Europe’s friendliest showcase festival, Trondheim Calling, offers such a fjord-load of incredible music that it’ll knock you on your back – if the ice doesn’t get ya first. Hayden Merrick reports from ...

Sharon Van Etten repeatedly asks this above doom-laden synths and a wobbling bassline that calls to mind Kate Bush’s “Mother Stands For Comfort”. It’s both familiar Van Etten and something totally new ...

19-year-old artist d4vd has announced his debut album, WITHERED. The album takes the listener through the natural evolution and lifespan of the rose, an omnipresent visual in d4vd’s creative output ...

Nicky Wire practises the rites of performance before a dressing room mirror, “a trap that saves, or a debt that makes you pay”. Through sunglasses – his first, famed line of deflection – he looks at ...

Bartees Strange is the Jordan Peele of indie rock – an auteur who directs everyday fears into his shapeshifting music, as Taylor Ruckle reports. Horror directors tend to have a recognisable stylistic ...

Lady Gaga has unveiled the brand new single, "Abracadabra", taken from her forthcoming seventh studio album, MAYHEM. The video—directed by Lady Gaga, Parris Goebel, and Bethany Vargas—and featuring ...

Wide Awake Festival have announced the next wave of acts for its 2025 edition, taking place in Brockwell Park on 23 May. Canadian electroclash musician and producer Peaches has been added the lineup ...

In David Lynch’s neo-noir Blue Velvet, Jeffrey Beaumont (a fresh-faced Kyle MacLachlan) is seduced by the seedy underbelly of his quiet North Carolina hometown. Discovering a severed ear that would ...

The track is the first from the new album, EXPERIENCE, which follows Attawalpa’s 2022 debut Presence. The release comes with a meditation of a video shot mainly in the underground tunnels of London, ...

Disruptive Stockholm-based four-piece Clutter deliver indie-punk sonic vignettes of adolescence, including latest single "Kraut", freezing moments in time of simmering potentiality and existential ...

Ólafur Arnalds has released the track, "We Didn’t Know We Were Ready" in collaboration with the late Irish musician Talos (Eoin French). The song marked the beginning of a collaboration between the ...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced their new album, IC-02 Bogotá, alongside new single, "Earth 1". In addition to the vocal-based records the band is most known for, the IC series documents time ...