Arcade Fire have announced that their new album Everything Now will be out on July 28th, 2017! You can pre-order it now! Watch the video for title track Everything Now. Physical configurations of Everything Now will include CD, cassette, and heavyweight black vinyl LP—which will feature 20 different artwork variants, each bearing the album title […]

Reading & Leeds Festival has announced an ace lineup for this year! The festival takes place between August 25th-27th 2017 at Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds. Buy tickets here Music legend Liam Gallagher will be bringing his highly anticipated solo performance to Reading and Leeds in a UK festival exclusive. Kasabian, […]

Tickets are selling at record speed for this year’s Standon Calling music festival. With a lineup including Orbital, Grace Jones, Clean Bandit, Gary Numan, Editors, Slow Club, Laura Mvula, Steve Mason, British Sea Power and more… well, it’s no surprise. Buy Tickets for Standon Calling which runs July 27th-30th, 2017.

Broken Social Scene have released their first new song in seven years – Halfway Home. The new song is the first since the band’s 2010 album Forgiveness Rock Record, and is a welcome return from the Canadian collective. Listen to Halfway Home here The band have also announced their first tour dates of 2017: 23/5 […]

Glastonbury Festival has announced some major acts for its 2017 festival! Highlights include Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, The xx, The National, Katy Perry, Biffy Clyro, Barry Gibb, Chic, Lorde, Solange, Dizzee Rascal, Rag’n’Bone Man, and so many more. Buy tickets to Glastonbury Festival. The list so far: Radiohead Foo Fighters Ed Sheeran The xx […]

Animated supergroup Gorillaz are back with a new studio album Humanz, to be released by Parlophone Records on April 28th 2017. You can pre-order Humanz on iTunes.   Watch their latest video for Saturnz Barz (Spirit House): The full track listing for Humanz is: 1   Ascension feat. Vince Staples 2   Strobelite feat. Peven […]

Drum n bass label Hospital Records’ first festival represents everything good in dance music in 2016 – and some of the bad too by Neil Bennett It’s the moments that feel truly special that make a festival more than just a bunch of acts you like playing on the same bill. It’s when a producer […]

  by Neil Bennett For those of us too lazy or busy to trek out of London for Secret Garden Party or Boomtown, this summer has seen some outstanding one-day festivals. (OK, some of them call themselves two-day or weekend festivals, but they’re not fooling anyone. Each day’s line-up is self-contained to appeal to a […]

by Lewis Church I have always admired the impulse to call your band something that will limit its ability to be discussed in polite conversation. Congrats is the fourth album by Canadian electronicists Holy Fuck, and it continues their pattern of creating circling and hypnotic rhythmic slabs of danceable onslaught. Much of it is impressively […]

by J. Mo It’s not easy reviewing the soundtrack to a movie you haven’t seen, especially when that movie is Adam Green’s part-Kickstarter-funded, psychedelic, satirical, hyper-sensory retelling of the Aladdin story. Nevertheless, I shall have a go. Like many people, I became aware of Adam Green and his earlier incarnation The Moldy Peaches when they […]