GALLERY: Bloodstock Festival 2026 – Friday

GALLERY: LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2026 – Friday

There’s an energetic first-day-of-the-main-festival kind of buzz on this sunny day in Walton on Trent. It can only mean one thing – Welcome to Bloodstock Open Air 2026. Tents have been pitched. Huge flags consisting of niche memes and references have now been hoisted (two massive flags →

GALLERY: Chelsea Wolfe – ‘The Dark’

There are many types of Chelsea Wolfe; the doom folk poet, the goth overlord, the master of all things hypnogogic. Wolfe’s covered a vast landscape of mystery and occultism over the past two decades, distorting genre lines into uniquely amorphous collections of songs. ‘The Dark’ is her newest →

GALLERY: Karen Dió – ‘FUGAZ’

Brazil’s top exports include coffee, petroleum, iron ore, frozen bovine meat and now Karen Dió. Snapped up by Hopeless Records for her 2024 EP ‘My World’ EP, she now has to prove success wasn’t a fluke. The pressure is on. You’ve probably seen the slogan, with its →

GALLERY: Retrospective: Reel Big Fish – ‘Turn The Radio Off’

Imagine the taste of a Slush Puppy when you’re a kid whose mum doesn’t let them have sugar, or the sensation of a teenager who’s just worked out that they can just about have that house party and clean up before their family get home. A Saturday spent at →

GALLERY: Preview: ArcTanGent 2026

ActTanGent has always been a welcome home for the weird and wonderful, showcasing an array of the more experimental and genre-bending subsets of prog, metal and rock. This year’s line-up is, frankly, a bit ridiculous. Clash-finders will be working overtime, with many likely dashing the fortuitously short distances between →

GALLERY: INTERVIEW: Ashaine White

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GALLERY: Din Of Celestial Birds – ‘Takeoffs & Landings’

Music can often feel like a journey. The listener is taken on an emotional ride with the musicians at the helm, inviting us to reflect on our own lived experiences as their music scores the way. The fittingly titled ‘Takeoffs & Landings’ by Leeds-based instrumental post-rockers Din →

GALLERY: Electric Callboy – ‘Tanzneid’

If you’ve got a friend who’s still on the fence about whether Electric Callboy are genius or trash, all you need to do is silently hand them a copy of ‘Tanzneid’ and they’ll be converted. Well, okay: if they haven’t already been convinced by a live show, then this →

GALLERY: Initiate – ‘WITH LOVE // WITH RAGE’

Letters. It’s all about letters. A series of handwritten thoughts, captured in time. When Crystal Park sat down to write the lyrics for Initiate’s new EP, she saw it as a series of intimate conversations, each signed with the valediction ‘With Love // With Rage’. In →

GALLERY: Cancer Bats – ‘Give Me Dirt’

What do you do after seven albums as Canada’s hardest band? Take a break of course, and after two decades of head-banging, Cancer Bats surely deserved their time off. ‘Give Me Dirt’, their latest album, is supposedly inspired by nature and travel, but that’s like saying ‘Blood Meridian’ is →

GALLERY: Citizen – ‘HALCYON BLUES’

There is a saying. Over a long enough time span the chance of survival drops to zero. It’s all about probability. The longer something exists the more likely it is to end. The same applies to bands. Eventually the magic fades. The more albums you release, the →

GALLERY: Future Palace – ‘RESURGENCE’

Two is company. Three is a crowd. But what is a band? In recent years it has become difficult to say. Once upon a time you needed a band to write, to record, to be a band. Now, modern technologies and online spaces allow you to exist →

GALLERY: Retrospective: Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American

At the turn of the millennium, Jimmy Eat World were finished. Their third album, ‘Clarity’, was a commercial disaster, despite great reviews, and Capitol promptly dropped them in 1999. Through returning to the world of regular jobs, releasing a singles compilation, buying copies of ‘Clarity’ at cost to shift →

GALLERY: 2000 Trees Festival 2026 – Saturday

GALLERY: LIVE: 2000Trees 2026 – Saturday

And now, the end is near, and so we face the final day of 2000Trees 2026. It’s been beyond a blast, but it’s not over yet: we’ve got new favourites, old friends and one heck of a headliner to mark the close of the biggest little festival in the →

GALLERY: LIVE: 2000Trees 2026 – Friday

It’s even hotter today, but we’re not throwing in the towel yet. 2000Trees Friday sees the return of the mighty Arcane Roots, gives us a chance to release our Cancer Bats, and kicks us into the heaviest day of the weekend! Words: Kate Allvey // Photos: Penny Bennett and Paul →

GALLERY: 2000 Trees Festival 2026 – Friday

GALLERY: Mimi Barks – ‘DREAMSTATE OF FEAR’

Trap, like rap and hip-hop, is largely a solo pursuit. The individual needs to stand out. Hence with each release Mimi Barks’ image changes, as does her sound. It’s a state of constant reinvention making it hard to pin down exactly who she is or what her music will →

GALLERY: 2000 Trees Festival 2026 – Thursday