Dagger, the fifth album for Ist Ist, was only released last Friday, but is already riding high at number 3 in the Official Charts. Say IST IST: “So we may or may not be in a chart battle here… we’re very much in the hunt for our first ever Top 20 album and we might…
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Tickets are flying out for Love to Be… festival so get on this! Legendary house music brand Love to be… returns to Harrogate on Saturday 5th September 2026 for another full-scale open-air celebration at The Stray. Following the success of previous editions, the festival returns with an expanded vision, three stages, enhanced production and a phase…
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Bellissimo! Is this one of the most lush festivals ever? Imagine your escape to the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany this summer for an intimate festival that sees you getting involved in pasta making, wine tasting, yoga and more, combined with a bounty of electronic sounds. The event is Flash Festival which began in 2017…
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Well – there’s no messing about with Bearded Theory. Their first announcement came out… eons ago and now they’ve presented us with the FULL 2026 lineup. Feast your eyes, it’s a goodie. Joining Bearded Theory are: Everything Everything, The Horrors, The Twilight Sad, author Irvine Welsh, Ozric Tentacles, BCUC, Sir Chloe, A Guy called Gerald,…
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The festival takes over the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool with another mega line up of house, techno, grime, bass music and everything in between with an array of headliners combined with the finest local selectors. Dates are Friday 29th to Saturday 30th May, 2026. From 4pm. Here’s the Line Up!! (and there’s more to be…
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Jon Hopkins and Icelandic film composer Biggi Hilmars digitally released the soundtrack of Wilding, via Domino Soundtracks, on 16th January, and there’s a physical release due on April 3rd. The documentary Wilding was released in 2024. Wilding follows the story of farmers Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell, who embarked on an environmental project aimed at breathing…
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A vibrant new single has just been released this week by singer-songwriter and composer Tessa Rose Jackson called Built to Collide. The track is out just before her latest album called The Lighthouse drops on 23rd January. Tessa calls it her ‘rant song’, which she describes as “A song about accepting that sometimes you live…
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There’s a purity and simplicity to the delightful track Evergreen In Your Mind, just released as a taster from the upcoming album of the same name by Norwegian singer-songrwriter Juni Habel. The album will be released on April 10th on Basin Rock and Koke Plate. It’s a song that manages to lift you and project…
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This year has produced a bounty of riches of incredible variety and wild imagination, commencing in January with a topically suitable release by Bridget Hayden called Cold Blows the Wind, before moving on to the sunny sounds of Divorce (if that doesn’t sound too odd). And there’s a bit of a Brutalist theme going on…
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Squeeze have just dropped the second track from upcoming album Trixies (6th March 2026). Rather than presenting us with a set of new songs, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have wound back the years, dusting off a cassette of their earliest material – a concept album they wrote and recorded when Glenn was just 16…
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