Download Festival Is More Than Just the Metal

Download Festival Is More Than Just the Metal

I’ve been attending Download Festival since 2005. Every year, as I walk through those gates, I feel something that can be difficult to explain to people who have never experienced it. For a few days each June, I stop feeling like I’m standing on the outside looking in. I belong.

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Albums Of The Year 2025

Albums Of The Year 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, it’s impossible not to marvel at just how rich, varied and boundary-pushing this year has been for music. From bold reinventions by established heavyweights to fearless debuts and long-awaited returns, artists across genres have stretched...

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Albums Of The Year 2024

Albums Of The Year 2024

2024 has been yet another year of fabulous new music and reimaginings of music of bygone eras brought afresh for a new audience. Here is a curated list of records the Rockshot Magazine have been playing over and over throughout the year, a feast for the senses even if...

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Albums Of The Year 2023

Albums Of The Year 2023

2023 has been an incredible year for new music, both from artists putting our their debut LPs and new, innovative and gorgeously textured records from established acts. The Rockshot Magazine team ourselves are a music-loving troupe with diverse and eclectic tastes,...

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Sophie B. Hawkins Lays It Down In London

Sophie B. Hawkins Lays It Down In London

The Forge is an intimate venue, newly refitted in steel and glass. Only three hundred people can get through the doors, just off the well-trodden Camden High Street, and tickets sold out long before tonight. It’s Sophie B. Hawkins’ first London show in fifteen years...

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Albums Of The Year 2022

Albums Of The Year 2022

While not in any particular order and by no means an exhaustive list of our favourite records of 2022, here are a handful of those that stuck out in what has been a massive year of music. From earworm-filled LPs and thought-provoking records to the banger-laden...

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Holly Wild (Press)

Holly Wild Turns Friendship Envy Into Indie-Pop Rock Single ‘So Annoying’ Ahead Of Debut Album ‘Technicolour’

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 (Charles Peterson)

Sebadoh Announce 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition Of ‘Harmacy’

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.

Ryan and Rory @ The Long Road Festival 2026 (Henry Finnegan / @finneganfoto)

Ryan & Rory: From A Cold Call To The Long Road — ‘All Gas, No Brakes’

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.

Kezia Gill @ The Long Road Festival 2026 (Henry Finnegan / @finneganfoto)

Kezia Gill: The World Has Changed, But The Midlands Country Star Hasn’t

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?”

Bec O'Malley @ The Long Road Festival 2026 (Henry Finnegan / @finneganfoto)

Bec O’Malley: From Manchester Grit To Country’s Main Stages

It wouldn’t be The Long Road Festival without a little British weather. By the time I catch up with Bec O’Malley, the rain has well and truly arrived. Festivalgoers are soaking up everything falling from the sky while simultaneously soaking up the energy coming from the stages. And Bec O’Malley has plenty of it.

Queens of the Stone Age @ Royal Albert Hall (Kalpesh Patel)

Queens Of The Stone Age Ask The Big Question: Where The Goth Girls At?

Queens Of The Stone Age have unveiled their new single Where The Goth Girls At?, the third track to emerge from their forthcoming ninth studio album, Perfecth, due for release on 30th October via Matador.

Orville Peck @ Roundhouse (Emma Stone)

Orville Peck Rides Back Into London After Seven Years Away And The Roundhouse Goes Wild

Orville Peck has been away from the UK for seven years. Judging by the crowd gathering around Camden’s The Roundhouse tonight, seven years is far too long.

Cello (Ben Knight)

Brighton Artist Cello Releases Dreamy New Single ‘Forever’ Ahead Of Debut Album ‘Kung Fu Disco’

Brighton-based independent artist Cello returns with Forever, a dreamy new single released via Barracuda Recordings...

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