Samhain Ritual: folk artistry and connection at Earth, Hackney

As Hal­loween morphs into an ever-more gar­ish orgy of plas­tic spi­ders, eye­balls and and oth­er assort­ed land­fill, how much more sat­is­fy­ing it is to turn to its more ancient and spir­i­tu­al side. Samhain, the ancient Gael­ic fes­ti­val, marks the end of the Celtic year, it’s a time when ‘the veil between the super­nat­ur­al and the physical…

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Upchuck, Ratboys, Partydozen: Pitchfork Music Festival photo gallery

Pitch­fork Music Fes­ti­val took over Vil­lage Under­ground for a fan­tas­tic and pret­ty loud night with Par­ty Dozen, Rat­boys and Upchuck. First on stage were Sid­ney-based Par­ty Dozen, a duo on drums and sax, whip­ping things into a fren­zy. Chica­go band Rat­boys played a blind­er of a set with an avalanche of rip­pling coun­try-tinged gui­tars, all…

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Ship Says Om releases EP “Dream Journal”

Berke­­ley-based artist Jen­ny Gille­spie Mason, who records under the name Ship Says Om, invites lis­ten­ers into her serene and intro­spec­tive world with her new release, Dream Jour­nal. The six-track col­lec­tion takes the lis­ten­er through ambi­ent folk, shaman­ic rhythms, and Celtic-tinged melodies. Each piece drifts through an evolv­ing land­scape of tone and emo­tion. The instru­men­ta­tion create…

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The Weather Station release two new songs; the tour continues

An artist who always sparks our inter­est is Cana­di­an singer song­writer Tama­ra Lin­de­man, cre­ator of The Weath­er Sta­tion. She pens thought­ful and unusu­al com­po­si­tions, often with warm jazz-infused instru­men­ta­tion, and her last two albums, Igno­rance and Human­hood, are stag­ger­ing­ly beau­ti­ful. So we are delight­ed to have two new works to lis­ten to, songs that she…

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Cafe Mambo Ibiza – Classics In the City tickets

Get ready for a night of pure mag­ic as Cafe Mam­bo Ibiza ‘Clas­sics In The City’ comes to Epic Stu­dios in Nor­wich on Sat­ur­day 20th Decem­ber 2025. Known for cre­at­ing leg­endary par­ty expe­ri­ences, Cafe Mam­bo Ibiza is bring­ing its unique blend of time­less dance music, vibrant ener­gy, and world-class DJs to Nor­wich! A Cel­e­bra­tion of Dance Clas­sicsCafe Mam­bo Ibiza is…

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Wet Leg announce summer shows

Wet Leg fans – we have news. They have announced their biggest head­line shows to date, per­form­ing at icon­ic out­door venues in Man­ches­ter, Leeds and Lon­don in July 2026, with spe­cial guests Eng­lish Teacher. The three-date run begins at Manchester’s Castle­field Bowl on 8th July, fol­lowed by Leeds Mil­le­ni­um Square on the 9th, con­clud­ing at London’s Alexan­dra Palace Park on 10th July. Tick­ets go on…

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Anna Calvi duet with Perfume Genius and live show

It has been a while since we heard from Anna Calvi so it’s good to see her back. Her pas­sion­ate, oper­at­ic vocals add a unique, haunt­ing inten­si­ty to her com­po­si­tions. Anna’s unique appeal widened after she com­posed and per­formed the musi­cal scores score for sea­sons 5 and 6 of BBC’s Peaky Blind­ers, whose final episode aired in…

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Cat Burns album launch, Liverpool

Jacaran­da Records presents a live per­for­mance from Cat Burns in sup­port of their new album ‘How to be Human’. It takes place on Fri­day 31st Octo­ber, at the Jacaran­da Baltic, tim­ings are 8:30pm til 10:00pm (Per­for­mance starts 9:15pm) Cat’s cur­rent­ly tak­ing the cas­tle and its res­i­dents by storm in Celebri­ty Trai­tors. And she’s prov­ing to…

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Magnetic Skies ‘Everything’s Alright’ final single before Fragments album release

The sec­ond, long-await­­ed album by dark­wave syn­th­pop supre­mos Mag­net­ic Skies called Frag­ments will be out on 7th Novem­ber. Till then we’ve been lis­ten­ing to sin­gles from the upcom­ing release and the final drop, Every­thing’s Alright is out today. Front man Simon Kent has this to say about the sin­gle: “This is the most hope­ful, pos­i­tive track on the…

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