Adult DVD Fighting Cocks Kingston September 29th 2026 Big, bouncing, bleepy beats and slyly seductive lyrics make Adult DVD one of the live circuit’s Big beats and slyly seductive lyrics make Adult DV...

The End : New Manchester band post video of the year!

Musical subtlety and lyrical intelligence underlie each of these perfectly formed tracks. Robin Boardman listens to Boastcard for LTW.

Tender Youth return with their sophomore album, Turning Torso. The Copenhagen-based four-piece have built a reputation for intense, evocative and energetic live performances, touring extensively across Europe while developing a physical, theatrical strain of art rock that thrives on tension and experimentation. On Turning Torso, the band push that sound into unfamiliar territory, abandoning the guitar almost entirely in favour of violin, and opening up a new palette of distortion, texture and rhythmic possibility.

Grauzone Festival Announces bill

Beyond The Music returns for its third edition from October 6–9, moving to MediaCity in Salford

Man/ Woman/ Chainsaw sound fresh and inspired at the Brudenell Social Club. Andy Brown jumps on the cannonball for Louder Than War.

To coincide with the release of their debut album, The Cheap Thrills play a show inside the Rough Trade East record shop in East London.

Danny and the Dressmakers play live for the first time in over fourty years. Keith Golhanger reports from West Lonon.

How Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and Micky Guyton successfully challenged the sexist culture of the American country music industry.

With Under The Watchful Eye Of Another Man's God, Cross Wires create something even more powerful and provocative than what has gone before.

LTW Music Editors, Wayne Carey, Ged Babey, Nathan Whittle, Robert Plummer and Iain Key present an eclectic 2 hour hand picked mix of recent and brand new releases every Saturday morning...

Passion, intensity, sharp clothes and great tunes – that was The Molotovs live as they began their inevitable rise towards arena shows.

Stewart Lee ‘Pea Green Boat’ review ‘dark comic genius’

Scott Lavene Water Rats, London Wednesday 16 September Scott Lavene’s slow-burning kitchen-sink tales, delivered with a storyteller’s craft, leave a Essex troubadour hits the road with a new single an...

It's been a rapid climb from selling out Alexandra Palace to five arena dates under their own name, but Spiritbox wear it well.

Self proclaimed 'scallies from the Vale', The Cheap Thrills, release their debut LP. Eight years in the waiting. Good things come to those...

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50 years of punk Film revisits and extraordinary era

Yaang new single is a huge, tense slice of modern melodrama bricolage of punk, art-rock, and heavy electronic beats

Yaang new single is a huge, tense slice of modern melodrama bricolage of punk, art-rock, and heavy electronic beats

Echo And The Bunnymen produce their finest record in 20 years. How do you like them apples? Very much, says Sam Lambeth.

Are Oasis really retro? We ask why some musical influences are dismissed as nostalgia while others are celebrated as futuristic.

Alt-rock giant Beck is back after a seven-year gap with his introspective 15th studio album. Robert Plummer hails a lovelorn masterpiece.

Evanescence go really big on their Sanctuary arena tour - from the production to the songs. Nils van der Linden reviews in Birmingham.

SELF-ISH, the long-awaited lyric book/autobiography from Ned’s Atomic Dustbin frontman Jonn Penney is now available.

Kurt Vile's music might be pigeonholed as lo-fi slacker rock, but in a career-spanning show, he showcases a broad palate of styles.

It’s been twenty years since The Dresden Dolls last played in Manchester, making tonight’s return a long-awaited one.

An outstanding alternative festival in the Swiss canton of Fribourg, featuring Traidora, Decius, Ugly, KMRU + lots of local underground acts.

An outstanding alternative festival in the Swiss canton of Fribourg, featuring Traidora, Decius, Ugly, KMRU + lots of local underground acts.

An outstanding alternative festival in the Swiss canton of Fribourg, featuring Traidora, Decius, Ugly, KMRU + lots of local underground acts.

Anne Pigalle To Be Crowned Queen Of Soho At Open House Festival

Wed 14 Oct

'You May Offend', The Proclaimers’ 13th studio album and first since 2022’s Dentures Out, arrives 39 years after their debut with its attention fixed firmly on modern Britain.

Walt’s Frozen Head envelop the eerie basement confines of YES in Manchester with their discordant rhythms and intoxicating brand of art-rock

Your Money Or Your Life: From Punk to Prince Charming by Marco Pirroni Published 10 September by New Modern Long-awaited and well-crafted, Marco Pirroni’s Marco Pirroni’s memoir offers a unique perspe...

Pauline Murray, Budgie, Colin Newman, Malka Spigel, Gudrun Gut and more join John Robb and Mark Reeder

With the great release of the new Durutti Column album Renascent this year, it's no surprise they'll be gracing The Albert Hall for what...

Cypress Hill return with a new album and an alternative take on their distinctive sound. Is this new record ‘another one of them ol’ funky Cypress Hill things’? Cypress Hill return with a new Spanish ...