New Music

Tracks Of The Week: Record Store Day Special

In celebration of Record Store Day tomorrow, for this week’s Tracks Of The Week I’ve collected a few of my favourite releases for the big day. Along with a track that I just had to include, released next week…  This…

Gigslutz Urban: Fresh This Week (17.4.15)

You should already know by now, but for those who don’t, welcome to our Fresh This Week list. Every Friday our Urban Music Editor Matt Tarr brings you some of the tracks that we’ve discovered over the last seven days….

EP: Girl Band ‘The Early Years’

Appearing across several “Ones To Watch” lists last year, Girl Band signed to the infamous Rough Trade and look set to create 2015 as the year of dance noise rock. Hailing from Dublin, the four piece released a cover of…

New Track: Monique – ‘The Gift’

Fighting back at critics who told her, her pregnancy could have a “detrimental effect” on her career, is Birmingham soul singer-songwriter Monique‘s title-track from her forthcoming EP, ‘The Gift’. Stating in the track, which was co-produced by 5AM’s Tony Bean…

Ones to watch: ZOHARA

Having been confirmed for Q Magazine’s tracks of the week and commissioned a buzz piece for NME, if you haven’t already come across ZOHARA, there’s no doubt you will soon. From Tel Aviv and London, ZOHARA is a solo female…

New Track: LOOM – ‘Bleed On Me’

Eerily cocktailing the typical southern twang of Chicago’s Orwells with inspiration drawn from grunge veterans, Nirvana, is a temperamental coupling passionately pulled off by Farris Badwan’s younger sibling, Tarik Badwan, and his tantalisingly dark band, LOOM. The four-piece may have…

The Word: Record Store Day Special

Despite predictions that CDs, then MP3s and streaming, would render vinyl obsolete, record sales reached an 18-year high in 2014, at 1.29 million. And, with the UK’s first weekly vinyl chart having just been launched by the Official Charts Company, it…

ONES TO WATCH: Demob Happy

People usually flail connotations to the seaside around in a field of lexical peace and numb euphoria; however, Brighton’s latest musical offering couldn’t be further away from the feelings of fun in the sun. Demob Happy combine a dark atmosphere with more…

Ones To Watch: Public Underground

Driven by skulking bass lines and black-hearted indie grooves, Scouse four-piece Public Underground rumble from a shadowy creep into a rampant Krautrock roar on their debut EP, Little White Lies. Citing Kings of Leon, Joy Division and Black Sabbath as…

LISTEN: Bosco Rogers – ‘French Kiss’

Psychedelic, “flower-punk” duo, Bosco Rogers, have now announced the follow up to the success of last December’s, Googoo. Having received acclaim from the likes of The Guardian and BBC 6 Music, Barthelemy Corbolet and Delphinius Vargas are now set to release their…