The Molotovs are wasting no time. Just six months after their debut album Wasted On Youth crashed into the UK Top 3, London siblings Matt and Issey Cartlidge announce their second album, Welcome To Urbia, alongside the release of its driving title track. Set for release on 9th April 2027 via Marshall Records, Welcome To Urbia marks the next chapter for a duo whose rise has been built not on overnight hype but through an extraordinary commitment to the live circuit.

K.Flay returns with her new single Ants today, 4th September 2026, continuing a run of genre-defying work that has established the Grammy-nominated artist as one of alternative music’s most distinctive voices. The new track finds K.Flay — real name Kristine Flaherty — turning her attention towards the destructive nature of power, using the seemingly insignificant image of ants as a way of examining humanity’s capacity for destruction and the complicated relationship between power, responsibility and culpability.

At just 20 years old, Violet Grohl is already navigating the difficult territory of establishing herself as an artist in her own right while carrying one of rock music’s most recognisable surnames. Her debut LP, Be Sweet To Me, released in May this year, has already drawn critical acclaim, and tonight’s second of two London shows at Camden’s Barfly offers an intimate opportunity to see the young singer-songwriter developing that identity on stage.

DIIV have unveiled Kid, the second track to be taken from their forthcoming fifth studio album ZIRP!, due for release on 30th October 2026 via Fantasy Recordings. The new single arrives alongside an accompanying music video directed by Jaxon Whittington and filmed by DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s son Roy and his friend Julian. Following the previously released The Fountain, Kid offers another glimpse into an album that sees the New York band push their familiar shoegaze haze towards something brighter, sharper and considerably more immediate.

British-Finnish songwriter otta announces the arrival of her ambitious new album ASTRA, set for release on 20th November via her new label löyly, alongside the mesmerising and abstract eight-and-a-half-minute single MEZZANINE. The new track offers the first glimpse into an album that finds otta pushing her distinctive approach to experimental pop even further, dismantling conventional genre boundaries and building dense, intricate soundscapes from the ground up.

Everyone Says Hi return with another taste of their forthcoming sophomore album Funny Cos It’s True, unveiling the infectious new single Life Isn’t Perfect ahead of the record’s release on 9th October 2026.

Sex Pistols feat. Frank Carter have announced six additional UK dates for their upcoming Anarchy In The U.K. tour, as the band prepare to mark 50 years of punk and half a century since the release of the song that helped change British music forever. Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will once again join forces with Frank Carter for a run of UK shows this December, expanding a tour that already includes dates across England, Scotland and Ireland.