Category: Music
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Single Review | Flair | City Lights
If Flair’s last year was the sound of a band coming into focus, City Lights feels like the moment the picture sharpens and everything makes sense. This Glasgow quintet have built their reputation on dynamic contrasts, restless energy, big choruses, and a darkness that never quite lets go. With City…
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Single Review | Future Theory | Reality Buzz
Future Theory have always been a band unafraid to evolve. Hailing from the wide horizons of Lincolnshire, they first caught our attention back in 2016 when The Front Row reviewed their debut EP Fool’s Dream, a release that blended hazy psychedelia with understated grunge. Nearly a decade later, they return…
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Single Review | Rogue Awakening | Remain Untamed
Alt-metal often thrives on catharsis, but few new releases feel as personal, or as combustible, as Rogue Awakening’s Remain Untamed. Released back in May and only now surfacing on our radar, this bruising, anthemic single from the Horsham-based five-piece channels defiance into something both scalding and strangely empowering. At its…
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EP REVIEW: thistle. | it’s nice to see you, stranger
thistle.’s debut EP, it’s nice to see you, stranger, lands like a handwritten letter from a close friend you haven’t seen in years, lo-fi, bruised, and quietly defiant. Over five tracks, the Northampton trio channel the messy reality of being young, uncertain, and determined to build something lasting in a…
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LIVE REVIEW: Elbow @ Museum Gardens, York
There can’t be many bands better suited to filling a summer evening in York’s Museum Gardens than Elbow. Under the glow of golden hour and surrounded by centuries of history, Guy Garvey and company delivered a set that was as warm and reflective as it was rousing, a reminder of…
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Single Review | Kety Fusco | Für Therese
At The Front Row, we talk a lot about guitar lines and festival fields, but sometimes an artist from a completely different world barges in and blows all that out of the water. Kety Fusco’s “Für Therese” is that moment, a seismic reimagining of Beethoven that’s as much Muse-inspired dystopian…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter F
We’re back with the sixth edition of our ambitious series spotlighting the most exciting emerging acts shaping the future of music. This time, we’re digging into the letter F, unearthing ten artists you’ll want on your radar before everyone else catches on. From the introspective folk of Fiona Lee to…
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Single Review | Project Overload | Wildfire
After last year’s shimmering indie-pop breakthrough, Silhouettes, Coventry’s Project Overload return with something far more combustible. If Silhouettes captured the euphoria of new romance, Wildfire is the exact opposite: a scalding, no-mercy anthem for when love curdles into raw fury. Since meeting at the Tin Music and Arts’ Live on…
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EP Review: Elliot James Reay | All This to Say I Love You
From the moment Elliot James Reay’s croon hits your ears, you’re transported somewhere golden-lit and sepia-toned, a place where jukeboxes flicker in corner booths and teenage hearts beat to the pulse of doo-wop harmonies. But this isn’t mere pastiche. On All This to Say I Love You, the 23-year-old Mancunian…
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Sunbeam Summer Bash | Whitby Pavilion | 28.06.2025
A night to prove that grassroots music, when done right, isn’t just alive, it’s unstoppable. Whitby isn’t the first place you’d pick on a map when you think of a youth-driven, sold-out live show. Maybe you’d point west or south to Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, even York. But here on the…
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Single Review | You Don’t Need a Sun Tan | Krooked Tongue
Some songs grab you straight away. You Don’t Need A Sun Tan doesn’t just grab, it picks you up, spins you round, and tells you exactly why Krooked Tongue are becoming one of the UK’s most exciting rock outfits. On first listen, it’s all slick guitar fuzz, swaggering basslines, and…
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Kendal Calling 2025: Full Stage Splits, 50 New Acts & One Massive 20th Birthday Bash
The Lake District’s loudest weekend is nearly upon us – and for its 20th year, Kendal Calling is going all out. It’s official: the full stage splits for Kendal Calling 2025 have landed, along with a massive stack of 50 new names added to the bill. Whether you’re already dusting…
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The Front Row Presents: 250 Artists That Will Break Out By 2028 – The Letter E
E is for explosive debuts, electrifying live shows, and emerging voices rewriting the rule-book. From brat-metal firestarters and seaside poets to Belfast’s jazz-soaked party starters and cinematic synth duos, this latest chapter in The Front Row’s 250 Artists That Will Break Out by 2028 is bursting with versatility. Whether it’s…
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LIVE REVIEW: The K’s @ The Leadmill, Sheffield
One of the final nights at The Leadmill goes out with fire, frenzy, and a full house of fans singing their hearts out As The Leadmill enters its final week before the doors close for good, there was always going to be something heavy in the air. But on Sunday…
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LIVE REVIEW: Pendulum @ Scarborough Open Air Theatre
Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre is a picturesque oddity — part coastal amphitheatre, part rave arena when the right act rolls into town. And on Friday night, it was very much the latter, as Pendulum made their long-awaited return to the Yorkshire coast with a full-throttle headline set, supported by rising…
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Single Review | Calling Up | The Slates
The Slates’ latest single “Calling Up” arrives like a fresh pint at golden hour, effervescent, uplifting, and tinged with the kind of emotional truth that turns a simple indie track into something more resonant. Out now via This Feeling Records, it marks a big step forward for the Yorkshire outfit…
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LIVE: Twin Atlantic @ The Leadmill, Sheffield
There was a tangible weight to the atmosphere on Tuesday night, not just the thick heat of a sold-out crowd but the emotional heft of finality. With The Leadmill set to close its doors for good at the end of June, every gig in its final week has carried the…
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Single Review | Westside Cowboy | Alright Alright Alright
Westside Cowboy have emerged from Manchester’s ever-churning guitar scene with the kind of track that immediately grabs you by the collar and refuses to let go. ‘Alright Alright Alright’, the latest slice of slacker-rock from the quartet, is a high-octane, fuzz-drenched ride through the wild terrain of modern indie, equal…
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Single Review | Champ | Taste To Run
There’s something unmistakably “North-East” about Taste To Run, the debut single from Hartlepool’s newest indie export, Champ. It’s in the atmosphere: the swirling guitar textures, the emotional heft, and the quietly defiant lyricism that calls to mind the likes of Sam Fender, Wunderhorse, and The War On Drugs. That reference…
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FRONT ROW EXCLUSIVE: Steelers – Good Things Will Happen Tonight
Start With: Help (I’m Just A) or This Night – and then just play the rest.Out June 18 on streaming, CD and vinyl. Don’t miss it. If you’re a sucker for unapologetic pop-rock that’s part theatrical, part nostalgic, and entirely thrilling, then buckle up. Leeds-based band Steelers have burst onto…
The Setlist & The Script 