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Following last year's critically-acclaimed album Sonic, Venice-based band Glazyhaze returns with brand new single 'Do You?'. Building upon their ethereal mix of shoegaze, alternative rock, and dream pop, the track features sweet yet punchy vocals that float above layers of spaced-out guitars and driving bass lines. Distributed worldwide by Hoodooh and Believe Music, the single is now streaming on all platforms.
With a sound that ranges from dark and atmospheric to soft and intimate, Glazyhaze have solidified themselves as a band to watch. Since the release of their debut LP in 2023, they've been named among Europe's Top 15 Emerging Artists in the Music Moves Europe Awards and have toured Europe and the UK extensively, sharing stages with acts like Trentemøller, The Raveonettes, Soft Cult, and Slow Crush. 2025's sophomore LP and follow-up single "Romeo" took the band to new heights, earning praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Clash, BBC, KEXP, and more.
Glazyhaze is a band from Venice, Italy, influenced by shoegaze, dream pop, and alternative sounds, ranging from dark atmospheres to dreamy and ethereal soundscapes. The band consists of Irene (vocals, guitars), Lorenzo (lead guitar), Francesco (drums, programming), and Vsevolod (bass, vocals). Since the release of their debut album Just Fade Away (2023), Glazyhaze have been active across Europe and the UK, performing in major cities and supporting artists such as Trentemøller, Hater, Film School, and many more.
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NORDIC DRIFT, Vol.1, (High Coast Frequencies) is a cinematic and ethereal interpretive tribute to Sweden’s High Coast in Ångermansland — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape site where the land still rises from the sea after 10,000 years beneath the ice.
A modern songwriting experiment was set aside, until a single question to a producer intern sparked a new production that breathed the very spirit of the Swedish High Coast. Then the remarkable ΔNØVA lent her voice, weaving in hints of alt-pop magic, and suddenly High Coast High held the Nordic genie in its bottle. Forget Rocky Mountain High, Now it is the High Coast High that truly soars.
The album captures the region’s raw beauty, misty fjords, ancient forests and the quiet pull of the Gulf of Bottnia northern sea, blending atmospheric electronica, ambient textures, alt-pop and indiefolk and minimalistic songwriting. Each artist offers a unique reflection of nature’s rhythm, from waves and wind to the stillness of stone. A musical journey and a cinematic postcard from the North.
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Larissa Grelli - Tomorrow.
Larissa Grelli welcomes spring with the soulful pop track “Tomorrow.” This is the young artist’s second single. Toward the end of last year, she tentatively released her first track worldwide and received a lot of positive feedback. A new voice from the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland Larissa Grelli is both a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
There's more to come! Not only because her latest follow-up, “Tomorrow,” features a melody that instantly sticks in your head, but also because the melancholic song conveys a message that will resonate deeply with many listeners.
Larissa Grelli explains: “Tomorrow is about perseverance in difficult times—and about realizing that you’re not alone with your feelings. The song is a reminder that every day can be a fresh start, and that hope is often closer than you think. A year ago, I didn’t really know where life would take me. After many reflective hours and with a good dose of hope, this song came into being.”
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Less than three years’ ago the twin sister duo kicked off their music careers, whilst still at school, when they came 2nd place out of over 22,000 entries in the Liverpool International Songwriting Competition (Road to Nashville – 2022) and played the iconic Exit/In, Nashville. The competition was judged by a distinguished judging panel of Nashville and international music industry veterans, including Head Judge Jeff Cohen (Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer), Pamela Lewis (PLA Media and formerly part of the original MTV team), Regie Hamm, Tim Wipperman, and Gary Morris (Broadway and Country music legend who sung ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’).
One week after leaving school, and still only 18 years-old, the girls had even persuaded Tors to let them support at their Newcastle gig! Fast forward to 2024, when they first caught the eye of the legendary Jools Holland and opened for him at The City Hall, Newcastle – their home town. In 2025 they were thrilled to be asked back to join his winter tour at four amazing venues: The Royal Albert Hall, O2 Apollo Manchester, Utilita Arena Cardiff and the Bristol Beacon playing in considerably larger capacity venues and a real vote of confidence that he asked them back.
It’s been a pretty impressive progression for the duo, as one of their latest singles, ‘Spine’, (from their third EP ‘Sadness Is My Sanctuary’ got BBC Introducing North East Track Of The Week, and tTwayn has already had three of their videos played on national TV (C4’s Sunday Brunch).
The siblings are regulars on the festival circuit and, amongst others, played Coast Fest and the Treehouse Stage at Hardwick Festival in 2025 and they have supported the likes of Casey McQuillen (American Idol S13/S14), Oliver Pinder and Tors). 2025 also saw them perform at the Mercury Prize Fringe when it came to Newcastle for the first time. There are lots of great things in store for Twayn in 2026 too!
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“Nevermind" came together in just a few hours, springing from an improvised bassline, a PS-5 harmonizer pedal, and a playful back-and-forth between voices. Featuring Oliver Marson, the track twists rejection into something wry and immediate - a speak-sung mantra that flips between irony and sincerity. Beneath its wiry groove lies a theme of refusing to please everyone, finding humor in disappointment, and ultimately leaning toward self-acceptance. It's bona fide and tongue-in-cheek, and it’s one of the LP’s most instant songs.
“Oliver came into my studio one day and the song pretty much wrote itself,” shares Nick Hinman, "Rejection is universal, but pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is unique. Anyone can wallow in the fear, but I admire the resilience of those who can take it with a grain of salt. As our boy Nietzche once said, 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.’"
‘Some of the best songs come together in just one day and that’s exactly how Nick and I wrote Nevermind,” adds Oliver Marson”, "What I liked about this was it felt so natural and it was like a conversation. It was also just really fun, which is what music should be all about. I’ve been leaning more into co-writing because every session teaches me something new and sparks ideas I wouldn’t have found on my own. My musical journey hasn’t been all smooth, though rejection has been a constant teacher. And that’s what this song is really about. Instead of stopping me, it’s pushed me to write more, collaborate more, and trust that every ‘no’ is just making space for the right ‘yes.’
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Two weeks out from releasing her new album, Heaven Knows What Time, Vera Ellen shares her new single Thaw, alongside a dreamy cinematic music video by Daniel Fletcher. The single follows the recently released joyous anthem Gayfever and the sophisti-pop Hemi Hemingway duet When It’s Over. All made with the support of NZ on Air. Aotearoa Music Award and Taite Music Prize winning artist Vera Ellen announces her upcoming album ‘Heaven Knows What Time’ – out on vinyl and CD on May 1st via Flying Nun Records.
Three years on from her last full-length project, Ideal Home Noise; which was awarded the prestigious Taite Music Prize for 2023, Vera Ellen has found herself in a whirlwind of unconventionality - learning to embrace the chaos that comes with being a self-sustained artist in today’s constantly driving culture, and finding meaning and joy in community - all themes that inform her new body of work, Heaven Knows What Time.
Stepping away from the heavy inner-world of Ideal Home Noise, Heaven Knows What Time is less about thinking and more about just being — embracing the masks we wear, but also allowing ourselves to take them off and bare it all; the exhausted, the messy, the fear, the adventure, and all of the joy too.
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