MIEN on stage at Moth Club, London
Apr 23

MIEN: MIIEN album review

This week has seen the release of MIIEN, the sec­ond album from MIEN – a col­lab­o­ra­tive project that brings togeth­er a group of musi­cians who might be termed a psych super­group. Rishi Dhir, vocal­ist and song­writer with Mon­tre­al psych band Ele­phant Stone, ven­tures into dark­er ter­ri­to­ry along­side Alex Maas of The Black Angels, whose distinctive,…

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Mar 25

Ultimate summer festival guide 2025

It’s our favourite time of year… we’re dream­ing of fresh green fields, flags wav­ing in the gen­tle breeze, bands start­ing up on stage and a cosy tent to snug­gle into at night. Here’s our UK fes­ti­vals cal­en­dar with an empha­sis on inde­pen­dents – and many of them come with per­son­al rec­om­men­da­tions. On a sad note, many…

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May 16

100%WET debut album release

The Copen­ha­gen-based duo 100%WET unveiled a euphor­ic sin­gle ear­li­er this year titled Over Me, offer­ing a glimpse into their dis­tinc­tive, genre-blend­ing sound. Their debut album, arriv­ing on May 16th, fea­tures nine tracks that show­case their expan­sive, atmos­pher­ic style, sharp­ened by drum’n’bass rhythms and exper­i­men­tal pop ele­ments. It’s an uncon­ven­tion­al mix, but one that cre­ates a…

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May 15

South Facing festival adds more to the bill

Things have ramped up at South Fac­ing – the annu­al series of events held at Crys­tal Palace bowl in south Lon­don. The eas­i­ly acces­si­ble and icon­ic park has become syn­ony­mous with great line­ups but this year they’ve tak­en things even fur­ther, with more artists on their line­ups sur­pris­ing us at every turn. Today South Fac­ing announce…

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May 15

Electronic in the Tower

TDC Tunes puts on a spe­cial per­for­mance in a medieval tow­er in Hornsey Lon­don on Thurs­day June 12th at 7pm. Greet­ings space trav­ellers! You are warm­ly invit­ed to Earth for this spe­cial edi­tion of Elec­tron­ic in the Tow­er at Crouch End Fes­ti­val! TDC Tunes will be play­ing an impro­vised mod­u­lar set with a mod­u­lar rig with…

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May 13

Trance Sanctuary presents Kearnage 2025

Trance Sanc­tu­ary presents Kear­nage 2025! Tick­ets are sell­ing fast so get yours now. Trance Sanc­tu­ary team up with Bryan Kear­ney and his Kear­nage label par­ty at Min­istry of Sound in Lon­don on Sat­ur­day 8th Novem­ber. Time: 2pm till 8pm, last entry 8pm. Bryan Kear­ney | Paul Den­ton | Allen Watts | Mark Lan­dra­gin | Maria Healy | Will Rees | Lost­ly | Edele Andaya Min­istry of Sound 103 Gaunt Street, Elephant…

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May 13

Scale: 100 lifesize guitars exhibition in Shoreditch

New exhi­bi­tion Scale will pre­miere at Unlocked in Shored­itch from 12 June to 31 August 2025. Scale is a strik­ing pho­to­graph­ic col­lec­tion of 100 life-sized gui­tars, paired with inti­mate and often humor­ous sto­ries that reveal their impact on music his­to­ry and their intrin­sic con­nec­tion to the artists who played them. Mul­ti award-win­n­ing Aus­tralian music pho­tog­ra­ph­er Kane Hib­berd has spent the last…

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May 12

Little Known release powerful single Headwreck

The Cork-based four-piece band Lit­tle Known have become known for their emo­tive, gui­­tar-dri­ven sound that blends atmos­pher­ic rock with rich instru­men­ta­tion. The band’s pre­vi­ous sin­gles Lis­ten and Slow Daze and debut album As It Is, released in 2023 have helped estab­lish their pres­ence in the Irish music scene.  Their lat­est sin­gle is Head­wreck and it’s a…

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May 8

Snowapple collective unveils new track My Body from upcoming album

PLAYING GLASTONBURY ON 25TH JUNE. The inter­na­tion­al col­lec­tive Snowap­ple has just unveiled My Body, a pow­er­ful new sin­gle from their forth­com­ing album Utopia, due out June 13th. Described by the group as the album’s “focus track,” My Body was released on April 18th and is charged with a com­pelling sense of urgency. It opens with a rhythmic…

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May 2

Mike Peters RIP

Mike Peters, front­man of The Alarm, passed away on Wednes­day, April 30th, at the age of 66. He had fought a long and coura­geous bat­tle with blood can­cer and was admired not only for his music but also for his relent­less fundrais­ing efforts.  The con­nec­tion and love between The Alarm and their fans was legendary…

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May 1

Lael Neale reveals new album Altogether Stranger plus film and tour

Lael Neale uproot­ed her­self from her idyl­lic rur­al life in Vir­ginia and relo­cat­ed to Los Ange­les – and it’s a move she has made more than once, due to lock­down. Such an extreme shift has pro­voked feel­ings of alien­ation and dis­con­nec­tion. Lael’s new album Alto­geth­er Stranger, her third with Sub Pop, delves into and tries…

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Apr 29

Dark Tropics release new single Whispers

The new sin­gle Whis­pers from Belfast duo Dark Trop­ics arrives on April 29th, deliv­er­ing raw ener­gy that’s aimed square­ly for the live stage. A sta­ple set-clos­er over the past year, the gui­­tar-dri­ven anthemic num­ber cap­tures the spir­it of throw­ing cau­tion to the wind in search of unfor­get­table nights. The video shows the duo own­ing the…

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