For the second half of our rundown of some of our albums of 2026 so far, we have another eclectic list of records from across the world and the genres. Whilst not definitive, we hope some of our ...

Mary, you are quite contrary, but how your garden doth grow. Even if it feels like we’ve been waiting for a little while for ...

Tomorrow’s Harvest, a new weekender from the team behind Edinburgh’s Cowgate Block Parties, will launch this August at Glasgow’s legendary QMU. The event will take place on Friday 28th August (doors ...

Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul is much more than music: it arrives as a perfect vision of community integration, tradition, and modernity. From big-name headliners to breakthrough artists and a range of DJs ...

Following the announcement of their forthcoming fourth studio album Here Because of Hope’ Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning Ezra Collective return with brand-new single ‘Well Organised‘ featuring ...

Who knew that Chris Isaak would be THIS much of a revelation live? Well, as it turns out, most of the audience did. Just not me. How did this fact go under my radar for so long??!!! Anyway, on to the ...

TV Priest today announce new album Cartoons set for release on 6 November via AMK / Kartel Music Group. The band are also sharing the album’s lead single ‘Love Song (A Good Kind of Weapon)’. The ...

Luke Haines first flew onto my radar when I was in my early twenties, with the debut album New Wave by The Auteurs. This was an album riding the earliest waves of Britpop, with their debut single, ...

For a band more than twenty years into their career, The Xcerts find themselves in an enviable position. Established enough to have built a loyal following, yet still willing to challenge themselves ...

It is now thirty years on from 1994. The story of 1990s’ music in Britain is well documented and defined, a retrospective tale that fuels a nostalgia industry that sells us a potted view of “scenes” ...

Like on previous voyages, Creature of Habit sees Barnett cast her net wide into a deep sea of influences, fishing out a catch as varied as nineties grunge and old school blues. The move to LA seems to ...

For the latest episode of In The Spotlight, Bill Cummings is joined by Dylan Murphy Irish music journalist and presenter of a new podcast produced in association with The Tenth Man called “I Was There ...