The Wildhearts hotly anticipated new album Renaissance Men is out today. The album finds the band critiquing a whole host of modern day concerns from bullying on social media to the pharmaceutical industry to mental health professionals.

We have several exciting gigs to share from our artists as the summer season approaches. For the first time we have 3 bands playing Camden Rocks festival, as well as album launch gigs from Paperface and Louise Connell.

Jon Allen also returns to Borderline in London this June.

Hot on the heels of her 2018 album The Enchanted Way Sally Oldfield is back with another one entitled Mystique.

Released today via Secret Ocean Records, the 15 track album includes some older material that has been lovingly updated as well as special live recordings of ‘Song of the Healer’ and ‘Sun In My Eyes’.

Fast approaching for May and June is Pete MacLeod’s tour of iconic venues across the UK. Covering Manchester, Newcastle, London and 2 venues in Scotland the shows will see Pete playing tracks from his back catalogue as well as his latest single ‘Firing Line’.

The sun is beginning to shine and GUN and Dan Reed Network are heading out on a UK tour together with FM to celebrate 3 classic albums, all released in 1989.

A discussion about Hans Zimmer's Masterclass and Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden)'s take on the sheer joy of making music.

Pete Way (Bassist for UFO) has announced that he is playing two special festivals this summer with his band. Pete will play Sweden Rock festival (5th-8th June) in Sölvesborg, alongside an absolutely jam packed line up of other rock music icons Kiss, Def Leppard, ZZ Top, Slayer and many, many more!

Hot on the heels of the single release ‘Fear the Future’, IAMWARFACE have brought out a video to match. Disturbing but utterly compelling, the video will have you glued to your screen from start to finish!

How many people listen to entire albums in the present era of streaming via the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc? Elias Leight over at Rolling Stone has written an interesting article, “Think You Have a Hit? Make Sure It’s the First Song on Your Album”. 

Another bit of sync news for 2019. The Jon Allen track ‘Loving Arms’ was used in the recently released Elizabeth Chomko film “What They Had”, starring Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon Robert Forster and
Blythe Danner.

Keep the new releases coming! We’ve got plenty to be excited about at Wardlaw as another of our artists, Pete Macleod, releases his new track ‘Firing Line’. The track explores our obsession with social media and the pressure on people to curate an idealistic picture of their lives to their “followers”.

Out now is a new track featuring Jake Lewis with production from Justin Prime & D3FAI. The track has had early support from big names in electronic music such as Hardwell, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Afrojack and Morgan Page.

UK Hard Rock Quintet Thunder have announced a new album, Please Remain Seated, and UK tour. Support for the tour comes from Wardlaw’s own Dan Reed, who comes back to the UK to perform his solo acoustic set for the first time since 2017.

Cold War Espionage series Deutschland ’83 was given the Rocky Horror Picture show treatment for Episode 10 of Series 2. Elsewhere another Rocky Horror track “Time Warp” was used in the French film “Une Jeunesse Dorée” (Golden Youth).

Oh hey, look there! It’s an Asylums poster. Hang on there’s not one, but two!

The first episode of the new Netflix series Sex Education features both the artwork for Asylums 2018 album Alien Human Emotions and the single ‘Missing Persons’.

Fans of The Wildhearts will be excited to learn that along with releasing their first album in 10 years, the band are also embarking on an extensive UK tour in May playing cities up and down before finishing the tour with a special show at the Riverside in the band’s hometown of Newcastle.

Headlines in every major newspaper foretell the supposed “death of the high street”. For music and media retailer HMV, it looks like a rescue operation is going to be required for the second time in six years to save the company from bankruptcy after it was announced the company had fallen into administration just after the Christmas period.

Featured on the 2016 Reverieme album Straw Woman,’Fairy Stories’ is an upbeat track to cure your January blues, complete with brass section and Ukulele strumming!

The track was most recently featured on Korea drama Live (라이브) .