Letting worlds of audio intermingle, Havana Club’s ‘Havana Cultura Mix: The Soundclash’, is an acoustic melange; featuring collaborations between world music lord Gilles Peterson, as well as innovative, emerging electronic producers and some of Cuba’s juiciest artists
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London’s latest shoegazing quintet, Whistlejacket, have announced details of their debut EP to be released on 24th November on a run of just 100 cassettes.
Read more →Fancy a night out schmoozing with some of the best music stars in the biz? Well here's your chance! We’ve got our mitts on a pair of tickets to the MOBO Awards, through our friends at Three.co.uk. After a five-year residency outside of the Capital, the MOBO Awards is back in London by popular demand - and will champion the UK’s best and brightest urban music talent at the SSE Arena, Wembley on Wednesday 22 October. And we’re giving one of you lucky peeps the chance to win two tickets to this amazing event!
Read more →The multi platinum selling band The Kooks are back! After a successful mini tour in May, complete with a sold out show at The Electric Ballroom, and a thrilling surprise slot at Glastonbury these guys are continuing to impress and woo fans with their latest offering including the release of their new single 'Forgive and Forget'. Taken from their new genre defying album 'Listen' which is out next month (September 8th on Virgin/EMI).
Read more →Set to play OnBlackheath festival in September, Kid Wave today release the video for their upcoming debut single All I Want. Signing to Heavenly Recordings earlier this year (home to the likes of TOY, Temples and Beth Orton), they release the Rory Atwell produced record on Monday 8th September 2014, featuring the B-Side Young Blood.
Read more →While for a lot of us festivals are synonymous with shameful behaviour, laced with filth and an over-indulgent loss of brain cells, Wilderness offers a delightfully different approach with ‘a celebration shaped by nature, a landscape transformed by the arts’ - hosted by the Secret Forum, with support from the Huffington Post. Wilderness aims to invigorate the mind and enhance the senses. Could it be possible to come back from a festival feeling better about ourselves? We think it might…
Read more →BoomTown - which describes itself as a pop-up city where the impossible is possible and the abnormal normal - is reopening its gates for a sixth year and planning to surpass all previous appearances. Setting itself apart from other festivals, it is loosely based on an urban theme, though it is still very much outdoors – the wilds of Winchester, to be precise. BoomTown covers many musical genres with a policy of, 'Anything too serious or downbeat is out!' The ‘town’ comprises nine distinct districts that revolve around the Heart of the City before branching out into suburbia, each one bring...
Read more →The Kopparberg Urban Forest will bring street art, live music, traditional and contemporary Swedish food from Fika and - presumably - a whole load of delicious, fruity cider to Dalston on Wednesday 2nd July, for what promises to be a month of "delight for all the senses."
Read more →Looking back to look forward; it seems that entrepreneurial team behind MODE are really propelling this venue into every discerning deviants radar. The grey matter brawn in question is the joint effort of five local entrepreneurs; Stevie Thomas, Jono Remington-Hobbs, brothers Oliver and Benjamin Bolton and Jolyon Klean, who have worked tirelessly to develop the next level in nightlife experiences. Friday saw the official launch of the venue which classes it’s self as a club, bar, art space, music venue, restaurant hybrid. Launching with its first chapter ‘Future Vintage’, guests were imm...
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