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Southbank - Decide (Mongo)

11 December 2025

Southbank, hailing from Austin, TX, United States, is the brainchild of Jeff Neely, a seasoned frontman and singer-songwriter who has been crafting music under theis moniker since his debut album in 2022.

James Dyer - How Do You Feel? (self-released)

11 December 2025

James Dyer is a Singer Songwriter from Southsea, UK, whose music is shaped by a lifelong connection to melody and storytelling.

Ecce Shnak - Prayer On Love + Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (the remixes) (Records Man, Records)

11 December 2025

Art rockers *Ecce Shnak8 have teamed up with world-famous DJ-producer *Madison Mars8 on the club anthem ‘Prayer On Love (Madison Mars Remix)’. A 360-degree transformation of the chilled original version of ‘Prayer On Love’, found on their Shadows Grow Fangs EP, this ecstatic dance version serves as a bridge towards their full-length debut album, Dandy Variances, slated for spring release.

hovercraft - Blown Away (self-released)

10 December 2025

The lost catalog of songwriter Piers “Charlie Pepper” Wildman. From dusty analog rehearsal tapes, crumpled lyric sheets, and hand-drawn sketches to a James Bond-themed trilogy of hope drowned in drinking culture, resurrected by friendship and AI.

Inca Babies - Reincarnation (Black Lagoon Records)

10 December 2025

Led by Harry Stafford, Inca Babies8 were a vibrant part of Britain’s early postpunk / death-rock scene, amassing a steady following through five intensive years of touring, six singles and four albums, all of which entered the UK Indie Charts. After four *BBC John Peel sessions in 1984-1988, the band called it quits, reforming in 2007.

Thomas Strønen/Time is a Blind Guide - Off Stillness (ECM)

10 December 2025

Drummer/composer Thomas Strønen’s Time is a Blind Guide has always existed in its own dimension.

Of Monsters And Men + Josie Edwards - Roadrunner (Boston) - Dec 4th, 2025

9 December 2025

Of Monsters And Men found a slot to schedule a canceled date from their North American tour, droves come out in support.

The Idiot Kids - Instants (self-released)

9 December 2025

The Idiot Kids have been keeping punk weird since 2011. They have the energy of punk, the roughened aesthetic of garage rock, and the melodic sensibilities of art pop… This is music with shake-you-up hooks, frenzied tempos, gnarly guitars, and anthemic vocals. Known for their live performances, they blend the theatricality of glam with the raw energy of hardcore.

Anana Kaye - Cordelia (Meridian/ECR Music Group)

9 December 2025

Anana Kaye’s path led her to Nashville, where she began blending these influences with Americana, folk, and alternative rock. Her acclaimed collaborations with Americana pioneer David Olney, her work on The Waterboys’ recent record Life, Death and Dennis Hopper alongside Bruce Springsteen and Fiona Apple, and her featured appearance on the tribute album Can’t Steal My Fire with Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams have secured her musical reputation with remarkable speed.

Courtney Hadwin - Changes (self-released)

9 December 2025

With her unmistakable voice and raw emotional intensity, Courtney Hadwin delivers a stirring tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne with her live cover of “Changes.” Recorded at Decoy Studios, she strips away excess production in favor of honesty and grit. Hadwin breathes new life into the Black Sabbath classic, turning it into an introspective reflection on transformation and growth. “Changes” is available now on all major streaming platforms.

Ger Eaton - Season Changes (Dimple Discs)

9 December 2025

Well known in his homeland thanks to a string of brilliant singles, Irish bard par excellence Ger Eaton is back with a large dose of Renaissance Pop. Finally, he will be releasing his long-awaited debut album Season Changes via Dimple Discs, a Peckham-based label that has championed many Irish artists.

Bad Mary - Last Christmas (Dead Pill)

9 December 2025

Drawing on influences from the likes of Blondie and The Ramones, Green Day and The Dollyrots, this tight-knit family unit uses humor and the power of music to push back on all the crap going on in the world. Bad Mary holds up a warped mirror to the current culture and reminds us that having fun is the best way to give yourself an escape from the craziness.

The Lunar Keys - Pure As Your Protocol (Indi1)

8 December 2025

The Lunar Keys is four anxious types with too much nervous energy and tunes trapped in their psyches to not be in this band. Singer/Bass JC and drummer Dom are outcasts from a previous London band. Joined by keyboardist singer Lexi and “The Steve” – The Band regularly feature on BBC Introducing …..Building a folowing in 2025 with Festival appearances / Gigs and social media presence..

Patrick Costello & Knabokov Collective - Borderline: Chaos at the Border (self-released)

8 December 2025

Originally released in 2021, we are re-releasing “Borderline: Chaos at the Border” because of the despicable xenophobia and demonizing of immigrants done by the Trump administration. Biden and Obama were bad too, but Trump is the worst with his radical deployment of ICE terrorists who are masked and unidentified and allowed to kidnap people off the street and deport to other countries.

Mikhail Daken - Marionettes (Bushido Core Records)

8 December 2025

Mikhail Daken is an alternative singer-songwriter and composer that combines alt-rock, dark wave and cinematic ambient soundscapes with powerful, cinematic multimedia productions to tell emotive, evocative and ethereal stories.

lizardream - Stories  (self-released)

8 December 2025

lizardream is an Israeli Indie-Rock band whose music combines an emotional narrative with the warmth of folk-rock and uncompromising honesty.
“Stories” is our fourth single.

Pisgah - Faultlines (Dark Tree Records)

8 December 2025

Pisgah has released her second LP, Faultlines, a record that marks the fullest realization yet of the sonic identity envisioned by Brittney Jenkins, the Southern American born but London-based musician behind the project. Though technically a sophomore album, Faultlines feels like a debut—an arrival point where sound, vision, and narrative converge.

Moon Construction Kit - Chemicals (self-released)

8 December 2025

Moon Construction Kit is the one-man project of Olivier Cornu, a musician and songwriter exploring the intersection of psychedelic pop, synthpop, cinematic textures, and late 60s influences. With a fascination for timeless, otherworldly aesthetics, his music blends dreamy harmonies and immersive soundscapes, creating a universe where the past and future collide.

The King Canutes - Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer (Magic Door Record Label)

8 December 2025

Brooklyn-London-based indie duo The King Canutes present their debut album Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer, an artistic record worthy of their majestic title, via the Montclair, New Jersey-based Magic Door Record Label. Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by renowned producer Ray Ketchem (Guided by Voices, Luna, Elk City, Gramercy Arms) at Magic Door Recording Studio, The duo’s playful duality sits with hard-earned life lessons. Evocative tales of triumph and tragedy are leavened with everyday fatalism across each of its nine tracks.

Reuben's Daughters - Leylanding (Burning Shed)

6 December 2025

Leylanding is the latest step in Reuben Myles Tyghe’s musical journey, which began in his home county of Wiltshire [from where musical greats like XTC and Julian Cope also hail]. At the age of 18, he formed his first band, released five albums across 13 years, toured consistently before entering a 2020 enforced hiatus—the resulting downtime from which birthed Reuben’s Daughters as a project.

Out Of/Into - Motion II (Blue Note)

5 December 2025

A melding of disparate but insanely proficient talents in pursuit of a single vision.

Blindness & Light - Fly Paper (self-released)

5 December 2025

Blindness & Light is an informal collective stretching from Anglesey to Yorkshire and many places in between. Also there are a few members in Japan and Argentina. This track is more locally focused than other Blindness & Light tracks so far as Colin M Potter is the singer/songwriter/guitarist but the 2 featured artists are also based on Anglesey, North Wales. Henry Priestman, plays Farfisa on this retro garage-punk track and Rob Griffiths provides the bass groove. Glenn Welman plays drums.

Omnesia - Dangle (self-released)

5 December 2025

From Oakland, CA, Omnesia is an androgynous vocalist medella kingston + eclectic guitarist/producer M2 = auditory omakase, where future vintage rock, indie dance, electro-pop, nu wave prog find common ground.

Messiness - Messiness (Tarla Records & StoneFree Records)

5 December 2025

Psychedelic indie-rock outfit Messiness presents their highly anticipated debut Messiness album, released via Vienna-based StoneFree Records and Istanbul-based Tarla Records. A collection that resists easy categorisation, this music is playful yet serious, critical yet hallucinatory. This is a record for disobedient nights, for cracked screens and seaside sunsets, and for listeners who suspect that, in disorder, there may also lie a different kind of clarity.

Lowsunday - Low Sunday Ghost Machine (2025 remaster) (Projekt Records)

4 December 2025

Projekt Records artist Lowsunday has released the extended 30th anniversary remaster of their highly regarded debut album Low Sunday Ghost Machine. In this 2-CD offering, they present a feast of energetic post-punk, shoegaze and dreampop. From quiet intensity to sweeping sonic landscapes, Lowsunday makes a welcome return with their retro-futurist daydream, merging post-punk classicism with a distinctly forward-looking sound.

Strutter - Modern Life (self-released)

3 December 2025

“Modern Life” is the 2nd studio release from Irish rock/alternative outfit Strutter, recorded at Camelot Studios, Dublin in 2025. On vocals and acoustic guitars, Vincent Vinny Brennan. Lead guitar provided by Shane Shazza Moon Noonan. Bass guitar by rev Al Barton. Drums and percussion by Ste alley-cat Ryan.

Hovercraft - New Pine Overcoat / Angel (self-release)

3 December 2025

Following recent praise for their “audacious attempt to explore the emotional abyss,” Hovercraft releases “New Pine Overcoat / Angel” — a double A-side capturing the fragile brilliance of Grimsby songwriter Charlie “Pepper” Wildman, whose work revealed a mind balanced between cosmic imagination and darker undercurrents. Named after Britain’s failed hovercraft dreams — technological marvels that promised everything before sinking under their own weight — Hovercraft’s resurrection trilogy revives Charlie’s lost catalog from tapes kept in cardboard boxes for nearly thirty years.

Mercury's Antennae - The Veil Opaque v.2 (self-released)

3 December 2025

Mercury’s Antennae is multi-instrumentalist Erick r. Scheid (The Palace of Tears), vocalist Dru Allen and bassist Cindy Coulter (both from This Ascension). Ethereal/shoegaze meets ambient and electronic influences to create something new and distinct.

Faust - s/t/So Far/IV (Bureau B)

3 December 2025

Of all the great German bands from the early sixties and seventies that were attached to the unfortunate name “Krautrock,” Faust were without doubt the weirdest.

Darling Black - Darling Black (self-released)

3 December 2025

Darling Black (self-titled) is the first full length release from artist Dylan Hundley. Dylan is also the lead singer of Lulu Lewis, the host of Radar on The Vinyl District featuring conversations with musical artists & community leaders, and the curator of Salon Lulu which is a multi-disciplinary music & art series held at various locations in NYC & Brooklyn

Tombstones In Their Eyes - Under Dark Skies (Little Cloud Records / Shore Dive Records)

3 December 2025

Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock outfit Tombstones In Their Eyes is releasing their much-anticipated album Under Dark Skies on December 5. For the first time ever, they have support on both sides of the Atlantic, the album being released via both* Little Cloud Records* (North America) and Shore Dive Records (UK and EU).

False Tracks – When Fortune Feeds (Strange Mono Records)

2 December 2025

From Philadelphia, False Tracks revels in anthemic, post-punk darkness and resiliency, with a bit of New Wave artistry for good measure. The playing is fantastic, and almost everything has a brisk tempo. Surprises here and there make it an intoxicating and poetic listen.

Jax Fleming - I'll Be Fine (Wally Opus Records)

2 December 2025

After cutting his hair and dressing more ’90s slacker, Jax Fleming’s visual persona has evolved over the past couple of months to be more of a grungy kid trying to find himself and less of a rockstar frontman who’s got it all. This feels more authentic to his image on socials and on-brand for his current music. Having come from being in a heavy alt-rock band for 3 years before starting his solo project, it’s taken time to develop his look and his sound into a place of newfound harmony.

Matthew Phillips - 'Till It's Over (self-released)

2 December 2025

San Diego-based musician Matthew Phillips, the rising pop sensation from Southern California, continues to captivate audiences with his infectious melodies and heartfelt storytelling. Pairing electronic elements, cinematic soundscapes, and classic hook-filled lyrics that breathe new life into the alternative genre

Shell Pink - Rogue Waves (Shell Pink and Many Hats Distribution)

2 December 2025

Rogue Waves is an EP about staying afloat through the emotional tides of love, identity, and self-reflection. Blending dreamy textures with oceansoaked imagery, Shell Pink explores the moments that knock you down, the people who lift you back up, and the quiet clarity that comes from resurfacing. It is a surrender and a promise that is incredibly honest and deeply human.

The Cranberries – MTV Unplugged (MTV/Island/UMe)

1 December 2025

“We’re gonna rock your bones,” promises Dolores O’Riordan as the this concert recording begins. It’s a more subdued set of ballads to be honest, but that’s no knock against the band or the potency of these songs.

John Lee Hooker – The Best of Friends (BMG) 2xLP reissue

1 December 2025

The Best of Friends is a like a potluck dinner where everybody brings something to the table. This 2xLP reissue of reinvented songs is poised to draw contemporary listeners back to Hooker’s influential roots.

Afton Wolfe - Ophiuchus (Grandiflora Records)

1 December 2025

Afton Wolfe is a product of his home, Mississippi. It is the birthplace of at least 2 American art forms: country music and blues music. Meridian is the birthplace of Jimmy Rodgers, while the Mississippi Delta is the birthplace of the blues, and the first rock n’ roll notes ever played, according to some music historians, came from Hattiesburg. Afton also draws much of his style from nearby New Orleans.

Two Tonne Machete - Pigs Pigs (self-released)

1 December 2025

TWO TONNE MACHETE are a feminist alt-punk force from North West England and North Wales, carving out their space with authentic, high-energy, feel-good punk anthems that hit as hard live as they do on record.

Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky LP reissue (Craft)

1 December 2025

From the vantage point of 2025, there are plenty of rock radio listeners and playlist streamers who only know Norman Greenbaum from his classic rock staple “Spirit in the Sky.” This LP reissue of 1969’s Spirit in the Sky album may alter a few perceptions of Greenbaum as just a hippy-dippy psychedelic pop specialist.

Boxing Club - City Boy (18 Carat Love Affair)

1 December 2025

Born out of London’s underground gig circuit in 2024, Boxing Club are a four-piece straddling the Glasgow–London divide. Built from friends of friends and forum adverts, the band fuels their sound with streetwise grit and theatrical bite — music that’s both confrontational and cathartic.

CS Hellman - In My Head (self-released)

1 December 2025

CS Hellmann, hailing from Nashville, United States, is a multi-talented artist who not only wrote and performed his latest original single, “In My Head,” but also collaborated with producer Jared Corder to bring the track to life. Their creative synergy, honed over years of collaboration at Polychrome Ranch studio in Hartsville, TN, has resulted in a seamless and emotionally charged musical journey. With a focus on infusing heart and emotion into his performances, CS Hellmann’s artistry shines through in this latest release.

Hallucinophonics - Born on a Train (self-released)

1 December 2025

Hallucinophonics exist at the nexus of consciousness and sound—crafting immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries between reality and reverie. Drawing from Pink Floyd’s cosmic explorations, Porcupine Tree’s atmospheric sophistication, and Tame Impala’s psychedelic innovation, they create music that functions as both an artistic statement and a transformative experience.

ENAVE - Skeletons (self-release)

30 November 2025

Dark alternative artist ENAVE presents the new single “Skeletons,” available on all platforms.This track doesn’t simply play — it ignites an inner detonation, where every fragment of pain becomes part of a cleansing. “Skeletons” is a manifesto about the hidden traumas and memories that have been locked for years in the darkest corners of the subconscious. And every time we try to shut the door, they spill out: a hand, a leg, sometimes even a head — fragments of what we carry within us, no matter how far we run

mudd•shovel - Little White Hair (self-released)

30 November 2025

mudd•shovel have carved out a sound that’s heavy, honest and utterly unvarnished. Built on snarling guitar lines, brooding melodies and lyrics pulled straight from lived experience, their music walks the razor edge between familiar and feral. Influences flash from grunge and post-punk to modern alt-rock, yet what they create together is unmistakably their own.

Absinthe Vows - Death Mask (self-release)

30 November 2025

Absinthe Vows, hailing from Columbus, *United States8, is the creative force behind the original single “Death Mask.” This talented artist both wrote and recorded the song, showcasing a unique blend of Post-Punk, 90’s Alternative, Classic Rock, and Glam Rock influences. The release date of November 20, 2025, marks a significant milestone for Absinthe Vows, who has crafted a genre-bending track that pushes musical boundaries.

Intercontinen7al - Love is Everywhere (self-released)

30 November 2025

INTERCONTINEN7AL is the first rock band in history to record music across all 7 continents, and is comprised of over 30 musicians from 15 different countries. Songs “Manor Hill”, “Puerto Aisen”, “Night Shift”, “The Chamber”, and “Butterflies” (available on the World Over EP) are the only original compositions to ever include instrumentation recorded on all 7 continents – featuring percussion and/or guitar from research stations in Antarctica.

Electric High - Free To Go (Apollon Records)

29 November 2025

Just one year and 13 days after their critically acclaimed debut Colorful White Lies, Bergen-based rock band Electric High returns with their second album Free to Go. While the debut was a manifestation of the band’s first five years of existence, Free to Go is quite the opposite: written, rehearsed and recorded at breakneck speed, the album bursts with freshness, spontaneity and raw energy.

The Dreaming Spires - Normal Town (self-released)

29 November 2025

Acclaimed Oxfordshire five-piece The Dreaming Spires are set to mark their eagerly awaited return with the release of their new album, Normal Town, out now through Clubhouse Records. This will be the band’s third album and their first new music in nearly a decade. ‘Normal Town’ was self-produced at various locations in their hometown of Didcot, with some overdubs contributed by keyboard player Tom at his home in the Scottish Borders.

Tillerman - Summer of '96 (FBP Music Publishing)

29 November 2025

Tillerman, a band created in 2019, built around a central core of brothers Jon & Tom Kulczycki accompanied by a variety of musicians and friendships acquired over the years. Setting aside the live scene deliberately, to focus more on crafting ‘stand out songs’ with creative music videos to build their following.