New cities. Old flames. Still smitten. PALE WAVES have announced their return to the road this October with the Still Smitten tour, a run of dates that takes the band beyond the usual circuit and deep into the hearts of the UK and Ireland.

Get ready to set sail on a three-day voyage of music, theatre, real ale and family fun as Beautiful Days returns to Escot Park, just outside Exeter, from 15–17 August 2025. This proudly independent festival has officially sold out—next year, grab those tickets early

Cardiff woke on July 4th to a buzz that felt more like a small music festival than a busy Friday. From dawn, die-hard fans pitched tents outside Principality Stadium, determined to stake their claim at the front-row barrier for OASIS’s first show since August 2009. By early afternoon, roads were cordoned off, bucket hats and T-shirts flew off the merch stalls, and the city centre pulsed with the promise of musical history in the making.

With a stomping sound that launches out of your speakers from the moment you hit play, Arctic Dreams get straight to the point with their unique style. We caught up with the band to talk about their singles 'Frozen Little Beings' & 'Storm', whilst looking at what else 2025 has in store…”  

Based in France, Trank have spent a long-time crafting their unique sound. We caught up with the band, to discuss their current creative evolutionary pit stop on ‘The Maze’!

If the title doesn’t already suggest an experimental mind melt, Fusing Your Synapses offers a cosmic plunge into sonic dissolution—an unfiltered, 70-minute trip where time folds, boundaries blur, and the static of modern chaos becomes the canvas for a different kind of clarity. With its blend of older recordings and newer electronic compositions, the album lands less as a collection of tracks and more as a dark ambient dispatch from an alternate consciousness.

For a band built on improvisation and a cosmic calling card, Øresund Space Collective’s 34th studio journey is as bold and boundless as ever—anchored by a deep trust in musical exploration and the gravitational pull of the unknown. Alotta Hella Down In Estrela isn’t just a title; it’s a philosophical dare—a vortex of rhythm and resonance that invites you to shed expectation and dissolve into sound.

Emerging like a fever dream from the subterranean realms of alt-rock noir, Golem Dance Cult return with their sophomore album Shamanic Faultlines —a kaleidoscopic collision of mysticism, menace and groove-soaked defiance. Two years on from their debut, the Franco-Australian duo expand their sonic vocabulary with a cinematic palette that’s as seductive as it is unhinged.

Best known for fronting Norwegian hard rock trio Ohmwork, Anders L. Rasmussen trades distortion for delicate introspection on his latest solo outing, “10 Years from Now.” This warm, acoustic-led single marks a notable shift in direction—one that leans into singer-songwriter territory, woven with Americana influences and a quiet emotional resonance.

Little King have announced the September 2025 release of their eagerly awaited eighth album, Lente Viviente — a seven-track collection exploring memory, identity, and the emotional truths that bind us.

There are some interesting comments flying around the interweb following Bob Vylan's comments made at Glastonbury Festivals over the weekend. For what it's worth, here's our thoughts...

Since its humble origins on Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, Glastonbury has blossomed from a one-day “Pilton Pop, Folk & Blues Festival” in September 1970—hosted by dairy farmer Michael Eavis, drawing just 1,500 people at £1 a ticket—into the world’s largest greenfield music and performing-arts gathering, spanning some 1,500 acres and welcoming over 200,000 fans every summer.

Backstage, nerves buzzed as KAE TEMPEST’s tour manager confessed to pre-Glastonbury butterflies—three slots in three days (Greenpeace Stage, Shangri-La, Park Stage) looming large. That edge, however, only sharpened what transpired onstage. As the lone photographer in the pit, I braced for something special.

When 100,000 metalheads poured into Donington Park on Friday 13th June, the air crackled with anticipation. Three days of sun-soaked frolics, brutal breakdowns and one inconvenient shower—that only started once Green Day uttered the word “rain”—lay ahead. Here’s how it all went down, stage by stage, set by set, moment by moment.

By some unwritten law of the fields, the front of the festival pit has earned a mythical status—where sweat, spilled drinks, and half-screamed lyrics forge what many call ‘the real experience’. This is the place for the wide-eyed thrill-seekers, the crowd-surfers, the circe-pit instigators, the ones who don’t mind losing their left shoe in exchange for a moment of communion with their favourite band. For them, this is how memories are made: breathless, battered, and triumphant.

A visit to the Southwest from the trance legend PAUL OAKENFOLD is a rare occurrence, particularly in Torbay - the first and last time he played here (In Arena’s previous incarnation as Claire’s nightclub) was in 1998 (possibly 99 but I can’t find the review I did for that back in the day which is somewhere in my loft and unavailable online). Torquay came out in force for the chance to hear Oakey work his magic and also for  the chance to experience the newly-opened and much-hyped Arena venue, housed in the old Claire’s building (later renamed to Bohemia before closing its doors in 2013). The evening did not disappoint on both counts.

Man, it’s been a peach of an English summers day, and a happy crowd settles in to the marvellously medieval Great Hall at Dartington for an evening of spellbinding tunes courtesy of Max ZT & Dan Whitehouse and Billie Marie.

It broke my heart when one of my fave local bands decided to call it a day, imagine the look on my face when I heard that they were getting back together. Hit ‘play’ on the interview feature I did with COLOUR TV and learn all about why they broke up and then decided to get back together.

In a quiet corner of Dartington this October, the gothic shiver of autumn won’t just hang in the air—it’ll echo through the walls of Things Happen Here. “Autumn Sacrarium” marks the long-awaited return of gothic post-rock explorers Abrasive Trees, joined in a rare double-headliner by the textured alt-rock of Gravity Machine.

With a reputation for turning raw truth into rhythm and verse, Kae Tempest returns this summer with a new album and tour that promises to strike deeper than ever before. Their fifth studio release, Self Titled, arrives July 4 via Island Records—and it’s more than a new chapter. It’s a reckoning.