Category: Music
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Single Review | Kety Fusco | Für Therese
At The Front Row, we talk a lot about guitar lines and festival fields, but sometimes an artist from a completely different world barges in and blows all that out of the water. Kety Fusco’s “Für Therese” is that moment, a seismic reimagining of Beethoven that’s as much Muse-inspired dystopian…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter F
We’re back with the sixth edition of our ambitious series spotlighting the most exciting emerging acts shaping the future of music. This time, we’re digging into the letter F, unearthing ten artists you’ll want on your radar before everyone else catches on. From the introspective folk of Fiona Lee to…
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Single Review | Project Overload | Wildfire
After last year’s shimmering indie-pop breakthrough, Silhouettes, Coventry’s Project Overload return with something far more combustible. If Silhouettes captured the euphoria of new romance, Wildfire is the exact opposite: a scalding, no-mercy anthem for when love curdles into raw fury. Since meeting at the Tin Music and Arts’ Live on…
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EP Review: Elliot James Reay | All This to Say I Love You
From the moment Elliot James Reay’s croon hits your ears, you’re transported somewhere golden-lit and sepia-toned, a place where jukeboxes flicker in corner booths and teenage hearts beat to the pulse of doo-wop harmonies. But this isn’t mere pastiche. On All This to Say I Love You, the 23-year-old Mancunian…
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Sunbeam Summer Bash | Whitby Pavilion | 28.06.2025
A night to prove that grassroots music, when done right, isn’t just alive, it’s unstoppable. Whitby isn’t the first place you’d pick on a map when you think of a youth-driven, sold-out live show. Maybe you’d point west or south to Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, even York. But here on the…
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Single Review | You Don’t Need a Sun Tan | Krooked Tongue
Some songs grab you straight away. You Don’t Need A Sun Tan doesn’t just grab, it picks you up, spins you round, and tells you exactly why Krooked Tongue are becoming one of the UK’s most exciting rock outfits. On first listen, it’s all slick guitar fuzz, swaggering basslines, and…
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Kendal Calling 2025: Full Stage Splits, 50 New Acts & One Massive 20th Birthday Bash
The Lake District’s loudest weekend is nearly upon us – and for its 20th year, Kendal Calling is going all out. It’s official: the full stage splits for Kendal Calling 2025 have landed, along with a massive stack of 50 new names added to the bill. Whether you’re already dusting…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter E
E is for explosive debuts, electrifying live shows, and emerging voices rewriting the rule-book. From brat-metal firestarters and seaside poets to Belfast’s jazz-soaked party starters and cinematic synth duos, this latest chapter in The Front Row’s 250 Artists That Will Break Out by 2028 is bursting with versatility. Whether it’s…
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LIVE REVIEW: The K’s @ The Leadmill, Sheffield
One of the final nights at The Leadmill goes out with fire, frenzy, and a full house of fans singing their hearts out As The Leadmill enters its final week before the doors close for good, there was always going to be something heavy in the air. But on Sunday…
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LIVE REVIEW: Pendulum @ Scarborough Open Air Theatre
Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre is a picturesque oddity — part coastal amphitheatre, part rave arena when the right act rolls into town. And on Friday night, it was very much the latter, as Pendulum made their long-awaited return to the Yorkshire coast with a full-throttle headline set, supported by rising…
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Single Review | Calling Up | The Slates
The Slates’ latest single “Calling Up” arrives like a fresh pint at golden hour, effervescent, uplifting, and tinged with the kind of emotional truth that turns a simple indie track into something more resonant. Out now via This Feeling Records, it marks a big step forward for the Yorkshire outfit…
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LIVE: Twin Atlantic @ The Leadmill, Sheffield
There was a tangible weight to the atmosphere on Tuesday night, not just the thick heat of a sold-out crowd but the emotional heft of finality. With The Leadmill set to close its doors for good at the end of June, every gig in its final week has carried the…
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Single Review | Westside Cowboy | Alright Alright Alright
Westside Cowboy have emerged from Manchester’s ever-churning guitar scene with the kind of track that immediately grabs you by the collar and refuses to let go. ‘Alright Alright Alright’, the latest slice of slacker-rock from the quartet, is a high-octane, fuzz-drenched ride through the wild terrain of modern indie, equal…
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Single Review | Champ | Taste To Run
There’s something unmistakably “North-East” about Taste To Run, the debut single from Hartlepool’s newest indie export, Champ. It’s in the atmosphere: the swirling guitar textures, the emotional heft, and the quietly defiant lyricism that calls to mind the likes of Sam Fender, Wunderhorse, and The War On Drugs. That reference…
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FRONT ROW EXCLUSIVE: Steelers – Good Things Will Happen Tonight
Start With: Help (I’m Just A) or This Night – and then just play the rest.Out June 18 on streaming, CD and vinyl. Don’t miss it. If you’re a sucker for unapologetic pop-rock that’s part theatrical, part nostalgic, and entirely thrilling, then buckle up. Leeds-based band Steelers have burst onto…
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LIVE: Stereophonics @ John Smith’s Stadium, Huddersfield
Saturday night in Huddersfield and the clouds were mercifully holding off. 25,000 fans packed out John Smith’s Stadium for a massive, career-spanning homecoming of sorts for Stereophonics, who brought swagger, sentiment, and stadium-sized hooks to the pitch. But before Kelly Jones and co rattled through decades of hits, two northern…
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Single Review | As You Are | Atlas Rivers
Atlas Rivers aren’t just reviving the 90s indie rock sound – they’re stretching it into new shapes, fitting it with bigger hearts and louder intentions. Their latest single As You Are is the fifth step in a steady, defiant rise for the Manchester-Carlisle-Barcelona trio, and it’s their boldest yet: a…
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Single Review | Always on the Run | Eighty Eight Miles
Midlands quintet Eighty Eight Miles have been building momentum the old-school way: tight songwriting, better gigs, and word-of-mouth buzz from both music fans and music legends. On their latest single ‘Always On The Run’, the band double down on everything that’s made them a rising name, soaring harmonies, slick arrangements,…
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Single Review | Blood Will Tell | Love nor Money
There’s something electric brewing in the West Midlands. Birmingham’s own Love nor Money return with ‘Blood Will Tell’, a stomping, snarling new single that puts them firmly on the radar as one of the UK’s finest emerging rock outfits. Out today via Golden Robot Records, the track is the band’s…
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Single Review | Scroll My Life Away | The Radio Addicts
It’s not every day you hear a debut single written and performed by a band with a combined age barely scraping 50, but The Radio Addicts aren’t here to wait their turn. “Scroll My Life Away” is raw, loud, messy in all the right places, and packed with that beautiful,…
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