'We Trust Our Own Abilities, We Trust Our Taste': Introducing Raucous Noiseniks The None

Photos: Laura Johnson “Fuck, I’ve got nothing now! Nothing!” Chris Francombe says with a laugh as he recalls a low spell from a few years ago. The drummer’s long term relationship had ended, and around the same time his two best friends and bandmates had moved abroad, settling in Vienna and Berlin. He was at a loss, until he got a message from Cassels guitarist Jim Beck. After that, things didn’t seem so bad.

Written by: Laura Johnson | Date: Friday, 28 March 2025

The Setlist Draft: Curating Our Perfect Bastille Show

Bastille have confirmed some big plans for the rest of 2025 in the shape of a huge arena tour that will celebrate the first 15 years of their career, bringing their blend of enormous pop spectacle and hard-won catharsis to a fanbase that has long proved its willingness to get on that wavelength.

Written by: Huw Baines | Date: Thursday, 27 March 2025

Long Journeys: Deafheaven Unpack The Transcendent 'Lonely People With Power'

Photo: Nedda Afsari It feels apt that the gentle thrum of city life proves the background for Stereoboard’s conversation with Deafheaven guitarist Shiv Mehra — this sense of urbanity has always been key to the band and their famous idiosyncrasies.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Tuesday, 25 March 2025

The View From The Merch Table: Kid Kapichi

If you love music, your wardrobe is likely stuffed full of band shirts. You might have a bunch of hoodies or a cap or two as well, or maybe something even more eclectic than that. It’s a conversation starter with fellow fans, a way of announcing that you belong to a certain scene, and a way of shouting about bands you love. On top of that, it’s also a vital way of putting money in artists’ pockets at a time where making enough money is harder than ever. Put simply, it’s the lifeblood of music.

Written by: Emma Wilkes | Date: Friday, 21 March 2025

Good Times: The Lottery Winners On Chasing Number One And Touring With Robbie Williams

The Lottery Winners might have formed in 2008 but they had to be patient before their brand of sunny indie-pop really made a splash. In 2023 their third LP ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ became a surprise number one album in the UK, catapulting them to stardom and setting quite the task for its follow up ‘KOKO’, which they hope will match and even surpass the success of that record.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Thursday, 20 March 2025

Romance and Struggle: The Delines' Willy Vlautin on 'Mr. Luck and Ms. Doom'

Photo: Jason Quigley Much like his acclaimed novels, the songs Willy Vlautin writes for his beloved country-soul band The Delines are populated by ordinary people left behind, often itinerant and struggling in America’s backwaters. “I've always been drawn to people who have been a bit beat up and rattled,” he explains. “That was the world I knew.”

Written by: Jeremy Blackmore | Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Heavy Ambition: The Evolution of Architects

Photo: Ed Mason The fact that news of Architects’ latest arena-conquering plans doesn’t come as a surprise is testament to the way they have cemented their spot at the top over the past two decades.

Written by: Huw Baines | Date: Wednesday, 12 March 2025

'It's Whatever You Want It To Be': Divorce Are Finding Their Way Home on 'Drive to Goldenhammer'

Photo: Flower Up & Rosie Sco For Nottingham’s Divorce, the word ‘home’ has many meanings. Meeting as teenagers through the city’s tight-knit DIY scene, its first form came in that feeling of belonging as they established a circle of like-minded creatives to share their passions with. But over the past few years, a lot has changed. After piling into the van time and time again to play international festivals and headline runs, while also opening for Bombay Bicycle Club and The Vaccines, the idea of home has become a much more transient thing for the four-piece.

Written by: Maddy Howell | Date: Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Blueprints: How Clairo's Sound Balances Cutting Edge and Classic

Photo: Lucas Creighton Clairo’s rise feels like it happened over time and all at once. Having been both a Soundcloud darling and a viral star — both quicksand for some artists — Claire Cottrill’s post-breakthrough work has been nuanced and adventurous. Her third LP ‘Charm’ delved deeper into a world of stately, grown up pop, displaying both melodic nous and a knack for world-building.

Written by: Huw Baines | Date: Monday, 10 March 2025

'You're Only As Good As Your Next Album': Napalm Death on Staying Furious

In 1981, three punk kids in the Midlands banded together to make extremely fast music at the loudest possible volume. The group’s initial lineup would prove as volatile as their songs but, amid the mayhem, Napalm Death eventually birthed the now-legendary ‘Scum’: a debut album so raucous that a new genre had to be made to characterise its ferocity.

Written by: Matt Mills | Date: Thursday, 27 February 2025

Very Cool: Bad Nerves On Famous Fans And Bridging Punk's Generation Gap

Photos: Scott Sullivan Bad Nerves were made for rooms like the Electric Ballroom. Nestled on the bustling Camden High Street, among some of the most outlandishly decorated shops you might hope to find, it feels like it has been preserved in amber since these streets spat and strutted to the sounds of punk’s late-70s heyday. The same could be said for Bad Nerves’ sound, which is loud, frenetic, and sometimes fast enough to really test the tensile strength of a drummer’s arms.

Written by: Emma Wilkes | Date: Wednesday, 26 February 2025

'We're Still Here': Doves' Andy Williams on Longevity and 'Constellations For The Lonely'

Born out of the ashes of the early ‘90s dance act Sub Sub and having entered an 11 year recording hiatus between ‘Kingdom of Rust’ and 2020’s ‘The Universal Want’, Doves have become used to figuring out how to go away and come back. Even so, it’s been a rocky road of late for the indie trio as they work towards the release of their latest album ‘Constellations for The Lonely’.

Written by: Chris Connor | Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2025

'It's About The Horror of Banality': Bdrmm Dissect Their Innovative New Album 'Microtonic'

Photo: Stew Baxter Bdrmm think that their new album is their best yet. Now, while you pick your jaw up off the floor, consider that the Hull-based nu-gazers aren’t the sort of band to lean into empty cliches. There really is something behind their belief that with the inbound ‘Microtonic’ they’ve “finally cracked it”.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Electric Funeral: Predicting The Collaborations At Black Sabbath's Big Farewell

All things must end, and fittingly Black Sabbath’s story will end where it began. The metal pioneers will reunite in their original configuration — Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — at Birmingham’s Villa Park this summer to sign off once and for all. Billed as Back To The Beginning, the July 5 concert in the band’s home city will bring together a who’s who of modern metal, with their heavy contribution to the shape and sound of a whole genre set to ring from every note.

Written by: Huw Baines | Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2025

'We've Grown Into Arenas Over The Years': The Wombats on 'Oh! The Ocean' And Their Massive UK Tour

Photo: Julia Friedland-Godfrey Hindsight is a wonderful thing. These days bassist Tord Øverland-Knudsen can look back at The Wombats playing Liverpool’s Echo Arena — now going by the name of the M&S Bank Arena — in November 2008 and admit that they probably weren’t ready for that sort of room. But hot on the heels of their debut album ‘A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation’, instant indie classics such as Moving To New York and Kill The Director had propelled them into the UK mainstream. “It was more suitable in theatres back then,” he tells Stereoboard.

Written by: Rishi Shah | Date: Tuesday, 11 February 2025

'It's Liberating But it's Terrifying': Tribulation on Going Full Goth With 'Sub Rosa in Æternum

Photo: Damoìn Zurawski  Adam Zaars is sitting in front of what could conceivably be a Tribulation moodboard. When the guitarist joins Stereoboard’s video call from his house in Arkiva, Sweden, on the wall behind him are black and white photos of black metal musicians and gargoyles, underlined by a shelf with a blood-red candle on it. It’s as gothic, metal and extra as the music he makes, even if none of it belongs to him. “This is all my girlfriend’s stuff,” he tells us as he glances over his shoulder. “But we have very, very similar taste in these things.”

Written by: Matt Mills | Date: Thursday, 06 February 2025

'We're Gonna Transport You Back in Time': Papa Roach on Bringing 25 Years of 'Infest' to UK Arenas

Photo: Bryson Roatch There’s something in the name — despite wholesale changes in the world around them Papa Roach have simply refused to die. Across 11 albums, the Californian veterans have cycled through sounds, styles and record labels, riding nu-metal’s initial wave before becoming an ever-reliable rock institution.

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Wednesday, 05 February 2025

Prankster to Auteur: Five Pivotal Tyler, The Creator Performances

Tyler, the Creator’s evolution has been stark over the past decade. The Californian multi-hyphenate has risen from a troublesome shock value merchant to his current status as a fully-fledged auteur leading an evolutionary charge on hip-hop. His wide-ranging artistry, which now encompasses singer, producer, music video director, fashion designer and actor, has made him one of the most influential figures in alternative culture.

Written by: Jack Butler-Terry | Date: Tuesday, 04 February 2025

'Why Would You Not Try?': Ithaca on Integrity, Legacy and Their Final Show

Ithaca’s ‘They Fear Us’ was perhaps always going to be remembered as a landmark moment in modern British heavy music. Released in 2022, the London metalcore band’s second album was furious, vulnerable and principled and its place in the pantheon is now all but assured following the recent announcement that they’d soon be calling it quits with a final song and one last headline show.

Written by: Will Marshall | Date: Monday, 03 February 2025

The View From The Merch Table: Origami Angel

Photo: Kay Dargs Origami Angel’s music is an explosion — of sound, of colour, of creativity. The Washington DC emo duo’s recent LP ‘Feeling Not Found’ offered a head-spinning deep dive into their approach, which is unsurprisingly top-to-bottom in its attention to detail. It even extends to matching merch designs to the sounds they have pressed to wax. “I try to make it as attached to the music as possible,” frontman Ryland Heagy says. “When we build out the aesthetic for an album, with the cover art, it’ll still be tied to the music.” 

Written by: Emma Wilkes | Date: Friday, 31 January 2025