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A Stranger To You is Loathe’s first album for six years following 2020’s breakthrough effort I Let It In And It Took Everything. It features the previously released singles Gifted Every Strength and Revenant (featuring NOWHERE2RUN), as well as collaborations with Static Dress, Bucki Sugar, Mansur Brown and Jordan Rakei. It’s been described in a press release as their most “sonically adventurous work to date”. Loathe’s Liverpool show follows a busy summer of festivals across Europe, including Outbreak Manchester at the end of June, as well as dates opening for Mastodon. They’ll hit the road in North America this autumn…
Leeds based R&B artist Tamara S continues her rise with the release of her new single, Take Me Away, a soulful, reflective track that blends neo-soul textures with contemporary R&B sensibilities.Known for weaving themes of spirituality, self-discovery and emotional honesty into her music, Tamara uses Take Me Away as an expression of escapism and reconnection. Inspired by the contrast between urban living and the peace found in nature, the single captures a longing to disconnect from the noise and find clarity elsewhere.Speaking about the track, Tamara explains that the song was born from her desire to escape city life and…
North Carolina artist Rise Above Everything returns with “Fall On Me”, an uplifting blend of gospel hip-hop and rap taken from his latest project, A God’s Eye View.Originally from Raleigh, the rapper, singer and producer is known for creating deeply personal music rooted in faith, healing and emotional honesty. Combining reflective lyricism with melodic vocals and self produced beats, his sound explores everything from heartbreak and inner conflict to spiritual growth and redemption.“Fall On Me” continues that journey, delivering an energetic yet heartfelt track centred around faith, the power of Jesus overcoming sin and death, and the importance of the…
Nu-metal revivalists Blackgold have officially announced a major UK headline tour for this coming autumn. Running through October and November 2026, the trek is set to bring their energetic live performance to some of the most heavily requested alternative locations across the country.The upcoming run follows a highly successful cycle behind their 2025 release, E.P Phone Home, which already saw the masked outfit complete a sold-out regional headline sweep of the UK. This time around, the band will be stepping up to hit core metropolitan hubs alongside a handful of smaller, passionate rock communities, including highly anticipated stops at London’s…
Fires In The Distance have quietly become one of the most emotionally resonant bands in modern melodic death metal, and what makes their rise so compelling is how unforced it has all felt. The Connecticut group built their reputation through atmosphere rather than flash and pageantry. Their 2020 debut Echoes From Deep November introduced a sound rooted in Scandinavian melodic death metal but filtered through doom-laden melancholy and cinematic orchestration. By the time 2023’s Air Not Meant For Us arrived, the band had sharpened their identity considerably, leaning harder into sweeping strings, existential lyricism, and emotional pacing. Now, with the…
Sunshine Weezy sat down with Mah, vocalist of the Japanese rock band SiM, at Slam Dunk Festival for an interview. We talk about the band’s set, their devoted fans, and what it’s like bringing their high-energy sound to UK festival crowds. Mah also shares insights into their upcoming album out later this year and some fun planning in the case of a zombie apocalypse! Filmed right in the heart of Slam Dunk Festival, this is a must-watch for fans of SiM, Japanese rock, and anyone who loves discovering bands that absolutely tear it up live.Don’t fancy Patreon? Buy us a…
In this new entry in our ‘Diamonds In The Rough’ category, we would like to introduce you to upcoming artist Ebony Primadonna and her brand new album titled The Blueprint. Las Vegas-born and Trinidadian-rooted R&B soul powerhouse Ebony Primadonna has officially released her highly anticipated sophomore album, The Blueprint, out now. A bold, intimate, and deeply personal body of work, the project marks a defining moment in the artist’s journey; one rooted in resilience, faith, and the kind of self-belief that can’t be shaken. Known as the Trinidadian Princess, Ebony Primadonna delivers an album that is more than music. it’s…
Every band has an early song that now makes them cringe, and AC/DC are no exception. So when guitarist Angus Young, now the band’s only original member, was asked to nominate the group’s most “regrettable” song during a 2020 interview, he didn’t have to rack his brain to come up with an answer.”On our first album, High Voltage, we did a love song called Love Song,” he told Vulture writer Devon Ivie. “That was very different for us. I didn’t know if we were trying to parody love songs of the time, because Bon [Scott] wrote the lyrics. I don’t…
Dead Pioneers featuring Jason Williamson: The Worst Among UsDigitalOut NowDead Pioneers explore their Gothic side in a collaboration with Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson. In keeping with their body of work to date, the song addresses colonialism and indigenous experiences.Having a new Dead Pioneers song to blast out is never going to be a bad thing. The only downside – a comment made by a zine writer after the 3rd single off this record – is that more singles off the album means fewer surprises when it comes out. The flip side is that you will already be familiar with some…
Songs of love and hate with a layer of ghostly eeriness.When the Eagles reunited to stage their Hell Freezes Over TV special, Don Henley famously said that “For the record, we never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation.” The same margin of years separates Diana Darby’s new release, Otterson, from its predecessor, though the advantage of being a solo artist is that internecine warfare is unlikely to be cited as the cause of such a long hiatus.Houston-born and raised, after graduating high school at 16 Darby moved to Los Angeles in order to put some distance between herself…
David Jarman’s recent visit to Woodstock in his AUK ‘For The Sake Of The Song’ feature may well have whetted the appetite of Joni Mitchell fans (here), of which I have been one for over half a century. Witnessing footage of her ‘Joni Jam’ appearance at Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival in 2022 was all the more poignant for me given the lengthy rehabilitation after her 2015 brain aneurysm. Brandi Carlile played a significant role in encouraging Mitchell’s return to the stage; their friendship is encapsulated in the four mesmerizing minutes of Carlile’s song Joni, from her 2025 album Returning…
A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities.Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, having started with Beautiful South in 2005. It is a departure from his previous work, which could be broadly described as electric guitar-based pop, although, of course, this doesn’t fully do it justice. Many of his earlier songs feature Beatles-style melodies, but slide and steel guitar are also heard at times, and there is enough of a twang to firmly place it in the americana…