When KennyHoopla's 'how will i rest in peace if i'm buried by a highway' hit one million views on YouTube earlier this year, the industry got on its toe...
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FFO The Orielles et al, Drug Store Romeos are the sound of a relaxed Sunday afternoon; a band to wrap yourself up and get lost in the loveliness of.
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If you're looking for an Actual Future Superstar on this year's Hype List, you could do worse than fix your gaze on Bree Runway. Dropping a year of stellar bangers, she's even teamed up with a living legend (MISSY BLOODY ELLIOTT!) - and she's only just getting started. Next year, she's out to change the game.
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What a year it’s been for bands. Can’t tour; can’t rehearse. Can’t record new music, unless it’s over Zoom. In a period that’s really thrown a spanner i...
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With recent tracks and co-writes with the likes of G-Eazy, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Tracy and iann dior, it would probably be quicker to list the people L...
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It's the Down With Boring festive extravaganza, packed with Xmas crackers!
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Inspired by the sort of otherworldly musicians that stole his teenage heart, Dallon Weekes' biggest hope for iDKHOW was to introduce the likes of Marc B...
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A rare bright point in a pretty damn difficult year, BENEE's arrival has been a serotonin shot in the arm. With her debut album finally here, the future looks brighter already.
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Feeling a bit glum? Will Joseph Cook has the answer.
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When you load up Spotify, a great big chunk of the time you can’t think what to play, right? You default back to your old favourites, those albums and s...
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Back with their first full-length in six years, here’s everything you need to know about ‘Halo Of Hurt’ from Seahaven themselves.
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On this week's Down With Boring, we’re going deep into our 2021 Hype List, highlighting some of the best new names for the year ahead.
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Since 2018, Black Foxxes have been through the wringer. Their second album 'Reidi' reigned in some of the cacophonies of their debut in favour of slick...
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"The funny thing is that aliens landing wouldn't be surprising at this point this year," Will Gould laughs. "You'd just be like, 'oh, of course'." The t...
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Who doesn't experience imposter syndrome now and again, right? That awful feeling that you alone don't really know what you're doing, and shouldn't have...
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With a new line-up and a new not-putting-up-with-any-shit attitude, alt-rock favourites Black Foxxes are taking things into their own hands.
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Once tipped for trampolining stardom (yes, really), Edinburgh native Bow Anderson has hit her stride this year with a handful of irresistibly- retro pop tunes that couldn't have come from anyone else.
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It’s a shimmering burst of nighttime-city vibes, released as a part of the Nice Swan Introduces series
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Those romantic, carefree days of 2019, with Jamie Lenman in his bold red suit belting out his reimagined version of Cyndi Lauper's 'She Bop' or 'Hey Jud...
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Grainy VHS footage? Check. Mysterious figures loitering in the background? Check. Sparkling pop jams with depth and meaning? Check, check and check. It's iDKHOW's time to shine.
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Fenne Lily has accidentally made a record that’s very on-the-nose for 2020. Before anyone had even muttered “oh my god, what does self-isolating mean??” she holed herself up to pen an album that focuses on loneliness and mental health.
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Through line-up changes and delays, Working Men’s Club’s debut album has had a bit of a difficult birth - but it’s here now, and frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant isn’t short of things to say.
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Punching their way out of Dublin with a riotous come-and-join-our-gang enthusiasm, Pillow Queens are cheering up a miserable year with their fight again...
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What a fuckin' racket.
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As one half of dance-pop sensations AlunaGeorge, Aluna has ruled the charts. Now it's time for her to break out on her own.
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Their second album told an oddball tale of a chimpanzee raised as a human boy, but with their new 'un, The Lemon Twigs are looking closer to home.
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German band Kid Dad's debut album is full of huge indie-rock singles. Packed with anthemic, unapologetic hooks ready to blast any lingering lockdown cob...
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If there's been one upside to the past few months of turmoil and learning to live with new rules, it's that many bands have gone out of their way to cre...
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Here are all the men headlining Reading & Leeds next year.
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Think you know Fontaines D.C.? The Dubliners' second album sees them not just rewrite their own rulebook, but tear it up and throw it away.
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Embracing life in their twenties, Dizzy's second album sees them offering up a warm comfort blanket of lovely, lo-fi bops.
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Australian duo Hockey Dad - best buds, Zach Stephenson (vocals/guitar) and Billy Fleming (drums) - are embracing their early-20s with talk of getting ol...
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A post-punk band going Top 10, then getting a Mercury Prize nod? With their debut album, Fontaines D.C. broke out in a way no one expected. Now it’s time for round two.
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Songwriter and producer Sarah Tudzin tells us about illuminati hotties' fast-becoming-a-cult-fave second album, 'FREE I.H.'
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He's hitting the road in January, too.
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"People have been getting my name wrong all my life," laughs Nik Bruzzese; explaining why his solo venture, Casa Loma, isn't self-titled. But this proje...
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Prentice Robertson tells us more.
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With a cast of collaborations that reads like a who’s who of modern alternative music and a debut album drowning in a sea of critical acclaim, Phoebe Bridgers has finally delivered her follow-up, 'Punisher'. No matter what the world throws up, there’s no stopping her now.
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As quick as a clap of thunder, life can change. Back in 2015, The Ghost Inside's world completely turned upside down when they were involved in a tragic...
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Billed as “the most challenging record we have worked on” by guitarist Luke Hoskin, Protest The Hero’s new album ‘Palimpsest’ sees the Canadian four-pie...
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She's shared new single 'Ghost (Of A Good Time)', too.
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With a new label and a fresh outlook, PVRIS are back with a third album - and this time, Lynn Gunn is taking the lead more than ever before.
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From film and TV, to books, to music, who doesn't love a world to get lost in? With their new album, Palaye Royale felt like it was time to craft their...
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With the world in a 'bit of a state' right now, it's more important than ever before to support the bands, venues, labels, and small businesses you love...
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With her new EP ‘Good At Feeling Bad’, Best Ex looks to balance the yin and yang of her life from the past two years - from the ups, to the downs, to th...
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Vocalist Kenta Koie talks us through Crossfaith’s adventurous new EP, 'Species', from front to back.Digital ParasiteThis track was written by Kazu, Cros...
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Twenty One Pilots have shared a new lyric video for 'Level Of Concern'.
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Since day dot, Dance Gavin Dance have been a rapturous amalgamation of sounds rooted deep into every facet of rock, from hardcore, to melodic metal and...
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Welsh four-piece Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are challenging with it means to be ‘rock’.
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Isle of Wight newcomers Reminders have 90s pop-punk coursing through their veins. Burger Records signees, the trio - Leo Dyke (vox/guitar), Theo Afsaria...
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Catch the band at online festival Homeschool this May Bank Holiday weekend.
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Catch the band at online festival Homeschool this May Bank Holiday weekend.
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She's shared the title-track, too.
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Line-up and label changes behind them, Becky Blomfield explains why the reborn trio's new album is too important to skip.
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Brian Fallon is at a fork in the road as he releases his third solo LP, 'Local Honey'. His heady days rolling with Bruce Springsteen and pummeling festi...
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It's been seventeen years since The Amity Affliction burst onto the scene, and seven albums later they've explored change and been through the wringer w...
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Having a quiet chat with The Chats isn't as easy as you'd expect. Not when one hell of a rainstorm is kicking off overhead. It might have once seemed th...
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Guitarist Jenny McKechnie tells us about her new album.
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It's taken from her third album 'I'm Your Empress Of'.
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Having marked the end of their five-year hiatus with an anniversary trip down memory lane, Bombay Bicycle Club are learning to look forward. Reintroducing Jack, Jamie, Ed and Suren.
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After a barnstorming debut album - and a Mercury nomination to boot - The Big Moon have returned with their second album. They’re better than ever before.
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Somehow, it has been five whole years since Four Year Strong released their self-titled sixth album. But it’s not like they’ve really been away either,...
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It might be on the other side of the planet, but Australia punches big when it comes to its influence on our scene.
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Another night, another town.
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A record that shows the heart and soul of dancing into the sunrise.
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Three albums deep, and Gengahr - with Bombay Bicycle Club's Jack Steadman in the production chair - are free to let their ideas bloom.
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Dream pop trip-hop Drug Store Romeos have just inked a record deal with Fiction Records.
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"Why be good enough when you could be a success?" snarls Haley Shea on the very opening line of Sløtface's second record, her vocals isolated before the...
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Frances Quinlan's debut solo album under her own name, 'Likewise' isn't a rejection of her band and everything she's done before. Instead, it's an accom...
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Catch up with Feet ahead of their upcoming support tour with Inhaler.
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It would be easy to see Blossoms as just another indie band, but that would be selling them short. Never pausing for breath, new album ‘Foolish Loving Spaces’ is a revelation.
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