“When I talk about energy, commitment, vibes and excitement – you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen Gentleman’s Dub Club”- David Rodigan MBE Based in London but founded in Leeds in 2006, 8-piece band Gentleman’s Dub Club have made an indelible mark on the live music scene. Their electronic music-infused dub and reggae and their… Read more »
The band are due to release their fourth studio album ‘KOKO’ in February 2025, featuring four collaborations with Reverend and the Makers, Chad Kroeger, Shed Seven and Frank Turner. Their previous album ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ reached #1 in the UK Official Charts in May 2023, selling over 22,000 copies in the first week (The 4th… Read more »
Chicago, Illinois – Topshelf Records
Trousdale is a powerful female band consisting of Quinn D’Andrea, Georgia Greene, and Lauren Jones. Their melodic and heartfelt harmonies are often compared to The Chicks and The Staves, but the girls draw inspiration from a wide array of music, including Crosby Stills and Nash, Kacey Musgraves and HAIM. Driven by their passion to empower… Read more »
Jenkins, a veteran musician who’s played in the bands of Eleanor Friedberger, Craig Finn, Lola Kirke, and rehearsed to tour with Purple Mountains in August 2019 before the tour’s cancellation, spent months meticulously making her debut LP Play Till You Win. For Phenomenal Nature, she arrived at engineer Josh Kaufman’s (The National, The Hold Steady)… Read more »
Rosie Alena is a singer-songwriter from London. Her emotional songwriting has been compared to that of Joni Mitchell, Angel Olsen, Sufjan Stevens or Esperanza Spalding. Rosie started making a name for herself after releasing her debut-single “Mixed Messages” and a cover of Carpenters – “We’ve only just begun” in 2020. The future is looking bright… Read more »
Ever since SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE released their self-titled debut in 2014, they’ve developed a reputation for being your favorite band’s favorite band. Theirs is the music of immersion, of confrontation, the kind that makes a listener stop and wonder, “How are they even doing that?” And as the years wear on, that sense of bafflement has made… Read more »
Sophia Kennedy’s music sometimes sounds like a soundtrack to world to disintegrating, hanging on by a thread of memories, it combines the glamour and the morbid charm of tin pan alley show tunes from the 1960s or 70s and yet it fully embraces the deconstructed modernism of club music. Her sophomore album Monsters, to be released… Read more »
Becca Harvey was working as a cashier at an East Atlanta bakery when the coronavirus pandemic forced her out of work. With an abundance of idle time, she set about finishing the music she had begun writing under the moniker girlpuppy a year earlier, and by the middle of May, For You — a breezy,… Read more »
How refreshing amidst the backdrop of the current populist political climate to have a band like The Umlauts. Formed after meeting together at Wimbledon College of Art, but with two of their four members hailing from mainland Europe, their debut EP ‘Ü’ is a record characterised by cross-border perspectives both stylistically and thematically. The genesis… Read more »