Top albums, EPs & singles of 2024

This has been an excep­tion­al year for new releas­es of all gen­res with per­haps a lean­ing towards shoegaze/­­dream-pop on this list. Bill Ryder-Jones got the year off to a great start with the inspired Iechyd Da while Father John Misty’s Mahash­mashana slipped in as a late Novem­ber clos­er and is per­haps my album of the year.…

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Victorious festival 2025 first announcements!

KINGS, QUEENS AND VAMPIRES SET TO DESCEND ON VICTORIOUS FESTIVAL 2025 Set on the pic­turesque South­sea seafront, mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (22/23/24 August 2025) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has today announced a mas­sive billing of head­lin­ers along­side a host of amaz­ing artists and come­di­ans for the ulti­mate August Bank Hol­i­day week­ender. On top of today’s…

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Faithless announced for Kaleidoscope festival 2025

Kalei­do­scope fes­ti­val, the fam­i­ly event sit­u­at­ed on the slopes of Alexan­dra Palace park in north Lon­don, has just made its first announce­ment, and it’s Faith­less doing a full live show for the head­lin­er on their spec­tac­u­lar main stage. Also appear­ing: Goldie, Eats Every­thing, Sara Cox, Sleep­er, DJ Spoony, Bea­t­les Dub Club and ‘R’ Voic­es choir. Two…

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Fat Dog unleash single Peace Song plus video

The lat­est track to drop from ebul­lient ravey band Fat Dog is Peace Song – arriv­ing just in time for, yes, Xmas, and that’s our first men­tion of it this for this year. Direc­tor James Ogram over­sees the video with the band start­ing out in the pub just before an apoc­a­lyp­tic announce­ment on TV… and…

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W.H.Lung, London IAH, photo gallery

W.H. Lung and Pem at Isling­ton Assem­bly Hall, 21st Novem­ber 2024. Even the capa­cious stage at Isling­ton Assem­bly Hall looked a lit­tle too small to con­tain Joe Evans, W.H. Lung’s enig­mat­ic vocal­ist. Whether launch­ing him­self over to the bar­ri­er or doing his side­ways crab style dance manoeu­vre, he’s a pas­sion­ate, high ener­gy front man. The songs…

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Choses Sauvages new single “En Joue”

High ener­gy post-punk band Choses Sauvages are from Mon­tréal, Cana­da. The six-piece out­fit have built quite a fear­some rep­u­ta­tion for their live per­for­mances – pow­er­ful, explo­sive and dance-heavy. With two albums under their belt, Chose Sauvages have just unveiled a new sin­gle called En Joue. En Joue exhibits all the hall­marks of the band’s dance-punk…

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The Libertines, Soft Play, Sports Team for Dreamland Margate

On the 5th July next sum­mer, The Lib­ertines head­line the Sum­mer Series at Dream­land Mar­gate, plus Soft Play, Sports Team and lots more tba are appear­ing for a mas­sive home­town con­cert. Two decades after their land­mark debut Up the Brack­et, The Lib­ertines con­tin­ue to make music as pow­er­ful as ever. In 2023, they released All…

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Review: Scions and the mysterious To Cry Out in the Wilderness

On rare occa­sions, a piece of music is released that exists in a sphere of its own, defi­ant­ly unique and refus­ing to be slot­ted into this or that genre. Some­thing that stops you in your tracks. The just-released To Cry Out in the Wilder­ness by Scions on Idée Fixe Records is such an album, a…

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Magnetic Skies album launch, Palindrones support at venue 229 photo gallery

Mag­net­ic Skies’ vinyl album launch for their first album Empire Falling, took place at venue 229 Lon­don, based at Great Port­land Street. With synth-rich anthemic tracks that radi­ate an emo­tion­al land­scape from eupho­ria to dark­ness, the band’s tracks are enhanced by pow­er­ful synths and Simon Ken­t’s vocal prowess.  The band opened with Fad­ing Lights, following…

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Jon Hopkins reveals stellar NASA collaboration track “Forever Held”

Today, Jon Hop­kins shares a brand-new track called For­ev­er Held on Domi­no Records. A full orches­tral piece writ­ten by Hop­kins with string arrange­ments by Óla­fur Arnalds, it’s an emo­tive and deeply peace­ful piece of cin­e­mat­ic music which touch­es on “themes of our Earth and its con­text with­in space”.  In com­mon with many of Hop­kins’ com­po­si­tions, For­ev­er Held calms the…

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