Download Festival 2021 Massive Line-up Announcement
Download Festival is back in 2021 and just announced a line-up not to be missed! KISS, BIFFY CLYRO and SYSTEM OF A DOWN will headline 2021 event, plus many more of the world’s most exciting bands in rock, punk, hardcore and metal including Deftones, KORN, Steel...
Sari Schorr Releases New Video The New Revolution
For New York singer-songwriter, and acclaimed soul & blues vocalist, Sari Schorr, 2020 has not just kindled her creative fires as an artist, it’s inflamed them and lit a beacon. Back in May, Sari re-released Ordinary Life, a single from her debut album A Force of...
Jamie Webster Releases New Single This Place
If you are a Liverpool supporter then you may know Jamie Webster as the ‘scally’ providing new soundtracks to Liverpool Football Club’s rising fortunes. You may have seen him recently looking slightly the worst for wear when Liverpool clinched their first League title...
The Allman Betts Band Announces New Album Bless Your Heart
The Allman Betts Band was forced to cancel the tail end of its UK/European tour in August 2019 as Devon Allman was taken ill whilst touring in Germany and had to recover from an emergency appendectomy operation. Devon is now back fighting fit and The Allman Betts Band...
Laura Evans Premieres Her Brand-New Video for Her Latest Single Drag Me Back In
Laura Evans, a rising star in the new wave of British country-blues talent and soul music singer-songwriters, is releasing a brand-new video for her latest single Drag Me Back In, the second single to drop from her forthcoming EP Running Back to You, due to be...
Matt Pearce & The Mutiny Special EP Digital & Physical
Matt Pearce’s musical mutiny is alive, well, in-progress and ongoing. Matt Pearce & The Mutiny are delighted to announce physical and digital releases of tracks from their tour exclusive 5-track EP, An Ongoing Thing: Demos, Acoustics and Covers. Previously...
Laura Evans Releases Her New Single Drag Me Back In
Laura Evans, a rising star & profound songwriter amongst the new wave of Country, Blues and Roots music scene, is releasing her new single Drag Me Back In Today 26th June, 2020. Drag Me Back In follows on the heels of Laura Evans last single Running Back to You...
Elles Bailey & The Midnight Band Release Wilson Pickett Cover Under Lockdown Conditions
The inability to perform live has prompted many artists to dig deep into the souls of their creativity. Award-winning, genre-crossing singer-songwriter, Elles Bailey is delighted to be jointly releasing a special single with The Midnight Band, a cover of soul legend...
Evening Hymns Release Heavy Nights Five Years After Last Album
Evening Hymns, the ever-evolving project of musician, composer and producer, Jonas Bonnetta will be releasing the long-awaited new album, Heavy Nights, out via Shuffling Feet Records on June 26, 2020. It has been five years since the last album , Quiet Energies, was...
IDLES Third Album, Ultra Mono, Is On It’s Way
IDLES have announced that they will be releasing their third album, Ultra Mono on September 25th via Partisan Records. If their last record, Joy As An Act Of Resistance was meant to detail IDLES manifesto, then Ultra Mono is the sound of the band heading into battle,...
The Bloody Nerve Roll-Out Their New Concept Album All Blood, No Treasure.
The super-resilient, Nashville-based but by no means Nashville-sounding ,rock duo, The Bloody Nerve are back with a hard-hitting vengeance, announcing their brand-new concept album All Blood, No Treasure. It’s a sophomore album that showcases the band’s new, far...
Red Rum Club Are Back With Eleanor
Red Rum Club have released a new single, Eleanor, with a vibrant animated video. It has been a while since the Liverpool band released anything, with Kids Addicted, being released all the way back in September last year. This is a very different sound, but one that...
THUMPER To Release New Single, Topher Grace
Dublin’s noise-pop sextet, THUMPER will be releasing their new single Topher Grace, on Friday 26th June 2020. Frontman Oisin Furlong explains “The song is about going out on the rip as an act of self-destruction, thinly disguised as a voyage of self-reflection. It...
OK Go Share Poignant Video For All Together Now With Proceeds Going To Partners In Health
US band OK Go, known for their elaborate one-take videos and massive songs like Here It Goes Again and Get Over It, have released an excellent new track, All Together Now, as a response to Covid-19 and with it a campaign to raise money for health care workers. This is...
Jim Kirkpatrick Announces The Release Of New Solo Album: Ballad Of A Prodigal Son
Jim Kirkpatrick is the guitarist with the band FM, he also plays with Bernie Marsden, Rhino's Revenge and was Thea Gilmore's guitarist for seven years. He has decided that the time is right to reignite his solo career and is proud to announce the release of his brand...
Premiere: Eames High Releases $.L.I.M.
Arthur Eames, a.k.a. Eames High, is an American musician, producer, composer, and engineer whose style combines soaring hooks, emotive self-reflective lyrics, new age shoe gaze swagger and eclecticism for genre blending. Having already supported such bands as Grizzly...
Jessica Lynn Premiere: ‘Run To’ Video & Rescheduled UK Headline Tour Dates
Many of you, I am sure, will be extremely sorry that Jessica Lynn will not be touring the UK in June as originally planned due to our friend Covid-19. Better news is on the horizon, however, following Jessica's announcement that the dates have been rescheduled for...
Video Premiere Exclusive Goldray Enchant With How Do You Know
We might have mentioned once or twice, about how excited we are to air the video premiere for the new Goldray single, How Do You Know, which is being released tomorrow along with the epic Oz as a double A side. The video, which was made during lockdown is very...
Cara And The Cobras Release Debut Single, Fallen Blackbirds
Cara and The Cobras, led by singer, Cara Jo Ross, are Aberdeen based alt-rockers, have made waves since forming just seven months ago! They have now released their debut single, Fallen Blackbirds. Music runs deep through the family and friends veins. Cara's dad...
The Newest Folk Troubadour Bloomin’ Josh Okeefe
There is a long line of troubadours armed only with an acoustic guitar and sometimes a harmonica sitting in front of them nestled in a holder that have given us Folk protest songs. These are sometimes full of humour but usually are about the injustices of the world...
Exciting Psychedelic Glam Rock Goldray News
Goldray, who released their critically acclaimed debut album, Rising in 2017, are back with a double a-side single release on 29th May and we are delighted to announce that we will have a video exclusive on the 28th, so keep your eyes pealed. How Do You Know and the...
Canadian Collective Busty And The Bass Release New Single Kids
Canadian 8-piece jazz-funk collective, Busty and the Bass, share their new single Kids, along with a mini documentary, highlighting the band’s commitment to music education. The band, who met studying in the jazz program at Montreal’s McGill University, are advocates...
Sari Schorr’s Ordinary Life Brought Back To Life And Resonates in Extraordinary Times
Sari Schorr and her band should have been embarking on a nationwide tour in the UK during April but Covid-19 reared its ugly head and she was forced to remain in her hometown New York. She has been busy, however and her haunting but Inspiring video, showing New York...
#saveourvenues Campaign Sees 140 UK Music Venues Removed from ‘Critical’ List ………For Now
The Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced that the #saveourvenues campaign launched three weeks ago today has now resulted in 140 grassroots music venues being removed from its ‘critical’ list. #saveourvenues, which has so far raised over £1.5m in donations, was...
Shred Kelly To Release Fifth Album Like A Rising Sun
It has been 2 years since Archipelago, so Rockshot is happy to say that Shred Kelly are releasing their fifth album, Like A Rising Sun on 3rd July via Devil Duck Records. The lead track from the album Dead Leaves was released on last month which the band said “is a...
Liverpool Art Punks, Psycho Comedy, Release I’m Numb
Liverpool creative collective, Psycho Comedy, are back with a visceral new single and video, I’m Numb, which is taken from their acclaimed debut album Performance Space Number One. This latest offering is another gloriously unhinged and unrelenting example of their...
Legendary Art Pop Icons Minty Reissue Open Wide
In 1992, infamous fashion designer, model, performance artist and Taboo club promoter Leigh Bowery formed the band Minty with friend, designer Richard Torry, wife Nicola, and promotor and performer Matthew Glamorre. Bowery was a massively influential pop art icon and...
Video Premiere: Ali In The Jungle Release Drunk Generation
Rockshot are pleased to premiere the video for Ali In The Jungle’s latest release, Drunk Generation. The Milton Keynes based, 4-piece indie/alternative rock band, have been swapping instruments and jumpers in front of live audiences since 2013. People enjoy trying to...
Elles Bailey Champions Women In Music At UK Blues Awards Triumph
I was first introduced to Elles Bailey in 2017 and I have to be honest, she had not been on my radar until she was booked to play the Tuesday Night Music Club in March of that year. This young lady reached for the moon and boy is she reaping the rewards. Smoky-voiced,...
The Outlaw Orchestra Release Their Tasty New Single and Video
The Outlaw Orchestra were building a head of steam just before covid-19 stopped them and everyone else in theirtracks. The band is not, however, taking it's foot off the pedal and is unleashing it's Claymation Alter-ego in the form of a video single....