London – Glastonbury has announced the first major tranche of acts to play at this summer’s festival alongside headliners, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran. Returnees include Royal Blood, who went down a storm as a relatively unknown act in 2014, same year crowd pleasers Haim, Father John Misty, who graced The Park stage in
Los Angeles – Generationals, a new wave duo from New Orleans returned to Los Angeles, after an absence of a few years, to showcase new jams and fan favorites. The Teragram Ballroom, located in downtown Los Angeles was buzzing on this crystal clear night as the true, zealot fans made it out to support the
Los Angeles – Gary Clark Jr., Grammy-award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, has announced new dates for his spring/summer tour. The tour kicks off May 2, in his hometown of Austin, TX, and will take him across North America through the end of September. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 31. The tour also includes
London – Having crafted one of 2016’s finest albums in Singing Saw, Kevin Morby has hardly been resting on his laurels, announcing a full-length follow-up, City Music, due for June release. Promising to be the yang to the former’s yin, the new record takes its cues from an urban rather than rural perspective. Morby has
Los Angeles – Michael Kiwanuka is pleased to unveil the video for his new single, Cold Little Heart. Lifted from his multiple award nominated and chart-topping second album Love & Hate, “Cold Little Heart” is the breath-taking, sprawling opening track that sets the tone for the duration of this beautifully crafted album. The cinematic short
London – The annual Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition offers unsigned artistes based in the UK or Ireland a more even playing field in the quest to reach a wider audience. Only a handful of the several thousand acts who are competing to play on one of the main stages at the illustrious festival in June
New York – Downtown/Atlantic recording group Miike Snow has announced plans for a string of US summer tour dates. The schedule begins at the historic Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, OK on June 9th and continues through July 3rd with headline dates, festival performances including Firefly Music Festival, and shows with Phantogram and Glass Animals (see
London – The big news over this side of the water this week was the announcement that Ed Sheeran will close this year’s Glastonbury Festival as Sunday’s headliner. Such is Sheeran’s current wave of chart domination via his latest album Divide that it is strange to think that he made his Glastonbury debut in 2011
London – Continuing Best New Band’s weekly round-up, we preview some new music that has taken our fancy over the past seven days. Foxygen, the eclectic LA-based duo of Sam France and Jonathan Rado, has a new video for the surprisingly brief “Upon A Hill”, a track off the band’s latest album, Hang. The piece
Los Angeles – Little Rock, Arkansas alt-pop-rock group, Knox Hamilton caught some well deserved attention in 2015 with their EP, How’s Your Mind. This led to a slew of gigs performing with bands like Colony House, Young the Giant, and The Head and The Heart. This time around, Knox Hamilton is looking to breakthrough all