The video for 'Mother Nature' has left an aftermath, and their names are Mingey and Party Boy. The two snails, stars of CuckooLander's latest video, have since been adopted by the singer and are living the life in a snail-ised castle estate. Watch Mingey and Party Boy in action below, not...

By Julia Prigmore (@JuliaPrigmore) The Gates, the latest release from Toronto trio Young Empires, is an evolutionary step ahead of their previous output.  Previous EP Wake All My Youth is overwhelmed here with defiant, heavy electro beats and catchy melodic chants, standing tall in the alternative dance and indie pop...

By Emma Silverthorn (@HouseOf_Gazelle) As the centenary of the Suffragette movement is marked this year and the inevitable backlash from the men’s rights movement is heard, accusing those women instrumental in it of: ‘demanding the rights but not the responsibilities of equality,’ Vital Xposure’s The Disappearance Dorothy Lawrence is a...

By Richard Broome (@richbroome_tog) I am sat in a rather intimate, underground screening room at the British Film Institution. Drinks are flowing, the atmosphere is positive. The head of Spinefarm records stands up and makes a short introductory speech to get the eager audience whipped up for what is sure...

More summer vibes now from Baltimore's Sun Club with their new track 'Summer Feet'. The song sets the stage ahead of the release of their Debut LP The Dongo Durango on 30th October. If Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys got in a time machine to present day and formed a supergroup with FIDLAR...

Their monstrous moniker may have been removed but the monster within remains, if Heck's nuts new track 'Breakers' is anything to go by. Have a listen below. According to the band, the song covers some pretty emotionally-turbulent subject matter. “Some things are better left at peace,” explains singer/guitarist Matt Reynolds....

Willie J Healey has announced the forthcoming release of his second EP Saturday Night Feeling  on November 6th. Check out lead single 'Dude Like Him' below for some summer vibes in the vein of Maccabees and Hooton Tennis Club. ‘Dude Like Him’, demonstrates a more direct and punchy side to Willie’s...

By Emma Silverthorn (@HouseOf_Gazelle) In The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence theatre group Vital Xposure is set to tell another hidden story from an otherwise repressed voice. In the centenary year of the Suffragette movement it’s not surprising to find more art dealing with the stories of those women key within...

By Kane Power (@ElHeavio) I saw Svalbard live a few months ago doing an admirable job opening for Holy Roar label mates Rolo Tomassi. They are back on my radar with a new release One Day All This Will End, out this week on the 25th of September. I initially...