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The Stanford Family Band’s music is steeped in the 1960s.

This is an unexpected treat. Brighton four-piece The Stanford Family Band unveil their debut EP For Your Listening Pleasure just in time for the changing of the season. Sounding unlike anything else in alternative music right now,…

WHO? Lily Lyons. WHERE? London. WHEN? Singing with my grandad was my first education in music. He had a great voice and awesome music taste. I started writing songs when I was 19; making my own music and pursuing music properly came later in life for me even though…

While the first three Brits And Pieces volumes were very much band-oriented, Volume IV includes several solo artists.

After a two year-hiatus, the Brits And Pieces compilation series returns. Inspired by the classic compilation albums of the 1990s, Marc Rossiter (@BritsPieces) took on the challenge of matching the impact of…

Slate by Sam Stevens

Slate unveil their debut EP.

Slate‘s EP Deathless has been unveiled with the seriously impressive, sprawling new single Remoter Heaven. “I liked the idea of writing a very simple narrative to a big, epic song,” vocalist Jack Shephard has said.

Something as modest as

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Lily Lyons announces her debut EP.

Lily Lyons is streaming the title-track of her new EP Fabric ahead of its release on April 26th via Fiction Records.

Fabric is about moving away from the idea that I can rewrite the past. That what has happened has happened and instead of

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Wasia Project by Leon Heaney

Wasia Project release their first music of 2024.

Wasia Project – siblings William G. Hardy and Olivia Hardy – have unveiled their new single Is This What Love Is?. Is This What Love Is? describes the experience of uncontrollable emotions, like a car that’s…

Nuha Ruby Ra by Louise Mason WHO? Nuha Ruby Ra. WHERE? From east London. WHEN? I started out making sound art while in art school. My background is fine art, everything I did came through that lens, it still does in many ways. WHY? I realised that music is…

Chalk by Aaron Cunningham WHO? I’m Luke and I play drums in Chalk. Ross is our vocalist and works on the productions for the band behind the scenes, and Ben is our guitarist and synth whiz. WHERE? We’re from all over the island: I’m from Belfast, Ross is from…

Listen to Stephen EvEns’ new single first on Live4ever.

Stephen EvEns has described A Song For Europe – the lead track from his new album Here Come The Lights – as a, ‘celebration of places visited and loved around the union’, and a, ‘reminder that there’s a world outside your…

Honesty’s bags are packed.

For the cynics keen on applying lazy stereotypes, Eagulls were an easy enough soak. From Leeds, the quintet played angst ridden post punk with more in its raking guitars and barked vocals than a hint of goth, that being the other supposed sole musical byproduct of…

Library Card by Ida Muhonen WHO? Lot van Teylingen – Vocalist; Mitchell Quitz – Guitarist; Kat Kalkman – Bassist; Emre Karayalçın – Drummer. WHERE? We are from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. WHEN? Our band’s roots began in 2021 during the summer when another COVID-19 lockdown prevented us from attending concerts and…

Toni Sancho by Marco Grey

It’s out on Toni Sancho’s own Blue Daisy label.

Toni Sancho has released a lyric video for her new track Goodbye!, another winning showcase of the fusion of Caribbean and British cultures which is informing this early material. “I wrote this song in the…

Megan Wyn by Sam Crowston WHO? Megan Wyn. WHERE? Anglesey, North Wales. WHEN? I’ve always sang from a very young age and have always have a fascination and passion for music. When I was 11 I trained in opera and joined a choir called Cor Ieuenctid Mon as well…

Stone live in Liverpool, April 2023 (Gary Mather for Live4ever) WHO? STONE are Finley Power (frontman/rhythm guitar), Elliot Gill (lead guitar), Sarah Surrage (bass) and Alex Smith (drums). WHERE? STONE are from Liverpool, except Sarah who is from outside Oxford. We all reside in south Liverpool. WHEN? We have all…

Vega Rally give Spike Island their latest hit.

The Spirit Of Spike Island is a truly independent label that’s building up a head of steam: Afflecks Palace have two splendid albums to their name, Pastel are being name-dropped by the likes of Ride’s Andy Bell and this latest offering promises…

Nightbus by Kitty Handley

Nightbus will headline the George Tavern in London on November 2nd.

Exposed To Some Light was a jigsaw puzzle which took time for Nightbus to solve before it unsurprisingly became a hot favourite of their live shows. “To ‘expose something to light’ for us means to…