Somerset, UK – Saturday night. The Old Pilton Working Men’s Club & Village Hall was once again hosting the finals of the annual Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition which is supported by PRS for Music and the PRS for Music Foundation. Eight acts chosen from thousands of entries, earlier narrowed to a longlist of 120, were
London – Los Angeles alt-pop band Hey Violet is set to release its debut album, From The Outside, on 16 June. The band recently released a further taster in the shape of single “Break My Heart”, the video to which strongly focuses on lead singer Rena Lovelis in a kind of high school crush of
London – UK three-piece Paradisia has been on Best New Bands radar since we first caught the band live last year. Soon to release its debut full-length, Sound of Freedom, Paradisia has shared a video for “Warpaint”, the third track to be aired to date. The song is a powerful endorsement of sisterhood, visually reinforced
Brighton, UK – The Great Escape is often referred to as Britain’s SXSW; a festival for new music that has mushroomed somewhat since it was first staged in 2006. This year’s event, which runs from 18 to 20 May, showcases 450 emerging artists from across the world in over 30 venues across the elegant seaside
London – The early nineteenth century church of St John on Bethnal Green in East London presents the kind of austere elegance that offers a fitting space for music of a more cerebral nature. Blessed with fine acoustics, it is not alone among London churches used as midweek music venues though it has a certain
London – BestNewBand’s Tony Hardy was one of 40 music writers invited by Glastonbury Festival to settle on a long list of 120 acts from the several thousand entries to the 2017 Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. Once the long list was announced a judging panel, including festival hosts Michael & Emily Eavis, then wrestled with
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
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
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
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