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For over a decade, she served as one half of the ferocious metal vocal duo fronting the LA heavy metal-based band Butcher Babies. Now, stepping into the solo spotlight for Butcher Babies’ most daring album to date, Shepherd opens up about surviving a stifling religious upbringing, battling inner demons, and fearlessly baring her soul to the world.

Edinburgh songwriter Hamish Hawk announces his new album Intriguer / Tenderness, due for release on 2nd April via SO Recordings, alongside two new songs that introduce the contrasting personalities at the heart of his most ambitious and introspective work to date.

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.