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

Kodaline have shared the track We Were Only Young from their new album which will be the band’s last when it is released later this year.

“We Were Only Young is a bittersweet song about looking back on better times, knowing you can’t ever go back,” Steve Garrigan said.

Like most songs I write, it comes from something real, that feeling of being part of something special, and only fully understanding it with time. In some ways, it reflects the journey we’ve been on together.

Farewell touring is due to …

Nation Of Language have shared their version of Bruce Springsteen‘s Tougher Than The Rest and will release it on a limited run of 1000 7″ singles on May 29th.

“Like so many young New Jersey residents, I grew up listening to Springsteen, but this song somehow slipped by me during that formative era,” Ian Richard Devaney said. “I was really only exposed to it within the last few years, and it’s followed me around since then.”

I can remember finishing a particularly emotional show somewhere deep in last year’s

The Strokes unveil global touring plans in support of their upcoming studio record.

The Strokes have announced world tour dates in support of their new album Reality Awaits which is due for release on June 26th.

After a widely acclaimed appearance at Coachella last weekend, the band have confirmed the start of lengthy touring at another US festival, Bonnaroo, on June 12th, and will from there remain on the road around North America off and on through to the end of September.

UK gigs then open at the O2 Arena in London on October 6th, with the 3Arena in Dublin …

Oasis are leading no fewer than six British acts who’ll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame this year.

Among the others in the class of 2026 are Phil Collins, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order and Wu-Tang Clan. Responding on social media, Liam Gallagher wrote:

“I wanna thank all the people who voted for us it’s a real honour ever since I was a little kid and singing in the shower I’d dream about 1 day being in the RnR hall of …

Bring Me The Horizon celebrate two decades of their debut album.

Bring Me The Horizon have re-recorded Count Your Blessings for a special 20th anniversary re-release on July 10th.

They will also perform the album in full at the B.E.C. Arena in Manchester on release day as part of Outbreak Festival, that gig set to be one of the last for the band in a summer of European festival and headline appearances.

Before then, a tour of North America is scheduled to open in Los Angeles on the 23rd of this month.

Bring Me The Horizon tour:

April
23 Los …

Running parallel to the mechanical part of the recording process was the melding of Johnny Lynch/Pictish Trail into less separate identities.

At first it’s easy to misread, as we’ve all done it.

By ‘it’ we mean binged on grunge, listening to In Utero at least three times in a row, or playing Mudhoney’s Touch Me, I’m Sick at the sort of volume which has the neighbours threatening to call the police.

But wait. This is in fact our bad, because in the background information which comes with his latest album, Johnny Lynch (AKA Pictish Trail) openly admits to, ‘Over …

Noah Kahan will take his upcoming album The Great Divide around the world later this year following its release on April 24th.

With a North American tour already booked for the summer, new shows have been confirmed to start with two nights in Melbourne on September 25th and 26th.

UK and Ireland appearances are coming up during November in Glasgow, Manchester, London and Dublin, while a gig in Paris at the Accor Arena on December 7th will close the tour.

Tour:

September
25,26 Melbourne VIC Rod Laver Arena

October
2,3 Sydney NSW …

Isaac Holman details his third Baby Dave album.

Isaac Holman has returned to his, ‘deeply therapeutic’, Baby Dave project and will release the new album ‘billy’ on May 1st.

This latest record follows the restart of Soft Play in 2024, and is being previewed with the single ‘am i clean???’.

“I have pretty severe ocd,” Holman has said. “It makes me do things I don’t want to do and think about things I don’t want to think about.”

It’s torturous. It’s exhausting. At times it’s hilarious. It makes absolutely no sense. This is a song is about ocd and the

Sleaford Mods have shared a Liam Howlett remix of their Elitest G.O.A.T. track which features on the duo’s recently released studio album The Demise Of Planet X.

“Who could ask for more?,” Jason Williamson has responded.

“A Prodigy Remix for Elitest GOAT that turns it into another tune entirely. I can’t believe it. Added to that is Extnddntwrk’s under the sensor shift as well.”

Evanescence have announced their new …

World News were at RAK Studios in London with producer Tommy Bosustow for the recording of their new single Sidestep.

It’s about, ‘watching someone you care about slowly avoid looking after themselves, drifting through life, wasting days on the wrong things’, according to frontman Alex Evans.

Brooke Combe was back again with producer James Skelly at Kempston Studios in Liverpool for the recording of her new single Tears Won’t Lie.

It explores, ‘the truth that …

Evanescence have announced their new album Sanctuary will be released on June 5th and are streaming its lead single Who Will You Follow.

“This album is over three years in the making, and finally listening back to it all at once, about to release it to the world, I am so damn proud of every second of it,” Amy Lee has reflected.

It’s overwhelming. Working on it has been my outlet for so much that feels wrong and out of control, and a place to ignite hope through the power of music and