.

The band confirmed the details of the tour earlier this week with their new album due for release on June 26th, and are set to launch it at Bonnaroo on June 12th.

With UK and Ireland gigs also booked in Newcastle, Manchester and Dublin, the second London show will take place on October 7th.

The Strokes tour:

June
12 Manchester TN Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
15 Clarkston …

Penelope Trappes has unveiled a new Saint Etienne version of Platinum with the remix album Opvs Novum: A Requiem Reworked’ pencilled in for release on May 29th.

“I love the slightly dark and cinematic moods of Penelope’s music,” Pete Wiggs said. “Platinum was a great track to mix with its haunting melody and heavenly cello arrangement – it felt just right for an ear pummelling trance-inducing rework.”

“It takes a collective energy to bring anything to life, and some of my favourite artists came together to bring …

Enter Shikari have premiered their official video for Find Out The Hard Way after this week giving an immediate physical release to the new album Lose Your Self.

“We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self, and give people the chance to hear a Shikari record like never before – as a cohesive whole,” Rou Reynolds said.

“We want people to go on a proper journey with this album, and see where it takes them. No lead up, no singles, and no explanation. Forcing the listener to actually listen, without being …

Jessie Ware will head out on tours of North America and Europe later this year with her new album Superbloom due for release tomorrow, April 17th.

“I am so excited to be performing my biggest shows ever,” Ware has said.

We made it to arenas!!! I am playing iconic venues around the world and I couldn’t be happier. The ‘Superbloom’ Tour will be filled with celebration, dancing, theatre, cowboys and goddesses and of course a LOT of singing. Can’t wait to step into my garden where we all shall bloom!

Madonna will release her new album Confessions II on July 3rd, introduced as a companion piece to the 2005 record Confessions On A Dance Floor.

Quoting one of the songs, she’s said, ‘People think that dance music is superficial, but they’ve got it all wrong. The dance floor is not just a place, it’s a threshold: A ritualistic space where movement replaces language’, and added:

When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto: We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These

Million Moons have released their new single Black Sun Rising after sessions at The Ranch in Southampton with Rolo Tomassi cohort Lewis Johns.

“We knew this would be a single from the moment Ed shared the first demo in the group thread,” bass player Jay Miller has responded.

It’s got such a memorable melody, and the energy when the full band comes in is just so huge! The journey of the piece is really epic, too. It builds and builds into a huge post-rock crescendo before ending back where

Big Special will release a 10-track EP entitled O’JOY! on June 5th and are previewing it with the single ‘ONLY FREE WHEN SLEEPING’.

“This new record is made of all the fallen parts of our first two albums,” the duo have said.

We picked them up and took them back to the studio to rework and play with them to make them into their own piece of work that reflects upon what we have done so far. The songs that didn’t fit in the right place at the right

The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher will all be joining Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds at Preston Park on July 31st.

Cave has previously said he’s, ‘thrilled beyond words to return to my beloved Brighton’, for what will be the Bad Seeds’ only UK gig of 2026 with the band set to perform tracks from their most recent studio album Wild God.

“Perhaps more remarkably, Cave has in his later years become renowned for thoughtful and articulate dialogue with the world via …

The central premise of deary’s new album is a weighty one for a genre not traditionally thought to be long on meaning.

It all seems a bit pointless to call it a shoegaze revival given that the twenty first century version has now lasted two decades longer than the original.

But maybe that’s because it has way fewer natural predators than the more delicate original strain, especially since time and perspective have broadened its definition to the point where entry has few hurdles to manage.

Originally coalescing in the weird post-lockdown world where everything was still somehow impersonal, for deary…

Prima Queen have released their new single Crumb on Submarine Cat Records ahead of UK festival and headline gigs which are coming up this year.

“Crumb is about when you are in a state of limerence for someone,” the duo said.

And all you have of them is a tiny little bread crumb they left you (but you like that crumb a lot). So you cling on to that little freckle of hope for dear life, dreaming that one day it could become a bagel, or a baguette, or a sexy little