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Nova Twins, SOFT PLAY, Frank Turner and more announce intimate BRITs Week 25 shows

The line-up for the always-excellent BRITs Week has been unveiled, with Nova Twins, SOFT PLAY, Frank Turner and more all playing tiny gigs…

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The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2024

You’ve seen the Kerrang! albums of 2024. Now check out what the staff were all listening to this year…

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Green Day, The Prodigy, Amyl And The Sniffers, Speed and more for Coachella 2025

Green Day, the original Misfits, Amyl And The Sniffers, GEL and more are coming to the California desert in 2025…

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YUNGBLUD: “The way rock survives, thrives, prospers and gets bigger is if we all stick together”

In August, YUNGBLUD pulled off one of his most ambitious plans to date: a festival at the enormous Milton Keynes Bowl, with two stages, a huge supporting cast, and an on-site recreation of his beloved Camden, all done on a low ticket price and the other bands being paid fairly. Is it all too good to be true? Here’s what happened when Dom Harrison went stadium rock. This is Bludfest…

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The big review: Bludfest 2024

YUNGBLUD and friends bowl Milton Keynes over at the first-ever Bludfest.

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SOFT PLAY are on course for their highest-charting album to date

SOFT PLAY’s HEAVY JELLY is sat alongside Eminem and Olivia Rodrigo in the UK Top 3 – so let’s keep them there!

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SOFT PLAY, Bob Vylan, Witch Fever and loads more for Boomtown 2024

With a couple of weeks to go, the full line-up has been revealed for this year’s massive Boomtown – Chapter 3: Revolution Of Imagination.

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Inside SOFT PLAY’s new album HEAVY JELLY: “We walk this tightrope of absurd and deadly serious”

Tunbridge Wells punk duo SOFT PLAY are about to drop their first album in six years, HEAVY JELLY. Laurie Vincent gives us the inside scoop on their rebirth, lyrical honesty, and why “I f*cking hate e-scooters…”

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Album review: SOFT PLAY – HEAVY JELLY

Tunbridge Wells duo SOFT PLAY return, renamed and reinvigorated, on irrepressible fourth album HEAVY JELLY…

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The big review: Glastonbury Festival 2024

K! venture down to Worthy Farm again, and though broadly occupied by pop artists across its main stages this year, we spend the weekend getting dust in our eyebrows and tracking down all things heavy and alt. at the biggest fest of the summer…

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SOFT PLAY are supporting Robbie Williams in Hyde Park

Yep, Stoke-On-Trent boyband icon Robbie is bringing SOFT PLAY’s gnarly punk to his massive London mega-show…

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SOFT PLAY announce UK headline tour

SOFT PLAY will be touring across England, Wales and Scotland this October in support of new album HEAVY JELLY

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“Raw pain and bitter beauty”: Listen to SOFT PLAY’s new single, Everything And Nothing

Ahead of next month’s album HEAVY JELLY, SOFT PLAY have shared a new song that “encapsulates the journeys we’ve all been on: loss, love, rebirth, it’s the cycle of life”.

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SOFT PLAY: “We need to do this together… the magic of our band is both of us”

Following the hiatus of Slaves, a trifecta of time, therapy and trauma sought to bond the brothers Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman back together, repairing their fractured friendship and reigniting that creative fire once more. Under their new guise of SOFT PLAY, and superb new album Heavy Jelly, the duo are finally embracing what they wanted to be all along – whether you like it not…

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SOFT PLAY confirm first new album in six years, HEAVY JELLY

SOFT PLAY have just announced their new album HEAVY JELLY, and released a single about “almost getting hit by a lunatically out-of-control e-scooter”…

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Kerry King, Creeper and more added to Download Festival 2024

Eight new bands and artists have been added to this year’s Download line-up, including Kerry King, Creeper, Bayside and Bambie Thug.

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YUNGBLUD announces inaugural BLUDFEST at Milton Keynes Bowl

YUNGBLUD will be bringing together everyone from Lil Yachty to The Damned to Jazmin Bean for BLUDFEST – his very own festival that will “blur the lines of genre and destroy the limitation of imagination”.

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Nova Twins, SOFT PLAY, Frank Turner and more announce intimate ﻿BRITs Week 25 shows

The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2024

Green Day, The Prodigy, Amyl And The Sniffers, Speed and more for Coachella 2025

YUNGBLUD: “The way rock survives, thrives, prospers and gets bigger is if we all stick together”

The big review: Bludfest 2024

SOFT PLAY are on course for their highest-charting album to date

SOFT PLAY, Bob Vylan, Witch Fever and loads more for Boomtown 2024

Inside SOFT PLAY’s new album HEAVY JELLY: “We walk this tightrope of absurd and deadly serious”

Album review: SOFT PLAY – HEAVY JELLY

The big review: Glastonbury Festival 2024

SOFT PLAY are supporting Robbie Williams in Hyde Park

SOFT PLAY announce UK headline tour

“Raw pain and bitter beauty”: Listen to SOFT PLAY’s new single, Everything And Nothing

SOFT PLAY: “We need to do this together… the magic of our band is both of us”

SOFT PLAY confirm first new album in six years, HEAVY JELLY

Kerry King, Creeper and more added to Download Festival 2024

YUNGBLUD announces inaugural BLUDFEST at Milton Keynes Bowl

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Nova Twins, SOFT PLAY, Frank Turner and more announce intimate BRITs Week 25 shows