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Single review: Flares flaunt their potential on Parma Violets

It’s another teenage rampage from Kings Heath quartet Flares, on latest single Parma Violets. Stephen Pennell reviews.

Birmingham brooders The Taboo Club lighten up on the lilting new single ‘I Wish There Was A Way’. Sam Lambeth reviews.

If you like your rappers with something worthwhile to spit, Lady Sanity should be on your playlist.

Ivory Wave distil three years of promise into 25 minutes of disco-tinged joy on their debut EP. Sam Lambeth reviews.

Mahalia’s debut album Love and Compromise impresses, despite missing some of her biggest tracks out

Birmingham four-piece La Dharma may not believe they are ready, but their new single’s explosive chorus begs to differ.

Birmingham punks Mild Headache are suitably blistering on their super-charged debut record. Sam Lambeth reviews.

Giant and the Georges, one of the Midlands’ most sensational new bands, show seeing is for the weak on new single ‘Blind Love’.

‘Pretend I Was Dreaming’ broke through into the world back on June 1st and the slightly shoegaze, indie solo-artist has now dropped the video

Birmingham-based singer-songerwriter Jericho Noguera flits between jazzy breaks and haunting hooks on new release, ‘Over’.