TONY FOX - Part Time Signals - Aubory Bugg - sundots

Photo - Abbie Lynch

TONY FOX - Fire + New Album.

TONY FOX new single "Fire" is the lead track from the new album released today 22 September 2026 on CD & digitally via prolific indie Cornwall-based indie label "Krautpop!" landing on the Autumn Equinox. It's a powerful statement piece that captures everything people have come to love about TONY FOX, raw energy, punk spirit and emotionally charged songwriting.

"Fire" burns with the wild, untamed heart of Cornwall. Driven by fierce vocals, hypnotic rhythms and the band's distinctive psych-poetry aesthetic, it's a track about resilience, transformation and finding light in difficult times. It feels equally at home on alternative, indie, punk and leftfield playlists.

TONY FOX are a female-fronted three-piece from Cornwall creating a unique blend of pagan-punk rock & roll and psych-poetry. Their music channels the landscape, struggles and spirit of contemporary Cornwall through powerful lyrics, raw performance and an unwavering DIY approach.

Founded by Jessica Cox, the band combines poetry-led songwriting with a visceral live energy that rejects over-polished perfection in favour of heart, soul and genuine connection. Influenced as much by Cornwall's wild coastline as its economic realities, TONY FOX create music rooted in resilience, community and transformation. Having performed at London's Troubadour and developed a close creative relationship with Alternative TV founder Mark Perry, TONY FOX continue to build a reputation as one of the UK's most compelling underground alternative acts.


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Part Time Signals - Waking Hours.

Waking Hours is the second single from Part Time Signals’ upcoming album Duck’s Back, Baby. Following Green Light, this upbeat song encapsulates the feeling of passing through the days, whilst shining a light on embracing life's changes as they unfold. Focused around a familiar 60’s beat, the song bops along with seasick chorused guitars, fuzzy bass lines and relentlessly choppy layered keyboard instruments of all varieties

Waking Hours was self-recorded by the band at Giant Wafer Studios and features instrumentation from Stephen Black aka Sweet Baboo (flute). Duck’s Back, Baby is the follow-up to the debut album Another Day In Paradise and EP The Window. It was self-recorded over an intensive five days at Giant Wafer Studios in Mid Wales, with subsequent additional recordings made at their rehearsal space and homes.

Part Time Signals are a four-piece band from Wales. Gavin Jenkins (KEYS, Rainbow Maniac), Jacob Church (Sock), Michael Blanchfield (ANGHARAD, Cardinal Black) and Sam Barnes (Boy Azooga, Sock). Their full- length debut album ‘Another Day In Paradise’ was released in 2023 with a follow up EP ‘The Window’ in 2025, both released with Cardiff-based independent label Bubblewrap Collective. Nation Cymru reviewed the band's latest EP as ‘blissful music’, Buzz Magazine described their debut album as ‘a wilfully lackadaisical type of psychedelic indie’ and Clash Magazine said ‘languid indie is very much the order of the day’.          
             
After recording their first album, BBC Horizons funding made it possible for the band to spend a whole week self-recording at Giant Wafer Studios in Mid Wales. Recorded in the same session as their EP, the band are currently gearing up to release their second album titled ‘Duck’s Back, Baby’. Making full use of the instruments, recording equipment and time available at the studio, this hefty recording session has seen the band take stock with a plethora of new songs, developing a more refined and mature style.

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Aubory Bugg - i think i had something once (Album).

Following a breakout run of singles including ‘the one you want to lose’ and ‘nosedive’, a sold-out UK debut show, BBC Radio 1 support and viral TikTok moments amassing 3M+ likes, Nashville singer-songwriter Aubory Bugg rounds off her meteoric rise with the release of her highly anticipated debut album i think i had something once, which just arrivied September 18th via Dualtone Records.

For a 21-year-old who wrote her entire debut EP alone in her bedroom, the leap into Nashville — into collaboration, community and creative openness — could have been daunting. Instead, it became the making of her. i think i had something once is the record that captures that transformation: a love letter to the things you didn't think you'd lose, whether that's a romantic relationship, a childhood, or a person you can't get back.

"This album is as direct a representation as I have of how I felt the last couple of years, moving out and being a person on my own," says Bugg. "At its core, the thread that moves through the whole album is a love letter to things you didn't think you'd lose."

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Photo - Eve Alpert

sundots - Someone Else’s Song.

Today, sundots, the Connecticut indie rock band, share the third single and video for “Someone Else’s Song”, off their upcoming album, ‘On The Quay’, due 6 November. Marking the band's first full-length written and recorded as a true five-piece, ‘On The Quay’ is a confident step forward as the first true full-band sundots record, and as a result, it’s a full-bodied and forceful level-up representation of the group’s sound, a record that feels timeless and in-the-moment all at once.

On the track, Drew Collins says, “Someone Else’s Song actually came about after we had thought we had finished the record. It was something I had started jamming on and felt pretty excited about. It definitely had a different energy from the other songs on the record. It was short and had super high energy right off the bat. It’s sort of a relentless song that doesn’t give much time to breathe, but I think that works in its favor.” 

He adds: “Lyrically, I was very inspired by 'The Dead' by James Joyce. I had recently finished Dubliners and had a ton of imagery from that floating around in my head, and naturally, I explored that headspace when approaching the lyrics for this track. It was about this same time that the album artwork idea had fully come to me, and it just made sense for us to go back to Kevin [S. McMahon] to record this last track for the record.”

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The Morning Line - Ungus Ungus Ungus - Part Time Signals - Laurelyn Dossett - Brooke Annibale - Disgusting Sisters

The Morning Line - Spellbound.

With a new album announced for release next month, veteran Northern California indie rockers The Morning Line and Big Stir Records bring you the second single to preview the record. “Spellbound,” with its textured guitars and plaintively melodic vocals, is a moody but lovely change of pace from “Anhedonia,” the band's previous indie hit single, and together they hint at the stylistic depth the band displays on the new album Stars. The single is released this weekend (three weeks ahead of the release of the full-length record's street date).

Frontman Stephen Smith reveals the intention behind the track. “It's about someone re-entering the world, after a period of loneliness, upset, or treatment.” He goes on to point out some details that listeners, whether hearing the song for the first time now or when its original version appeared on the band's 2007 debut album Stay My Satellite, might overlook: “One word people often miss when listening to it is 'Darien,' the Connecticut town. The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 2012 film Just Like Being There, a documentary about the makers of rock show posters. It is the only The Morning Line song with horns – a trumpet part that leads the song to its end. It’s anthemic and earnest.” 

With dense lyrical and musical touches like this, the song still packs a visceral and emotional punch as its layers ebb and flow. It's another side of The Morning Line's fascinating take on guitar pop and just one of 21 examples on display on Stars, a record that's rapidly emerging as an essential event on 2026's indie rock calendar.  

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Ungus Ungus Ungus - The Fun House (Album).

Musical contortionists Ungus Ungus Ungus return to bending boundaries with more of their signature mind-tickling tracks on their seventh studio album 'The Fun House', out yesterday August 28th.

With six full-length albums under their belt and having taken the stage at an array of internationally regarded festivals, including Woodford Folk, Port Fairy Folk and Rainbow Serpent, Ungus Ungus Ungus are back with an electrifying album that promises to deliver an unpredictable and enlivening experience, at times intentionally disorienting in its stylistic turns but always staying on track to a good time - much like the fairground ride from which the album takes its name.

With players based across three states, the Naarm/Melbourne-centred band returns with their shapeshifting, dancefloor-friendly sound. Conceptually, the album explores foundational dimensions of life together with its assorted peaks, valleys and contrasting flavours. Bandleader Max Schollar-Root says of the album: “As a band that plays fast and loose with genre, we have held nothing back stylistically, taking the listener on a journey from our signature circus party freak folk through psychedelic dub, funky hip-hop, electro swing, drum and bass, and ambient spaciousness.”

The album opens with ‘Funlerable’, a driving, moody track featuring circus organs and haunting vocals that speak to the duality of joy and vulnerability as an oscillating feature of life. ‘Poltergeist’ follows with a theatrical lament to lost love that builds from a slow cabaret feel to an uptempo frenzy. ‘Dr Quiet’ slows down the pace, giving way to atmospheric dub and sensuous, leisurely horns, setting the scene for the conceptual funk odyssey of ‘Wishes Three’, a foray into the foundations of where food comes from through deep grooves, group vocals and character-driven lyrics.

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Part Time Signals - Green Light.

'Green Light' is the first single from 'Part Time Signals’ upcoming album 'Duck’s Back, Baby'. Placed as the opening track to their new album, Green Light symbolises the urge to get moving after remaining stagnant for quite some time. It’s like checking your watch and feeling like time is standing still but taking comfort in the knowledge that a green light will eventually shine. The song features layers of warbly guitars and keyboards, vocals drenched in spring reverb, luscious harmonies and crisp saturated drums. 

The band self-recorded Green Light at Giant Wafer Studios, and it features additional instrumentation from Stephen Black (flute & clarinet), Rhodri Brooks (pedal steel) and David Newington (vibraphone). Duck’s Back, Baby is the brand new album from Part Time Signals and the follow-up to their debut album Another Day In Paradise and EP The Window. It was self-recorded over an intensive five days at Giant Wafer Studios in Mid Wales, with subsequent additional recordings made at their rehearsal space and homes.
                 
The band say, “We’ve been quietly chipping away at this album for a few years, assembling it piece by piece since the initial studio session. In its essence it’s a collection of songs that reflect some of the many aspects of the human condition, and listening from start to finish there are plenty of dots to be connected.”
                       
With the main recording session being the band’s first time recording in a professional studio together, they explored the extensive instrumentation and equipment at hand to create different textures and atmospheres, further developing their sound. During subsequent sessions back in Cardiff, the band recorded additional performances from David Newington (vibraphone), Rhodri Brooks (pedal steel) and Stephen Black (clarinet, flute, saxophones).

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Photo - Matthew Chenet

Laurelyn Dossett - How Many Moons? (Album).

After more than three decades writing songs for Grammy Award–winning artists and fostering some of the top talent in a rich North Carolina scene, Merlefest favorite Laurelyn Dossett is finally ready to step out for her debut solo album How Many Moons? The album, produced by M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger, is set for an August 28 release via Sycamore Road. Taylor says, “Laurelyn Dossett is a songwriter and human that I find immensely inspiring. A survivor and a wonder-er. I know she has played a huge part in the lives of so many creative people, and I'm honored to have played a part in her new album.”

How Many Moons is an embarrassment of sonic riches—and Dossett has clearly been saving her 12 best for her first. There’s everything on here from saucy, swampy, bluesy waltzes (“Tomorrow Won’t Remember”) to back-barn country rambles (lead single “How Many Moons”) and back-alley jazz-bar laments (“Run to the River”). “You and the Moon” has a gentle, ear-worm melody. She previously shared the heartbreaking single “Believe Me,” featuring producer M.C. Taylor. One could easily picture the song in a Norah Jones set. The serene lilt of “Glory Glory,  is an original song that features Taylor on electric and acoustic guitars and mandolin.

Dossett assembled a who’s-who of N.C. and regional players to help her deliver this stunning, eclectic solo debut. Players include Charly Lowry, artist and activist of the Lumbee and Tuscarora, who lends her vocals to “The Vision And The Call” (out June 29); Stephanie Coleman, a Brooklyn fiddler and musical partner of Nora Brown, whose worked with everyone from Rhiannon Giddens and Aoife O’Donovan to Béla Fleck; sacred steel legend DaShawn Hickman, whose pedal steel skills have wowed millions on America’s Got Talent; jazz/folk bassist Jason Sypher, whose list of notables includes Irma Thomas, Kermit Ruffins, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown, among many others; drummer Nick Falk (Molly Tuttle, The Wood Brothers, CAAMP and Hiss Golden Messenger); Riley Baugus (Willie Nelson, Alison Kraus and Robert Plant) and Taylor, who pitches in on acoustic/electric guitars and mandolin when he’s not behind the boards.

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Photo - Sasha Pedro

Brooke Annibale - Try Again.

Indie singer/songwriter Brooke Annibale has released her new single “Try Again.” The track is the latest to release off her forthcoming album Bolder Font, which is due out on September 17th. The emotional centerpiece to Bolder Font, “Try Again” finds Brooke turning the lens on her own complicated relationship with music after a series of disheartening and unexpected setbacks: the thing that has always healed her is also the thing that has wounded her. 

"There was a point between records where it actually pained me to work on music, which was an unfamiliar and unpleasant feeling,” stated Annibale. “Music has been my safe place since I was a teenager, the one thing I've always turned to. Losing that felt like losing a relationship. So that's exactly how I wrote about it — like I was talking directly to music itself, the way you'd speak to someone you were afraid of losing. The conversation in this song toggles between talking to myself and talking to music like it was a person slipping away. Somewhere in the making of this record, I found my way back to that safe space again.”

“Try Again” follows the release of the wry, nostalgic “Birthday,” which was featured on Atwood who raved “A gentle giant of a song, it carries years of memory on a brooding pulse, wrapping Annibale’s raw, unflinching songwriting in sweet warmth.” Annibale also recently released the electrifying, irresistible “Make You Mine,” as well as “Daily Dose,” a spirited reflection on unfiltered enthusiasm; “My Favorite Part,” the heartbreakingly vulnerable opening track; and the title track “Bolder Font,” which wrestles with the album’s underlying theme of self-worth and the gap between who we are and the identities that have been placed on us.

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Photo - Pierpaolo Saccomandi.

Disgusting Sisters - Not Cool.

Disgusting Sisters just shared their new single "Not Cool", taken from their upcoming debut album Skin & Blisters, which will be released October 30 on Source Records. "Not Cool" is, a punchy, hilarious new offering that blends tongue-in-cheek lyricism, addictive melodies and a strong dose of defiance. The single also references The Strokes, MDMA, Candy Crush and 36 year old men still buying boxers with their mum.  

On the new single, Disgusting Sisters say - "'Not Cool' is a song inspired by an ex boyfriend. We’ll let you decide if he’s cool or not. It’s also the first song we ever wrote as Disgusting Sisters, so it means a lot to us as it feels like the beginning of everything."

A lot of songwriters might use their craft as a means to process life, but not many end up with a wild end result like Disgusting Sisters. A winning mix of horror, humour, musical influences that span from electro to emo and a wealth of joint experience, it speaks to a childhood of pet rats and pranks; world-building and wicked games. The duo have already received press support from the likes of The Guardian, DIY and Clash as well plays at BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music. The album will arrive on Source Records, the iconic Anglo-French label historically home to artists including Air, Phoenix and Kings of Convenience.

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Güero - Part Time Signals - Paradox Arcade - William The Conqueror

Güero - Mind's Eye.

Sacramento quartet Güero have released their latest single “Mind’s Eye”  in advance of their sophomore full-length album, Wednesdays, arriving this Friday, April 7 via Dutch Records. The guys once again tapped director Paul Bates to bring the song to life with a video.

Discussing “Mind’s Eye,” guitarist/vocalist Rik Krull noted, "We played this song for a while never really trying to tame it. When we play live in the greater Sacramento area, we tend to play a 2-3 hour set. During one of our gigs we had some time to fill and played 'Mind’s Eye' knowing we could jam it awhile. It ended up being an epic rendition, one that will never be played that way again. Luckily, we have, Russell our scribe who caught it on his phone.

Maybe because we weren’t really thinking it needed to be anything specific, everyone’s part just fell into place, perfectly. Some of those things we played that night were developed into the recorded version since we were able to draw from Russell’s recording. We really like how we added the mellow beginning to the song and how, Mike changes to the four on the floor during the second verse.  It’s the little things about this song that we have grown to love."

Güero announced Wednesdays in January with the “Streams of Light” single, which Under the Radar called it, "a lost classic reemerging from a forgotten corner of the radio.” The album was recorded live at Pus Cavern Studios in Sacramento with ace recording engineer Joe Johnson and further elevated by Oakland producer and fellow musician, Akiyoshi Ehara (The Seshen, Geographer); who amping up and dialing down dynamics added greater tones, higher fidelity, heavy delays and string arrangements.

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Part Time Signals - The Man.

Part Time Signals is the brand new project formed by Sock vocalist and guitarist Jacob Church. The band came together initially by taking demo seeds written by Jacob, which were then planted into a musical garden when introduced to a live band setting. Part Time Signals features the talents of Sam Barnes (bass), Gavin Jenkins (drums) and Michael Blanchfield (keys).

The first taste of music from the band, The Man, is released across all digital platforms today April 5th. The track was recorded at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, mixed by Sam Barnes and mastered by Eddie Al-Shakarchi.

Jacob explains the meaning behind the song: “The Man is whoever you want it to be. Maybe it's that delivery driver throwing your parcel about, maybe it's your landlord increasing your rent, maybe it's the Tory government. Perhaps all of the above?”. Catch Part Time Signals performing live at Porters, Cardiff on 26th April.



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Paradox Arcade - The World That We Know.

The Guelph-based indie music and art project Paradox Arcade recently released its debut single, “The World That We Know” (RCS Records), a song of hope that calls out the illusions that cause division and inspires people to look beyond to the better world we can all create.

“Each of us in our own way reaches for a better world,” says Xristopher Bland (often simply called ‘X’), composer and author of the song and creator of the song’s cover art called The Reaching. “Even if we can’t see it or fall to the doubts and opinions of others, we know it’s there.”

Mixed and mastered by Alastair Sims (Barenaked Ladies, The Trews, Arkells), the song also reflects the present state of the world, characterized by Oxfam as a decidedly broken world of “extreme inequality. Yet as powerless, disenfranchised, or cast out as many may understandably feel, Xris points out what others have said before.

“The world that we know is not the world we can know. One simple act like saying no to something helps change the world because even the smallest of stones cast into an ocean causes ripples. That’s what this song is. It’s a ripple that moves to the language of repair and healing by calling out the deceptions that separate us, the orchestrations of conflict, and the noise that fragments our innate knowing of who we really are. It’s reawakening call to equity, equality, and peace.”

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William The Conqueror - Somebody Else.

William The Conqueror will release their new album ‘Excuse Me While I Vanish’ through Chrysalis Records on 28th July. Produced by the band in a playground of vintage gear and mixed by Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Sam Fender, Kasabian), the resulting album's ten tracks marry earworm tunes with insistent, imperious, soaring rock shapes, punctuated by chorus hooks that are simultaneously nuanced and anthemic. ‘Excuse Me While I Vanish’ is the follow-up to 2021’s critically-acclaimed album, ‘Maverick Thinker’, and will be available on multiple vinyl formats, CD and streaming platforms. William The Conqueror today unveil new track ’Somebody Else’ with an accompanying video filmed at Marshall Studios.

"Somebody Else came from a very specific memory of not knowing which version of myself I was supposed to be playing,” explains frontman Ruarri Joseph. “An identity crisis in real-time. It's so cathartic to play. Harry's drums absolutely beast along. He has a way of finding that extra gear just when you think it can't possibly go any higher.”

‘Excuse Me While I Vanish’, very nearly didn’t happen. Following the imposition of lockdown restrictions, Joseph found himself cocooned at home in Cornwall, ruminating on an uncertain creative future, watching on as his wife Mandy, a valiant mental health social worker, engaged with the all-too-real dilemmas of the pandemic-riven here and now. Her example motivated Joseph to become a temporary care worker, an experience which would provide renewed focus and influence the songwriting on the new album.

“My wife was insomniac for the first six months of lockdown, which made it impossible for me to moan or grieve the fact that everything I’d been working on for the last five years had come to a standstill. It was a much-needed perspective and made me realise what a selfish undertaking William had been – navel-gazing with my head in the clouds when what people needed was boots firmly on the ground, preferably on the feet of someone like Mandy.”

William The Conqueror's fourth album finds the indie-rock trio firing on all cylinders as Joseph confronts the thin line between creativity and madness, inspired by compassion for the real-life angels of the world. Ruarri’s compelling semi-spoken vocals and swamp-blues-Seattle-scuzz guitars are propelled by the rhythm section of Naomi Holmes (bass) and Harry Harding (drums) as ‘Excuse Me While I Vanish’ delivers an effortlessly winning blend of melody and ensemble dynamics, the most accomplished and undeniable William The Conqueror album to date.

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