Felicity Newton

3 weeks ago | readdork.com | Felicity Newton

In a quiet London rehearsal space, Dog Race are piecing together puzzles. Not the cardboard kind that gathers dust on your nan’s coffee table, but the kind that emerges from sleepless nights and relentless questioning, from the space between who we are and who we’re expected to be. Their debut EP ‘Return The Day’ arrives like a fever dream captured on tape – urgent, unsettling, and impossible to look away from.

3 weeks ago | readdork.com | Felicity Newton

In a Glasgow beer garden, Niall Goldie is celebrating. The VLURE bassist has just landed a dream support slot touring Europe with Primal Scream – even if it meant losing his day job in the process. Meanwhile, across town, his brother Conor is crafting remixes in his flat, the same space where many of the building blocks for VLURE’s debut album ‘Escalate’ first came together.

4 weeks ago | readdork.com | Felicity Newton

The transformation of pandemic-era isolation into creative revelation isn’t a new narrative, but in Shura’s Brooklyn apartment – armed with just a borrowed acoustic from (recent Dork cover star) Torres – something remarkable took shape. ‘I Got Too Sad For My Friends’ emerges as her most nakedly personal statement yet, a record that transforms vulnerability into victory. “IT’S BEEN 84 YEARS,” Shura quips when asked about the album’s lengthy gestation period.

1 month ago | readdork.com | Felicity Newton

Label: Play It Again SamReleased: 30th May 2025‘I Got Too Sad For My Friends’ embraces two distinct moods: the first half is self-deprecating, but finds the humour within it; the second arrives through tears that have been held back too long. Shura’s third album sees her trading the polished electronic sheen of her earlier work for something more organic and emotionally raw.

1 month ago | readdork.com | Felicity Newton

In the basement studios of Queens, where dreams are born between subway rumbles and corner store runs, Julia Wolf learnt early that pressure isn’t just about weight – it’s about transformation. Like carbon turning into diamonds deep beneath the Earth’s surface, Wolf’s latest album ‘Pressure’ emerges as something precious forged in the crucible of industry expectations. The path to this point has been anything but linear.