There are easier ways for a man with Randy Edelman’s CV to spend his time. He could tour the film scores, take the applause for The Last...

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American alt rockers Band Of Horses play a plaintive, lovely set at Manchester's Albert Hall. Sam Lambeth reviews.

It's been four years since we first crossed paths with Meryl Streek who returns to London to celebrate the release of a third album.

Colin Moulding the John Robb interview

RIP Lois Kahlert — of Dennis and Lois - the 'toy people' fame who were the ultimate fans passes

On Felix Antonio & The Sea, French singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Felix Antonio delivers a thoughtful, beautifully constructed and musically rich collection of indie-folk songs which capt...

The Battery Farm are back at the glorious best with a spiky DIY punk number that has all the hallmarks of Dominic Corry's exhilarating guitar

This is the story of the ‘greatest guitarist you’ve never heard of’, Ireland’s original rock star, the legendary Rory Gallagher.

Steve Hill's Friday Night Fever charts his mission, post pandemic, to attend 25 Half Man Half Biscuit gigs around the UK…

The Wonder Stuff and Inspiral Carpets breathe life into the old and new

Sat in the doldrums of self psychoanalysis, Jamie T turned to the sounds of a youthfully free speaking Paul Weller. Ghosts might not be real, but try and

.."it must be beautifully brutal in a live setting: the wall of detuned noise they create, a near physical mass, a movable object."

Mi von Ahn has announced her third album, Delta Veins, arriving November 6th, and released the hazey new single, Yet All Drifts. A silky dreampop offering as comparable to Mazzy Star as it is the likes of Portishead and Alison’s Halo, the track brings shogaze tendencies and a beautiful sense of melancholy.

High quality new bands and inexpensive London shows are all featured here in a round up on what's been happening recently in East London

Johnny Marr ‘The Age Of Everything’ Album Review

Three albums in after this one and Meryl is not letting it lie down. He's covered corrupt landlords, child death on 796, nightclub nightmares, dodgy

How Does It Feel is the fourth and final chapter in the Slade autobiography series..........................

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

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