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Beth Seymour & The Lizzies: Outside, You’d Love Me To Death (Self Released) All Formats Available Available 28th November Buy Here Australian Beth Seymour returns with Outside, You’d Love Me To Death, her second album in less than 3 months, following You Wouldn’t Like It Inside My Head 2025 has been a year to remember for Melbourne’s Beth Seymour. Described as ‘Australia’s queen of power pop and punk’. Early 2025 saw the artist’s return to music since coming…

CMATManchester Academy25th November 2025 Irish pop/country crossover star CMAT waved goodbye to small venues with a joyous set of bangers. Sometimes, when you watch an artist on the way up, you can feel it in the air as there is a discernible hum of anticipation. As this mainly young hipster crowd waited for Ireland’s latest pop star Caira Mary-Alice Thompson – aka CMAT – they were tightly wound. The scream was primal as CMAT appeared on the Academy…

Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival has announced that Fatboy Slim will headline their opening night, followed by the return of Courteeners on Saturday, and with Wolf Alice closing festivities in Hillsborough Park. The announcement follows record-breaking demand for tickets for the festival that returns from 24th-26th July 2026, with over 20,000 fans already signed up for early access to the pre-sale. More than two-thirds of all tickets have already been sold, and the promoters say this puts Tramlines on track…

The Durutti Column: The Return Of The Durutti Column (45th Anniversary Edition) London Records All Formats Available From 28th November 2025 Buy Here  The Return Of The Durutti Column is re-released to mark its 45th Anniversary, remastered from the original source tapes for the first time. How do you review a piece of art? Or rather, how do you review a record which is four and a half decades old, however arguably better known for the mythos surrounding…

debdepan: Lovers & Others (Silent Kid Records) DL | CD | Stream Out 28th November 2025 PRE-SAVE HERE Margate’s very own genre-blurring duo debdepan dig deep into the complexities of love, identity, and friendship through their new EP, Lovers & Others. Ian Corbridge gets immersed in these dark waves of pop for Louder Than War to see what lurks beneath the surface. Since forming debdepan back in March 2022 after a long period of friendship dating back to secondary…

Inca Babies: Reincarnation (Black Lagoon Records)CD | DLRel Date: 28th November 2025 Inca Babies initially crawled from the Hulme Crescents some 42 years ago – their snarling debut single, The Interior was released via the bands own Black Lagoon Records, and now four decades later the label has offered up Reincanation an album that is described as a collection of select Inca Babies tracks, re-recorded, re-invented and reincarnated for 2025. With nine albums to select from its fair…

Foxglove instagram Foxglove link tree Melodic Manchester indie band (actually from nearby Rochdale) Foxglove are getting whispered about louder and louder by the indie nerds in the city’s alcoves and corridors. They deal a perfectly formed pop indie with exquisitely perfect vocals from Abi that has a neat twist of melancholy to their euphoric indie shimmer, adding to its slipping and sliding melodic cool. A Plea From Louder Than War Louder Than War is run by a small…

Following up that iconic debut was never going to be easy and taking five years to do it only increased the pressure but the Stone Roses much misunderstood second album really does stand the test of time. If many thought the follow up to the iconic debut should have been either an album of effortless sublime guitar shimmer like the debut or the sinuous funk infused grooves of Fools Gold then the final release was another music in…

Rites Of Hadda – Inevitable Machete (Grow Your Own) LP | CD | DL | Streaming Out Now Psychedelic saxophone driven protest punk meets music hall head on as Rites Of Hadda celebrate animal rights, human rights, environmentalism and the right to party.  Nathan Brown writes. Is Ross Woodward A Faggot? starts off with a decidedly X-ray Spex sounding saxophone melody but then as the whole ensemble kicks in we are more in the land of the avant-garde…

Breakup Haircut: No Worries If Not! (INH Records) CD/Download/Streaming Available 28th November Buy Here  Breakup Haircut return with their long-awaited second album No Worries If Not! via INH Records The DIY pop-punksters are back, with a joyous collection of songs following up their acclaimed debut album, Punk Dancing for Self Defence which was released back in 2022. The quartet, consisting of Ishani (vocals and rhythm guitar), Delphine (lead guitar and vocals) Ripley (vocals and bass) and Jordan (drums)…

ART BRUT + bis: Opposites Attract (Alcopop! Recordings) 7″ / DL / Streaming Available 12th December 2025 Pre Order Here Art Brut + bis announce split 7” collaboration, Sorry About That, with the lead single Opposites Attract out now in a bid to reach No 1 in the Xmas Vinyl Single Chart! Everyones favourite “sprechgesangers” Art Brut team up with indie pop icons bis for a split 7” release Sorry About That, setting its sights on the vinyl…