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Vintage country music at its very best.One of the joys of good music of any genre is its ability to transport you to another time and another place. The new album by Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best, This Fast Life Is Killing Me, immediately sends the listener back to the days of Hank Williams and early Johnny Cash. It is a very simple, high-energy honky-tonk album that does ‘what it says on the tin’. At only twenty-three minutes long, it certainly doesn’t outwear its welcome, but all ten tracks are punchy, well-produced and extremely enjoyable.Glynn, originally from Birmingham (UK),…
Photo: Rachel DeebRayland Baxter’s new album, True Violet, will be released on 23rd October 2026 via ATO Records. he feels like the first time he’s truly found it. It is his first album in more than four years. An 11-song collection, it is designed to capture the slow, steady metamorphosis of becoming someone new. The album was co-produced by Nick Waterhouse and Paul Butler and written during a years-long period of solitude in the hills of Tennessee, where he penned more than 70 songs.“It’s very personal and bloody,” Baxter says of True Violet. “There are bruises and bite marks in…
The monster success of Michael demonstrates that there is no horror that can’t be smoothed and sanitised by the Hollywood biopic factory, providing the soundtrack is strong enough and the volume is loud enough. But this year’s most intriguing recent music films have succeeded by zooming in on quiet, stray moments in musicians’ lives, telling fragmented, elliptical stories that find new angles on well worn stories. A couple of months ago Köln 75 put the high wire precarity back into Keith Jarrett’s performance by focusing on the screwball scaffolding of the gig’s staging. Now Grant Gee electrifies the spirit of…
Fresh from their performances at Reading and Leeds over the weekend, Keo have announced a massive one-off show at London’s legendary O2 Academy Brixton for next year. The gig will take place on March 12, 2027 and will follow the release of their debut album, Put A Smile On For Me, which is out at the end of the month. “We’ve always viewed Brixton as a defining moment in a band’s career. So many great bands have graced that stage. It’s a surreal one for us and we’re more than grateful to be doing it,” says vocalist Finn Keogh. They’ll…
Clash of Clans*, which has over two billion lifetime downloads, is back with WWE for a second collaboration; and this time, the rivalry is personal. WWE SuperstarCody Rhodes and WWE Legend John Cena are best known for what they do in the ring, but their competition didn’t start there. Both are long-time players of Clash of Clans, and this shared gaming history has become locker room legend. Now, Rhodes, a decade-long player, has recruited the Clash of Clans community – plus fellow WWE Superstars – to help him hunt down John Cena’s base, taking a decade-long battle out of the…
Grimsby hard rockers Mint unleash XII, the searing first single from their debut album, Pleasure Island – a deeply personal love letter to their hometown and its once world-famous theme park. Available on all streaming platforms from today (September 1), XII tackles the often-unspoken crisis surrounding men’s mental health, with its title reflecting the devastating reality that, in the UK, a man dies by suicide every two hours – 12 men every day, 84 every week. The single kicks off the album campaign, with the record recorded in Hull and produced by Stew Baxter of LIFE. Mint will release a…
Spanish Love Songs are officially back, with a new album titled Future Nausea on the way as well as the single, Good American. Future Nausea, which follows up 2023’s No Joy, is the band’s fourth album. It’ll arrive on November 6 via Pure Noise. “Good American is inspired by the vets I’d deliver pizzas to at the VA hospital at the height of the War on Terror.” says singer Dylan Slocum. “Seeing what Trans soldiers have been going through with the recent bans unlocked stories I heard twenty years ago from guys living on the streets, and the song grew…
Jamie Ward stars as a troubled musician in Federico Zampaglione’s atmospheric new horror film The Nameless Ballad premiering at Tubi FrightFest 2026. Federico Zampaglione’s The Nameless Ballad understands that creative block is rarely just about an inability to produce great art or music. Creating something momentous, whether art, music, or writing, can often be plagued by the creeping fear that whatever made you successful once might simply have disappeared. In Zampaglione’s atmospheric psychological horror, those creative anxieties become increasingly difficult to separate from a dark supernatural presence. The Horror of Creative Block Zampaglione turns creative writers block into an impressively…
On Friday (August 28), just days before thousands of fans are set to pour into Wembley, Soundsphere got the chance to sit down with Maya World, Kyle Fletcher, Willow Nightingale, Orange Cassidy, Kevin Knight, Tommaso Ciampa and Speedball Mike Bailey to talk all things All In. And, in the spirit of Sunday’s insanely stacked card, we’ve decided to put all of their answers together. Consider this our Q&A Casino Royale. Orange Cassidy: First of all, how is Kyle’s O’Reilly’s eye? It looks insane. The swelling has gone down, but Roddy and I were watching the match, and we saw it…
I had the pleasure of speaking with Gianluca Bernacchi and Barry Dolan from Gallus about their upcoming album ‘Life Is Bliss’, their biggest tour yet, packed lunches, the delights of Milton Keynes, and the importance of their Glaswegian identity. Gallus have been making a racket for almost a decade as a prominent act in the Scottish Punk scene, and there’s no signs of stopping this force of nature. From small pubs and humble beginnings to sprawling stages across Europe, Gallus are known for their tenacity and energy. Embracing humour and self-humbling, Gallus’ music often handles serious topics in unserious ways,…
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s largest festival and business gathering for electronic music, has just revealed the second wave of its lineup, bringing the total so far to 1.500+ artists confirmed to perform for the monumental 30 YEARS ADE anniversary edition. Among the latest additions are Âme, Angel D’lite, Bad Boombox, BASHKKA, Ben Klock, Boris Acket, CARISTA, Colin Benders, DJ Stingray 313, Eric Prydz, HAAi, Het Nationale Ballet, Hunee, Kittin & The Hacker, Maceo Plex, Max Cooper, Miss Monique, Narciss, Paul Kalkbrenner, Scooter, Todd Terry, and many others. With ADE 2026 nearing halfway completion, it continues to bridge club…
Rush have added more shows to their triumphant Fifty Something tour. Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Anika Nilles have added extra dates in Houston (October 1), St. Louis (October 21), Cincinnati (October 23) and Pittsburgh (November 15), and seem to be coping with the stress of touring better than some predicted.“When we initially booked this tour, we didn’t know how well we would hold up to the rigours of the road,” say the band. “So we played it safe with lots of days off to recover. But life is nothing if not surprising, and we’re doing fine and having a…