God Save the Queens – new London festival

God Save The Queens is a new Lon­don fes­ti­val ded­i­cat­ed to the past, present and future of female punk. The event will fea­ture a spe­cial show at Elec­tric Brix­ton on Fri­day 16th Octo­ber, fea­tur­ing a super­group of she punk leg­ends, reimag­in­ing the Poly Styrene playlist and she punk anthems. The show is part of a…

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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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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 Records. The album will be avail­able on vinyl, CD, cas­sette and down­load only and there are lis­ten­ing parties…

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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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Jim Ghedi single ‘The Hungry Child’

Jim Ghedi’s new sin­gle called The Hun­gry Child has just been released on Basin Rock. A stark­ly bleak track, and more polit­i­cal than his pre­vi­ous work, Jim com­ments on the idea for The Hun­gry Child thus: “I want­ed to push the sound even more heav­ier, chaot­ic almost like cap­tur­ing the sound of destruc­tion, as things…

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