On this show, we feature 18 incredible tracks performed by bands and artists that we have discovered recently. Here’s the playlist. Desperate Journalist - Terrible Years Westside Cowboy - Worried Ag

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Independent music was never meant to be a genre, it was a rebellion, a refusal, a way for artists to create outside the machinery of the major‑label world. Yet somewhere between the DIY spirit of earl...

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If anyone was hoping to be eased in gently to the 2026 festival season, the May Bank Holiday weekend weather had other ideas. In a sweltering Hatfield Park, 30,000 alternative music fans stubbornly do...

Tarragon’s new album Home at Cofa’s lands on 1st May 2026 , and it feels like the moment everything clicks into place. Built from fragments captured in bedrooms, shaped in late‑night studio session...

There are gig nights that run like clockwork, and then there are the ones that start with a plot twist. My trip to see COSM in Plymouth fell firmly into the latter. After playing their new single B...

There’s a special kind of delirium that only music lovers understand — the kind that comes from stumbling home after a gig, ears still ringing, adrenaline still fizzing, knowing full well you’ve got t...

Some bands arrive with a sheen of inevitability, the sense that they’ve already built their own world long before anyone else steps inside it. Die Twice are one of those bands. Emerging from Exeter’...

“Dagger feels like the best of everything we’ve ever done” - A deeper conversation with Mat Peters about momentum, identity and the power of a well‑built album

Every so often a debut single arrives that feels oddly familiar, not because you’ve heard the artist before, but because something in it brushes up against your own memories. Bella Cutts’ Run Like a...

Welcome to the 21st edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast. On this show, we feature 19 incredible tracks performed by bands and artists that we have discovered recently. Here’s the playlist. Huarinam

A reunion, a revisiting, a revival: whatever you want, you can pretty much have. Four men on the wrong / right side of 50, plus the perennially cool Mick Talbot emerge blinking but defiant. There’s no...

Spend five minutes in an online fan group and you’ll learn more about human tribalism than any psychology textbook could teach you. I discovered this the hard way after daring — daring — to suggest ...

Across a wide‑ranging and candid conversation with Adam Kennedy, Randy Blythe , frontman of LAMB OF GOD reflects on a year that was meant to be quiet but became anything but — from releasing his se...

"Hello, is that Kscope Records? Yes, I'd really love to hear some songs by Mansun - you know...'Being a Girl'? 'Wide Open Space'? Yeah, that's them. But for some reason I don't want to listen to the e...

Drug Church will top the bill of Burn It Down Festival this year, as they disembark from a historic run in support of Deftones , and after a huge 2025 playing on tour with Blink-182, Alkaline Tri...

Buckle up tight kids and pop a condom on, for it’s time for the 2026 Brit Awards (aka The Brits…aka, a bunch of bands and artists whose record labels have paid through the nose for an award that means...

There’s something about the Cavern on a Sunday night that feels like stepping into a parallel universe — the low ceiling, the soft amber glow, the sense that anything could happen once the first chord...

Chas Leman is a London based singer songwriter who has a new EP, titled Repetitive Strain that is landing on February 16th. We were keen to learn more about Chas, his influences, his heroes, his son...

Exeter Phoenix buzzed with an unexpected midweek electricity on Tuesday night as a sold‑out crowd packed in for ASH ’s UK tour — a run so hot, it’s sitting at 99% sold out, with only Hull’s ‘Welly’ v...

Ahead of their 2026 UK tour which takes place in March 2026, we caught up with Sy Bartholomew from The Brand New Heavies to chat about the tour, their 2025 European tour, 2026 festival dates, meeting

Welcome to the 18th edition of the SONIC NOMADS podcast. On this show, we feature 19 incredible tracks performed by bands and artists that we have discovered recently. Here’s the playlist. Adult DV

After hearing ‘Seven Twelve’, I was keen to learn more about this UK based artist who melds many styles to create his unique and captivating sound. Read on to learn about how he got involved in the mu...