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Pets Soundsa Skep Wax compilation album of songs about petsVarious ArtistsSkep Wax RecordsVinyl/CDRelease date: 17 July 202615 pop songs about animals, featuring 15 of the best indiepop bands in the world. Pets Sounds is as simple as that. Ranging from the playful (Sassyhiya, Gay Skeleton Club) to the heartbreaking (Caleb Nichols, Jetstream Pony) to the enigmatic (Railcard, Oh Hippo) to the satiric (The Magnetic Fields, Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires), there’s more diversity on this album than you can shake a stick at. Or throw a bone at.Musicians spend a lot of time working at home, with their pets…

In this new entry in our ‘Diamonds In The Rough’ category, we would like to introduce you to upcoming artist Marvillous Beats and his upcoming album titled CHILLED VIOLIN. Set for release on July 31st, CHILLED VIOLIN 2 finds Marvillous Beats, the creative alias of violinist and producer Marvill Martin, refining a sound that feels both timeless and refreshingly original. Merging expressive violin performances with dusty boom bap rhythms, neo soul grooves, and cinematic textures, the album creates an immersive listening experience that effortlessly moves between intimate late-night reflection and sophisticated lounge atmosphere. From the opening notes of “Amber Lounge…

Jason Newsted has revealed that Metallica once had darts thrown at them during an arena show in Canada in the late ’80s.The Chophouse Band frontman traded tour stories with Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr as part of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Podcast, as the pair are currently on the road together with their respective bands in North America.During the 30-minute conversation, he said that he witnessed a dart just miss James Hetfield’s feet during their show and had to halt the performance so the attacker could be reprimanded. “As we played across Canada, we wouldn’t always sell those arenas out in the…

What do you do for an encore when your first-ever feature film becomes the #1 Hard Rock Cinema Event in US History and spawns a #1-charting soundtrack album? If you’re GHOST, you go even bigger — you literally go2 BIG TO RIG. GHOST’s second collaboration with Trafalgar Releasing,2 BIG TO RIGwas captured live on 16mm film over the course of GHOST’s two sold-out shows at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes. The band’s second feature film, it transports the viewer through time and space to a spot in the crowd of nearly 40,000 who witnessed those darkly magical nights in…

Bob Dylan’s neverending Rough & Rowdy Ways tour will roll back into the UK later this year, with 10 new shows announced for November and December – including a five-night residency at London’s Royal Festival Hall. See the full list of dates on the poster below: Tickets go on sale on Wednesday (July 22) at 10am from here, although venue and promoter pre-sales are open from 10am on Monday (July 20). As for who’ll be playing guitar for Bob by then, your guess is as good as ours… View Original Article Here

Tubi FrightFest has today revealed the programme for its 2026 edition, with the UK’s leading horror and fantasy film festival set to screen its biggest line-up to date. Running from 27–31 August, the festival will return to London’s ODEON Luxe Leicester Square and ODEON Luxe West End, where audiences can expect a record 82 feature films across five screens. The programme includes 24 world premieres, films from 16 countries spanning four continents, alongside the returning First Blood, Documentary and Retrospective strands. The announcement once more stresses FrightFest’s continued role as one of the UK’s leading showcases for international genre cinema,…

Echo & The Bunnymen – Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Ste Brannan, Simon Finley, Mike Smith and Peter Riley – have announced that their new album Apples For Isaac will be released by BMG on September 18. Watch a video for lead single “Brussels Is Haunted” below: The album features late Blondie drummer Clem Burke on 10 of its 11 tracks. As the band noted: “The mighty, legendary Clem Burke – longtime friend of Mac – was integral to the making of the album, and heartbreakingly passed away during its completion… love you Clem X” Pre-order Apples For Isaac here and…

Suede have announced details of the 30th anniversary release of Coming Up. Due on 25th September via Demon Music, fans can look forward to Suede’s essential third album newly mastered and presented across a range of formats including lovingly restored artwork and bonus tracks from the Coming Up era. Coming Up was originally released on September 2nd 1996 and received wide critical acclaim as well as the band’s second Mercury Prize nomination. Featuring five UK top 10 singles in Trash, Beautiful Ones, Saturday Night, Lazy and Filmstar – all still staples of the band’s live sets today – the album…

John Robb has lived several musical lives. From Blackpool punk kid to frontman of The MembranesandGoldblade, from cult journalist who helped break bands likeNirvanaandSonic Youthin the UK, to founder ofLouder Than War, his fingerprints are all over the last few decades of alternative culture. His new book,Punk Rock Ruined My Life, is not a conventional rock autobiography, and that’s exactly the point. It reads less like a victory lap and more like a long, passionate conversation in a pub, about punk, community, failure, grit, and the sheer absurd joy of having a go. In this interview, John talks about why…

There’s a specific, elusive quality to “Driving Solo”, the latest outing from the Franco American duo Ptelicans that feels less like a calculated industry play and more like a happy accident caught on tape. Comprised of Philly soul powerhouse Nic Hanson and the multi hyphenate producer Pastel, the pair has been steadily building a reputation for music that thrives on “under thinking,” and on this track, that philosophy pays off in dividends.”Driving Solo” operates in that sweet spot where modern nu-funk meets the kind of warm, organic soul that feels lived in rather than polished to death. It’s a track…

Clarity Liao steps away from romantic storytelling with Pouring Rain; a reflective new single from her forthcoming debut EP, Dear… Written on a rainy afternoon, the track pairs delicate production with loneliness, uncertainty, and something that still feels like hope.Clarity explains:Pouring Rain was meant to be a simple lullaby explaining how I felt stuck in a place I hated, and how I feel as a person myself. It’s like a break from love letters, and a letter to myself. This song really explains the story of myself.The single follows Clarity’s award-winning work as principal songwriter for Navillera. Too Young won…

Correction: The original version of this story described James Taylor as arriving in the UK next week, when as one of our readers has pointed out in the comments, he’s already played Scotland and is in fact doing a range of UK dates including Halifax tomorrow and Scarborough. As a Liverpool-based website, we are weary of the London-centric nature of media as much as anyone so sincere apologies for this ommission.One of the most influential singer-songwriters of the modern era, James Taylor returns to the UK this month including his first London performance in three years when he takes to…