'I'm Already Over It': Spellling on Restless Creativity, 'Portrait of My Heart' and a First UK Tour

Photo: Stephanie Pia Spellling’s passion for making music is literally a part of her. When Chrystia Cabral video calls me from her living room in Oakland, the singer-songwriter’s piano is in the background to her left. Inside of it is an engraving of a flower. She doesn’t know who left it there but, after years of playing the instrument, she got the symbol tattooed on her throat — as close to her vocal cords as she could. “My poor mom was like, ‘What are you doing?’” she says with a laugh. “But it felt like a sigil: a way to honour and solidify the path I set for myself. I feel like I found my voice and found a lot of freedom through having this thing to dedicate my life to.”

Written by: Matt Mills | Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025

The View From The Merch Table: Himalayas

Photo: Andy Ford 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: Monday, 19 May 2025

Favourite Haunts: Panic Shack, M(h)aol and Common Holly on The Small Venues They Love

Clockwise from left: Panic Shack, Common Holly, M(h)aol Where did you see your first show?

Written by: Huw Baines | Date: Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Tents and Tunes: Stereoboard's Ultimate Guide To Festival Season 2025

It seems to come around sooner every year, but festival season almost upon us. It’s time to dance, mosh, sweat, puke and preen in the presence of close friends and thousands of total strangers. Here’s our one-stop guide to some of the biggest and best events 2025 has to offer.

Written by: Huw Baines & Maddy Howell | Date: Monday, 12 May 2025

'Slow Felt Good, Slow Felt Right': Spacey Jane On Their Mature New Album 'If That Makes Sense'

Photo: Michael Tartaglia They might have only toured the UK twice in their nine-year career, but Spacey Jane have definitively conquered Australia. When their second album ‘Here Comes Everybody’ landed in June 2022, the Perth indie quartet would become that year’s most-played artist on triple J (the Australian equivalent of Radio 1), also dominating the Top 10 of the station’s coveted Hottest 100 year-end list.

Written by: Rishi Shah | Date: Thursday, 08 May 2025

Stunts Performed At Altitude: The Return Of Cult Noise-Rockers Mclusky

Photo: Damien Sayell Mclusky’s Andy Falkous is many things. As anyone who has seen the cult noise-rockers or their sibling band Future Of The Left play live will know, he is extremely talkative. In fact, he is a joy to speak with. Falkous answers questions like his life depends on it, although not in a verbal diarrhoea sort of sense. He simply treats an interview with respect and wants to carefully explain himself and his music in the most in-depth and uproariously funny manner possible.

Written by: Tom Morgan | Date: Wednesday, 07 May 2025

Same Page: Johnny and Matty Took on Taking Time Out From DMA's and Planet For BIIG TIME

The Took brothers were perhaps always destined to create music in tandem. But while they used to perform covers together and were both members of seven-piece Sydney country band Little Bastard more than a decade ago, Johnny and Matty have spent the past decade in largely separate creative spheres.

Written by: Rishi Shah | Date: Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Hits, Splits and Reunions: Five By Numbers

In 2025, few would have said that the original line-up of Five would be one of the biggest arena draws around but that’s just what’s happened with the news that Abz Love, J Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon have regrouped for their first tour together since 2001.

Written by: Stereoboard | Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Together As One: A Night With Ghost and Their Faithful

Photo: Mikael Eriksson The Jubilee line is loud today. It’s not just the rattle of the carriages or the screeching of the tube train as it races through London’s subterranean recesses — there are boozed-up lads singing football chants and puffer-jacketed finance bros tapping away at tablets amid the usual mundane chatter that chips away at the ears. It’s a grind. 

Written by: James Palaczky | Date: Tuesday, 22 April 2025

The View From The Merch Table: Heriot

Photo: Harry Steel 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: Monday, 07 April 2025

Chiming In The Low End: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Delve Into 'Death Hilarious'

Photo: David Hall The only way Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs could get any heavier than they do on their fifth album ‘Death Hilarious’ would be if they borrowed Spinal Tap’s amps and cranked them all the way to 11. “We wanted it to be a slap in the face,” says guitarist and producer Sam Grant. Well, they nailed it.

Written by: Laura Johnson | Date: Thursday, 03 April 2025

'We Have Flames Now!': Employed to Serve on the Arena-Sized 'Fallen Star' and Heavy Metal Unity

Photo: Bethan Miller A little under three years ago, Employed to Serve pulled up at the Forest National Arena in Belgium for the first stop of a tour across Europe opening for Gojira. Looming above them was the biggest non-festival venue they’d ever played, with 8,000 fans soon baying for their metalcore anthems. For a band more accustomed to levelling clubs, what was going through their minds as they laid eyes on the enormous building?

Written by: Matt Mills | Date: Wednesday, 02 April 2025

'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