Oct 5

Museum of Youth Culture celebrates gigs and DIY culture

The Muse­um of Youth Cul­ture is a valu­able space with an evolv­ing pro­gramme of exhi­bi­tions, takeovers and spe­cial events. And after so many years of facil­i­ties for young peo­ple being closed down, this venue’s new week­ly Youth Club is more than wel­come. This space offers under-18s a free, ded­i­cat­ed place to meet, get cre­ative, develop…

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Oct 1

R.E.M. celebrates 25 years of Reveal with expanded anniversary edition

This year marks the 25th anniver­sary of R.E.M.’s Reveal, the rich­ly lay­ered 2001 album fea­tur­ing Imi­ta­tion of Life, All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star) and I’ll Take the Rain. To cel­e­brate, Craft Record­ings will release Reveal (25th Anniver­sary Edi­tion) on Novem­ber 20, expand­ing the orig­i­nal album with The Black Ses­sions Revealed,…

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Oct 1

Leeds band Part-Time Model release cool single Cut Off Point

The new sin­gle from emerg­ing Leeds band Part-Time Mod­el cer­tain­ly caught our atten­tion. Cut Off Point exudes a cool, slinky vibe dri­ven by vocal­ist Lucy Tessier’s husky tones and Char­lie Wilber­force’s sup­ple gui­tar work.  Lucy deliv­ers every lyric with an icy assur­ance. There’s more than a hint of Court­ney Bar­nett and Eng­lish Teacher in the shifts…

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Sep 14

Babyshambles headliners for Skegness Shiiine On weekender

If you’re look­ing for a non-cam­p­ing fes­ti­val ear­ly next year, check out Shi­i­ine On Week­ender, which returns to Butlin’s Skeg­ness from 19–21 March 2027. Babysham­bles are to head­line Sat­ur­day night. Join­ing them on the Sat­ur­day bill are Gene, along­side Shi­i­ine favourites Ned’s Atom­ic Dust­bin. Cast will head­line Fri­day night, with sup­port from Black Grape and Jim Bob, while over in Reds are…

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Sep 14

Sam Burton shares title track from upcoming album ‘Fairweather Friend’

A new album and UK Novem­ber tour for the folk-based artist Sam Bur­ton is a new name to me, and I was instant­ly cap­ti­vat­ed by his expres­sive, emo­­tion-laden vocals on this retro-sound­ing num­ber. Com­fort­ing yet melan­cholic. He has just shared the title-track of his forth­com­ing album Fair­weath­er Friend, set for release on Octo­ber 30 on Cap­tured Tracks. Fair­weath­er Friend explores…

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Magnetic Skies band live 2024
Sep 13

Magnetic Skies to play live in London

Dark­wave synth pop band Mag­net­ic Skies have an upcom­ing Lon­don gig in Decem­ber at The Grace, High­bury Cor­ner. Mag­net­ic Skies first came to our atten­tion in 2023 with their dreamy and anthemic track You Shine On. The pop­ping synth open­ing notes imme­di­ate­ly trans­port you back to the ’80s, evok­ing shades of Depeche Mode. There’s a…

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Sep 11

Takuya Nakamura live and supports, Sheffield, tickets

Thurs­day 15th Octo­ber 2026, FORGE in Sheffield. 7pm-11pm Orig­i­nal­ly from Tokyo, Japan, Takuya Naka­mu­ra moved to the Unit­ed States in 1990 to study under the leg­endary jazz the­o­rist and com­pos­er George Rus­sell at the New Eng­land Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music. Under Rus­sel­l’s tute­lage, Naka­mu­ra honed his craft and devel­oped a pro­found under­stand­ing of jazz the­o­ry and com­po­si­tion, which…

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Sep 10

Clinic to release tenth album Wild In the Streets in October

Exper­i­men­tal and high­ly inven­tive artists Clin­ic have announced a new album: Wild In The Streets, set for release on Octo­ber 30th (Domi­no Records). They have just released a taster in the form of the sin­gle, You And I. At one time with four mem­bers, they now con­sist of duo Ade Black­burn and Jonathan Hart­ley. Clinic…

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Sep 9

Call It Want You Want – new anthemic single by Fat Dog

They know how to pump out the bangers and get the crowds going. Fat Dog’s lat­est track has just been released as fes­ti­val sea­son draws to a close. Call It What You Want was debuted at Woof­s­tock show in Bermond­sey (see the video, below). Call It What You Want suits the flam­boy­ant front­man Joe Evans,…

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Sep 2

LIDO festival photo gallery

LIDO fes­ti­val at Vic­to­ria Park, east Lon­don, resched­uled for Bank Hol­i­day Mon­day, was a beau­ti­ful­ly chilled and uplift­ing day. From the line­up, fea­tured in order: Yemz, MADMADMAD, Theo Par­rish B2B Moody­mann, Lady Wray, Marie David­son (live), Kelis, LTJ Bukem, Kel­ly Lee Owens (DJ set) and Mari­bou State. LIDO fes­ti­val, August 31, 2026 | LIDO festival

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