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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In our human minds, according to the Law of Contagious Magic as described in The Golden Bough by anthropologist James Frazer, contact between two objects creates an inseparable thread between them. A gift from a dead friend forever holds this magic like a scar reflecting a wound. Similarly, a piece of food that touches the floor is suddenly abject and rotten. Pairing this notion with the Law of Similarity Magic, as described by Frazer, where an object resembling another can share its power, a musical notion can be understood to serve as an unbodied conduit of such magics; an emotional contact between the music and audience wherein such sorcery threads an inseparable seam that, for a time, resemble each other. Aptly named in reference to the aforementioned book, Stygian Bough, the collaboration between Bell Witch (Dylan Desmond, Jesse Shreibman) and Aerial Ruin (Erik Moggridge) enlivens its unbodied presence resembling both projects as a conduit in its own separate entity. The partnership at the center of Stygian Bough is over in a decade in the making, growing from Moggridge’s recurring contributions to the Bell Witch catalog. Their initial collusion occurring on the debut Bell Witch album Longing (2012) following which, Moggridge would return to guest on both Four Phantoms (2015) and Mirror Reaper (2017).&nbsp;Stygian Bough Volume I was released in 2020, Volume II is imminent.

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Skinner is Aaron Corcoran, based in Dublin, who writes, records and produces songs about growing up and overcoming a dirt-flecked 21st century existence.&nbsp;﻿The DNA of no wave and post-punk acts like The B52s, James Chance and the Contortions and ESG through to alt-rock touchstones Pixies and Morphine combined with an talent for grunge-nodding self-production and pockets of elevated instrumentation is oozing from Skinner’s music. Debut album New Wave Vaudeville, released January 2025 on Faction Records, references the New Wave Vaudeville music variety freak show that took place at the 57 Club in New York from 1978 to 1983. The club was known for its free-form art shows, a debaucherous wild riposte to creeping commerciality of modern culture of the time, an era that perfectly reflects the rambunctious nature&nbsp;Skinner&nbsp;has brought to this new collection. Skinner&nbsp;and his five-piece band including saxophonist have played have performed at numerous festivals such as The Great Escape, Ireland Music Week, Beyond The Pale, All Together Now, Other Voices, the Galway Fringe Festival and Watt’en Schlick-festival to name a few and recently supported Gurriers, Lime Garden, Dope Lemon, Algiers, Bambara, The Wedding Present and Silverbacks.

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Since their inception in 2009, the genre-defying Submotion Orchestra have moved&nbsp; seamlessly between deep electronica, jazz, soul and ambient downtempo,&nbsp; mesmerising audiences from Iceland to India. Their unique music is at once&nbsp; delicate and heavy, spacious and dense, highly atmospheric but firmly rooted.&nbsp; Earth-shaking bass and drums combine with lush keyboard and trumpet textures&nbsp; to create the perfect backdrop for the fragile beauty of Ruby Wood’s vocals.&nbsp;&nbsp;	Formed in Leeds in 2009, the band quickly made a splash on the wider scene.&nbsp; Their live gigs left audiences open-mouthed, and their debut EP on Ranking&nbsp; Records drew a rave reaction from Gilles Peterson who quickly gave the band their&nbsp; first Radio 1 session. Their now-legendary weekly residency at the tiny Hukaz Bar&nbsp; in Leeds gave fans the unique opportunity to see the band create new material up&nbsp; close and personal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The band’s first full-length album Finest Hour became an instant cult classic on its&nbsp; 2010 release, receiving strong support from DJs such as 6 Music's Mista Jam and&nbsp; Trevor Nelson. In 2012, Follow-up album Fragments received heated enthusiasm&nbsp; from fans and critics alike for the variety of its sound. Radio support came from&nbsp; such diverse presenters as Pete Tong, Huey, Lauren Laverne and Don Letts,&nbsp; demonstrating Submotion’s unique cross-genre appeal. Fragments spent a week&nbsp; at number 1 in the iTunes charts, and the supporting tour climaxed with a sold-out&nbsp; show at London’s legendary Koko, while appearances followed at some of&nbsp; Europe’s biggest festivals, including Glastonbury, Bestival, The Big Chill, Pohoda&nbsp; and Outlook.&nbsp;&nbsp;	Demand for the band had never been greater, as their reputation for staging one of&nbsp; the most exciting shows around grew with each appearance they made. 2013 saw&nbsp; them release the 1968 EP on Circus Records, which saw their champions grow to&nbsp; include i-D, Noisey, and Clash, and this was followed by their third album, Alium, a&nbsp; dazzlingly eclectic record that showcased every aspect of the band’s myriad&nbsp; talents. Ninja Tune/Counter Records leapt at the chance to release it, signing the&nbsp; band in summer 2014. Released that autumn, it garnered fantastic support at radio&nbsp; and superb reviews, with Mixmag proclaiming it “drenched in sunshine,” and Clash&nbsp; pointing to a band who seem able “stop time, their uniquely chilled grooves&nbsp; retaining a zen-like peace.”&nbsp;The group’s reputation for stunning live performances grew with further UK and&nbsp; European tours, headlining the 6000-capacity Pula ampitheatre at the Outlook&nbsp; festival and sold-out shows at the Barbican Theatre (for the London Jazz Festival)&nbsp; and The Forum. Their song ‘Perfection’ was sampled for Young Jeezy’s Seen it All&nbsp; album, which went to number 2 in the US album charts, whilst Bryson Tiller’s&nbsp; monster hit ‘Right My Wrongs’ made memorable use of Submotion’s signature&nbsp; tune ‘All Yours’. Instrumental EP III moved their sound to more electronic realms,&nbsp; whilst critically-acclaimed fourth album Colour Theory found the band&nbsp; collaborating with artists such as Royce Wood Jr., Andrew Ashong and Catching&nbsp; Flies, with their momentum reaching a notable peak with a headline show at the&nbsp; legendary Royal Albert Hall. Fifth album Kites marked a return to their early sound,&nbsp; written and arranged by the band playing together, and recorded live in the studio,&nbsp; featuring their most personal and honest songs yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; The COVID lockdown saw the band return to basics by recording and releasing&nbsp; their Unplugged collections, featuring fan and band favourites performed in a&nbsp; stripped-back setting, which they brought to rapturous concert audiences in 2023&nbsp; in collaboration with the Prism String Ensemble. This period of looking back&nbsp; enabled the band to find their next direction forward, which saw its first&nbsp; demonstration with 2024’s Five Points EP, and has culminated in their newest LP&nbsp; Passed Me By, which shows the band continuing to explore new roads for their&nbsp; music, ploughing a path through electronic, jazz, ambient and soul in the singular&nbsp; way that Submotion Orchestra can do.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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“‘Unstoppable’ is a cheeky title which tempts fate. But it sums up my journey. I’m an ongoing fighter, there’s an unstoppable element to my life and my career. And being unstoppable is true for all of us. Why stop? You have to just keep going.” Welcome to Kenny Thomas’ sensational new album, Unstoppable. For anyone familiar with Kenny’s classic soul hits such as Outstanding, Best Of You and Thinking About Your Love, the irresistible energy and infectious grooves of these 11 new songs will be instantly familiar. For fans and newcomers alike, the wisdom of Kenny’s voice is utterly compelling, even when it’s bouncing over seemingly carefree bangers such as How Does It Feel and If I Can’t Have You. These aren’t just the best songs of Kenny Thomas’ 35-year career: he’s become a better singer than ever in the 14-year gap since his last full album, Breathe. “Soul music becomes more real the older you get,” says Kenny. “I love soul. It’s what I grew up with, so I couldn’t have made any other music. Nothing else was on my mind when I started. But it’s music that becomes more authentic with age. I hope that comes across on this album. People who think they know what I am and what I do – just listen to this album. Is this real right here and now?”

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