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Celebrating over a decade as one of the UK’s most important rock bands, Nothing But Thieves return with their fifth stud...
23/09/2026

Celebrating over a decade as one of the UK’s most important rock bands, Nothing But Thieves return with their fifth studio album, Stray Dogs.

Recorded at Angelic Studios — where the band made their debut album — Stray Dogs reconnects the Southend five-piece with their DIY roots. The album was written in unison over a dedicated 5-month period, resulting in the band creating their most liberating and cohesive work to date.

Featuring the euphoric single ‘Evolution’, the 12 track album explores themes of community, belonging and shared experience.

The final album is both a love letter to early 80s New York and a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball.Electronic music ...
23/09/2026

The final album is both a love letter to early 80s New York and a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball.

Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, are set to release Danceteria, their sixth and final studio album.

Danceteria the album is a big, classy and playful farewell to 47 years of Marc and Dave making music as Soft Cell and features career-defining performances from our electronic pop legends. Reminiscent of Sparks and Pet Shop Boys and with lyrics Lady Gaga would kill for, the album takes you on a vivid journey through a day in early 80s New York, bouncing round the clock from night to bleary daybreak and headlong back into the club.

Marc provides an initial snapshot into the album:

"Danceteria is a love letter to New York in the early 80's. The time we spent in New York - where we recorded our first 3 albums - shaped us both as artists and people. To celebrate this period is a fitting farewell to Dave Ball and the final Soft Cell studio album."

Danceteria is equally a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball. The final album is one of the last bodies of work Ball co-wrote and produced before his sad, untimely passing on the 22nd of October 2025. Almond led the obituaries, describing Dave as a "brilliant musical genius". The world's media followed, hailing him as an electronic music pioneer, plus music stars including Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys, Mute Records' Daniel Miller, Cabaret Voltaire and Richard Norris from Dave's techno duo The Grid contributing an outpouring of elegiac praise.

Dave finished Danceteria two days before he passed away and it is in full tribute to him that the album release went ahead as planned.

It is also because of Dave's passing that Danceteria simply has to be the last Soft Cell album, as Marc explains:

'There can be no more recordings of Soft Cell without Dave, it would not be possible. The sad reality is that Dave Ball was half of Soft Cell, and live work aside, I can't write Soft Cell songs without him."

No Tourists' was written, produced and mixed by Liam Howlett in his studio in London's Kings Cross, though this is - Lia...
23/09/2026

No Tourists' was written, produced and mixed by Liam Howlett in his studio in London's Kings Cross, though this is - Liam notes - 'very much a band album'. Maxim and Keef Flint are very much present and correct, each supplying their legendary vocal skills on this, the Essex machine's seventh studio record. Yes, there are one or two collaborators, but fundamentally this is the sound of the central Prodigy three, bringing their riotous sound to audiences old and new, almost three decades since they changed the face and sound of electronic music with epochal album 'The Fat Of The Land'.

Leeds six piece, Adult DVD, announced their signing to Fat Possum this year, with standalone single ˜Real Tree Lee', whi...
23/09/2026

Leeds six piece, Adult DVD, announced their signing to Fat Possum this year, with standalone single ˜Real Tree Lee', which landed the band on the BBC 6 Music A-List along with ˜Ones To Watch' attention from the likes of The Rolling Stone, The Line Of Best Fit and more. On September 25th they release their much anticipated debut, self-titled album. Recorded and produced by the band at hometown The Nave Studios, the new album fuses Adult DVD's love of hook laden indie, with pulsing groove, 90's acid house influence and an undeniable humour in their songwriting. Known for their electric live show, including their recent sold out London residency plus debut USA and Japan tours, Adult DVD is a festival favourite; hailed ˜Best Of SXSW' (Rolling Stone), 'Best Of The Great Escape' (The Sunday Times, DIY and Dork). The band are continuously on the road with routing booked through to 2027, across UK/EU/US/JP.

Ten years after All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend introduced AURORA’s extraordinary musical universe to a global aud...
23/09/2026

Ten years after All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend introduced AURORA’s extraordinary musical universe to a global audience, The Moth Tapes takes listeners back to where it all began. Built from intimate early recordings, demos and previously unreleased material from the original era, ‘All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (The Moth Tapes)’ opens AURORA’s archive to offer a new perspective on the creative foundations of her landmark debut and on the beginnings of an artistic journey that has since taken her around the world. Unrefined and deeply personal, The Moth Tapes is both a celebration of where AURORA began and a bridge to the artist she has become.

The Jon Favreau-directed holiday favourite staring Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised in the North Pole to be an elf....
23/09/2026

The Jon Favreau-directed holiday favourite staring Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised in the North Pole to be an elf. After discovering he's really a human, Buddy heads to NYC to find his place in the world and his father. He not only finds his family, but he also manages to rekindle Christmas spirit in the city. The original score is composed by legendary composer John Debney who has also worked on family favorites Hocus Pocus, Spy Kids, The Jungle Book and more.

Is that what you wanted, Alfred?” we hear in Miles Davis’ unmistakable rasp at the end of “One for Daddy-O,” making it c...
23/09/2026

Is that what you wanted, Alfred?” we hear in Miles Davis’ unmistakable rasp at the end of “One for Daddy-O,” making it clear that the legendary (and assertive) trumpeter was not just playing the role of sideman on Somethin’ Else, the sole Blue Note album by Cannonball Adderley. The alto saxophonist was a memb¬er of Davis’ band at the time and the depth of their musical camaraderie lifts this session up to rarefied heights throughout, from the breathtaking performance of “Autumn Leaves” that opens the album to the thrilling call-and-response theme of the title track. Pianist Hank Jones, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Art Blakey round out the quintet on this timeless classic.

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Weezer founding member and original bassist, Matt Sharp, while working on a series of lost-albums� from the cutting room...
23/09/2026

Weezer founding member and original bassist, Matt Sharp, while working on a series of lost-albums� from the cutting room floor of his creative-life, stumbled upon a curious multi-track reel of analog tape. This mysterious reel found at the bottom of a treasure chest of other master recordings just happened to contain Weezer's very first studio sessions. These were the very same recordings that were responsible for earning the band a record contract for their iconic debut Blue� album. These newly discovered sessions feature raw, vividly emotional and ecstatic versions of the band's timeless hit songs Say It Ain't So and Undone (The Sweater Song.) Sharp and legendary music producer Joe Chicarrelli took these recordings to Los Angeles' famed East/West Studios to take a deeper look into this mythic reel of 1-inch Ampex tape. What the two men quickly discovered was the original lineup (with guitarist Jason Cropper) in an infectious, explosively joyful, feral form. Making the decision to honor the original intention of the music and the traditional technology of the era, the songs were remixed from top to bottom, from tape to vinyl, in a 100% analog process.With Sharp as producer and Chicarrelli on the mix, the result of these sessions makes up the entirety of 1192� (named after the month and year it was originally recorded.) The illuminating spirit of the performances on 1192 are guaranteed to turn the world upside down for blue album fans everywhere. This album stands on its own as an essential entry into the band's discography and is crucial to understanding the first chapter in Weezer's storied history.

From inside a hazey attic on Hawthorn Street, 3CAG was born in 2018. Two young fellas in West Béal Feirste on a quest to...
23/09/2026

From inside a hazey attic on Hawthorn Street, 3CAG was born in 2018. Two young fellas in West Béal Feirste on a quest to stay one step ahead of the RUC, using their connections with the Conamara Cartel to Smuggle Narcotics and sneak them past sh*te Sniffer Dogs. A madman from Free Derry was on the run, so the trio united. A new identity was born, with linguistic summersaults never heard before in the Irish Language. As fictionalised in the movie, the 3CAG mixtape was mastered by Ciarán Byrne in Dublin, only after we dug a big hole in his garden as payment. Bhris siad gach riail, seachas caol le caol. Tracklisting: 1. Your All Legitimate Targets 2. Amach Anocht 3. Tá na Baggies ar an Talamh 4. Cearta 5. Incognito 6. Ceacht Mo Chara 7. Your Sniffer Dogs Are Sh*te 8. Bouncers

Dancing Undercover' was Ratt's third studio album, released in 1986 and celebrating 40 years in 2026. The album has been...
23/09/2026

Dancing Undercover' was Ratt's third studio album, released in 1986 and celebrating 40 years in 2026. The album has been certified Platinum and includes hits such as 'Dance' (which appeared in a Miami Vice episode), 'Body Talk' (which was used in the Eddie Murphy film The Golden Child), and 'Slip of the Lip', and it charted at #26 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band toured the album with opening acts which included Poison, Cinderella, Cheap Trick and Queensrÿche.

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