Matt Maltese: His ‘N’ Hers
Ten years into the game, Matt Maltese is a stalwart of indie’s top table, his name a byword for stunningly intimate songwriting and yearning romance. Now returning with sixth album ‘Hers’, he’s truly come of age — and it makes for his most mature and emotionally affecting outing yet.
Manic Street Preachers: Reflections On A Splintered World
The Welsh indie icons may know they are closer to the end than the beginning on their 15th studio album, but in amongst personal reflections on time passed, they remain as politically sharp as ever.
30th January 2025, 4:00pm
Moonchild Sanelly: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
A bundle of joyful, body positive, sex positive energy, since bursting onto the scene in a flurry of blue hair and booty shaking, Moonchild Sanelly has challenged the status quo. Now, with new album ‘Full Moon’, the South African singer is challenging herself too.
17th December 2024, 4:00pm
Over 35 years into her storied career, the alt-rock icon is releasing a solo album under her own name for the very first time. Full of circularities and yet staunchly forward-facing, it’s a portrait of an artist who’s never lost heart.
19th November 2024
One half of the most successful sibling partnership in modern music, Finneas O’Connell has already proven himself behind the scenes many times over. Now, with second solo album ‘For Cryin’ Out Loud!’, he’s raising his own voice both musically and publicly, and making his strongest personal statements yet.
10th October 2024
Since the release of 2019 third album ‘KIWANUKA’, its eponymous author has won the Mercury Prize, become a father twice over and wrangled a new sense of self-confidence in his own decisions. New album ‘Small Changes’, then, is the result of some altogether bigger ones.
19th September 2024
A multi-hyphenate musician, actor, model and now mother, Suki Waterhouse is a rare talent who can do it all. Ahead of second album ‘Memoir of a Sparklemuffin’ and a stop off at All Points East, we meet an artist who’s negotiating the fame game her own way.
15th August 2024
The first Indonesian artist to ever play Coachella, Jakarta-born NIKI has already broken down the music world’s barriers. Now, on indie-leaning third album ‘Buzz’, she’s focused on breaking down her own.
31st July 2024
Catapulted into the spotlight with a BRITs win aged 20, Griff has spent the last few years ticking off bucket list achievement after bucket list achievement. Now, she’s finally launching debut album ‘Vertigo’, and for the singer-producer, the only way is up.
20th June 2024
Remi Wolf’s debut introduced the Californian singer in a blaze of eye-popping, sweary, technicolour glory. On second album ‘Big Ideas’, she may have refined the methods, but the message is unapologetically still all her.
24th May 2024
Throwing it back to the sounds of the ‘80s, Conan Gray’s third album is a musically exuberant curveball for the Gen Z icon. Emotive yet excitable, it’s a huge stride into a new lane all of his own.
11th April 2024
A gender non-conforming, performance art-embracing pop maverick, Lynks has spent the early part of their career pushing every envelope available. With sexy, saucy and singular debut ‘Abomination’, they’re creating a space like no other.
26th March 2024
With his alt-popstar status firmly cemented, Declan McKenna is spending the next portion of his career bending the term to his own shape. Third album ‘What Happened To The Beach?’ finds the 25-year-old enjoying “creative spontaneity” and a deserved chunk of self-belief.
15th February 2024
When fulfilling your ambitions fails to fill a hole, what do you do next? With widescreen second LP ‘Where’s My Utopia?’ Yard Act are unearthing the answers (or at least some of them) in familial foundations and unfettered creative freedom.
19th January 2024
Back in action — and in truly festive spirit — for a Margate knees-up ahead of forthcoming fourth album ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade’, the likely lads are writing a positive new chapter onto their wild career.
20th December 2023
Unbeknownst to the legion of fans who’ve watched Jazmin Bean’s rise to cult stardom, the singer’s life for almost a decade has been one filled with unimaginable horrors. On debut album ‘Traumatic Livelihood’, they’re finally ready to tell their story.
24th November 2023
Bella Latham has spent the past three years steadily amassing a dedicated following of loyal subjects in the form of her Baby Kingdom — a legion of fans who are set to stand by her, ‘Quarter Life Crisis’ and all.
20th October 2023
What’s the price of fame, asks hyperpop pioneer Dorian Electra? According to third album ‘Fanfare’, it might just be a five dollar Minion with a strap-on.
21st September 2023
Four musicians. Three brothers. Two ex-Maccabees. One long in the making debut single. Put the maths together, and you get the birth of 86TVs.
18th August 2023
With debut album ‘Smiling With No Teeth’, Genesis Owusu became a star in his native Australia. Following it up with the conceptual, broad-reaching ambition of hard-won second album ‘STRUGGLER’, it’s high time the rest of the world followed suit.
19th July 2023
Returning with second album ‘In The End It Always Does’, The Japanese House’s Amber Bain is forging a new future based in confidence and self-exploration.
13th June 2023
A marriage of hellish beats and lyrical devilry with a side order of alcohol, cocaine and fentanyl, ‘Scaring the Hoes Vol. 1’ is a narcotic joyride in experimental rap.
27th March 2023
More than a decade on from the viral track that first made her name, Rebecca Black is no longer just the ‘Friday’ girl — she’s ready to take on the pop stratosphere every day of the week.
22nd February 2023
With her long-overdue ‘My 21st Century Blues’ finally coming into the world, it’s a chance for RAYE to exorcise her demons and reclaim her power once and for all.
3rd February 2023
Arena shows, Grammy nominations, famous new fans: the hardcore band of the year reflect on a 2022 that blew everything up.
20th December 2022
For their seventh album, Phoenix decided to put the art into art-pop, decamping to the Louvre to create a record steeped in experimentation and forward-motion.
23rd November 2022
Over the last sixteen years, Architects have faced more than their fair share of hardship; on their tenth album, they’re diving headfirst into the darkness and pushing to evolve even further.
20th October 2022
With Japanese Breakfast, Divorce, Perfume Genius, Julien Baker & TORRES and more!