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Sep 9

Mutations Festival 2025: here’s the lineup

Brighton fes­ti­val announces its sev­enth edi­tion of Muta­tions, tak­ing place on Fri­day 7th and Sat­ur­day 8th Novem­ber 2025. There’s an excit­ing mix of estab­lished and new inter­na­tion­al artists, all per­form­ing across nine of the city’s Grass­roots Music Venues. Head­lin­ing this year’s fes­ti­val are – on Fri­day – post-punk quar­tet Dry Clean­ing, fresh from record­ing their third album with…

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Sep 5

Sparks release first song Porcupine from new EP ahead of North American tour

First sin­gle ‘Por­cu­pine’ is released today on Trans­gres­sive and Four-track EP MADDER! will be eleased Octo­ber 3, 2025. ‘Por­cu­pine’ is a song of a guy’s fas­ci­na­tion with a woman who pos­sess­es, shall we say, a prick­ly per­son­al­i­ty, all to a verse with a high­ly infec­tious organ riff that yields to heavy gui­tars in the choruses.…

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Sep 4

Animal Collective celebrate 20th anniversary of Feels

Ani­mal Col­lec­tive are hav­ing a busier year than usu­al – as well as sin­gle releas­es Love on the Big Screen and Bud­dies on the Black­board, they will cel­e­brate the 20th anniver­sary of their land­mark sixth stu­dio album Feels with two new lim­it­ed-edi­­tion for­mats via Domi­no: Feels 20th Anniver­sary is a reis­sue of the orig­i­nal album with a bonus disc…

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Sep 2

Hot Chip share Mella Dee remixes of ‘Ready For the Floor’

Hot Chip share two new remix­es of Ready For The Floor – their high­est chart­ing sin­gle yet – by UK pro­duc­er Mel­la Dee. On the Mel­la Dee Dub ver­sion, Mel­la Dee teas­es out the track to sev­en min­utes focus­ing and slow­ing down Alex­is Taylor’s sin­gu­lar vocals: “Do It Do It Do It Now.” whilst the Span­glecore Dub…

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Sep 1

Joe Hicks releases Time is a Thief: first new music for three years

Releas­ing his first new music in three years, UK musi­cian Joe Hicks chan­nels grief and con­fu­sion into the dra­mat­ic sin­gle Time is a Thief out 29th August. Hav­ing built his pro­file in the years lead­ing up to his 2022 debut album The Best I Could Do at the Time, Joe Hicks has been praised for his sol­id songwriting…

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Aug 25

Hello Cosmos release new track Grind into the Shrine

Cel­e­brat­ing 10 years as a record­ing project, Hel­lo Cos­mos return with a flur­ry of activ­i­ty. They are back with a refreshed line­up and a lead track called Grind into the Shrine. There’s a sec­ond stu­dio album on the way for release some­time in autumn. Check out their live shows too. Grind into the Shrine is the…

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Aug 20

Green Man 2025 photo gallery and mini review

We gath­ered once again at Glanusk Park in the beau­ti­ful moun­tains of the Bre­con Bea­cons for Green Man – one of our favourite fes­ti­vals of the year. Here’s a lit­tle roundup of our high­lights. Thurs­day opened with a mini line­up that includ­ed W H Lung, mak­ing their sec­ond appear­ance at Green Man. It was a…

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Aug 13

New label Confused Panda and first signing Wild Valentine

It’s wel­come news to hear of a brand new record label and the prospect of more emerg­ing artists find­ing a foothold in the music indus­try. The label in ques­tion is Belfast-based label Con­fused Pan­da Records and they’ve announced their first sign­ing, a young alt‑pop artist from Belfast called Wild Valen­tine. Rather than mar­ket­ing him­self via social…

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Aug 2

Kaleidoscope festival 2025 review

The sun blazed down on Kalei­do­scope fes­ti­val 2025 at Alexan­dra Palace, on one of the hottest days of the year. Annu­al one-day event Kalei­do­scope has been designed to offer some­thing for every­one – and as a fam­i­­ly-friend­­ly fes­ti­val, you could say it deliv­ers.  For those vis­it­ing north Lon­don’s “Ally Pal­ly” for the first time, the…

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