Fletchr Fletchr are having a moment, and they know it. Fresh from the momentum of last autumn’s breakout EP We All Feel the Same, the fast‑rising indie outfit return with ‘Fucking With My Head’, a widescreen, emotionally charged new single that cements their reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting young guitar bands.

A bruised, funny, painfully honest ode to pub gardens, purgatory, and the tiny joys that keep us going.

Trashcan Sinatras have always occupied their own corner of the musical universe — a place where poetic lyricism, intricate guitar work and emotional honesty quietly outshine trends. With Melodramatic, the latest reveal from their forthcoming seventh album Ever The Optimist, the Irvine‑born five‑piece prove that time has only sharpened their instincts.

Macclesfield’s Dead Wells have been a name whispered around the North West for months, the kind of band people talk about before there’s even anything to stream. Sold‑out Manchester shows, early backing from sharp‑eyed promoters, and a signing to rising label Home Taping all helped build the rumour. Now the curtain finally lifts with Stain, their first official release, and it lands like a blunt impact.

London indie-pop stalwarts Spearmint are back, and they’re not just releasing another record. They’re unveiling a full-blown story. Their new album ‘Chase Me’, out 24 July 2026 via WIAIWYA Records, is a bold, ambitious concept piece that folds thriller, allegory and emotional resurrection into one of the band’s most imaginative works to date.

And it all begins with a dancefloor in 1986.

Two of the most disruptive forces in the US rocktronic movement, HIGHSOCIETY and Micah Martin, have reunited for their most explosive collaboration yet. Their new single ‘Tomorrow’s Over’ is a blistering fusion of metal riffs, EDM power, and emotionally raw vocal work that pushes the hybrid genre into even heavier, more ambitious territory.

Olivia Rodrigo has entered a new chapter, and she’s kicking the door off its hinges. Today, the GRAMMY‑winning, multi‑platinum phenomenon releases her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, a record that finds her leaning deeper into vulnerability, chaos, humour and heartbreak than ever before. It’s out now via Geffen Records, accompanied by a wave of limited‑edition merch, vinyl variants and curated collectibles that are already flying off shelves.

The Black Country duo, vocalist Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney, have spent the last few years tearing through the UK’s underground with a sound that fuses working‑class fury, bleak humour and bruised tenderness. Now they return with a full UK winter headline tour and a brand‑new EP, O’JOY!, out now via SO Recordings.

Kodaline have never been a band to shy away from emotion, but their newly announced fifth, and final studio album We Were Only Young feels like something deeper. Out October 2nd via Concord, the record marks the end of a journey that began over a decade ago with In a Perfect World, taking the Irish quartet from intimate acoustic beginnings to global stages and platinum‑selling success. This time, though, they’re signing off with a collection shaped by reflection, closure and the kind of life changes that force you to take stock of everything you’ve built.

The Jacksons’ 2026 UK tour lands at the perfect cultural moment. With the recent Jackson 5 biopic pulling audiences back into the raw, relentless, and often heartbreaking rise of the world’s most famous musical family, this tour arrives like a living epilogue. A chance to see the legacy not as a museum piece, but as something still breathing, still moving, still dancing. This November, Manchester, Cardiff, Wolverhampton and London will feel that legacy up close.

Motörhead never did nostalgia, but when the past hits this hard, you make an exception. The band have just unleashed ‘Be My Baby (Live at Lowlands Festival 2007)’, the second track lifted from the upcoming 20th anniversary edition of Kiss of Death, landing 3rd July on expanded double LP and 2CD.

With just three months to go until Mucky Weekender throws open the gates at Vicarage Farm, the beloved independent festival has dropped another heavyweight announcement, and it’s a big one. DJ Yoda and X‑Press2 are officially joining the party, bolstering an already stacked 2026 bill.

Devon’s enigmatic alt‑rock collective Gravity Machine have never been a band to colour inside the lines. Hailing from the wilds of Dartmoor and the creative sprawl of Totnes, they’ve built a reputation as the best cult band you’ve never heard of, a group whose music blends alt‑folk, electronica, hard rock, metal and widescreen cinematic textures into something unmistakably their own.

Rodrigo y Gabriela have never been afraid of ripping up their own rulebook, but their newly announced album OurHome, arriving 18 September via ATO Records, might be their boldest pivot yet. Written and recorded in Japan, shaped by grief, rebirth, and a deep creative reset, and launched with a music video drawn by manga titan Naoki Urasawa, this is the duo stepping into an entirely new dimension - and honestly, it suits them.

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NORMANS aren’t a band that arrived fully formed — they emerged, almost accidentally, from late‑night conversations on a battered boat in Marina del Rey, from exotica deep dives, from chaos, discipline, and the urge to turn everything up just a little louder. What began as a quarantine distraction quickly revealed its own gravity, pulling Matthew Reid, Michael Perry Rudes and Kyle Souza into a project that feels physical, intentional and defiantly alive. Their new album Faust Demonica pushes that intensity into sharper focus: a record shaped by self‑remembering, subconscious expression and the strange, shifting landscape of Southern California’s underground. In conversation, they’re wry, reflective and occasionally philosophical, the kind of band who’ll cite Gurdjieff, complain about TikTok venues, and casually reveal aristocratic lineage in the same breath.

Chasing Abbey are opening a new chapter in Irish music. With Seachain out now and their new album Cyber Celt landing on 18 September, the Tullamore trio are stepping into 2026 with the confidence of a band who know exactly what they want to say, how they want to say it, and why it matters.

Fresh from a rapturously received world tour and the acclaim surrounding MAD! and MADDER!, Ron and Russell Mael have announced additional UK, Netherlands and Belgium shows after overwhelming fan demand. And for UK fans, there’s a delicious slice of history baked into the announcement: Sparks are returning to York and Southend-on-Sea for the first time since 1974 - That’s right, 51 years since they last played those cities!

Pigeon are busy building a universe. The Margate-rooted psychedelic five‑piece have spent the past year quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) becoming one of the most talked‑about new live acts in the UK. Now, fresh off the release of their acclaimed debut album OUTTANATIONAL, the band are levelling up again with a run of January 2027 UK headline shows, a brilliantly unhinged new video for “Future Country”, a Later… with Jools Holland debut, and a full arena tour supporting Duran Duran.