Upchuck, Ratboys, Partydozen: Pitchfork Music Festival photo gallery

Pitch­fork Music Fes­ti­val took over Vil­lage Under­ground for a fan­tas­tic and pret­ty loud night with Par­ty Dozen, Rat­boys and Upchuck. First on stage were Sid­ney-based Par­ty Dozen, a duo on drums and sax, whip­ping things into a fren­zy. Chica­go band Rat­boys played a blind­er of a set with an avalanche of rip­pling coun­try-tinged gui­tars, all…

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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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Review: Courtney Barnett at ACE hotel, Shoreditch

The Aussie-accen­t­ed, coun­try-tinged tones of Court­ney Bar­net­t’s songs have been float­ing over the Radio 6 music air­waves of late. Last Thurs­day was her sec­ond Lon­don appear­ance, this time at Ace Hotel, Shored­itch. Court­ney takes keeps things min­i­mal, walk­ing on stage to plug all the leads in before she’s joined by her bass play­er and drum­mer. With no…

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