
A little while ago, there was a spate of records and acts that were kinda miserable, but anthemic with it. It wasn’t exactly Grunge 2.0, but emotional lyrics and crunchy guitars were definitely back. One of the better artists from this period was Soccer Mommy, who as it happens, is back with a new song!

Vince Guaraldi’s work with the soundtrack on the Peanuts cartoons is rightly the stuff of legend. Achingly cool and whistleable jazz, bopping away under the utterly charming and razor sharp voice work from the Shultz created characters, which obviously include Snoopy and the mighty Charlie Brown. Re-discovered in the vaults is the somewhat timely ‘You’re

A lovely little Detroit one-two here from Babyface Ray, featuring Veeze. Babyface has a new album this week called ‘The Kid That Did’ which we’re looking forward to hearing. In advance, you can listen to ‘Wavy Navy University’, which is a psychedelic take on trap-hop. Big Sean, Pusha T and G Herbo count themselves as

MUNA are great, have had a number of hot songs, and with that, have seen their popularity rightly grow. The group’s identity have seen them filling a hole in pop culture which has seen a pocket of fans feeling incredibly seen by them, to use the common parlance of the youth. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns

It’s a bit silly assuming bands are good just because they come from a certain place, but certain countries definitely make us prick our ears up more quickly than others. One such country is Wales, despite being responsible for a fair amount of mid-table indie. No such problems with Islet who have a new song…

Music, Saturday Night Live, football seasons, video games and the NME – they all have one thing in common in that, old people say the exact period they indulged most in them is obviously, unbiasedly, the best period for them. That’s complete cobblers of course, so keep that in mind when we tell you that…

If you want to listen to Paul McCartney speaking about the lyrics of his life, then you’ll be thrilled to learn that there’s going to be a new podcast from the great man called ‘McCartney: A Life In Lyrics’, where he shares stories, inspirations and all that great stuff about a number of his songs.…

We’d not heard of Hurry before literally just now, but they’ve got a lovely jangle-pop number out, which precedes their new LP, and it’s all very pleasant indeed. The song is called ‘Parallel Haunting’ and will feature on the forthcoming ‘Don’t Look Back’ LP. They hail from Philly and if you like Teenage Fanclub, Guided…
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