Jul 30

‘Pray to That’ new single by Fat Dog

Woof Woof! Pray to That is yet anoth­er great full-on track by Fat Dog. Ener­gy lev­els at full pulse – the track is pro­pelled at break­neck speed by an urgent four-to-the-floor beat. And there’s a suit­ably unhinged video to go with it. Front man Joe Love remains as cool on the video as he does when…

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Jul 28

Magnetic Skies blend synthpop and darkwave drama in stirring new single ‘Back To Life’

Syn­th­pop band Mag­net­ic Skies launched their dra­mat­ic sin­gle Back To Life on 25th July. Their spring release ‘A Place on Earth’ was the first new track from the band since their debut album Empire Falling. Now Mag­net­ic Skies unveil Back To Life – a pow­er­ful num­ber that blends their sig­na­ture synths, dark­wave tex­tures and euphor­ic beats. Sub­lime­ly anthemic, with…

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Jul 21

A free Edinburgh music festival returns

St James Quar­ter Ses­sions is back for its third year (15th to 24th August) with a packed line up tak­ing over the East End of the city.  Hap­pen­ing dur­ing the Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val Fringe at St James Quar­ter, this year’s fes­ti­val pro­gramme sees over 60 acts per­form­ing across the devel­op­ment, includ­ing the Lev­el 6 rooftop, with panoram­ic views of Scotland’s cap­i­tal and cas­tle. The Brand New Heavies…

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Margate Dreamland from drone
Jul 16

Margate Rocks On: Summer Series 2025 and a Star-Studded Lineup

Dream­land is the place! The high­ly antic­i­pat­ed Mar­gate Sum­mer Series con­tin­ues its full of shows for 2025, with a host of huge names span­ning rock, reg­gae, elec­tron­ic, and pop.  Dance music titans Base­ment Jaxx will trans­form Dream­land into an elec­tri­fy­ing dance par­ty on Sat­ur­day, 26th July. Known for their pul­sat­ing beats and car­ni­­val-like per­for­mances, they are set to deliv­er a…

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Jul 15

Good Vibrations Society: wild spa, woodland jazz bar, 60 plus local acts

We’re lov­ing the sound of this gen­tle and heart­warm­ing fes­ti­val. Good Vibra­tions Soci­ety returns to Ash­down For­est this sum­mer with an expand­ed pro­gramme that dives even deep­er into con­nec­tion, com­mu­ni­ty and cre­ativ­i­ty. Along­side the music music line-up, there are trans­for­ma­tive talks, evening live ses­sions in The Root, a diverse show­case of local per­form­ers, fresh eco…

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Jul 13

Kaleidoscope 2025 photo gallery

Kalei­do­scope fes­ti­val at Alexan­dra Palace was more of a dance-fest that we’ve seen in pre­vi­ous years, all on one of the hottest days of the year. And as always, there was plen­ty for chil­dren of all ages with bub­bles, the­atre and cre­ative activ­i­ties in abun­dance. Here’s some pho­tos of Kalei­do­scope’s won­der­ful hap­pen­ings, with Pan Nation…

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Hot Chip
Jul 9

Hot Chip serve up a Best Of album, new song and live dates

Eight stu­dio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever and today they announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion, to be released Sep­tem­ber 5th.  Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion – the title alludes to both the lyrics of their career-defin­ing track and one of Alex­is Taylor’s favourite Prince songs – cap­tures some­thing ele­men­tal about the band: a…

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Jul 4

Australian artist Merpire releases new album called Milk Pool

Merpire’s high­ly antic­i­pat­ed sec­ond album, Milk Pool, drops today July 4th, fea­tur­ing the pre­vi­ous­ly released sin­gle Big­ger. Mel­bourne based Rhi­an­non Atk­in­­son-Howatt – aka Mer­pire – first impressed music fans with her 2021 debut, Sim­u­la­tion Ride, and she’s back to take things even fur­ther. Flu­id and meta­phys­i­cal as the tides, Milk Pool is for “the roman­tics, the daydreamers,…

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besnard lakes
Jul 2

New Track ‘In Hollywood’ heralds The Besnard Lakes’ upcoming album

UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED NOW:Thurs­day 12 Feb Green Door Store, BrightonFri­day Feb 13 Lon­don. CHANGED TO MOTH CLUB­Sat Feb 14 Hare & Hounds, Birm­ing­hamSun­day Feb 15 Bru­denell Social Club, LeedsTues­day Feb 17 The Rum Shack Glas­gowWeds Feb 18 Yes Man­ches­ter Excite­ment is at record lev­els at Gourmet Gigs Tow­ers as word has winged its way…

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animal collective single
Jul 1

Animal Collective reveal Love on the Big Screen

Some­thing joy­ful this way comes from Ani­mal Col­lec­tive. The new sin­gle called Love on the Big Screen came out last week, via Domi­no, and there’s a spe­cial lim­it­ed-edi­­tion 7‑inch sin­gle fea­tur­ing the B‑side Bud­dies On the Black­board set to be released on August 1st. Both tracks were pro­duced by Avey Tare and Adam McDaniel, engi­neered and mixed by McDaniel…

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