HELLO FRIENDS!
Welcome to the fifth edition of Undercard, our weekly music roundup, featuring the best new releases from this year’s artists and beyond.
This week: nine additions to the music lineup, our four next wave winners, new releases from Lily Seabird, Florist, Anika and Black Country, New Road, our April Showers competition, a These New Puritans listening party, a Fabiana Palladino newsletter, and much more.
BUT FIRST…
☔️ ☔️ ☔️ APRIL SHOW(ERS) ARE BACK! ☔️ ☔️ ☔️
If you’ve been around long enough, you will have heard of our much-loved April Show(ers) competition. As usual, you can enter the giveaway for a chance to win a pair of tickets to shows from artists playing End of The Road 2025 before the festival. We’re talking the opportunity to see Squid, Anika, Jerron Paxton and more in four cities this Spring.
Simply input your email and preferred city here, and we’ll pick a lucky winner from each city to attend ALL shows listed in that city with a friend + an EOTR merch bundle!
The competition closes at midnight on Monday, April 7th. We will contact the winners for each city by the end of April 8th (if you do not hear from us, assume you haven’t been lucky on this occasion). Participants must be 18 or over and travel is not included.
LONDON
10/04 The Orchestra (For Now) @ ICA
26/04 Squid @ Roundhouse
28/04 Anika @ Omeara
BRIGHTON
29/04 Daisy Rickman @ Komedia
05/05 Anika @ Dust
18/05 Jerron Paxton @ Komedia
BRISTOL
29/04 Anika @ Strange Brew
10/05 Jerron Paxton @ Bristol Beacon
13/05 Emma-Jean Thackray @ Rough Trade Bristol
MANCHESTER/LEEDS
30/04 Anika @ YES, The Pink Room
16/05 Adult DVD @ The Leeds Irish Centre
23/05 The Golden Dregs @ YES, The Pink Room
→ We were happy to announce a handful of great new bands this week. Joining the already stacked lineup: chaos-bringing art-rockers
Squid, captivating spoken word artist and musician
For Those I Love, LA dream pop three-piece
Cryogeyser and new kids on the block
The Sophs. Elsewhere comedian
Rob Auton will join forces with
JFAbraham of
Public Service Broadcasting once again for their evocative blend of spoken word and music
→ The winners of this year’s Next Wave contest were also announced this week and we can’t wait to welcome them to Larmer Tree in a few months. They are: Belfast rising stars
Makeshift Art Bar, hypnotic Saharan Blues band
Daraa Tribes, multi-instrumentalist alt-pop songstress
Rubie and spellbinding Bristol folk singer
Eva May
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Matt Berninger kicked off his solo tour in Leeds on Wednesday and gave live debuts to nine of the ten tracks on his upcoming record. Check them out over on
Stereogum→
These New Puritans are hosting a listening party for their new record on April 16th in London at the ICA, as well as unveiling a new clip for the as-yet-unreleased single “A Season in Hell”, directed by
Harley Weir and starring
Alexander Skarsgård. Buy tickets
here→
Fabiana Palladino launched a new
Substack: “
I’ve been thinking a lot about how best to communicate with those who listen to my music and this feels like a good place for me to feel a bit freer with what I share online in the future”
→
The Independent called us one of the seven best festivals in the UK <3
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Lily Seabird, the Vermont songwriter, released her
third album Trash Mountain today via Lame-O records. It’s inspired by her time living in “Trash Mountain,” a pink house surrounded by other artists and creatives situated on a decommissioned landfill site in Burlington. Check out the interview she did for The Fader this week where she created a
playlist to help with hangover anxiety
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Florist released a
new album called
Jellywish on Double Double Whammy today, which The Skinny
have called “a
heartfelt collection of loose and explorative folk songs… a warm hug which asks the listener to smell the flowers every now and then”
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Anika, the London-raised, Berlin-based musician released her
new record Abyss on Sacred Bones and put out a
video for new single “Oxygen” this week. Head
here to see her interviewed by The Line of Best Fit.
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Black Country, New Road released their
new album Forever Howlong, via Ninja Tine today, which DIY have called “
a jubilant rebirth” in their
five star review, saying the band “
remain as adventurous and unpredictable as ever”. NME
called it “
spellbinding” and The Guardian
named it their album of the week
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Sufjan Stevens, who headlined in 2015, announced a new
Carrie and Lowell reissue for its 10th Anniversary and shared a
demo from it of “Mystery of Love”. The new edition features seven previously-unreleased bonus tracks, a 40-page booklet, and an essay written by Stevens and will be released on his own label Asthmatic Kitty
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Destroyer, who played in 2018, released a new record called
Dan’s Boogie on Merge. He also took part in a Line of Best Fit
Personal Best feature⇢
Bright Eyes, who headlined in 2022, and
Cursive released a
new songcalled “Recluse I Don’t Have to Love”, a mashup of their respective tracks “Lover I Don’t Have to Love” and “The Recluse”
↑ Cryogeyser released a video for their excellent track “Mountain” ft. Wednesday ↑
↑ Floodlights performed their track “Buoyant” for Melbourne independent radio station Triple R ↑
↑ Search Results released a video for their new track “Be Laurel” ↑
⇢ We’re still on the lookout for bar staff volunteers, (non food) vendors, artist liaison and merch staff, and stewards – we’d love to hear from you if you’re interested
