Category: Music
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Preview: Leeds Festival 2025
Leeds and Reading Festival is built on its big names, the poster-filling giants, the jaw-drop booking announcements, the generational singalongs that echo across Bramham Park and Richfield Avenue. But the real magic? That happens away from the headline slots. It’s in the sweatbox tents at midday, the stumbling-across-something moments on…
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This Feeling By The Sea | Saturday Preview
If Friday was the warm-up, Saturday at Bridlington Spa is the knockout punch. This Feeling By The Sea’s third year keeps raising the stakes, and day two is where the grit, sweat, and swagger of the UK’s new wave of indie collide head-on. It’s a bill stacked with bands who’ve…
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This Feeling By The Sea | Friday Preview
If you thought you had your finger on the pulse of UK indie in 2025, this Friday at Bridlington Spa is here to challenge that. This Feeling By The Sea’s third year brings a lineup that’s equal parts tested and on-the-cusp, a masterclass in balancing breakthrough buzz with hard-earned credibility.…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter H
Welcome back to our ongoing 250 Artists That Will Break Out by 2028 series. This time we’re diving into the letter H, shining a spotlight on ten artists whose sounds and stories demand attention right now. From the gritty post-hardcore intensity of Hidden Mothers to the surf-pop charm of Hunny…
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Single Review | Stainless Steel | Kid Kapichi
Kid Kapichi have never been ones to hold back, politically-charged, punk-leaning, and proudly loud. But on ‘Stainless Steel’, there’s a very different kind of weight. It’s not a track that lashes out. It lingers. Brooding, stripped-back, and brutally personal, this is the sound of a band reckoning with change, both…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Songs from the Spine | The Royston Club
I’ve sat with this album for weeks. Drafted and scrapped and redrafted again. Not because the record was hard to write about — the opposite. It’s because this one means something. And when something means this much, the words have to do it justice. Songs From The Spine isn’t just…
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Kendal Calling 20th Birthday Review
When Kendal Calling first set up shop in 2006 with a 900-capacity crowd and a £15 ticket headlined by British Sea Power, few could have predicted just how far it would come. Fast forward 20 years and 40,000 of us descended on the stunning fields of Lowther Deer Park for…
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Tramlines Festival | Day Three Review
Sunday Send-Offs, Sheffield Heroes and a Crowd Still Nursing Saturday’s Hangover Let’s be real, Sunday was always going to have a mountain to climb. After the euphoric chaos of Saturday’s Reytons homecoming, topped with a headline slot that turned Hillsborough Park into a sea of green, white and purple, the…
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Tramlines Festival | Day Two Review | The Reytons
If Day One brought the sunshine and the legacy with Pulp, Day Two was the storm, the electric, sweat-soaked, bass-thudding, trench-foot-stamping festival storm that blows everything wide open and leaves you questioning what on earth just hit you. Day Two of Tramlines 2025 was, in no uncertain terms, a day…
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LIVE: Pulp at Tramlines Festival 2025
If Friday was your only day at Tramlines this year, you picked the right one. There’s no denying it: Day One of the 2025 edition belonged entirely to Pulp. Hillsborough Park was a furnace by mid-afternoon. Sunburns bloomed, lagers disappeared by the crate, and bucket hats reigned supreme. While a…
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EP Review | Katie Nicholas | Chemistry
Some records arrive quietly but end up feeling like they were inevitable. Katie Nicholas’ Chemistry EP is one of them: a four-track collection that dusts off the songs she wrote as a teenager and reimagines them with the clear-eyed focus of a musician who’s had to fight to reclaim her…
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Single Review | Mayflower | Are You With Me
There’s something about Manchester bands that always feels a bit like a warm pint in a familiar pub: instantly recognisable, comforting, and shot through with a touch of swagger. Mayflower’s latest single, Are You With Me, fits squarely into that lineage, leaning hard into late-90s Britpop nostalgia while brushing against…
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Single Review | Keyside | If You Don’t Try
Liverpool has never been short of jangling guitars and brutally honest lyricists, but Keyside are staking a claim to be the next band in that lineage worth taking seriously. If You Don’t Try, their fresh-out-the-box single, doesn’t just hint at ambition, it’s practically waving a flare from the rooftops. Released…
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Single Review | Niall Logue | From the Heart
Niall Logue’s latest single, From the Heart, feels exactly like its title promises: a candid, unvarnished glimpse into the messy corners of the mind and the quiet moments where doubt and hope collide. It’s a track that doesn’t try to be clever for clever’s sake or dress its vulnerability up…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter G
We’re back with another 10 names you need on your radar, this time diving into the letter G as we continue our journey through 250 breakout artists by 2028. From genre-bending genre-defiers to big-hook indie bands and country-pop underdogs, this is one of our most eclectic lists yet. Whether you’re…
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Single Review | Flair | City Lights
If Flair’s last year was the sound of a band coming into focus, City Lights feels like the moment the picture sharpens and everything makes sense. This Glasgow quintet have built their reputation on dynamic contrasts, restless energy, big choruses, and a darkness that never quite lets go. With City…
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Single Review | Future Theory | Reality Buzz
Future Theory have always been a band unafraid to evolve. Hailing from the wide horizons of Lincolnshire, they first caught our attention back in 2016 when The Front Row reviewed their debut EP Fool’s Dream, a release that blended hazy psychedelia with understated grunge. Nearly a decade later, they return…
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Single Review | Rogue Awakening | Remain Untamed
Alt-metal often thrives on catharsis, but few new releases feel as personal, or as combustible, as Rogue Awakening’s Remain Untamed. Released back in May and only now surfacing on our radar, this bruising, anthemic single from the Horsham-based five-piece channels defiance into something both scalding and strangely empowering. At its…
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EP REVIEW: thistle. | it’s nice to see you, stranger
thistle.’s debut EP, it’s nice to see you, stranger, lands like a handwritten letter from a close friend you haven’t seen in years, lo-fi, bruised, and quietly defiant. Over five tracks, the Northampton trio channel the messy reality of being young, uncertain, and determined to build something lasting in a…
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LIVE REVIEW: Elbow @ Museum Gardens, York
There can’t be many bands better suited to filling a summer evening in York’s Museum Gardens than Elbow. Under the glow of golden hour and surrounded by centuries of history, Guy Garvey and company delivered a set that was as warm and reflective as it was rousing, a reminder of…
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