The Wellermen step into a new chapter with Marry Her Today, an original single that puts their own songwriting and personal experiences firmly at the heart of their evolving sound. The new track arrives ahead of the Transatlantic folk group’s headline show at London’s Union Chapel on 29th October.
There was a time when Samuel Jack was simply a musician sitting at a piano in the pub where he worked in England, dreaming about what might be possible. That once-improbable ambition has now become a reality, with hundreds of millions of streams, an international viral hit in Feels Like Summer, and a career that has taken him from the UK to Nashville, Los Angeles and stages around the world.
At just 19 years old, Gloucestershire singer-songwriter Flora Fiora has already built a career the hard way. Working independently from the small village of Chedworth, she has developed her own grassroots following, played venues and festivals across the region, and steadily attracted attention from both listeners and the music industry.
Synths ring out across Troxy as five figures stroll onto the stage. Then they’re off. Jason McGerr counts Riptides in with his drumsticks, the lights find Ben Gibbard, and the Death Cab For Cutie frontman immediately launches into the song’s restless momentum
Sydney-based artist Holly Wild turns the uncomfortable reality of friendship envy into something funny, self-aware and irresistibly catchy with new single So Annoying, out Friday 25 September alongside an accompanying music video. The punchy indie-pop rock track arrives ahead of Wild’s debut album Technicolour, due in October, and sees the artist embrace a grittier, more playful side of her developing sound.
Sebadoh are set to revisit one of the defining records of their career with the release of Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition), arriving worldwide on 20 November 2026 via Sub Pop.
By Sunday, The Long Road Festival has already thrown almost everything at us. Rain, thunder, lightning and, finally, mercifully, a bit of sunshine. But there is another name that keeps cropping up as I walk around the festival. Ryan & Rory.
After two days of rain, thunder and more than a little mud, Sunday at The Long Road Festival finally brings something everyone has been waiting for: sunshine. And according to Kezia Gill, we might have her late father to thank for it. “I had a little word with my late father this morning. I was like, ‘Dad, it’s a big day. I really need you to come through on this.’ And would you look?”
