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Now that the summer of 2019 is over, I've been in a retrospective mood, so it felt appropriate to look back on some of my favourite tracks of the last month. August was a pretty busy and diverse time for new releases, so I limited myself to my five favourite tracks to keep things concise. Get this stuff in your ears! Foals - 'Black Bull' The Oxfordshire indie giants are really spoiling us this year. Following the March release of Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part I , perhaps their best album to date, the band have recently dropped the first single from the upcoming Part II record. 'Black Bull' is a rough and raw bulldozer of a track , probably the heaviest Foals have ever released, and I absolutely love it. 18th October can't come quick enough, nor can a chance to hear this hard rock rager live. The 1975 - 'People' Foals are not the only band to have dipped their toes into heavier sounds lately, with indie-pop megastars The 19...

The 2019 edition of Truck Festival is happening this week and I couldn’t be more excited! In anticipation of what will actually be my first-ever festival experience (yes, really), I’ve chosen six of the acts I’m most eager to see and, if you’re going, who you should be sure to see too! This ranges from well-established headlines to future stars and underground favourites, showing why the stacked line-up is perhaps the very best any UK festival has to offer this summer. Wolf Alice Given the mix of indie, hard rock and alternative pop across the Truck bill, Wolf Alice are the perfect choice for a headliner. The indie quartet have enjoyed a meteoric rise in their young career, releasing two critically-acclaimed albums so far, with 2017’s sensational ‘Visions of a Life’, being one of my favourite albums of recent years. Few bands are able to pull off as diverse a sound as Wolf Alice, relaxing you with dreamy indie-pop one minute and slapping you in the face with high-energy punk roc...

Music award shows can often seem like superficial affairs, with industry big wigs congregating to pat each other on the back for winning awards chosen by an elite group of voters. However, the Kerrang! Awards flies in the face of this tradition, with its nominees and winners being determined by fan votes. These awards may not be as globally revered or capture as much mainstream attention as the Grammys or even the Brit Awards, but their status remains high in the rock community, with the fan voting adding an extra air of legitimacy and excitement. The 2019 Kerrang! Awards ceremony is just over a week away, so in anticipation of the biggest awards show in rock , I thought I would share my picks of the nominees. Architects have the most nominations this year (Photo credit: Ryan Johnson) The most interesting category for me this year is Best British Breakthrough , which is genuinely hard to predict. IDLES seem a safe bet, given that they have amassed a very impressive foll...