Listen: Real Gone’s New Release Round-Up, January-March 2025

We’ve reached the end of the first quarter of 2025 already. In some ways, it feels like the time since Xmas has flown by, but thinking back, January seemed to drag on for three months on its own.

It’s been a really busy three months at Real Gone. We’ve posted over fifty new articles in that time, received countless review submissions, and entertained people with a bunch of weekly Singles Bar features. There has been so much great new music this year that it feels like we’ve only just scratched the surface.

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Listen: Lions, Love (…and Lies): A Real Gone Sampler 2024

2024 was a great year. Real Gone celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. It was the website’s most successful year to date. We picked up a lot of new supporters and covered a wealth of new music. Our detailed reviews continued to be popular with the readers, and our Singles Bar really caught the attention of those looking for a quicker fix of new music.

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The Real Gone End of Year Round-Up 2024

 

It’s been another great year at Real Gone. We’ve reviewed countless albums and EPs. We’ve covered a record number of gigs (with Simple Minds and Deacon Blue being particular standouts), and gained support from a wealth of new labels and PR teams. It’s also been the first full year online for our popular Singles Bar – allowing us to take a look at various individual tracks and submissions – which has provided a massive extra stream of traffic.

It’s been a superb twelve months for music, and it’s time to shine a light on the many talents we feel have helped to make our site interesting. We’ve featured a wealth of new stuff. As usual, rock has provided the backbone of Real Gone’s musical interests, but we’ve really gone all out to try and promote some of the most interesting things from other genres, which has made picking favourites a little harder this year.

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THE REAL GONE ADVENT CALENDAR 2024

It’s that time of year again! …And it seems to come around faster every year.

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Watch: Las Nubes Live on KEXP

If you’ve been paying attention to the rock underground throughout 2024, you’ll have encountered Las Nubes. The vibrant noise-makers have released a couple of genuinely excellent singles that have showed off the full range of their riff based talents. The music has dropped dream pop and shoegaze inspired riffs against a Melvins-like doominess. At other times, you might have heard them thrashing through a very Stooges-centric garage rock blueprint. No matter where there music has taken them, Las Nubes have never been less than thrilling, and their self proclaimed “fucking loud” second album really helped them to gain a place within the hearts of those seeking out cult sounds.

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