Australian trio Sex Mask releases new EP “Raid”

Aussie band, Sex Mask are releas­ing their new, much antic­i­pat­ed EP Raid on 14th August, via Unpop­u­lar records. The trio have so far pro­ject­ed an adept shape-shift­ing approach to music-mak­ing, fol­low­ing the angu­lar, jumpy, Gang of Four by way of The Strokes How to Be Cool At Par­ties – and brood­ing, soupy Circe. Their 2025…

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The Orb (Live) vs System 7 tickets

THE ORB & SYSTEM 7 REUNITE FOR A SERIES OF RARE EXCLUSIVE LIVE SHOWS! On Fri­day 2nd Octo­ber 2026 – Two leg­endary forces of elec­tron­ic psy­che­delia return to the stage togeth­er for a lim­it­ed run of immer­sive audio­vi­su­al events! After years apart on the live cir­cuit, pio­neer­ing elec­tron­ic vision­ar­ies The Orb and Sys­tem 7 are reuniting…

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Summer Jams tickets going fast…

Leices­ter Week­ender presents ‘Sum­mer Jams 2026’. The R&B and UK Garage fes­ti­val is tak­ing over Abbey Park on Fri­day 7th August. Abbey Park will be com­plete­ly trans­formed into the ulti­mate open-air par­ty, with DJ sets from the moment you arrive, for a once in a life­time, unfor­get­table line-up! Live Per­for­mances From – Eter­nal: Glob­al­ly rec­og­nized as the UK’s answer…

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Wet Leg, English Teacher and Los Bitchos shine in the sun at Ally Pally: photo gallery

On a beau­ti­ful evening with the sun­set glow­ing through the win­dows of Alexan­dra Palace, the sun-soaked crowd mean­dered through the park and onto the grassy slopes to enjoy three fan­tas­tic acts. Los Bitchos got the crowd into par­ty spir­it with their dance-ori­en­t­ed Turk­ish dis­co sound. Next were Eng­lish Teacher who I’ve seen many times since their…

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Dovetailed release beguiling track “Kethers”

Glas­gow musi­cians Kim Grant of Rav­eloe and Simon Lid­dell of Olympic Swim­mers / Fright­ened Rab­bit have formed a new col­lab­o­ra­tive project called Dove­tailed. And their new num­ber called Kethers fea­tures drum­ming and gui­tar from Jon­ny Scott (Chvrch­es) Dove­tailed’s sound is giv­en its full­ness by Kim’s rich vocals that suf­fuse the track with a shim­mery, dream…

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The Coral announce new tour – and a video

The Coral have announced their first head­line UK tour in almost three years a month after releas­ing their thir­teenth album, 388. There’s a run of six shows, plus three are­na sup­port dates with The Mary Wal­lop­ers, and a simul­ta­ne­ous release of a new video for opti­mistic new sin­gle, Leave It In The Past. The album 388 was ful­ly released at the…

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HENGE to commence 75-show tour

One of the most unique and pop­u­lar bands on the fes­ti­val cir­cuit is undoubt­ed­ly space-rock genius­es, HENGE. And the Man­ches­ter cos­mic rock col­lec­tive are about to com­mence their, cur­rent­ly 75-date ‘world tour’ span­ning the UK, Europe, Cana­da, USA and Mex­i­co with more to be announced. There are 18 dates across the UK and Ire­land starting…

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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom announce new album A ? of WHEN

Tak­ing things off line and get­ting back to real con­nec­tiv­i­ty is what Pan­da Bear and Son­ic Boom are cham­pi­oning right now. The duo have announced a new album A ? of WHEN, release date July 10th, on Domi­no. The album will be avail­able on vinyl, CD, cas­sette and down­load only and there are lis­ten­ing par­ties for…

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Alone Together event at Rich Mix, June 27th

As con­cerns around lone­li­ness, dig­i­tal fatigue and the decline of shared social spaces con­tin­ue to grow, elec­tron­ic music artist and researcher Jamie Red­ding­ton (Sound of Frac­tures) is explor­ing a sim­ple ques­tion: can live music events be bet­ter  designed for human con­nec­tion? On Sat­ur­day 27 June, his project Alone Togeth­er returns to Lon­don fol­low­ing a pilot…

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Everywhere At Once multi-venue festival news

Fes­ti­vals tend to grab all the atten­tion over the sum­mer but our much-loved grass­roots venues need sup­port too! So this new ven­ture called Every­where At Once is the per­fect way to entice you back into some of our great venues for a gig. The umberel­la organ­i­sa­tions pre­sid­ing over it all is lead­ing char­i­ty Music Venue Trust…

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