Hornsey Town Hall
May 19

Hornsey Town Hall: is the arts centre finally within reach?

Hornsey Town Hall has seen its for­tunes rise and fall over the past 90 years – and since 2018 it has been a no-go area with the bar­ri­cades up and the doors firm­ly locked. The tim­ing of this could­n’t be worse – it has coin­cid­ed with the loss of so many local com­mu­ni­ty spaces and…

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May 16

100%WET debut album release

The Copen­ha­gen-based duo 100%WET unveiled a euphor­ic sin­gle ear­li­er this year titled Over Me, offer­ing a glimpse into their dis­tinc­tive, genre-blend­ing sound. Their debut album, arriv­ing on May 16th, fea­tures nine tracks that show­case their expan­sive, atmos­pher­ic style, sharp­ened by drum’n’bass rhythms and exper­i­men­tal pop ele­ments. It’s an uncon­ven­tion­al mix, but one that cre­ates a…

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May 13

Scale: 100 lifesize guitars exhibition in Shoreditch

New exhi­bi­tion Scale will pre­miere at Unlocked in Shored­itch from 12 June to 31 August 2025. Scale is a strik­ing pho­to­graph­ic col­lec­tion of 100 life-sized gui­tars, paired with inti­mate and often humor­ous sto­ries that reveal their impact on music his­to­ry and their intrin­sic con­nec­tion to the artists who played them. Mul­ti award-win­n­ing Aus­tralian music pho­tog­ra­ph­er Kane Hib­berd has spent the last…

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May 12

Little Known release powerful single Headwreck

The Cork-based four-piece band Lit­tle Known have become known for their emo­tive, gui­­tar-dri­ven sound that blends atmos­pher­ic rock with rich instru­men­ta­tion. The band’s pre­vi­ous sin­gles Lis­ten and Slow Daze and debut album As It Is, released in 2023 have helped estab­lish their pres­ence in the Irish music scene.  Their lat­est sin­gle is Head­wreck and it’s a…

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May 8

Snowapple collective unveils new track My Body from upcoming album

PLAYING GLASTONBURY ON 25TH JUNE. The inter­na­tion­al col­lec­tive Snowap­ple has just unveiled My Body, a pow­er­ful new sin­gle from their forth­com­ing album Utopia, due out June 13th. Described by the group as the album’s “focus track,” My Body was released on April 18th and is charged with a com­pelling sense of urgency. It opens with a rhythmic…

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May 2

Mike Peters RIP

Mike Peters, front­man of The Alarm, passed away on Wednes­day, April 30th, at the age of 66. He had fought a long and coura­geous bat­tle with blood can­cer and was admired not only for his music but also for his relent­less fundrais­ing efforts.  The con­nec­tion and love between The Alarm and their fans was legendary…

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May 1

Lael Neale reveals new album Altogether Stranger plus film and tour

Lael Neale uproot­ed her­self from her idyl­lic rur­al life in Vir­ginia and relo­cat­ed to Los Ange­les – and it’s a move she has made more than once, due to lock­down. Such an extreme shift has pro­voked feel­ings of alien­ation and dis­con­nec­tion.  Lael’s new album Alto­geth­er Stranger, her third with Sub Pop, delves into and tries…

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Apr 29

Dark Tropics release new single Whispers

The new sin­gle Whis­pers from Belfast duo Dark Trop­ics arrives on April 29th, deliv­er­ing raw ener­gy that’s aimed square­ly for the live stage. A sta­ple set-clos­er over the past year, the gui­­tar-dri­ven anthemic num­ber cap­tures the spir­it of throw­ing cau­tion to the wind in search of unfor­get­table nights. The video shows the duo own­ing the…

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Apr 28

Neil Young compilation with covers by Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett and more

We’re delight­ed to spread the word about Heart Of Gold Vol­ume 1, a com­pi­la­tion of Neil Young cov­ers per­formed by artists includ­ing The Doo­bie Broth­ers, Eddie Ved­der, Mum­ford & Sons, Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple, Bran­di Carlile and many more. The album was released on April 25th. The project is by Los Ange­les-based pro­duc­tion house, Cin­e­ma Music Group (CMG) and is…

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MIEN on stage at Moth Club, London
Apr 23

MIEN: MIIEN album review

This week has seen the release of MIIEN, the sec­ond album from MIEN – a col­lab­o­ra­tive project that brings togeth­er a group of musi­cians who might be termed a psych super­group. Rishi Dhir, vocal­ist and song­writer with Mon­tre­al psych band Ele­phant Stone, ven­tures into dark­er ter­ri­to­ry along­side Alex Maas of The Black Angels, whose distinctive,…

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