Alex G has announced a new show at Glasgow&#39;s legendary Barrowland Ballroom later this year. Pennsylvania&#39;s preeminent master of melodic nostalgia and indie rock experimentation Alex Giannascoli and his long-serving band of brothers return to the city on Mon 17 Nov for their biggest Scottish live show to date, swiftly following the announcement of long-awaited new album Headlights, due for release on 18 July. <a href="undefined">In the meantime, Alex has previewed the first track from his new album</a>, entitled Afterlife. Aided by an irresistible mandolin-heavy hook, the song plays to the melodic strengths of previous records God Save The Animals, House of Sugar and in particular, 2017&#39;s Rocket, yet hints at new narrative direction and perhaps the most dextrous and most refined production to date. It&#39;s a bittersweet little banger which more than justifies the excited anticipation of this new record, perfectly-placed to come out right in the heart of summer.Pre-sale for the Barrowlands show starts on Thu 19 June @ 10amSign up <a href="undefined">HERE</a><a href="undefined"></a><a href="undefined">Check out the video for new single &#39;Afterlife&#39; below: </a><div class="video-container">
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ALEX G TO PLAY BARRAS IN NOVEMBER

Big Nights @ La Belle is a new month-long concert series taking place during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, only at La Belle Angele. This exciting new collaboration between the popular Old Town venue and summer events series Big Nights Out will host a cavalcade of extraordinary performers across the whole month of August, from familiar names and party starters to your new favourite artist. Beloved Libertines co-founder and esteemed solo artist Peter Docherty will perform across two nights in support of his much-anticipated new album Felt Better Alive (12+13 Aug); Kristen Hersh brings her popular 90s alt-rock combo Throwing Muses back to the capital with their first album in five years, Moonlight Concessions (20 Aug); Multi- Grammy-Award-Winning US Blues artist Fantastic Negrito brings his explosive live show to the city on 19 Aug, while revered MC and master of the bass-baritone flow, Chali 2na (Jurassic 5, Ozomatli) brings his solo tour to Edinburgh for a hip-hop masterclass on 11 Aug. Elsewhere throughout the month Big Nights @ La Belle will welcome cinematic US indie rock elders Mercury Rev; charismatic Australian singer-songwriter, X-Factor Australia sensation and recent Coldplay touring buddy Emmanuel Kelly; the bittersweet brilliance of BC Camplight; beguiling North East alt-indie collective Lanterns on the Lake; beloved UK indie-folk project This Is The Kit; electronic jazz heavyweights Svaneborg Kardyb &amp; Vega Trails; UK blues-rock duo When Rivers Meet and rising Scottish neo-trad trio Project Smok. There will also be plenty of chances to party with performances from septuagenarian rap duo Pete &amp; Bas, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater live tribute The 900, LA jazz-funk cosmonauts Thumpasauras, 80s hitmakers Men Without Hats and Croatian Eurovision star Baby Lasagna. All shows on sale now at bignightsout.com

New Summer Concert Series to Join Edinburgh Fringe in August

Rising Chicago indie rock crew Beach Bunny return to Glasgow for their biggest Scottish show to date on Sunday 19 October. Tickets on sale Fri 28 March @ 10am <a href="undefined">HERE </a>The band, expanded from the bedroom project of prolific master of melody Lili Trifilio, will be touring in support of their anticipated new album Tunnel Vision (out 25 April). You can watch the video for the eponymous new single below:<div class="video-container">
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Beach Bunny announce new headline show in Glasgow

Big Nights Out has announced a new wave of summer concerts at Queen’s Park Arena as part of its 2025 programming across two of Glasgow’s iconic outdoor bandstands. Over several nights in May, June and July, Glasgow will play host to a packed line up of world-renowned artists and local legends for a run of very special live outdoor performances at Kelvingrove Bandstand and Queen’s Park Arena this year.Today, new performances have been added to the line up at Queen’s Park Arena, including Leeds post-punk faves Yard Act (18 July), punk-jazz experimenter Geordie Greep (black midi - 19 July) and rambunctious London indie-punk collective Warmduscher (5 July). Pre-sale starts on Wed 26 March @ 10am Tickets <a href="undefined">HERE</a>

Yard Act, Warmduscher and Geordie Greep added to Big Nights Out

Michelle Zauner&#39;s cinematic indie rock project Japanese Breakfast has today released their fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (&amp; Sad Women) via Dead Oceans. The album&#39;s release preceds the band&#39;s return to Scotland with a summer headline show at Glasgow&#39;s iconic Barrowland Ballroom set for Mon 30 June. This will be their biggest Scotland show to date, charting an impressive growth in scope and stature over the course of four well-received full length albums since. Tickets for Japanese Breakfast at Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow on 30 June available <a href="undefined">HERE</a>For Melancholy Brunettes... is available now from all good record shops. Watch the video for latest single &#39;Picture Window&#39; below:<div class="video-container">
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New Japanese Breakfast album out now. Barras show set for June.

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DeWolff - Muscle Shoals Nestled on the banks of the Tennessee River, just South of Nashville and to the East of Memphis sits the town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In the 1960s with the help of two recording studios, FAME and the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, it became the heart and home to the Soul of America.The studios produced some of the greatest songs ever. FAME Studios saw the birth of Aretha Franklin as the Queen of Soul when she sat at the piano and laid down, &quot;I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)&quot;. There was also Arthur Conley (&quot;Sweet Soul Music&quot;), Wilson Pickett (&quot;Land of 1000 Dances&quot;, &quot;Mustang Sally&quot;), and Etta James (&quot;Tell Mama&quot;, &quot;I&#39;d Rather Go Blind”) amongst countless others.A little more than two miles up the road is Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, who took that baton and ran with it. The artists that recorded there were similarly breathtaking; Cher, The Rolling Stones, Boz Scaggs, Canned Heat, Bob Seger, Art Garfunkel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leon Russell, Bob Dylan, and all the way up to The Black Keys when they recorded their Grammy-winning 2010 breakthrough album, &#39;Brothers,&#39; there.Authenticity surges through the town. So, when the opportunity for DeWolff to head to Muscle Shoals and record at both studios came up, it was a dream come true. It&#39;s not hard to see why the Dutch trio would want to venture into the heart of America&#39;s Soul when it&#39;s a band that released 2023&#39;s #1 album, &quot;Love, Death &amp; In Between&quot;, which was partly inspired by attending an Al Green sermon in Memphis and recorded in a fully analogue studio, deep in a forest in North-Western France. It was the authenticity they were searching for once again.“Even before we were into Southern Rock, as a kid, Luka got an album of Southern Soul, and most of it was recorded at FAME. That was our introduction to soul music,&quot; says singer/guitarist Pablo van de Poel of his brother. &quot;We didn&#39;t start with James Brown; we started with the likes of Wilson Pickett. Muscle Shoals Sound had been closed down for a pretty long time, and then The Black Keys did &#39;Brothers&#39; there. That&#39;s been one of our favourite records ever since it came out, so It&#39;s been a dream for a long time.&quot;In May 2024, they travelled to Muscle Shoals to record their 10th studio album over two weeks with Grammy Award-winning producer Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes, Dylan LeBlanc, Betty Lavette) - a producer recommended by singer-songwriter Dylan LeBlanc. &quot;You can really feel some kind of rock &#39;n roll magic in the air there,&quot; Pablo adds. &quot;Right when we played our first notes there, I got goosebumps: here was that sound I&#39;ve been hearing on all those classic albums! This definitely was one of the best recording experiences we&#39;ve ever had. Even the grand piano Leon Russell used was still there, just like the electric Wurlitzer piano that was used on &quot;I Never Loved A Man&quot; by Aretha Franklin!&quot;Regarding the recording experience in the studios, Pablo explains, &quot;Our anticipation of those legendary studios was so high that the chances of being disappointed were pretty high too. But the experience surpassed all of our expectations.&quot; He continues, &quot;When we were at FAME, Robin and I looked at each other, and we just started playing all those songs recorded 50 years ago. Just thinking about it gives me chills.&quot;At the recommendation of Tanner, they split the album recordings between the two studios. &quot;FAME is the more live room and Muscle Shoals Sound is a much drier-sounding space. So you can tell the big-sounding songs we did at FAME and then the drier ones we did at Sound. We have a song, &quot;Fools and Horses&quot;, which is like the first Boz Scaggs album, which was recorded at Sound, so we had to record that there.&quot;The album kicks off with &quot;In Love,&quot; a swirling funky soul ode to cheating. &quot;It&#39;s about if you&#39;re with someone for a long time and you meet someone else, and they really turn your world upside down by challenging the promises you make to your partner when you have a long-term relationship. There’re all these things that you want to do. There&#39;s a line that goes &#39;tell me babe why can&#39;t we meet, at the dark end of the street,&#39; - a reference to Dark End of the Street, written by Muscle Shoals songwriter Dan Penn.”The brooding lowdown soul-funk of &quot;Out on the Town&quot; was inspired by a novel. &quot;The musical part came together with us jamming, and then the lyrics were influenced by a book Chris Robinson recommended when we were on tour with The Black Crowes. We talked a lot about literature, and he gave me a list of books that he really liked. One of them was The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. Every page had an insane quote. When I wrote the lyrics, it was very much in the vein of that book. It describes a bunch of low lives that get together every night at a dive bar and get up to all of these different things.&quot;&quot;Let&#39;s Stay Together&quot; is one of the most personal songs Pablo has ever written. &quot;It&#39;s the breakup song on the record. That, fortunately, didn&#39;t lead to a breakup. It&#39;s one of the most direct emotional love songs I&#39;ve ever written. In a long relationship you go through rough patches sometimes. I was going through one right around the time we were writing the album, so this one really is very autobiographical.&quot;&quot;Ophelia&quot; sees them create their own mythological story where Ophelia keeps all the world&#39;s secrets and lies. &quot;Truce&quot; is about constantly fighting in a relationship and wanting to go just one day without arguing and features Saxophonist Brad Guin, who previously played with Bobby Blue Bland and Clarence Carter.&quot;Snowbird&quot; is a gentle but epic 8-minute journey about a person fleeing from a cold place, such as a relationship and looking for somewhere warmer to be whereas &quot;Ships in the Night&quot; is about missing the one you love and features singer-songwriter Dylan LeBlanc.&quot;Dylan arrived at the Studio at six, we had some fun; at seven, we started recording, and at eight, he was gone again. It was beautiful. We sang it with the three of us live, in one room, and it was quite a magical way to round off the album.&quot;The album closer “Cicada Serenade” is special in its own right. In May 2024, Alabama saw the emergence of billions of insects called cicadas, a 13-year periodical cicada brood. This was the first time since 1803 that two cicada broods emerged at the same time. DeWolff was there to capture that sound. &quot;It was very cool, so we really wanted to capture that. 221 years ago, people weren&#39;t able to record sound, so it&#39;s quite special.&quot;Over the past 18 months, the enchanting psychedelic soul ‘n&#39; rollers have played a cruise, a castle, and sold-out countless headline tours across Europe; they&#39;ve transformed festival crowds into their own congregational disciples from Sweden to The Netherlands, the UK to Belgium, France, Germany, Romania and more. They&#39;ve toured with The Black Crowes and have previously played shows with Blues Pills, Deep Purple, TOTO, and count Seasick Steve as a fan. &quot;The Black Crowes were like our Beatles,&quot; Pablo enthuses. &quot;We grew up listening to their music, so they&#39;re such big heroes of ours. We got to hang out with them, which was amazing, and saw and got to hang out with them again at the Sweden Rock festival recently.&quot;Most of their young lives have been on the road, preaching their Electric Gospel to crowds across Europe since their early teens. But even with that adulation, putting in the incredible miles they have, takes its toll. &quot;After months on the road, at times, it&#39;s tough. We actively try to make the most of it and have fun,&quot; Pablo says. &quot;We&#39;ll have lunch at a roadside restaurant, or if we&#39;re passing Hamburg, we could just drive into the city and have Tacos. Many bands just go straight to the hotel and spend all day there. That gets very depressing after a while.&quot;He opens up about life on the road. &quot;It&#39;s hard to be away from the ones you love. We&#39;ve been doing this for 17 years, and in a way, we don&#39;t have much of a social life. When other people our age went out with friends on weekends, we played shows. When we go home you can have the feeling that you’re some kind of alien because we’ve never did these “normal” social activities. We meet a lot of people, but it&#39;s also a quick interaction, and it&#39;s not the same as sitting down with a close friend and having real in-depth conversations. But, at the same time life on the road is an absolute privilege and most of the time it’s great. We’ve made a lot of really good friends by doing what we do.”With Muscle Shoals, they will have released five albums in four years - Live &amp; Outta Sight III (2023), Love Death &amp; In Between (2023), Live at the Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam (2021) and Wolffpack (2021), which reached #2 in the Dutch charts only missing out to Foo Fighters for the #1 spot. Before that came Tascam Tapes (2020), Live &amp; Outta Sight II (2019), Thrust (2018), Roux-Ga-Roux (2016), Live &amp; Outta Sight (2015), Grand Southern Electric (2014), DeWolff IV (2012), Orchards/Lupine (2011), Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants (2009) and DeWolff (2008). They have celebrated several Edison Awards (The Dutch Grammy&#39;s) and also received the &#39;Gouden Notekraker&#39; in 2023, awarded to the artist/band with the most special and influential live performances of the past year. In June 2023, they produced the world&#39;s fastest Studio-to-store record - 2 hours, 59 minutes, and 38 seconds for &quot;Rosita Rápida&quot;, beating the record previously held by Jack White.

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The Voodoo Rooms - The Ballroom

There are some voices that genuinely make you stop in your tracks – Courtney Hadwin is one of them. In 2025, the Durham-born singer-songwriter is unveiling her long-awaited debut album, which will showcase her once-in-a-generation talent for all to hear. Many will already know of Hadwin thanks to her famed audition on&nbsp;America’s Got Talent&nbsp;in 2018. In what rapidly became one of the most-viewed auditions in the show’s history, the 13-year-old Hadwin – visibly nervous as she stood in front of the judges and a huge live audience – blew everyone away with a fearless rendition of Otis Redding’s 1968 classic “Hard to Handle”. A huge Janis Joplin fan, judge Howie Mandel leapt for the Golden Buzzer after telling her how Hadwin’s glass-shattering voice reminded him of the legendary rock artist. Six years later, Hadwin has endured plenty of ups and downs. Yet these trials have been poured into the record – songs of experience – making for a phenomenal, and confident, debut. Written and produced with Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Kevin Bowe (Etta James, Joe Cocker) in his hometown of Minneapolis, each track fizzes with her irrepressible spirit. “They’re coming-of-age songs, written either when I was going through the worst of times or when I felt on top of the world,” Hadwin explains. “I’m both nervous and excited to be putting them out into the world, as this is the most personal I’ve ever been in my songwriting. It’s the story so far.”

Courtney Hadwin

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Mikhail Asanovic and Jake Wright, better known as the Showhawk Duo, have redefined acoustic guitar performance by seamlessly blending classical guitar mastery with a raw, percussive style inspired by electronic music. From old-school trance anthems to funky house beats, the Showhawk Duo’s captivating live shows transcend genres and leave audiences in awe. Their journey began as street buskers and has since taken them to the world’s most prestigious stages. They’ve dazzled at festivals like Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, and Bestival, performed live on BBC Radio 1, and even headlined The O2 Forum. Internationally, they’ve brought their unique sound to F1 events in Singapore, Pacha Ibiza, and venues across Europe. With Mikhail’s classical guitar roots and Jake’s rock-and-metal-inspired energy, the duo creates an electrifying sound that turns acoustic performances into high-energy raves. Their ability to connect with audiences and deliver unforgettable experiences has earned them five-star reviews and sold-out shows across multiple tours.

Showhawk Duo - Acoustic Rave Revival

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Tom Meighan

Barrowland

By combining the melody driven hooks of 80s pop, the rhythmic pulse of disco and the guitar/synth interplay of 00’s rock, RETROFILE burst onto the alternative music scene in 2017 with the release of their debut single Two Words. Recorded in twin brothers Luke and Noah Martino’s makeshift studio, the single became a surprise word of mouth sensation, garnering hundreds of thousands of streams within months of release and kickstarting their career. In 2019, with a wave of sold out live shows under their belts and an enthusiastic fan base backing them, RETROFILE released their debut EP Heard It All Before. Spawning two successful singles (Running and Heard It All Before), the EP saw the twins invigorate their sound and look with a blend of new wave and modern pop sensibilities. Although the global pandemic halted their live performance ambitions, RETROFILE took the downtime as chance to write and perfect material for their next EP “Lost In Sound” (out September 14 2023). RETROFILE were selected as a showcase act for Canadian Music Week 2023 and will be touring the UK + Western Canada to promote the “Lost In Sound” EP. RETROFILE will release their debut album “Comfort In A Crowd” October 2025.

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