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Award-winning British blues and roots artist Sunjay has released his new single, “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again,” ahead of an extensive run of UK headline dates. The track is the first taste of his tenth studio album, Split The Sheets, which is set for release on 18th September 2026 (pre-order now!).Written by George Borowski, the single explores the darker side of human connection, though Sunjay intentionally paired the heartbreaking lyrics with a carefree, upbeat energy. “The whole thing’s got a slightly unhinged energy to it, which felt far more believable than pretending heartbreak always arrives quietly with an acoustic…
Adding, “It’s the first time everything’s aligned, the sound, the visuals, the right people around it. I’ve been building quietly for a while. This one’s got some weight behind it. Got a lot in the pipeline that being superstitious I can’t really speak on yet aha.”At the beginning of an already promising career, 1ayjay is now emerging as one of the most exciting wave rap talents in the UK, with a melodic approach and an ability to paint introspective portraits. Co-signed by fellow rising stars including Slew, LKay80M and Spritez, 1ayjay shows immense work rate daily, almost living in the…
Jonathan Barnbrook is an award winning graphic designer, type designer, and typographer. He was David Bowie’s go to collaborator for 15 years, from 2002’s Heathen for which he designed the type face and packaging, The Next Day, where he controversially, in an act of detournement, defaced 1977’s Heroes to create the album sleeve, to 2016’s ★ Blackstar, for which he won a Grammy Award. He has worked with other artists along the way, including John Foxx, Enter Shikari, and Tuxedomoon, and runs his own design company.Jonathan, was the Artistic Director of the ‘David Bowie Is’ exhibition at the Victoria &…
Multi-GRAMMY® award-nominated New York heavy metal titans Anthrax have announced the release of their long-awaited twelfth full-length studio album, Cursum Perficio, arriving on 18th September 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records and Megaforce Records. The record marks the legendary band’s first studio release in a decade, following up 2016’s critically acclaimed For All Kings.The album title translates from Latin as “My journey has come to an end” or “I complete my journey” – a phrase drummer Charlie Benante discovered etched into a tile at Marilyn Monroe’s final home. “We aren’t saying this is our last record,” Benante clarifies, “but our journey…
Enter Shikari have had to cancel their entire US and Canadian tour over “ongoing visa issues”. The band were supposed to play a run of shows across North America next month, which included shows on Warped Tour, followed by a second leg in October. “We wish we were here with better news,” the band write in a statement posted to their Instagram. “Unfortunately, despite best efforts at our end, due to ongoing visa issues that look extremely unlikely to be sorted before some massive financial decisions need to be made, we’re in the position where we have to cancel both…
Brooklyn born rapper and producerChuckStrangershas announced new album,Glory of the King’s Hand, out 10th July on Lex Records. Lead single,Everydayfeaturing Obii Say, is out worldwide now.Glory of the King’s Handfinds Strangers continuing to build on the classic golden age New York hip hop blueprint, updating it for the modern era. The album featuresbillywoods,ZerohandObiiSay, with production from TheAlchemist, KennySegal, Preservation, HumanErrorClub, ChildActor, Animoss, and others. Of the project, Strangers says;“I made choruses, there’s melodies, there’s instrumentation… I really tried to just make better songs that people might want to hear again, that are more than just a good verse.”Now based in…
Seventeen year old South Manchester rapper Suggz makes his Fire in the Booth debut, marking another huge moment in what’s already shaping up to be a breakout year.Coming out of Wythenshawe, the rising MC has quickly built serious momentum, pulling in more than 5 million views and over 1 million streams while earning support from names including DJ Semtex, Chip, Scorcher and Aitch.With a strong musical lineage behind him, Suggz is carving out his own lane through sharp delivery, raw storytelling and a sound rooted firmly in Manchester culture. His appearance on one of the UK’s most respected freestyle platforms…
Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, it develops, as you will see (or hear), along the Teenage Fanclub jangle side of our genre. They’re a Liverpool-based band with a sound rooted in the city, or in their own words, with lyrics that “explore isolation, addiction, hope and redemption, turning everyday struggle into widescreen anthems.” ‘Lemon & Lime’, is their first single this year, a sun-drenched song about the reckless joy…
Originally published in Uncut Take 181 (June 2012 issue)… HALFWAY THROUGH HIS three-hour concert at Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena on March 24, the first date of the second European leg of his On The Run Tour – Paul McCartney took a request from the audience. He plucked out a simple refrain on his ukulele and treated 15,000 fans to “Ram On”, from his 1971 album Ram. A cheer quickly went up, but it’s likely that the majority of the crowd were unfamiliar with this curio from the post-Beatles and pre-Wings era. It was a time when McCartney, as the fallout of…
After Hellhammer released their only EP – Apocalyptic Raids – in March 1984, the band split up shortly after. Their frontman Tom G. Warrior (Thomas Gabriel Fischer) and bassist Martin E. Ain returned shortly after with a band with a similarly uncompromising vision: Celtic Frost. In this 2019 interview, Fischer looks back on their debut release which led metal down a new path of extremity. Morbid Tales was the first Celtic Frost release in 1984, months after the break-up of your previous band, Hellhammer. What do you remember about that pivotal time?“In my memory it is very clear, like watching…
Film: The Sentry Director: Jake Wachtel Writer: Jake Wachtel Starring: Dara Phang, Daniel Raymont, Tharoth Sam, Tara Vy On assignment in Cambodia, a suave super-spy has a haunting encounter with a garrulous guard and must come to terms with the damage he’s inflicted on the local community. In a new interview on Blazing Minds ahead of the Horror-On-Sea Takeover at the Southend Film Festival, I got a chance to ask Writer-Director Jake Wachtel a few questions about his film ‘The Sentry‘ You can watch The Sentry at the Horror-On-Sea Takeover on Saturday 6th June at 13:30hrs. Q. Your film The…
Jasmine Myra returns with Where Light Settles, her third album for Gondwana Records, and easily her most expansive and emotionally assured work to date. Building on the foundations of Horizons and Rising, the Leeds born composer and saxophonist deepens her cinematic blend of jazz, contemporary folk and ambient orchestration into something both intimate and widescreen.Recorded live over five days at The Nave Studios in Leeds with a 15 piece ensemble, the album centres around themes of duality, beauty and hardship, fragility and resilience, light and shadow. Myra describes the music as an attempt to make sense of life’s bittersweet transitions:…