stickybackplastics is all about about dark, bluesy, heavy hooks with a noise-rock undertone. Grinding riffs, brooding basslines. Epic vocals. Music to make your hair stand on end. The York-based alt-blues three-piece are- Roz Walker (guitar) and Heather Niven (vocals), alongside Dom Smith on drums.

SEPTEMBER UK TOUR – SOLD OUT!

SECOND SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE SHOW ON SALE NOW

Ex-Lucha Libre wrestlers and now top Bossa Nova duo 'Los Ojos Susurrantes' have sent us this groovy cover of 'Cruise Control'.  

Mallory Knox will be releasing their brand new single ‘Ghost In The Mirror’ on 18th August, the first single from their highly anticipated second album ‘Asymmetry’, out 13th October 2014 on Epic Records.

Courteeners announce the release of a brand new EP ‘How Good It Was’. The title track is taken from their hugely anticipated fourth album, ‘Concrete Love’, due on August 18 via [PIAS]. The EP features all brand new tracks, which aside from ‘How Good It Was’ will not feature on their new album or be available anywhere else.

"Love Inks specialise in a near unique type of minimal noir" - Clash

“Unshakably simple pop songs stacked full of wistful melody & dark energy” – Dazed & Confused

Love Inks wrote their names across our hearts” – NME

“Like The XX fronted by Sade, you’ll have it on repeat forever more” – Lauren Laverne for Grazia

Those of you who check brucepspringsteen.net on a regular basis will be aware that a short film for the song "Hunter Of Invisible Game", from High Hopes,  just premiered yesterday on the website

Kosoti are a six piece alt folk/indie pop group based in the North East of England, UK.

After a near death experience in 2013, lead singer and songwriter Allan Hyslop realised he needed to treasure every moment of his life by doing what he loved most, writing and performing music. 

British electronic duo Zero 7 will release their new EP Simple Science on Monday 18th August 2014 by Make Records. 

Following on from their triumphant return at Sonisphere, recently reformed sludge demons Raging Speedhorn have announce their first UK tour in six years.

Where the Skeletons Play are an ambient influenced hard rock purely studio based project from Bristol. Formed early 2011 their main aim is to produce music that will help bring the UK music scene back to a standard we can all be proud of!

We caught up with Stitch & Bones and chatted about singing dogs, a mutual disliking of Justin Bieber and unbranded breakfast cereal, here's how we got on....

SAINT RAYMOND ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF HIS NEW SINGLE 

‘I WANT YOU’ OUT ON AUGUST 24

CONFIRMED TO SUPPORT ED SHEERAN ON HIS AUTUMN 2014
UK & EUROPEAN ARENA TOUR

CURRENTLY RECORDING DEBUT ALBUM

Zeus will release their new album, aptly titled 'Classic Zeus,' through indie powerhouse So Recordings on Sept 1st in the UK (cult label Arts & Crafts will release the album in the band’s native Canada). The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has premiered the utterly infectious lead single ‘Miss My Friends’.

Today we introduce Sydney, Australia’s Jonathan Boulet, who presents his first European release Gubba, due out August 25th on Popfrenzy/Caroline.

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)'s highly anticipated new album You Will Eventually Be Forgotten may have taken half a decade to get here, but it was absolutely worth the wait.  Constant touring and a litany of splits and EPs (12 splits and 4 EP’s since their last LP) have tightened the band and honed their chops, and it shows. 

“I wasn’t scared about sleeping rough, but I did need to eat. So I picked up my guitar, sat down at the side of the road and I sang to anyone who would listen to me. Three months later I had made enough money to get back home to England and I felt like if I could do that. I could do anything.” Robert Bearsby

Jona Overground are the serendipitous pairing, whose debut album “On The Outside” finds them channelling Dionne Warwick’s Bacharach-era heartbreak one minute, before hot stepping to the nightclub floor the next.

The newest offering from Leeds beat combo Biscuithead & the Biscuit Badgers is as beautifully executed as it is ridiculous.Cheese is one of the Biscuit Badgers’ classic tracks, re-recorded after 14-year-old fan, Josie Tothill, made a wonderful claymation video detailing the band’s dairy-related exploits.

Fusing trip-hop, breakbeat and soulful vocals with ambience filled electric violin, Eden has performed at The Roundhouse, Something for Sunday, Proud Camden, Vibe Bar and many other venues.  We caught up with her in Camden for a spot of lunch and a couple of Mojito's. Prior to things getting too messy, we chatted about Slush Puppies, Harry Potter and Kanye West, here's how we got on....

Kevin Ahart is an old soul in the body of a 32 year old. An Austin, Texan who traded in his cowboy boots for a tuxedo at the age of five. A one time golf pro turned jazz singer: he swapped a promising career at the golf course for a life making great jazz music in the tradition of one of his idols from the past: Frank, Tony or Nat King Cole.