Beth McCarthy has never been particularly interested in hiding the messier parts of life. From the wide-eyed queer discovery of 2024 EP ‘IDK How To Talk To Girls’ to the gleefully chaotic energy of its 2025 follow-up ‘Hot and Stupid’, the York-born singer-songwriter has built her entire artistic identity around radical openness. Pairing deeply personal, […]
Reclus.É, the new band from Daniel P Carter and Tummyache’s Soren Bryce, have revealed the details of their debut album. The duo will release ‘The World Can’t Take Much More’ on November 13 via Rise Records. Dan had this to say about what the record represents: “This album is the sound of two people becoming friends […]
The Best Rock Albums, Tracks & Bands Of 2026 So Far Skip to the content A new episode of the Rock Sound Rundown is here, and we’re talking about our favourite rock moments of 2026 so far. From our favourite rock album releases and festival moments to the new artists we are loving. […]
Castle Rat On Their Incredible Growth & Judas Priest Skip to the content Castle Rat’s Riley Pinkerton and Franco Vittore join James Wilson-Taylor to go over their Summer spent on the road, including playing on the same stage as Judas Priest at the Bloodstock Festival. They also comment on their incredible growth and […]
The Molotovs are already setting out their plan to dominate 2027 with the announcement of their new album ‘Welcome To Urbia’. The record will be released on April 09 2027, via Marshall Records, and will serve as the follow-up to their debut ‘Wasted on Youth’, which dropped earlier this year and hit No.03 in the […]
Thrown into the spotlight and with a rabid fanbase amassing at a lightning quick pace, PRESIDENT dives into their incredible rise and their most personal and revealing music yet ahead of the highly anticipated debut album, ‘Blood Of Your Empire’. You can read the full cover story interview inside Issue 320 of Rock Sound, available […]
Polaris have returned with a new track called ‘WITHOUT YOU’, their first new music in three years. The track finds them paying tribute to their guitarist Ryan Siew, who passed away in 2023, as well as speaking candidly about the ongoing grief and sorrow they feel whilst they navigate a path forwards without him. The […]
Photo by Laura Austin In the late ‘90s, there was a myth belaboured by the music industry — two women on a bill, or back-to-back on the radio, simply couldn’t be done. In 1996, singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan was met with this misogyny-soaked “superstition” upon suggesting Paula Cole as support on a forthcoming tour. Exhausted and […]
Escape The Fate have announced the details of their new full-length album ‘The Last Goodbye’, the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Out Of The Shadows’. The record will be released on October 02 via Big Noise. The artwork looks like this: Whilst the tracklisting is more like this: 1. Last Goodbye2. Comatose3. Coffin Kingdom4. Paranoia5. Idle Potential6. […]
Nevertel are back with their second track of 2026, and it finds them at their most atmospherically soaring. Titled ‘LAST BREATH’, it is a tune brimming with melodic force and wonderfully addictive catchiness. A slice of pitch perfect modern metal, the tension builds and builds until the weight can’t hold anymore, exploding into life and […]