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House of All | European Sun | English GardenOslo, LondonFriday 1 MayThe House of All have emerged from The Fall’s ashes with a head-expanding sound increasingly their own. Steve Morgan enjoyed a phoenix night with Martin Bramah and his band of drummersIt’s a brutal game at the best of times, this rock and roll business. In 2026, it can look like an endurance test. Venues making ends meet as multi-purpose affairs, with gigs, once front and centre, done and dusted by 10pm for a new wave of punters. ‘More cow bell’ ran the old studio gag – ironic in these…
Hailing from Switzerland, Krokus were nicknamed the ‘Alpine AC/DC’ thanks to albums such as Metal Rendez-vous and One Vice At A Time, and songs like Screaming In The Night, Midnite Maniac and the immortal Long Stick Goes Boom. In 2019, the band looked back on their eventful career and the run-ins they’d had with everyone from AC/DC to Def Leppard. “Reaching the top is difficult but, let me tell you, staying there is much, much tougher,” says Chris von Rohr.As bassist and co-founding member of Krokus, a band who, despite being from the rock’n’roll backwater of Switzerland, attained platinum-selling status…
The crew behind Novacaine Festival have just pulled the curtain back on the first wave of bands for their 2026 edition, and it looks like they’re well on their way to topping their successful debut. The festival is set to take over The Corporation in Sheffield on Saturday, 28th November 2026, and if the initial names are anything to go by, it’s going to be a proper belter for alternative fans.Headlining the day are post-hardcore heavyweights As Everything Unfolds. The band have been on a bit of a tear lately following the release of their third album, Did You Ask…
Located at the Scarborough Library Community Space, and running from the 2nd to the 20th May, a new exhibition curated by Ian Trowell gathers material and testimony from the Sex Pistols‘ visits to Scarborough.With a dynamic of change rather than a heroic story in mind, the exhibition is situated alongside the quotidian artefacts that defined Scarborough in 1976 and 1977. The images, artefacts and narrative builds a contrast between the everydayness of Scarborough and the extraordinariness of the Sex Pistols. Shifting to a wider focus, the story then reflects on the intimate and enduring connections between the seaside and subcultures,…
Here’s our weekly overview of Hip-Hop and R&B album sales in the U.S., along with an update on where each album ranks on the Billboard 200 chart — this time for week 18 of 2026. This week’s recap includes the first-week sales of Kehlani’s new self-titled album, which debuts at No. 4. Source: HITS Daily Double Chart # Artist(s) Album title Sales Sales + Streams 4 Kehlani Kehlani 23,291 66,932 *DEBUT* 6 Justin Bieber SWAG 1,009 47,687 12 Don Toliver OCTANE 631 38,358 15 SZA SOS 1,249 32,349 16 Bruno Mars The Romantic 4,843 30,979 21 Post Malone The Diamond…
Chris Brown joins forces with Leon Thomas on his brand new single, which is titled “Fallin’”. UPDATE: The video is out now! This song will appear on the R&B singer’s new albumBROWN, which will be released on May 8th. Listen and watch below: Share on Social Mediaxfacebooklinkedinemailwhatsapp View Original Article Here
NAV returns with some fresh music. The rapper enlists Quavo for his brand new single, which is titled “MUTT”. UPDATE: The video is out now! Hopefully, we can expect a new project from the rapper to drop later this year. Listen and watch below: View Original Article Here
Bradley Jago Enters His Most Exposed Era with My Inner Vitriol.London based soul pop artist Bradley Jago returns with My Inner Vitriol, a six track EP that explores the emotional fallout of falling in love for the first time. Released on 10th April, the project debuted at No.1 on the iTunes R&B Album Chart, marking a significant moment in his rise.Produced by Logan Apsin, the EP blends contemporary soul with polished pop, drawing comparisons to Leon Bridges and Joy Crookes while maintaining a distinct identity.Across the record, Jago traces the shift from the highs of new love to the uncertainty…
Milk N’ Fox’s The Last Song does not try to hide its Colorado roots. Assembled in 2023 in Denver’s High Rockies, vocalist and guitarist Chad Ellis, bassist Kevin Daye, and drummer Mike Allen remain in high demand for live shows. Since signing with Spectra Music Group, the trio has put on dozens of concerts and recently attended the SpringBoard West festival in San Diego. They somehow found time in between to record and release The Last Song, an alt-rock 12-track album fueled by their recent performing momentum. The name says it all – proud milk drinkers from a region known for its large fox…
RADIOHOP are a four piece jazz/hip hop band from Amsterdam, exploring the boundaries between groove, texture, and improvisation. ‘EXCHANGE’ is the final single from their upcoming album HARD TO HANDLE.HARD TO HANDLE is their second album and the first drop on Melting Pot Music. As the title suggests, Radiohop are going hard on this one.When HARD TO HANDLE hit our inbox, the band labeled the 12 track project a “beat tape”. The music is raw, loud, and unapologetic. No polish, no garnish, straight from the source. But describing HARD TO HANDLE as a beat tape would not do justice to…
Photo by Andy WitchgerWell that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet to Americana 25, our festival taking place in Liverpool at the end of November, we have sold out around half of them already so please do nab one while you can and join us! More details here. We leave you anyway dear reader with the title track from the new Kacey Musgraves album (please don’t take this as a green light to start listening to Smooth Country) who always gets a pass round these parts because she’s such a strong songwriter (we…
In 1999, while her superstar pop band Spice Girls were on hiatus due to the fact that two members were expecting their first children, Melanie ‘Sporty Spice’ Chisholm relocated to Los Angeles to work on her debut solo album, Northern Star. In addition to being one-fifth of the world’s biggest girl band, Chisholm had demonstrated her commercial potential as a solo artist the previous year by duetting with Bryan Adams on When You’re Gone, which reached number 3 in the UK charts, and her record label spared no expense in underwriting what was anticipated to be one of the biggest…