Formed in Chicago by partners Josh Condon and Eliza Weber, Glyders make maximal minimal rock & roll with nocturnal mystery pulsing in the mix, cutting above rigorous roadhouse fare with sounds that twist and grind on their classic inspirations. Joined by Joe Seger on drums, Glyders’ high lonesome way is mellow but nervy, hip-shaking and deep – a multicolored trip to the ongoing beat of American weirdness. 

Their second LP, “Forever,” is out November 21st, 2025 on Drag City: 

Forever’s spirit is high and tight, its sinews rumbling with communal joy as Glyders’ power-trio formation, in it ‘for life,’ grooves deep into their own thing. Shuffling the deck with road-tested jams, Forever hits with the energy of a first album – which it kinda is, now that founders Josh & Eliza have met their true other, the relentless traps-man Joe Seger. Forever starts now!

A night celebrating the new resurgence of Zamrock; bringing W.I.T.C.H., one of the original voices of this inspirational African music phenomenon together with the genuinely groundbreaking Sampa The Great, driving next generation energy into the post-colonial cultural movement. The two acts will not only be sharing the stage in this evening of powerful and joyful music but will be collaborating and performing together in this UK exclusive for Brighton Festival.

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Zamrock as a musical movement came of age in the turbulent first decade after Zambia announced its independence from British colonialism in 1964. W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) were the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and spearheaded the new genre fusing influences that ranged from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and James Brown and mixing them with traditional African rhythms. 

ORB are a heavy-psych power-trio from Geelong, Australia, blending doom-laden riffs, fuzzed-out proto-metal and cosmic groove. Featuring members Zak Olsen, Daff Gravolin and John Zacharias, the band grew from informal jams into one of Australia’s most distinctive underground psychedelic rock acts.

South Cornwall garage-psych-rockers The Heavenly Bodes emerged through chance meetings at Kernowbeat (formerly Kernow Psych Society) shows in Falmouth. Formed in 2023 through a shared love of all things pebbles and acid-garage, the band’s early momentum was temporarily halted by a series of limb injuries, which put the brakes on proceedings until the summer of 2024.

Since then, they have been steadily building their reputation on the live circuit. Cutting their teeth with opening slots for NZ Flying Nun heavyweights The Chills, as well as LA fuzz stalwart Charles Moothart & His Fast Band, the band quickly proved their credentials.

The Heavenly Bodes have continued writing and performing relentlessly, going on to headline shows for Bad Vibrations and alongside label mates, as well as securing festival appearances including Glasgow’s Freakender.

Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales’ finest, The Bug Club, will release Every Single Muscle, their incredible new album on CD/LP/all DSPs worldwide on Friday, May 29th, from Sub Pop. The 18-track longplayer features today’s first single, “Watching the Omnibus,” along with approximately 17 other tight, anxious, and engaging garage-punk numbers like “Yours (If You Want Me),” “A Good Day for Dying,” “Make It Count,” and “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat.” Every Single Muscle was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.

Rare and Deadly cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos from A Place To Bury Strangers. Spanning 2015–2025, this collection of demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments reveals the band at their most unfiltered—caught between breakthrough ideas and beautiful mistakes. Pulled from Oliver Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions, these tracks pulse with the unruly energy that has always defined APTBS, but here the interference is closer, the electricity more dangerous, the edges left jagged on purpose.

Across these recordings, you can hear the evolution of Ackermann’s restless mind: riffs mutated by malfunctioning pedals; songs born from gear pushed past its limits; delicate melodies overwhelmed by walls of feedback until only their ghosts remain. Some pieces feel like prototypes for future chaos, seeds that later bloomed on studio albums. Others are dead ends—ideas too volatile, too strange, or too personal to ever fit the frame of a proper release. But together they form a secret history of the band, a parallel world of possibilities that existed just outside the spotlight.

The Byron Bay NSW pub-punkers continue to deliver their brand of jagged, raw political Aussie grit, delving deeper and leaning harder into their signature blend of Australian punk. Mixed/mastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current, Total Control) and released November 14th 2025 via Bad Vibrations, 'All That We Know' solidifies Mini Skirt’s position at the forefront of a socially inspired noisescape.

All grit and no glamour, Mini Skirt’s noisy new body of work is underpinned by lyricist and visual artist Jacob Boylan – painting a picture of the modern social climate, every verse and chorus a well-crafted and concise assessment that has the listener replaying each line to be sure they don’t miss a word. This is, as always, laid on top of the dirty, driving guitar/bass tones and skin splitting drums that have helped Mini Skirt to develop their own sound in a heavily saturated and competitive corner of rock’n’roll. Paying homage to Australian pioneers such as X and Radio Birdman, Mini Skirt's sound remains raw and honest across these eleven tracks.

Brooklyn-based rockers TVOD stand out with emotional, sometimes juvenile lyrics, paired with driving, catchy songs that never fail to get a crowd moving/moshing. Influenced by post-punk, egg punk and krautrock, TVOD effortlessly weave musical genres in a way that comes off seamlessly. “More than anything, their sound is engineered to make you move” (Creem Magazine). The brainchild of singer-songwriter Tyler Wright, the project draws from personal and external inspirations like the nightlife/music scene, heartaches, World War II, the untimely death of a beloved pet fish, and so on. TVOD’s vivid storytelling paints a gritty tongue-in-cheek picture of being a D.I.Y. artist grinding it out in NYC, complete with fabled tales about the degenerate lifestyle and all the good and the bad that comes with it.