Haunting goth-rock classicist Anna Von Hausswolff has just announced new UK dates to her upcoming tour and also dropped a new video for ‘Struggle With The Beast’ from last year’s most excellent Iconoclasts. In support of last year’s album, Iconoclasts, Von Hausswolff will begin her UK & EU tour playing Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival on […]

Trend alert! It would seem that for film studios in 2026 the genre of choice is killer animals –  a choice we will never tire of. This year will see the release of movies about killer hippos, alligators and of course sharks, many many sharks. Before all that is the new one from Director Jo-Anne […]

Wasia Project, the musical sibling duo formed by Heartstopper’s Will Gao and sister Olivia Hardy, has just dropped a new single along with news of their forthcoming debut album, Nocturne. The long-awaited album will be released on 18th September via Awal Recordings. Available to pre-order now, Nocturne was conceived at the tail-end of COVID and […]

This spooky season, our gothy pop queen Allie X will be bringing her Serial Diva tour to the UK and Europe. Tickets are available now via www.alliex.com. The 28 city headline tour will begin in Helsinki, Finland on 29th September with seven UK/Ireland dates from 20th October, playing Bristol, Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham and […]

‘I wanted to do something a bit longer, to push myself. Artistically a mixtape gave me more freedom,’ London-based writer/producer Tsatsamis told Loverboy back in March. Now the time has come with the long-awaited release of the mixtape Tsycophant. Elsewhere in our interview the independent artist told us one of his main influences was the […]

Downtown Boys have returned with “You’re a Ghost,” an explosive industrial dance-punk anthem paired with a striking anti-ICE animated video directed by Lebanese artist Khalil. The single marks the latest preview of the band’s forthcoming album Public Luxury, arriving June 26 via Sub Pop. Equal parts confrontation and catharsis, the track channels rage into movement, […]

Grammy-nominated DJ and Producer Jayda G is back with new single ‘All Day‘. Out now via Ministry of Sound Records the track is sun-drenched, Ibiza vibes with her unique combination of optimism, groove and emotional clarity. The tack is a reminder that summer is right around the corner and you’ll be able to catch Jayda […]

‘I Feel Fantastic‘ is the glitchy, hyper-pop new one from the always-experimental 8485. Giving sonic maximalism packed with emotion, the track was developed over a five-year period, beginning with 8485 trying to find calm in the chaos back then. “‘I Feel Fantastic’ is an existential crashout, so it’s meant a lot of different things to […]

Dreamy pop duo Baby Smith return with a smooth-but-sad summer jam, ‘Limoncello River‘. On the track the Australian pair wanted to further explore the ideas of surrealism in their music with the hook of ‘On the radio I hear you calling me’, references to Fawlty Towers and the slow-build of an orchestra that gets progressively […]