Credit: Stewart Baxter

Following up the release of their highly acclaimed second album Bless You & Be Well last summer, Chartreuse have today shared Heaven Sent. The single marks the band's next stage in growth, as they continue to push into new sonic territory, stretching their songwriting in exciting ways. Vocalist/keys player, Hattie Wilson, explains: “‘Heaven Sent’ is about the place I grew up in. It's a small village where everyone knows each other, but I've always felt there's a bit of a superiority complex; if someone does something good, they have to tell you about it. I loved growing up here as a kid, but I think I feel somewhat trapped here at the moment. With health struggles, with money and general life worries being at the forefront of my mind, I’m wondering if I'll amount to more. The song encapsulates the different feelings I have towards my hometown that have come to the surface because of where I'm at in life.” Take a listen for yourselves below, along with their upcoming European tour dates. 



Chartreuse EU Tour Dates - (supported by Woom on all dates except Paris)
Monday 2nd February - DR Studio 3, Copenhagen
Wednesday 4th February - Paradiso, Amsterdam 
Thursday 5th February - Lutherse Kerk, Groninge
Friday 6th February - Artheater, Cologne
Saturday 7th February - Molotow, Hamburg
Sunday 8th February - Bergahin Kantine, Berlin
Tuesday 10th February - Supersonic Records, Paris

i: https://www.instagram.com/chartreuse 

Photo credit: Demi Hopkins

London-based outfit CHEST have today shared their brand-new single SO BETTER NOW, taken from their forthcoming EP ‘never really here’, out 27th February. Packed with insatiably catchy melodies and funky arrangements, the track gives an exciting introduction to what lays ahead. Speaking on the release, vocalist and lyricist Joel Reader said: "The song came from two images stuck in my head. A McDonald’s sign on fire in the LA wildfires, an incredibly sardonic image of American excess literally fuelling its own destruction. And the moment after the Trump attempt, his fist raised dripping in vulgarity and violence. The song grew from the feeling those two pictures created together exploring the irony and humour in nihilistic release. Lyrically it is the most outward looking track we’ve released, it’s a commentary on the world rather than self exploration." Take a listen below. 

Live Dates
30 January - Stowmarket, John Peel Centre
27 February - London, The Elephants Head
28 February - Norwich, Arts Centre
10 April - Bury St Edmunds, The Apex 

i: https://www.instagram.com/chest_band

Photo Credit: Greg McMurray

Today sees Wolverhampton-based outfit FRIEDA STAR share their debut single Mothers and Sisters. Wasting no time in announcing their arrival, the band fuse bright, jangling guitar lines with a surge of relentless energy as they barrel toward the finish line. Speaking about their new offering, the band revealed: “‘Mothers and Sisters’ was inspired by an up-skirting incident involving Garran’s girlfriend, while returning home from Birmingham via the railway. Aggressively, and rightly so, Garran took his pen to paper to release frustrations and angst that his girlfriend fell victim to a complete stranger. As for many women across the world, these monstrous forms of misogyny are still present in modern society yet having been highlighted for decades. Hopefully, it demands the attention this injustice deserves.” Take a listen for yourselves below. 

FRIEDA STAR is Garran Hickman (vocals, lyrics), Scarlett Churchill (vocals, drums), James Knott (guitar, backing vocals), Xavier Al-Naqib (bass). 

Live Dates
7 FEB -Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham (UK) 

i: https://www.instagram.com/friedastarband

Photo credit: Maeve Wong

Today sees London four-piece Tooth unveil their brilliant debut single The Age of Innocence. Comprised of Tom Pollock (guitar, vocals), Ben Ashley (guitar), Charlie Arnison (bass) and Roy Lowe (drums) - the band have built a devoted following through their live shows, and this opening statement distils that immediacy and frantic energy into a tightly packed two-minute-forty anthem. "It was written almost as an epilogue for my adolescence," says Pollock. "I was almost 18 and could feel this restless and confused teenage chapter of my life slowly coming to a close. I realised how clueless I was as a teenager, but also how much fun I’d had. I think the lyrics reflect that duality and fondly reminisce on a period of life that can’t be experienced again. I think, for all of us, this song felt like the start and the end of something indefinable." The single comes accompanied by a video - directed by Hermione Sylvester - that depicts the raw, unfettered energy of a Tooth show, documenting a raucous London date in late 2025. Take a watch and dive right in below. 

For those looking to get in on the action, the band play a sold-out headline London show at The Lexington for Abbie McCarthy's Future Karma Ones to Watch 2026 tomorrow night (29th January), the So Young Weekender this weekend in Southampton and make an appearance at Dublin's Borderline Festival next month. 

i: https://www.instagram.com/toothband

Sean Solomon by Michael Schmelling

LA resident Sean Solomon has today shared his latest single Black Hole, ahead of supporting Unknown Mortal Orchestra on their upcoming European tour. Anchored by the haunting refrain “you don’t have to love me too,” the track's intricate guitar patterns and vulnerable vocal performance combine to create something deeply immersive. "When I was 15, I went to a psych ward. I was doing too many drugs and finally they caught up with me," Sean explains of the song, which holds nothing back as he works to understand how a drug-related psychotic episode impacted his familial relationships as well as the one he has with himself. "This eventually led me to getting sober and focusing on music and art," Sean continues. "I haven’t had an episode since, but I think about that moment all the time. It not only changed who I am as a person but also an artist." Take a listen below. 



TOUR DATES
March 10 – Vilnius, Lithuania @ Kablys #
March 11 – Riga, Latvia @ Palladium Riga #
March 12 – Gdansk, Poland @ Stary Manez #
March 13 – Berlin, Germany @ Metropol #
March 15 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega #
March 16 – Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller #
March 18 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Nalen / Fallen #
March 19 – Lund, Sweden @ Meteriet #
March 22 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Trivoli #
March 23 – Antwerp, Belgium @ De Roma #
March 24 – Paris, France @ Le Trianon #
March 26 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland #
March 27 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall #
March 28 – Sheffield, UK @ Sheffield Foundry #
March 30 – London, UK @ Earth Theater #

# - with Unknown Mortal Orchestra

i: https://www.instagram.com/foreversean 

Photo credit Silken Weinberg

Today sees Holly Humberstone return with her brand-new single To Love Somebody. Taken from her highly anticipated second album Cruel World, to be released on 10 April 2026, inspired by Victorian theatre, Brothers Grimm and Nosferatu the track's towering pop sensibilities offer a tantalising glimpse of what lies ahead in this bold new chapter. “The record explores love as beautiful and inherently painful,” she says. “In To Love Somebody I wanted to capture that contradiction: to love somebody, is to hurt somebody and to lose somebody, well at least you got to love somebody. In order to feel extreme happiness, you have to know extreme sadness. That’s the tension of the record”. Take a listen below. 

Live Dates
09 February 2026 — AB Club, Brussels, BE
10 February 2026 — Kulturkirche Köln, Cologne, DE
11 February 2026 — Peter Edel, Berlin, DE SOLD OUT
13 February 2026 — Nalen, Stockholm, SE SOLD OUT
14 February 2026 — Lille (Little) Vega, Copenhagen, DK SOLD OUT
16 February 2026 — Zonnehuis, Amsterdam, NL
17 February 2026 — Les Étoiles, Paris, FR
29 March 2026 — Old Fruit Market, Glasgow, UK
30 March 2026 — New Century Hall, Manchester, UK SOLD OUT
01 April 2026 — Electric, Bristol, UK SOLD OUT
02 April 2026 — Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK SOLD OUT
12 April 12, 2026 — Coachella, California
07 June 2026 — Governors Ball, New York City 

i: https://www.instagram.com/hollyhumberstone 

Photo credit: Fabrice Bourgelle

Taken from his forthcoming album I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try, released on Heavenly Recordings on 6th March 2026, Joshua Idehen has shared the dance-floor ready This Is The Place. Talking about the track, Joshua said: "The way I squealed when Ludvig sent this beat over! When I heard it, I was taken back to bouncing in-between rooms early morning in Fabric, on one of those weekend nights that felt so non-special at the time "just another average night out" but were a quiet healing, a ordinary burst of joy, and I wanted to capture that feeling. "This is the place where I pick all my pieces up" was the first line, and everything else flowed after that". PREHUMAN, the video director, added: "Joshua is an unusually compelling performer — put him in front of a camera and much of the work is already done. The video itself is deliberately stripped back, with no distractions. I wanted the feeling of a shared space, like a club: bodies moving together, connection through rhythm.The treatment is clean and minimal, but the movement is intentionally angular and imperfect. I love the line "everyone's a bit broken here". Those ’90s white cyc music videos with fisheye lenses were a strong reference point throughout. Ludvig on the old MPC3000 was the icing on the cake". Take a listen/watch below. 

i: https://www.instagram.com/joshuaidehen 

Photo: Jacob Harris

Serving as a striking introduction to the band, Nottingham’s Bloodworm have shared Bloodlust, their first single of 2026. With the innate ability to create nostalgic, yet equally fresh sounds, the band's latest effort wastes no time in stamping its mark with dazzling guitars and towering melodies. Of the new single, the band's frontman George Curtis says: ‘'Bloodlust' was written about the duality of relationships and the angst of being stuck in a small town. We had the raw excitement of starting something new and just not really caring about anything else aside from the music itself. We’ve really tried to capture the feeling of that energy in the recording." With sell-out shows at The Bodega, and, Richard Oakes of Suede picking them out to support on the band's 17 date sold-out tour having been impressed after catching them live, the year is already shaping up to build on their previous efforts. Take a listen to the new single below. 

You can catch the band on tour with Suede on the following dates:

January
30 January, Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
31 January, Portsmouth Guildhall

February
02 February, Bristol, Beacon
03 February, Guildford, G Live
05 February, Edinburgh, Usher Hall
06 February, Liverpool, University Mountfort Hall
07 February, York, Barbican
09 February, Lincoln, The Engine Shed
10 February, Norwich, The LRC, UEA
11 February, Cambridge, Corn Exchange
13 February, Sheffield, Octagon
14 February, Newcastle, O2 City Hall
16 February, Coventry, HMV Empire
17 February, Bath, Forum
19 February, Nottingham, Rock City
20 February, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
21 February, Brighton, Centre

Bloodworm are:
George Curtis - Guitar & Vocals
Chris Walker - Bass
Euan Stevens - Drums

i: https://www.instagram.com/bloodwormband

Photo credit / Tatiana Pozuelo

Following on from Jacky and Ceiling, Irish-based four-piece Bleech 9:3 have this week shared their blistering third single Cannonball. Packed with grungy guitars and explosive choruses, it might just be their loudest to date. On the new single, Cannonball, Baz says - "It was written down the back of Sam’s house one day after we had spent a few hours there doing recovery related work. To me it’s a reflection of how bad worship in the form of a lover had made love itself into something else, a moment of clarity is found at its ending which maybe shows the recovery work was doing its magic" Headed up by Baz Quinlan (vocals/guitar) and Sam Duffy (guitar) - the pair met at AA, where Baz became Sam's sponsor. "I think the vulnerability of those meetings helped us be a lot more comfortable with each other from the get go" Take a listen to their latest effort Cannonball for yourselves below. 

 Live Dates
22nd Jan - AEG Rising Week 2026 - Signature Brew, Haggerston
30th Jan - Yes Basement - Manchester
31st Jan - So Young Weekender - Papillon, Southampton
23rd - 24th May - Dot to Dot Festival

i: https://www.instagram.com/bleech_9.3

Photo credit / Jesse Herzog

Toronto-born, London-based pop artist Tallulah Argue has unveiled her irresistible new single Narcissist. Released alongside news of a London headline show at The George Tavern on February 26th with the Our Dear Friends collective, the track’s twanging basslines and plinky melodies offer a fresh angle on relationships. On the new single, Tallulah Argue says "Narcissist' is inspired by the realisation that I was the bad girlfriend. So much romantic storytelling leans on identifying as a victim, so this is more of a satirical, honest look at being selfish - caring for someone, but not enough to treat them better, and being completely self consumed...because what good's cake if you can't eat it?" Take a listen below with the track's  Super 8 shot clip. 

i: https://www.instagram.com/tallulahmilesargue