Everyone’s favourite Arizona rockers The Maine have announced a UK tour for this October, the dates of which can be found below. Tickets go on sale this Friday (16th May 2014) . They will be supported by Lydia and Nick Santino:

Release Date: March 19th, 2013
Label: Unsigned
Website: www.lydiaband.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lydiamusic1
Twitter: www.twitter.com/lydiamusic

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Long-standing indie songsters Lydia have taken the album count up another notch to number five. Sounding accomplished and assured, ‘Devil’ is an album that shows a band comfortable in their own skin, despite past events. The album is the second to come following an apparent split (followed by rebirth only a year later) and, while not being familiar with their previous efforts, either pre-split and post-reunion, there’s a sound here that’s both fresh and seasoned, as if they know exactly what they want.

Indie outfit Lydia are showing their love for the Christmas season with their cover of ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ surfacing online for all to hear. Check it out:

Release Date: October 4th, 2011
Label: Unsigned
Website: None available
MySpace: www.myspace.com/lydia

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Returning after the seemingly debilitating departure of Mindy White last year, indie rockers Lydia show scarcely a glimmer of bitterness nor appear in the least disheartened in new beginning ‘Paint It Golden’. Indeed, what the band have delivered here is a shimmering beacon of optimism, dripping with heartfelt song writing and a slow burning magnificence which makes it difficult to understand why they felt the need to stop in the first place.

After announcing their hiatus just last year, loved indie rock act Lydia have released a music video for their newest material ‘Dragging Your Feet In The Mud’, showing they haven’t at all lost their touch. Check it out:

Release Date: July 20th, 2010
Label: Unsigned
Website: None available
MySpace: www.myspace.com/lydia

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When a band announces their split before their then automatically final release, it turns into less of a record and more of a eulogy instead, and much more focus on the song meanings and lyrics is an inevitable outcome from this too. Lydia‘s farewell bid to the world of music ‘Assailants’ is very much a final cleaning of the slate and letting those final feelings out to their fans before diappearing amidst the rest of those who stopped before them.

With member after member leaving the band running up to the release of ‘Assailants’, the demise of Lydia was an inevitable occurance, but in doing so remaining member Leighton Antelman‘s moaning vocals have never been more sincere in the band’s 7 year career.