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On Thursday 6th August, your local city poet Mike Skinner proved that ticketed live streams can work, and offered hope for many in the music industry

Review: Supersonic Festival streams experimental performances to thousands of viewers

Despite COVID-19, Supersonic Festival brought new music and more to around six-thousand fans through a weekend of live streams.

Birmingham based punk trio Bad Girlfriend are back with their sludgiest, riffiest single yet.

King’s Heath veterans Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam deliver a short yet sweet 7th album that distills down everything that fans love about them.

Redditch-based indie-rockers, The Jewellers, showcase their trade with the release of their first two singles.

The glowing new single, out now on local label Setting Son Records, drips in morning light and shimmers in 60s psychedelia.

Birmingham’s Homeowner are back with their first release since 2017, tinged in self loathing and indie nostalgia.

Birmingham’s purveyors of perverted cool continue their purple patch with ‘Debauched Times’, the lead single off their forthcoming album.

The video for the extremely topical quarantine single features cameos from members of Idles, Dream Wife, Amyl and the Sniffers, God Damn and more

Lions of Dissent’s latest release, ‘Dreams Like Drugs’, is a psych-pop bop, and the second single from their EP Fear of Loathing.