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08/05/2026

John Haycock’s new album “What Remains” is out today!! Available in all good record shops!!

‘What Remains’ is the new album from John Haycock featuring Dan Bridgwood-Hill.

Originally composed for resonance and performed live at Hope Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge in 2023, the composition uses kora, clarinet, guitar, violin and electronics to produce a heartfelt conjunction of acoustic, processed and environmental elements, deeply rooted in the land and history of the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.

08/05/2026

Guttersnipe’s new album “Extinction Burst!” is out today!! Available from all good record shops!

“Extinction Burst! captures what it feels like to stand at the threshold: cornered, radiant, and out of options.” - Album of the Week

On Extinction Burst, as with previous material, the duo are heavily augmented with technology. Tipula Confusa’s drum kit triggers chasm-causing synth pulses with thumping low end attack.. Strafing from all over the stereo field the constant shatter of the cymbals and toms feel like Sunny Murray or Rashied Ali in full flight during a John Coltrane session in 1967. Uroceras Gigas’s guitar + synth storm is by-now similarly an instantly recognised tool kit in underground music. Switching from screeching guitar atonality to intricate riffs from the black metal/Voivod hinterland to ultra-distorted synth meltdown, it’s an utterly overwhelming, essential and vital pouring-out of the full emotional spectrum. Both artists vocalise, ecstatic and primal, drawn out or yelped in pain or pleasure or panic.

07/05/2026

An absolute pleasure to have Night School’s Michael Kasparis visit the Forte hub today 😊

The excellent records turns 15 this year!!! 🥳 Long may they keep supplying us all with exciting & inspiring new music!!

07/05/2026

New Guttersnipe album "Extinction Burst!" The Quietus' Album of the Week!

LP out tomorrow! Available from all good record shops!

Night School

Back after an eight-year album gap, the Leeds duo have met the moment, matching the scale of our psychic overwhelm with an album of more-than-human intensity

30/04/2026

Elder release new single 'Capture/Release' from their highly anticipated forthcoming new album "Through Zero" out 29th May via Stickman Records.

Available on Deluxe Translucent Neon Orange 2LP w/ Etching on Side D, housed in a gatefold with full-colour printed inner sleeves, lyrics insert! Also on CD!

I’ve been listening the the Berlin-via-Massachusetts crew Elder for a long time, and I still mostly think of them as a doom metal band. But when you hear the opening of Elder’s new track “Capture/Release,” it’s clear that that’s not the case anymore. Elder have been moving in gentler, pr...

29/04/2026

Two Bikini Kill 7”s originally released in 1995 and out-of-print for 13 years will be available again this Friday!! Available from all good record shops!

“The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation” on Baby Blue Vinyl & “I Like F**king / I Hate Danger” on Clear Pink Vinyl

29/04/2026

New Hiro Ama EP "Booster Pack" out 15th May via PRAH Recordings

To promote his new work, Hiro will perform at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch, London May 7th.

Japan-born, London-based composer-producer Hiro Ama returns with 'Booster’, lifted from his 'Booster Pack’ EP our April 10th via PRAH Recordings.

29/04/2026

Check out new Memo PST track 'Blown Away'

LA Punks Memo PST, featuring Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult) and Orville Neeley (OBN IIIs), return with another modern punk classic "Eternal Actors", their new album out on In The Red Recordings. 12 tracks capturing the fury of late '70s rough and raw punk rock!

5 likes. "Memo PST - Blown Away"

27/04/2026

Thurston Moore Interviews Bonner Kramer… and vice versa for The Quietus

'The ex-Sonic Youth Now Jazz Now free-rocker and the formerly mononymic Shockabilly, B.A.L.L., auxiliary Bu****le Surfing bass mangler pose one another questions about their art and practice'

Their first duo record "They Came Like Swallows - Seven Requiems For The Children Of Gaza" is out this Friday via Silver Current Records

Thurston Moore KRAMER

The Sonic Youth dude and the Shimmy-Disc dude interview one another about passion and process ahead of their awesome new LP.

27/04/2026

"The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’"

New album "This Is My Blood" out May on LP/CD.

Jozef van Wissem

The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’

22/04/2026

Phil Alexander's excellent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MOJO review for The Heads' new album "yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell"

2LP/CD out now! Available in all great record shops!