Six years after “Punisher,” and after boygenius and a big night at the 2024 Grammys, Phoebe Bridgers went quiet. In that time her father died and an engagement ended, and “Lost Weekend” tells all of it honestly, jokes included. This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may
Saturday night at Wardrobe in Leeds had a different kind of buzz to it. DMA’S stripping things back to an acoustic set in a room that small is not something you get offered often, and the queue outside told you people knew it too. Doors went up around 7 and by half 8 when the
The Snuts rarely sit still, and their new single proves it. Out now, “In Motion” kicks off what promises to be their most reflective record yet, “Joy In Short Moments”, due 23 October through Happy Artist Records and Virgin Music Group. A song that already won over crowds Anyone who caught the band on their
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I was on a train journey recently, scrolling through Spotify, when it hit me. Some of the biggest bands in the world have genuinely odd names. Not new ones either. Bands with strange names have been getting famous for the best part of a hundred years, and it made me wonder whether a name actually
7/10 Earvolt Rating The Strokes have never been a band that plays it safe when everyone expects them to, and “Reality Awaits” proves that once again. Their seventh album, produced by Rick Rubin and recorded partly on a mountain in Costa Rica, sounds like a group that spent six years chasing a feeling instead of
Cloud is back with “Nobody’s Dreaming,” a synth rock single that starts off deceptively calm before it takes the whole room over. Layers Creep In Give it thirty seconds and you’ll feel the shift. Layers creep in under the surface, the mood turns humid, and by the time the chorus lands you’re somewhere you didn’t
Ellie Goulding calls her new album a form of therapy, and after listening to what she’s revealed so far, it’s easy to believe her. “I Know Too Much” lands on 4th September 2026 through Polydor, marking her sixth studio record and her first full length since 2023’s “Higher Than Heaven”. Where that album leaned into
Thomas Cole’s new single “Stubble” is out now, and it takes a five o’clock shadow and turns it into a whole philosophy about attraction. That’s a pretty strong move for a pop song, but Thomas pulls it off with a chorus that gets stuck in your head before you’ve even learned the words. A Familiar
England went out of the 2026 World Cup at the semifinal stage, beaten 2 1 by Argentina in Atlanta after Lautaro Martinez scored deep into stoppage time. Harry Kane called it gutting. Dan Burn said it felt like their time and it wasn’t. England went on to play France in the third place match, a
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On the night of August 27, 1965, John Lennon stood in a rented mansion on Perugia Way in Bel Air, too nervous to say much of anything. Across the room sat none other than Elvis Presley (The King of Rock N Roll), the man who had rewired his brain as a teenager in Liverpool. For
Brandon Flowers has spent over two decades as the vocal powerhouse behind The Killers, a band built on synths, eyeliner and Vegas neon. His new solo record throws most of that out the window to be honest. “THRASHER”, out August 21, 2026 on Island Records, is his first solo album in eleven years, and by
Ian Gillan has spent more than sixty years fronting one of rock’s loudest and most enduring bands, but soon he will be swapping the mic stand for a chair and a microphone of a different kind. His new spoken word tour strips away the band, the lights and the volume, leaving just Gillan and a
“Petal” by Ariana Grande out July 31 was announced in April with a black and white cover, no ponytail, hair falling loose across her face, a small visual break from the tight, controlled image she’s kept for years. She called the album “full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard
Her voice is one that most people have heard, even if they never learned her name. She sang the bridge and hook on LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem,” the 2011 single that spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the most played songs in the world. It is
When The Holloways went into the studio in 2006 to record “So This Is Great Britain?”, nobody was thinking about vinyl. CDs ruled the racks back then, Spotify was still two years off, and a 12″ pressing of a debut album from a young indie band was not exactly standard practice or even logical. “Lots
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8/10 Earvolt Rating Twenty years is a long time for any band to stay standing, let alone one that built its name on horror imagery, blast beats, and a frontman who has spent two decades refusing to soften his edges for anyone. Motionless in White hit that milestone in 2026, and instead of marking it
Paul Scholes has never been one to sugarcoat things. Blunt as old harry on the pitch, even blunter off it. So when he sat down on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast alongside Nicky Butt and Paddy McGuinness and casually admitted he has no interest in music whatsoever, it probably shouldn’t have come
Pin a date to the birth of punk and you will get an argument, but the strongest single candidate is April 23, 1976, the day Sire Records pressed fourteen songs and twenty-nine minutes of noise onto a record called Ramones and put four guys in leather jackets against a brick wall on the cover. That
Two albums in and Yard Act from LEEDS (Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire) had built a reputation on sharp-tongued character studies and post-punk wit that felt laser-assembled rather than lived-in. The Overload was sketched out before the band had fully formed. Where’s My Utopia? was cobbled together across tour buses and hotel rooms. Good records, both. But
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June in Somerset has a particular rhythm. Weeks before the summer solstice, the roads around Pilton start to fill up. Campervans queue through Shepton Mallet. Fields that have spent the year quietly doing what fields do suddenly become one of the most watched pieces of land on earth. But not this year. In 2026, Worthy
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