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DRAIN – FTS (KYS)
Drain, FTS (KYS)
Epitaph Records
Sometimes all you need is a roar of raw, thrashing hardcore to take the edge off - thankfully, DRAIN ha...
Lucky dip...
A bit of everything!
8
9
Pierce the Veil – The Jaws of Life
Pierce the Veil, The Jaws Of Life
Fearless Records
Pierce the Veil are nostalgia. Not in a cheap thrill, play one song at a party then ...
9
Paramore – This Is Why
Paramore, This Is Why
Atlantic Records
It’s been 5 long years since Paramore’s last release - and This Is Why. A product of cabin feveri...
You Me At Six – Manchester, 6.2.2023
You Me At Six @ O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 6.2.23
with Bears in Trees, The Maine and Waterparks
2023 may be the year of the rabbi...
7.5
Delilah Bon – I Wish A Bitch Would
Delilah Bon, I Wish A Bitch Would
Independent
Delilah Bon picks her moments. Her first of 2023 has arrived, and it’s as incendiary and...
8
zebrahead – II EP
zebrahead, II EP
MFZB Records
Whoever said that a zebra can’t change its stripes has clearly never met zebrahead. After thirteen studio ...
Bittersweet’s Albums Of The Year 2022!
2022 has been one hell of a year for music, if you ask us. With the 'emo renaissance' in full swing, as well as some absolutely lethal genre...
Download20’s First Wave Of Acts Announced!
If you weren’t aware, it’s a pretty big year for the top dog of rock festivals. The beloved Download is turning 20 this June - a...
7
Born Without Bones – Dancer
Born Without Bones, Dancer
Pure Noise Records
Born Without Bones are back to tug on our heartstrings. Five years on from 2017’s Young at...
7.5
Magnolia Park – Baku’s Revenge
Magnolia Park, Baku’s Revenge
Epitaph Records
Magnolia Park’s latest is a self-aware, incendiary romp through pop-punk 101, with a delic...
9
Pinkshift – Love Me Forever
Pink Shift, Love Me Forever
Hopeless Records
It’s official: the kids are most certainly not alright. In a snarl of punk-rock a...
Vukovi – Manchester, 13.10.22
Vukovi @ Manchester Academy 3 13.10.22 with ZAND
After blowing us into the stratosphere with the brilliant NULA, which came out just last...
Petrol Girls – Manchester, 7.10.22
Petrol Girls @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 7th October 2022
There is a blueprint for a perfect punk show. Petrol Girls have it - and if y...
Bittersweet Press: I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Bittersweet Hour: a weekly(ish) podcast where Ims and Emily (resident emo girly guides) provide a tour of everything tasty the rock scen...
Delilah Bon @ Deaf Institute, 30.9.22
Delilah Bon @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 30.09.22
Delilah Bon is bringing her show on the road, and What. A. Show. It. Is. Her fierce, f...
9
The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist
The Callous Daoboys are a sasscore pack of thieves; brash, confrontational and sharp-tongued to the core, this post-hardcore collective are ...
7.5
Scene Queen ft Cody Carson – Barbie & Ken
Scene Queen + Set It Off, Barbie & Ken
Hopeless Records
Scene Queen is back and more ridiculously bold than ever on riotous romp Bar...
Reading and Leeds 2022 – Full Lineup Highlights!
So, now that Reading and Leeds's 2022 instalment is just around the corner, the set times have been unleashed on the app, the full lineup is...
7.5
Demi Lovato – HOLY FVCK
Demi Lovato, HOLY FVCK
Island Records
Demi Lovato’s HOLY FVCK is a rock tour-de-force with the perspective that only a popstar could br...
7.5
Pale Waves – Unwanted
Pale Waves, Unwanted
Dirty Hit
Pale Waves have undergone a number of metamorphoses over the years. In their latest form, they’re a pop...
9
Ithaca – They Fear Us
Ithaca, They Fear Us
Hassle Records
Bow before your blood - the reign of Ithaca is upon us. In a blaze of fury, Ithaca are burning hardc...
Double Dare Ya: Manchester Launch ft Storm St Claire, Cody Frost, ZAND
Manchester’s Night and Day Cafe has been sitting at the heart of the city’s DIY and upcoming music scene for as long as it’s been there. Nes...
8
ZAND – Battery Acid
ZAND, Battery Acid
Independent
After an astounding end to 2000Trees, ‘ugly-pop’ extraordinaire ZAND returns with Battery Acid, a sensi...
8.5
You Me At Six – Deep Cuts
You Me At Six, Deep Cuts
AWAL Recordings
You Me At Six are back and they’re digging deep; with their eighth album Truth Decay set for re...
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Architects – tear gas
Architects, tear gas
Epitaph
Architects are proving that anything is possible; following on from the mighty when we were young, the metalcore juggernauts ar...
8.5
Scene Queen – Pink G-String
Scene Queen, Pink G-String
Hopeless Records
Scene Queen’s bimbo empire is growing - and Pink G-String, her first release since the masterpiece that was Bimb...
2000Trees 2022: Saturday
On our final morning of a festival, you usually get a little sense of bittersweet sadness that another year is almost over. At 2000Trees on this fine Saturday m...
2000Trees 2022: Friday
2000Trees’s second morning waits for no-one - the sun is beating down, that all-too-familiar feeling of being slowly baked out of your tent is here with a venge...
2000Trees 2022: Thursday
After three long years, the wait is finally over. Yes, live music has been back in the swing of things for a little while now, and we’ve had many a can’t-quite-...
8
Yours Truly – is this what i look like?
Yours Truly, is this what i look like?
UNFD
Yours Truly’s grand return, in the form of EP is this what i look like, is an immense one. Taking all the good...
9
MOTHICA – Nocturnal
MOTHICA, Nocturnal
Heavy Heart Records
MOTHICA has stepped up the theatrics on second full-length offering Nocturnal, a paper-winged pop-rock opera replete ...
Outbreak Fest 2022: A Landmark Weekend
You wanted a no barrier show. We got it over the line. But this is the only way we were able to do it.
These were the first words people saw as they arrived...
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Yungblud – Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad Today
Yungblud, Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad Today
Locomotion Recordings
Yungblud 180s from the moody tones of Fleabag on Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad Today, a smil...
7.5
WILLOW – it’s my fault
Willow, maybe it’s my fault
Roc Nation
A year on from her spectacular debut rock record, Willow returns to continue to assert her gorgeous flair for genre-...