Newcomer List

Our weekly blog playlist, showing you what you might have missed:

The Cornermen - Stretched on Your Grave

Formed in October 2022 from a spur-of-the-moment open-mic session, The Cornermen are more than a folk five-piece with influences drawn from Irish traditions. Born out of South Moreton Boxing Club, The Cornermen, spearheaded by John Houston, is also a support service charity that educates the local community on men’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.

John Goldrust - Live A Phoenix

Oxford-based alt-rock artist John Goldrust has been taking the local music scene by storm over the last two decades. With his first commercial DSP release back in 2023, Like A Phoenix is a long-awaited studio debut album, his first venture since the Travellers In Timing EP, released at the dawn of this year.

Lux - Heed (America's got a gun)

LUX the band is a unique duo: American singer-songwriter Angela Randall, from New York, and French guitarist-composer Sylvain Laforge, from Paris, France, where the band now resides. Inspired by Anglo-Saxon rock, folk, and pop, they have showcased their self-described ‘Velvet Rock’ through two EPs, LUX and Before Night Falls (the Black Box Sessions), and two albums, Super 8 and GRAVITY. Now, they've released Heed (America's Got a Gun).

Isaac Saenz -This Should Hurt More 

Mixed and produced by close friend Vincent Ernst of Magnolia Park, and Emerson Vernan, Isaac Saenz’s newest EP is a remarkably penned body of work across four tracks, including LOST IT, Holly!, Hell, and SINS - titled This Should Hurt More.

Jenny Räisänen - Warrior

Following a string of singles this year, most recently Save, released in June, Warrior is Jenny Räisänen’s most ambitious work yet, setting the stage for her upcoming album Halo, which lands next year. 

Muralheart - Hey I

Muralheart are back, this time with their grunge-soaked distorted anthem Hey I, fusing 90s alt-rock nostalgia with modernist fuzzing tendencies. Driving snares counter Cobain-inspired vocal delivery and hook-laden chorus lines, with chaos-infused riffage shared between lead guitar and bass. The band draws influence from The Smashing Pumpkins and The Stone Roses in Hey I, with a frantic nature that rip-roars into a huge crescendo before a stripped-back chorus and an eagerly explosive climax.

The Fallen Mighty - Silence In Beth's Merry Autumn

Hailing from Copenhagen, The Fallen Mighty, a one-man project, is making their first return to the fray. With a smattering of singles, released in 2022 and 2025, respectively, Silence In Beth’s Merry Autumn is an ambitious return.