The legendary alt-metallers' back catalogue is available to stream for the first time. Jump in.

The best tracks June 2019 had to offer, including Thom Yorke, Burial and Metz.

Fans at London’s Wireless Festival have raised concerns about overcrowding after reports of trampling and injuries at one of the stages. Thousands of people flocked to see rap duo D-Block Europe on the smaller of two stages at the Finsbury Park music festival, with several taking to social media to...

Now we're talking. Cheers May, that was a winner. What was your personal highlight? There's new Tyler, The Creator utterly clattering up the charts, Flying Lotus's latest opus, bursting at the seams as always with spicy guest spots (Tierra Whack and David Lynch on the same track listing? - I'll...

Let's not kid ourselves, March was one of the best months for music in a long time. Strongest TLE playlst ever? It's possible. In fact, 2019 has seen a rude run of releases since January. Was April able to rise to the task and match the months which came before?...

@ The Electric Ballroom, London 5/4/2018 Support: LIFE Bristol punks Idles are having a boom year. On the back of 2018’s Joy As An Act of Resistance, proving debut proper Brutalism was no fluke, the band have found their brand of wide eyed, all-inclusive message rock carried by audiences across...

We've been bending TLE Playlist rules this month, such is the wealth of utter tunes rained upon us in March. And that's even after some seriously tough cuts from the running. Our cup spilleth over. Can you handle 16 tracks? I think you can handle 16 tracks. Settle in for...

February was a bit hot wasn't it? What's going on there? This time last year we were in the grip of the Beast from the East, now I'm looking out the window considering cracking out an icy can of Lilt and slathering on some tanning oil. February was equally eclectic...

I don’t know if it’s the clean-slate nature of January, the turning of new leaves, the refreshing of the arbitrary loadbar of life, but the first playlist of the year is a real crisp one. Maybe some of the cooler musicians on the scene were waiting for gaudy Bublé Christmas...

Critical praise on a debut album is a boon, but also a rod for the backs of new artists. Oslo’s Spielbergs have demonstrated some serious chops on This Is Not The End, producing a composite of familiar post-hardcore tropes and melodic pop sensibilities. It’s a stride out the gates, but expectations...

Streaming service Spotify  has teamed up with astrologist Chani Nicholas to create a series of ‘cosmic playlists’ based on the twelve signs of the zodiac. The playlists are currently only available in the US but a wider roll-out is expected. You can check out this month's star sign playlist -...

Post rock legends Mono have shared the third single from their upcoming album - and 20th anniversary as a band. Listen to Meet Us Where The Night Ends below for a slice of the Japanese quartet's brand of atmosphere and instrumentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNh2T-OY14A&feature=youtu.be The band will present new album Nowhere Now Here in January 2019...

It's a bit of an old story now, but vinyl really is back in vogue, and classic artists are helping bring the format back from the brink. New figures from Nielsen have uncovered album sales figures for 2018, including the increased market share vinyl carved out for itself. The Beatles...

Just look at that first wonderful splurge of bands for the sunniest fest of the year. In the first wave of announcements for 2000trees 2019 You Me At Six, While She Sleeps and Every Time I Die are confirmed as key acts. Frank Iero and the Future Violents, Milk Teeth,...

Columbus post rockers The End of the Ocean will release -aire - their first album in eight years - on 18th January. This is the first new material since the band's highly praised 2011 debut, Pacific-Atlantic. With so much going on in their personal lives, Tara Mayer (keys) says that The End of the Ocean needed to “give ourselves a...

A study of 2,000 UK normies has revealed the top artists which make them feel jolly or glum, with The Beatles given full happiness marks while gloomy Jake Bugg was considered the most miserable. I mean, The Beatles is fair enough, and it's lovely to see egg-headed tub-thumper Phil Collins...

Lovely Bristol darlings IDLES appear to be writing the follow up to 2018's Joy As An Act Of Resistance. The band posted a tweet and Instagram story on Thursday, announcing the news with a Haiku and a snap of drummer Jon Beavis's drumkit. Tantalising : IDLES album 3 HaikuOh hello...

Shoreditch events collective SuperCulture will host a series of events tackling male mental health in January 2018 with DJs, broadcasters and musicians including Professor Green, SBTV’s Jamal Edwards, DJ High Rankin, Jordan Stevens (Rizzle Kicks) and more. Titled MENtal Health, the events series will be in collaboration with three partners: The Book of Man...

October? Who even remembers October? It’s deepest November right now! I know this. I am very late and very sorry, but the tenth and most indecisive month of the year still needs its due. On the plus side you’ve had an additional three weeks to form your own opinions on...

Brighton upstarts Beach Riot have announced their debut EP release for January 25th via Vallance Records. Fronted by a fine slice of catchy, fuzzy pop in new single, Good To Know (That I’m Still on Your Mind), the 4-track EP was recorded by Blood Red Shoes’ Steven Ansell. Their new single, Good To Know (That...

Stoke four-piece All The Best Tapes have released an early, TLE-exclusive stream of their new album - Apex Emotion. The follow up to 2014's eponymous debut will see official release on Friday, so that's a bonus 48 hours to enjoy this latest slab of self-proclaimed 'Thrash Jazz'. Apex Emotion is...

It might just be that The Smashing Pumpkins are good again. Don't believe us? Check out the new video for 'Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)', which has Billy Corgan's fingerprints all over it. We included the track in our Best of September playlist after falling for its low-key riffage. The quartet is touring...

It’s autumn, people. The season of layers and sour, public transport BO is upon us. While you’re considering that mid-level tog duvet on the John Lewis website (*note: I may not know this site’s audience) enjoy some of September’s seasonally-melancholy bangers in our latest playlist round-up. The highlights here? Well,...

Here at TLE we're big fans of Jilian Medford's Ian Sweet. Last September we got ourselves along to the Village Underground to catch her support set on Girlpool's autumn UK tour and it was a delight. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZA59ZKnjub/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=c1yofksotoxa Now Ian Sweet has returned, sharing a video for 'Spit', the latest from...

Jon Hopkins has released the video for the title track of his latest album, Singularity, directed by Academy Films’ Seb Edwards. Jon Hopkins says of the video: “This is the single most epic video I’ve ever had made. Seb has been a friend and collaborator for nearly 15 years now, but this is the first...

Rising Leeds band Fizzy Blood released their anticipated third EP Pink Magic on Friday To mark the occasion, the band have collaborated with Distiller TV to release a live rendition of Pink Magic, which was recorded around their appearance at Bestival this summer. Watch the video below: The EP title track Pink Magic landed on the BBC Radio 1 playlist in June. Recorded in Brighton...

Look out your window now. If you're in the UK anywhere near the month of September, chances are you have been greeted with a sheet-grey sky and, more likely than not, rain. Time might be a human construct but the Jetstream bloody knows when it's the 1st September. Anyway we...

Ahead of her headline show at Somerset House this evening, yesterday Sigrid celebrated the release of her new EP Raw by  treating lucky fans to an intimate acoustic performance at hmv’s flagship Oxford Street 363 store. The release of Raw cements what can only be described as a stellar year for one of music’s most exciting...

I’m going to say it. It's needlessly convoluted but I like the word and I want to use it. Look at our latest playlist and tell me June wasn’t the most dichotomous month on the 2018 release calendar so far? We’ve got truly world-class atmospheric, experimental jazz rubbing shoulders with...

After a successful event at Basement Sate raising over £500 for CALM last year. Rant + Rave the online music magazine is returning on 13th July with a brand new event and proudly supporting Teenage Cancer Trust. This time round they're taking over Protein Studios Shoreditch to bring you an...

Fort Process is an expansive bi-annual music and arts festival that takes place in the evocative spaces of Newhaven Fort in East Sussex. The 2018 edition is set to continue the critical success of the first two. The experience of Fort Process takes festival-goers wandering through underground tunnels, caverns and...