Top albums, EPs & singles of 2024
Dec 9
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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Dec 3
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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Nov 28
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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Nov 26
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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Nov 22
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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Nov 20
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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Nov 9
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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Nov 8
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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Nov 7
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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Oct 30
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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