Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
We're feeling very nostalgic today with the news that mid-2000s legends The Pigeon Detectives will headline this year's Warton Music Festival. The Leeds rockers shot to fame with their 2007 album Wait For Me, which sold over half a million records with classic tunes like Take Her Back and I Found Out, and a decade... Continue Reading →
We're delighted to bring you our first Northern Irish band discovery, in the form of exciting new indie rockers Red House , who only released their debut single in November. The Belfast quartet of Caolan 'Cazza' Donaghy (guitar and lead vocals), Adam McCallan (guitar), Darragh Tibbs (drums) and Odhran Cassidy (bass) formed just over a year ago and quickly... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I was blown away by the vocal powers of Greco-Australian singer Kate Pavli when her band supported Italian rockers Halflives in Camden. Performing as Finding Kate, I'd previously enjoyed her brand of dark, emotional rock, but seeing the powerful delivery of her vocals live was the icing on the cake. Kate... Continue Reading →
We say band but, well, Grumble Bee is not a band. It's a man, called Jack, who writes as a solo artist that looks and sounds like a big rock band, and it's pretty damn awesome. Having been in bands before Jack Bennett, who hails from Walsden in West Yorkshire, went down the path of... Continue Reading →
The phrase "It's a bit heavier than most of our previous stuff" is linguistic music to our ears here at GigRadar Towers. Which leads us perfectly onto Brighton indie rockers Dove House. The quartet of Jack Peacock (vocals and guitar), Kieran Philbin (guitar), Ish Hussein (bass and vocals), Steve Ray (drums) met at university and, like... Continue Reading →
One of the most exciting bands we discovered last year was Reading rap-rockers The Final Clause of Tacitus. I'm delighted that our former New Band of the Week from exactly one year ago are back with a brand spanking new second EP that rocks even harder than their awesome debut effort. New EP Not Like... Continue Reading →
They may only have released their debut single last month but we're really excited by the powerful rock sound of Circus. The deliciously edgy, hard-hitting vocals of singer and rhythm guitarist Olivia Donelon are perfectly complimented by a big rock backdrop to form a ridiculously catchy sound. The Congleton quartet, completed by lead guitarist Alfie... Continue Reading →
London-based L Sicario have honed a deliciously cool brand of desert rock, which just oozes funkiness. The band is formed of London school friends Chris (guitar) and Mike (bass), who lived with Niko (lead vocals and guitar) at Leeds University. Niko joined him in the capital, they started jamming together, realised they were onto something... Continue Reading →
Ten years ago I began my fledgling journalism career as a junior reporter in the sleepy Gloucestershire hills of the Cotswolds. The idyllic village of Chipping Campden was one of my more interesting sources of news and one of the places that I remember with fondness, partly as it brought me two of my favourite... Continue Reading →
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