15 October 2026
Last year, Big Thief released their album, Double Infinity. Today, they announce the launch of the Big Thief Live Archive. The new website will act as a place for fans to explore and engage with the breadth and variety of Big Thief’s performances show by show. The site will initially launch with 10 shows (captured live by the band’s front-of-house engineer Alice Wilder and monitor engineer Aleda Deroche and mixed by 4AD’s in-house engineer Fabian Prynn) with a new…
15 October 2026
Rough Trade Records today share new single, ‘Hares on the Mountain’, taken from the forthcoming debut solo album by one of Ireland’s most influential and revered vocalists, Lankum / ØXN’s Radie Peat. Radie learnt of the song through Shirley Collins and it is the opening track on the album. In the role of protagonist, she ponders anthropomorphically on the unjust gender dynamics in courtship. But ruminations of revenge resolve with pursuits of personal…
14 October 2026
Purple Pilgrims, the New Zealand-based dream-pop duo composed of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon, will share their forthcoming third album, Given to the Night, on 27 November. Today, they share the record’s newest single ‘Outside’ – a melodic yet melancholic beauty, reminiscent of the trickling, cyclical environment the sisters placed themselves within to make the record, on an off grid retreat in the NZ countryside. “Last year I felt dead inside, now I’m…
14 October 2026
Munich-born producer, songwriter, Mechatok and Swedish pop icon Robyn join forces for a new two-track remix release, Mechatok’s breakout hit ‘Expression On Your Face (Robyn Remix)’ feat. Ecco2k & Bladee and Robyn’s ‘Fembot (Mechatok Remix)’. Robyn steps into Mechatok’s ‘Expression On Your Face’, adding a verse that threads her unmistakable voice through the track’s glossy, massive production. One of pop’s most influential voices meets one of its most forward-thinking producers, whose work ranges from…
13 October 2026
Fontaines D.C. (Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll) release ‘Where Is Gone?’, their highly anticipated collaboration with ROSALÍA. The third song to be shared from their forthcoming album Dopamine Chamber, it showcases a whole new side of the record: a sweeping, elegant duet in which Grian Chatten and ROSALÍA’s voices intertwine over lush orchestration. Produced by James Ford, ‘Where Is Gone?’ is the first artist collaboration…
13 October 2026
Party Dozen edge closer to the release of new album 21 Bum Salute, out Friday 6th November, with the release of final single ‘Full Powers’, a swaggering, swampy rock track about the intoxicating highs and ugly excesses of power. It starts confident and euphoric before slowly tipping into something wilder and heavier. Watch the accompanying clip here. Kirsty Tickle is given free rein to fully cut loose as ‘Full Powers’ moves from a swirling…
9 October 2026
David Byrne and composer Daniel Pemberton today released ‘Let Me Sell You a Dream,’ the original song they wrote for MUSK, Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk. The song is out now on Matador Records. MUSK, from Bleecker Street, opens in New York and Los Angeles tomorrow, October 9, and nationwide October 16th. “It would be too easy and probably not as much fun to overtly criticize Musk,”…
9 October 2026
South Sudanese-Australian innovator Skin On Skin is back with ‘Someone Like You‘, his first release since 2025’s Home Is True mixtape and the final piece he completed for something very special arriving soon. The track has been road-tested to rapturous responses worldwide in his full-throttle DJ sets, most memorably when Skin On Skin closed the main stage at Dekmantel in Amsterdam, a city he considers his second home. From there, it travelled…
8 October 2026
Hackney rapper, poet and producer John Glacier is, at this point, one of London’s most diverse musical voices. Traversing rap, electronic music, post-punk, ambient and much more, her 2025 debut album Like A Ribbon defined Glacier as an artist within her own lane; a lane where she has the freedom to experiment creatively through her singular, almost stream-of-consciousness delivery. The album has since catapulted Glacier into a new stratosphere, both within music and beyond….
7 October 2026
Ex:Re, the cult-classic alt-pop project of Elena Tonra (of beloved London indie-folk band Daughter), returns with a new album entitled Save As on October 30. She shares a new single from the record entitled ‘Sleep‘, alongside a live session video taped in the London 4AD studio by Cuan Roche, watch here. Tonra remembers exactly where she was when she wrote ‘Sleep’ – and just how she was feeling. She was alone in Paris, where she…
7 October 2026
Renowned for her powerhouse vocals, raw vulnerability and evocative storytelling, multi-award-winning artist Carla Geneve returns with a new double single, ‘Guard Dog / Move Dirt Around’, out today. Written around 2021, the two songs come from a time when Geneve was, in her words, “angry and sad and scared.” With little to lean on beyond the people she loved and her ability to laugh at things, she turned to humour as a shield. The…
7 October 2026
La Force, the captivating solo project of Ariel Engle, unveils a brand-new song — her first new material since 2024. ‘Darth Vapor,’ a stand-alone single available now across all digital streaming platforms, offers a thrilling sneak peek of a full-length album coming in 2027. Ariel has been busy touring with Patrick Watson in support of his recent release, Uh Oh, performing their duet ‘The Lonely Lights’ on the road. As a member…
5 October 2026
The first single from Tiga’s acclaimed HOTLIFE LP, ‘IAMWHATIAM’ was and is a war cry, a strident demand for Absolute Brain Freedom. Now, that call for total liberation comes in three new interpretations from DJ Hell, Tensal and The Dare, arriving as a full remix EP out now on Turbo Recordings x Secret City Records, with vinyl preorders live via Secret City Records. “Remix packages are my favourite thing to curate,” says Tiga. “It’s a…
2 October 2026
Fontaines D.C. (Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll) release new single ‘Tongue’ – the second song from the band’s forthcoming album Dopamine Chamber (released 16th October) showcases another side of Dopamine Chamber’s expansive sound, and is accompanied by a John Angus Stewart-directed video, shot in New York City. “We continued where Romance left off, leaving the live-band elements until they were really needed,” says Conor…
2 October 2026
Blackhaine announces details of his debut album Saints in the Wethouse, which will be released on 13th November via XL Recordings. ‘Consumer’ – the first single from the album – is released today with an accompanying video directed by Elena Isolini and featuring Blackhaine as Creative Director. Blackhaine will premiere Saints In The Wethouse live this weekend at his highly-anticipated headline appearance at Warsaw’s Unsound Festival (4th October). Blackhaine’s debut LP is a visceral embodiment…
1 October 2026
Odette’s third album Blink is set for release on Friday 6th November and today, she shares the final preview of the project with new single ‘Don’t’, accompanied by a video, watch here. With perspective and self assessment at the heart of her songwriting, for Odette, ‘Don’t’ is another production that transmutes her immense overwhelm into something sonically healing. Like the nature of the relationship being sung about, the track shifts through crescendoing strings, keys and…
30 September 2026
SOAK – Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – has announced a new record decembers, out December 4, 2026. Today, they share the title track alongside a visualiser, watch here. On decembers, we travel with SOAK on the road through America, walk the frost-glistened paths of Dublin at night, search for a meteor in Portugal, and return home to Derry, Ireland. Everywhere, here is an artist evolving, exploring, releasing themselves, coming undone,…
30 September 2026
On March 1 2025, Kim Deal hosted a once-in-a-lifetime sold-out performance at London’s historic Barbican, playing special orchestrated renditions of songs from her acclaimed debut solo album Nobody Loves You More, followed by tracks from The Breeders’ back catalog and earlier solo work. The evening, culminating with a heartfelt standing ovation, was documented in full, to be released as a live record entitled Live at the Barbican on 13 November — arriving almost two years after Nobody Loves You…
30 September 2026
Bandcamp Friday is back this Friday, October 2nd (at 5pm AEST for 24hrs – check your local timezone). Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2026 on November 6th, and December 4th. As always is it Bandcamp Friday? has the details. On the first Friday of the month since March 2020, Bandcamp waived their revenue share to help support artists. Thanks for your continued support of independent music and the people who…
28 September 2026
Gilla Band release their fourth album Pugnello, out now. Their latest offering was recorded between 2022-2026 across three studios, Hellfire, Yellow Door Music Studio, & Sonic Studios in Dublin, and produced by Gilla Band and recorded and mixed by Daniel Fox. The album is available on Deluxe Gatefold LP with glued in lyric booklet + pearl colour vinyl + indie colour LP, and Standard LP & CD. Gilla Band never know where they’re…
25 September 2026
Wednesday 11th November 2026 will mark the 30th anniversary of The Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’. A track so iconic, it changed the landscape of British music forever. XL Recordings announces a 30th anniversary 12″ vinyl edition of The Prodigy’s ‘Breathe’, bringing together the original track, an instrumental version, and the highly sought-after remixes by The Glitch Mob and Mefjus & Camo & Krooked. Available to pre-order now, the record will be released…
25 September 2026
Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin releases her highly anticipated new studio album The Gem, out now. Earlier this week, Jacklin shared one final single ‘If I Had The Hand Of God’, following a global First Play on triple j Drive. Written about a surreal trip to Nashville, the song is a meditation on the life of a touring musician and the importance (or unimportance) of legacy. Watch the accompanying video here. The Gem was produced by…
25 September 2026
Blawan (aka Jamie Roberts) today digitally releases a new two-track EP, Gi Mi Keys Back / Auto Fake. A limited 12″ of the EP is available to pre-order now, landing 13 November. A year on from SickElixir, Blawan is back to remind us he’s one of British electronic music’s most singular voices. Since dropping SickElixir on XL Recordings on 10 October 2025, Blawan has not stopped. He’s toured across the world, playing at the best…
24 September 2026
‘Where the Goth Girls At?’ is the striking third single from Queens of the Stone Age’s ninth studio album, Perfecth. The track pairs raw, minimalist riffs with an explosive chorus, amplified by rich string and horn arrangements. Drawing on inspiration and nostalgia from Josh Homme’s youth in a Palm Desert suburb, the song centers on themes of teenage love and the desire to impress others. About the song, Homme says, “Watching…
24 September 2026
Mike Hadreas (Perfume Genius) and choreographer Kate Wallich have reunited for a new evening-length music and dance work, The Lesson, commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group. Blending Perfume Genius’ emotionally charged experimental pop with Wallich’s distinctive choreographic language, The Lesson is a raw, live music and dance performance that draws inspiration from The Piano Teacher, the notorious novel by Elfriede Jelinek that was later adapted into Michael Haneke’s celebrated film. They will premiere The Lesson at REDCAT in…
24 September 2026
DJ Python announces his return to XL Recordings with new EP to accomplish many things, out Friday 23 October. The five-track EP is the follow-up to 2025’s i was put on this earth (“a triumph of gentle reverie and quiet upheaval” – Pitchfork). The first track, ‘Forgetful Angel’, featuring Birmingham rapper Tony Bontana, is out now alongside a music video directed by Vladyslav and conceptualised together with DJ Python. Dreamy yet…
24 September 2026
Earlier this month, 300SkullsAndCounting and Jenny Sparks announced their signing to XL Recordings with the single and music video ‘The Ballad of St Nick’s Park‘ (“Absurdist screamo meets bassline house, lairy rap and seagull noises” – The Guardian). Now – the unlikely collaborative duo return to surprise-drop their debut album THIS IS SPA TOWN! digitally. Across nine tracks, 300SkullsAndCounting’s screamo vocals, 8-bit roots and baroque toy-keyboard melodies collide with Jenny Sparks’ bouncy, bassline-driven production – an infectious sound that sits…
23 September 2026
Swedish artist Murex shares ‘Puddle’, the final track to be unveiled from her debut album Inventio, out this Friday 25th September. It premiered earlier today on Matt Wilkinson’s Apple Music 1 Show. ‘Puddle’ is where Murex begins to find the light, like a glimmer on a pool of rainwater, made sonic by the whorling clarinets of Pelle Westlin and Isak Hedtjärn. “Found myself a puddle to pour into… I’m leaking into…
18 September 2026
Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – today announce the full tracklist for their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released 16th October. Produced by James Ford, Dopamine Chamber features the first guest artist on a Fontaines D.C. album – ROSALÍA on ‘Where Is Gone?’. Dopamine Chamber is the follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records and into their most…
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