Features The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2024You’ve seen the Kerrang! albums of 2024. Now check out what the staff were all listening to this year…
News Green Day, The Prodigy, Amyl And The Sniffers, Speed and more for Coachella 2025Green Day, the original Misfits, Amyl And The Sniffers, GEL and more are coming to the California desert in 2025…
Features 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…
Reviews The big review: Bludfest 2024YUNGBLUD and friends bowl Milton Keynes over at the first-ever Bludfest.
News SOFT PLAY are on course for their highest-charting album to dateSOFT PLAY’s HEAVY JELLY is sat alongside Eminem and Olivia Rodrigo in the UK Top 3 – so let’s keep them there!
News SOFT PLAY, Bob Vylan, Witch Fever and loads more for Boomtown 2024With a couple of weeks to go, the full line-up has been revealed for this year’s massive Boomtown – Chapter 3: Revolution Of Imagination.
Features 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…”
Reviews Album review: SOFT PLAY – HEAVY JELLYTunbridge Wells duo SOFT PLAY return, renamed and reinvigorated, on irrepressible fourth album HEAVY JELLY…
Reviews The big review: Glastonbury Festival 2024K! 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…
News SOFT PLAY are supporting Robbie Williams in Hyde ParkYep, Stoke-On-Trent boyband icon Robbie is bringing SOFT PLAY’s gnarly punk to his massive London mega-show…
News SOFT PLAY announce UK headline tourSOFT PLAY will be touring across England, Wales and Scotland this October in support of new album HEAVY JELLY
News “Raw pain and bitter beauty”: Listen to SOFT PLAY’s new single, Everything And NothingAhead 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”.
The Cover Story 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…
News SOFT PLAY confirm first new album in six years, HEAVY JELLYSOFT 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”…
News Kerry King, Creeper and more added to Download Festival 2024Eight new bands and artists have been added to this year’s Download line-up, including Kerry King, Creeper, Bayside and Bambie Thug.
News YUNGBLUD announces inaugural BLUDFEST at Milton Keynes BowlYUNGBLUD 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”.
News SOFT PLAY share their gym thoughts with new single Mirror MusclesWhat do SOFT PLAY think about while they’re at the gym? Find out by listening to the duo’s heavy new single, Mirror Muscles.
