News Starbenders announce new album, The Beast Goes On “It felt like it already lived inside Stranger Things…” Starbenders have covered All The Damn Vampires’ Saturday to mark the announcement of next month’s new album, The Beast Goes On.
News Listen to Joyce Manor’s new single, I Know Where Mark Chen Lives Opening up their forthcoming album I Used To Go To This Bar, Joyce Manor have shared a banging new single, I Know Where Mark Chen Lives.
News Record Store Day UK confirm 2026 date The 19th edition of Record Store Day UK will take place across more than 280 record stores this April…
News “2026, let’s cook”: Josh Franceschi is in the studio What’s this, then?! It looks like former You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi is kicking off his year by working on some brand-new music.
News Shelf Lives unleash new single and video, frissoN Taken from next month’s debut album Hypernormal, Shelf Lives have dropped a new single which hears them “leaning into the collapse…”
Features Artio: “I absolutely detest the way that bands are made to dance for the algorithm” UK rock force Artio want to make a real connection. Social media, they reckon on new album Soul Rot, is eating away at our brains. Fortunately, as singer Rae Brazill explains, fans are already forging a more natural bond with them…
Features The Sound Of 2026: The 26 essential new artists coming to shape your year New year, new music. There’s a whole lot of killer noise coming your way over the next 12 months. From punk, to metal, to weird noise and pop-rock, here’s our pick of 26 for ’26.
News Tony Iommi will “definitely” release a new solo album in 2026 “I shall have, definitely, definitely, my solo album out…” Black Sabbath guitar god Tony Iommi promises that the follow-up to 2005’s Fused is on the way this year.
News BABYMETAL have re-recorded Headbanger! for their 15th anniversary Watch the music video for BABYMETAL’s surprise new re-recording of Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!, entitled the 15th Night Ver.
News “I can’t possibly tell you who it’s directed at!” The Molotovs drop angry new single Listen to The Molotovs’ new single Get A Life, which Matt Cartlidge teases is a “pretty angry song, pretty pointed…”
News The Smashing Pumpkins and YUNGBLUD team up for epic new version of Zombie YUNGBLUD’s GRAMMY-nominated anthem Zombie now comes with added Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan…
News Iron Maiden celebrate The Trooper being used in the Stranger Things finale “Eddie got his moment!” Iron Maiden’s The Trooper was used in the perfect way in the Stranger Things finale, Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up.
News Listen to Cavetown’s new single with chloe moriondo Hear Cavetown team up with chloe moriondo on new single Sailboat, taken from this month’s Running With Scissors album.
Features From Fall Out Boy to Frank Carter: The 20 greatest moments in Slam Dunk Festival history With Slam Dunk celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026, K! takes a trip down memory lane – from the festival’s surprising, humble beginnings, to becoming a UK go-to every single year…
Features “If it’s not fun, then what are you doing?” Making a scene with Michael Clifford and Awsten Knight 2025 gave us a lot of things, including a long-awaited – and absolutely spot-on – collab between Michael Clifford and Awsten Knight. So we brought the 5SOS and Waterparks frontmen together to talk chemistry, creativity and cooking (sort of)…
Features “Heavy music is having another moment right now”: How Malevolence put on the best hardcore tour of 2025 Malevolence, Speed, Dying Wish and PSYCHO-FRAME: Bands from different ends of the world and heavy music, but all united by values forged in hardcore. Riding the wave of a global resurgence, the tourmates explain how mutual admiration, broken flutes and paying it forward fuelled one of the biggest tours of the year and made this moment possible…
