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Courteeners © Carolina FaruoloTramlines 2026: Day TwoSaturday 25th July 2026SheffieldCourteeners and Blossoms head over the Pennines for a Mancunian invasion of South Yorkshire’s biggest festival. Paul Clarke watches two of Britain’s best live acts battle it out.From its early days as a free festival in Sheffield city centre, Tramlines has grown to be South Yorkshire’s biggest festival, attracting 50,000 punters to Hillsborough Park. It’s one of the most family-friendly festivals on the circuit, as multi-generational groups lounge around on picnic blankets as gangs of teenagers roam the site waiting for headliners Courteeners to hit the stage.One of Tramline’s missions is…

Hailing from his East London flat, solo artist Greg Zucker delivers the Fading EP under the moniker Land Mass. The EP release doubles up as the first-ever release of any sort under the name Land Mass, and you are greeted with the opener titled “Green Parakeet”. It’s a very melodic and moving track, focusing a lot on his vocals and a moody acoustic guitar, before you are greeted with a bursting, almost Brit rock guitar at the 40-second point….a stunning debut with a genre-spanning EP packed with moody vocals, soaring guitars, and memorable melodies.Following on from the leading track is…

Here’s our weekly overview of Hip-Hop and R&B album sales in the U.S., along with an update on where each album ranks on the Billboard 200 chart – this time for week 32 of 2026. This week’s recap includes the first-week sales of Maverick “Almost Forever” the new Lil Uzi Vert EP, which debuts at No. 25. Source: HITS Daily Double Chart # Artist(s) Album title Sales Sales + Streams 6 Drake ICEMAN 103 47,984 16 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 604 28,605 17 SZA SOS 1,182 28,106 20 Don Toliver OCTANE 663 25,057 21 Future The Real Me 349…

The 25th anniversary edition of Bloodstock Open Air Festival kicked off this week and tonight organisers announced Mercyful Fate, Electric Callboy and Motionless In White as main stage headliners for next year’s 26th year of the event.With Lamb of God, Saxon, Slaughter To Prevail and Judas Priest headlining at Catton Park in Derbyshire, England, this weekend, fans who had just watched Municipal Waste’s set on Friday were told who will be the big hitters on the Ronnie James Dio Main Stage in 2027.In a statement announcing the 2027 lineup, Friday’s headliners Mercyful Fate say: “Mercyful Fate is honoured and looking…

NAUT are rallying against consumption, capitalism and the daily grind on their haunting new single, Bury Your Freedom. With a sound calling to mind the tones of The Cure, Joy Division and other such post-punk spooks (and it makes total sense that they once opened for Creeper), they say: “The single explores the quiet bargains we make to survive: surrendering time, liberty and fragments of ourselves in exchange for comfort, security and the illusion of success. “It rails against a society that reduces life to spreadsheets, conference calls and sanitised consumption while manufacturing endless competition to keep us divided and…

Describing herself as a “happy girl making sad music”, Saskia draws influence from the likes of James Blake, Radiohead, Sampha, Yebba and Massive Attack, building a sound rooted in atmospheric electronic soul and experimental R&B. Following her debut EP ‘The Noise’, support from BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music, and her vocals being sampled on Don Toliver’s ‘Secondhand’, the recent Black Butter signee is now pushing into fresh sonic territory.Already a standout during her debut show at Servant Jazz Quarters earlier this summer, ‘sickofmyself’ offers another glimpse at Saskia’s evolving direction, with further new music expected before the end…

Hastings rapper and producer SUN-Z introduces himself with Who Am I?, a seven track debut EP built from years spent sharpening his craft from his bedroom.Rooted firmly in hip hop while occasionally dipping into 140 territory, SUN-Z draws heavily from the production styles of Madlib, J Dilla and MF DOOM. What began as a teenage passion for hip hop gradually developed into making his own beats and stepping behind the mic, with his approach to rapping shaped by the layered rhyme schemes, wordplay and lyricism of artists including Big L, Nas and Jehst.Entirely hand crafted by SUN-Z, Who Am I?…

Originally from London and now based on Australia’s Gold Coast, producer, DJ and label head Speaks is gearing up for the release of his new album That Soul I Knowthis summer. Ahead of the release, he drops Kick The Door Down with Uncle Mic Nitro.With deep roots across both hip hop and drum and bass, Speaks has spent the past 15 years as one half of Tactical Aspect, releasing music through respected imprints including Reinforced Records, 117, AKO Beatz, Skeleton Records and Criterion Records. His extensive production and remix credits also include work with Manix, Ricky Force, DJ Trace, Acid…

Neil Young & The Chrome Heartswill release their second full-length studio albumSecond SongonSeptember 18viaReprise Records. You can hear the title track below. The follow-up to 2025’s Talkin’ To The Trees comprises seven tracks, including five newly written songs alongside fresh recordings of two compositions dating back to Young’s earliest days as a songwriter. The album was recorded at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California, with Young joined once again by The Chrome Hearts: Anthony LoGerfo (drums), Corey McCormick (bass), Micah Nelson (guitar) and Spooner Oldham (keyboards). Among the album’s most intriguing inclusions are “Casting Me Away From You” and…

London indie-pop artist Luke Martin makes an impressive entrance with “Superstar”. It’s one of those debut indie-pop tracks that could be sitting up there with the very best….a high-energy debut with a festival-ready indie-pop anthem packed with raw guitars and melodic hooks.If you like the upbeat, borderline indie-pop sounds of The Maccabees, The Kooks, and The Zutons, then this debut track from Luke Martin is honestly going to be a perfect fit for you.It’s a high-energy track with lots of raw guitar sounds and strong melodic hooks, with it sounding like the kind of track you’d stumble upon whilst at…

“We’d played big gigs before, but I’ll never forget the first time we played the main stage at Donington in 2007. My band had gone ahead of me to tune up their instruments. I was hanging with friends, and this van came to pick me up and take me to the stage. That was no big deal. I wasn’t feeling nervous at all. Then we turned a corner and I saw the stage, then I saw the crowd, and you couldn’t see the end of it. I was just like, ‘Wow!’ I guess I said it out loud because the…

Reality has a tendency to unravel in a Clay McLeod Chapman story. The uncanny crawls its way into the everyday, horror gives way to humour, and even his most monstrous inventions find themselves driven by a desire to be loved. His latest novel, Devil Inside (out August 11 via Mira Books), pushes those obsessions to their most inventive iteration yet. Whether you know Chapman through novels like Ghost Eaters and Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, his Marvel work on Venom and Scream, or the Jordan Peele-produced horror podcast Quiet Part Loud, his latest feels like a culmination of all…