Lou Viner-Flood

Closing off the tour for their new EP Our World, ALT BLK ERA played a sold out home town show at Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms. Nottingham‑born sister duo Nyrobi and Chaya are reshaping the UK alternative landscape with a sound that fuses rock, drum’n’bass, rap, trap and dark pop into something unmistakably fresh. Rising from their DIY beginnings during lockdown, to winning MOBO awards, the band have built a world where they cause genre boundaries to cease existence and where identity, power and...

DEAD PONY didn’t arrive so much as evolve into the scene. What began as a scrappy Glasgow project, found its shape in cramped rehearsal rooms and late‑night arguments about riffs, identity, and how heavy was “too heavy.” By the time they re‑emerged under their new name, the edges had sharpened: Anna Shields’ vocals carried more bite, the guitars more swagger, the rhythms more intent. Their sound became a kind of forward motion, restless, adrenalised, impossible to pin down. On a humid...

The All-American Rejects are not the early‑2000s angst ridden pop rock band of yesteryear anymore; they are entering a new era as “a band of the people,” returning to the scene with new album SANDBOX. The spark hit in 2023, first with the sold‑out Wet Hot All-American Summer Tour, then with the House Party Tour, a chaotic, free‑to‑all victory lap that felt less like a comeback and more like a band remembering exactly who they were. SANDBOX is the band's first full-length release in fourteen...