The single, 'Excuse Me', is an outburst of punk energy, as effervescent as a song on the first Undertones album, recalling a teenage romance with the nerdiest person in school. It's a foretaste of the album "Highway To Heavenly" which has been announced this week and is out on 27 February.
Heavenly are seen as the originators of a whole genre of music – known to some as ‘jangle’, others as ‘twee’ and to the band themselves as ‘indiepop’. As fiercely independent as any punk band, but as sweetly melodic as any chart-topping act, Heavenly combine sharp-edged politics with shamelessly joyful pop music.
‘Highway To Heavenly’ shares this recipe with the band’s first four albums, all of which were released in the 1990s at a time when sensitive indie types in the UK were sheltering from the prevailing macho-rock storm under the Sarah Records umbrella, and when women in the US were starting to find their Riot Grrrl voices in the small town of Olympia, where labels like K and Kill Rock Stars were designing a new creative space.
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In an era where artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping the music industry, Danish artist Hannah Schneider is choosing a completely different path. On her upcoming album ‘In This Room’ (released February 27, 2026), she insists on presence, intuition and craftsmanship as the driving force in the creation of music.
To create the album, she invited a number of musicians she admires to her residency at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen. Here, the museum's historic space became the setting for a musical experiment in which both composition and recording were turned on their heads: What happens when acoustic instruments become the starting point for modern electronic music?
‘In This Room’ - the title song from the forthcoming album is a meditation on the stories we hold, the rooms we return to, and the moments that define us — even when nothing seems to change. With this new single release, which has already received BBC 6 Music & Radio X airplay, Hannah Schneider continues to solidify her place as a singular voice in Nordic electronic music, blending introspection, poetry, and immersive production into a quietly powerful statement. Driven by active piano figures, and the distinct drumming by fellow labelmate Øyunn, the song catches the ear, asking the question- “if these walls would talk, what would they say?”.
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"Love Will Always Be Near" was born after co-writer Anders Hasselquist (music/lyrics) heard on the radio than a young person in Sweden commits suicide every week, wanting to write a positive uplifting song about reaching out to people in distress. He approached Thomas Karlsson (music) and Jimmy Granstrom (lyrics) about writing a song on this theme, later joined by Filipino singer Aubrey Illurimo who recorded the vocals for the song.
Project Earthbridge consists of the Swedish duo Jimmy Granstrom (music and/or lyrics) and Thomas Karlsson (music/production) as well as invited collaborator(s), which will vary between songs. Project Earthbridge's songs have been played on the radio in at least 12 countries on five continents, from Australia and South Africa to Sweden, France, Belgium, Peru, England and the USA. The singles "Alicia" and "Made Of Stars" were selected for rotation on P4 Sörmland, which is a major Swedish radio station equivalent to a regional BBC radio station in the United Kingdom.
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Los Angeles' Julian Never shares the second single and video from its forthcoming Everyday Is Purgation LP for Mt.St.Mtn. “Say Something” is about trying to fix yourself by making the same mistakes and following the same attachment patterns. You’ve just wrecked your life, and this relationship isn’t going to fix you. An artist drops into your life—only to disappear as fast, ending things through a cryptic screenshot posted by their friend on Instagram.
You expected more of yourself for getting vulnerable like this, for caring as much as you did. You know you weren’t owed anything, but it still stings. It bruises the ego. Give yourself a rest. This wasn’t meant to be. Move on.
“Say Something” is a country-ballad take on jangle pop, featuring Josh Yenne on pedal steel. It’s about that raw feeling of being left behind—caught in the loop of rumination, waiting for words that never come.
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