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Daniel Avery Remixes Sandwell District 3:58 AM (last hour)

Homage paid in reworking and words

London-based producer Daniel Avery has celebrated the influence of Sandwell District on his own work by reworking 'Hidden', one of the stand-out tracks of this year's swansong, End Beginnings. Discussing the remix, Avery spoke of his long-term love of the group, now a duel of Karl 'Regis' O'Connor and David 'Function' Sumner. “their fabric mix alone felt like an untouchable orb of energy when it first came out," he said. He went on to pay particular tribute to Juan Mendez, who died in 2024: "All three members of the group have had an impact on me in their own way, not least Juan Silent Servant whose kindness was apparent to all who met...

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How Women are Changing Greater Manchester’s Grassroots Music Scene 3:35 AM (last hour)

Perturbed by a study that found young women in the north of England are struggling to feel musical, Lottie Brazier set out to speak to the promoters, artists and managers who are helping shift the dial in the region

A scene from Sounds From The Other City, by Jess Robinson

Last year’s Sound Of The Next Generation report, a collaboration between Manchester City Council and the Youth Music organisation, found that although 55% of young people in the UK say that they feel as if they are musical, this figure had gone down 9% since 2018, with the problem particularly acute among girls in the north of England. The report identified that these gender imbalances become worse as women move from...

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INTERVIEW: Composer Linda Buckley on Thar Farraige (Over Sea) 2:14 AM (3 hours ago)

Ahead of performances of Thar Farraige (Over Sea) in Bradford and London for the New Music Biennial, Patrick Clarke speaks to composer Linda Buckley and musicians The Maxwell Quartet and Brìghde Chaimbeul about the work's blending of Irish and Scottish music, its guiding themes of migration and connection to place, and more

Linda Buckley, photo by Olesya Zdorovetska

In her composition Thar Farraige (Over Sea), award-winning composer Linda Buckley weaves together several threads. Commissioned by Chamber Music Scotland, the work combines chamber music and folk song, Irish and Scottish traditional music and language, as well as electronics, blurring the boundaries of where each sound source begins and ends; the drones of Scottish smallpipes and the playing of a string quartet interweaving, coalescing,...

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Auto-Invention: The Soft Boys’ Underwater Moonlight Revisited 12:21 AM (5 hours ago)

Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but as David Bennun recounts, their superb swan song, Underwater Moonlight, made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and psych bands. This feature was first published on 29/06/20

Robyn Hitchcock's career, for want of a better term, shows a man as squarely out of time as it's possible to be this side of a Bill & Ted movie. Had he arrived after the mid-Nineties, when pop music’s past began to telescope, everything went up for grabs, and the only truly unfashionable music was that of the immediate past, he might have done rather better for himself. But his band, The Soft Boys, made their first recordings in 1976....

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Playlist: Catch up with May 2025 1 Jun 10:00 PM (7 hours ago)

Catch up on the sounds we wrote about last month

It’s another bulbous five-hour playlist blaster as we round up the music we’ve been writing about in May, exclusively for the listening pleasure of our subscribers. We recently conducted a bit of research into which of their subscriber perks our subscribers were most excited by, and (aside from the joy of keeping tQ alive, thanks very much indeed for that) the top answer was this monthly dollop into their inboxes and ears. So cheers to Paddy Clarke for putting together this popular item each month, which for May 2025 features old stalwarts releasing new stuff, including the swansong from Saint Etienne, Stereolab, Andy Bell, The Nightingales, Pulp, Adrian Sherwood, Mclusky,...

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Death in Vegas – Death Mask 1 Jun 9:00 PM (8 hours ago)

Death in Vegas

Death Mask

1990s indie-dance survivor Richard Fearless returns with a record that offers a glimpse of something more personal beneath the clattering drum machines and psychedelic organ sounds

Death Mask by Death in Vegas

Electronic outfit Death in Vegas have always been chameleon-like. During the 90s and early 2000s, when dance and indie briefly became symbiotic, they embraced it and sometimes overstepped the mark. 2002’s ‘Scorpio Rising’ brought the disparate and some might say irreconcilable worlds of Kenneth Anger and Liam Gallagher together for a dalliance with the pop charts that looks increasingly naff with every passing year, and so it’s perhaps unsurprising that even as the latter prepares to play the most hyped gigs of a generation, his nibs has...

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Filling in the Blanks: The World of Homemade Album Covers 30 May 9:03 PM (2 days ago)

To celebrate the publication of her new book, Sleeve Notes, photographer Dominique Russell takes us into the weird world of the many handmade record sleeves that have turned over the years at the record shop where her dad works

For the last few years, I’ve been photographing a sizable collection of fan-made record sleeves that have washed up at the second-hand record store Crazy Beat in Upminster, Essex. My dad works in the shop, and this venture began when he brought me two handmade 45 sleeves – one for Sex Pistols, another for T.Rex – that at some point in the 1970s had been decorated with newspaper clippings stuck to the inner sleeves with crispy, yellowing Sellotape. Both are rough and ready,...

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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Issues Statement on Israel and Gaza 30 May 8:18 AM (2 days ago)

It marks the first time the artist has publicly addressed an incident involving a pro-Palestine concertgoer at his Melbourne show last year

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has shared a statement about Israel and its ongoing assault on Gaza.

It sees the artist publicly address an incident that took place last year when a pro-Palestine concertgoer at one of Yorke's solo live shows shouted at him about Israel's actions. Yorke had previously been subject to significant criticism for his and Radiohead's decision to perform in Israel and ignore Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) actions.

In the statement shared to social media, Yorke said: "Some guy shouting at me from the dark last year when I was picking up a guitar to sing the...

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Billy Bragg, Graham Coxon and More for Special Martin Carthy Show in London 30 May 5:53 AM (2 days ago)

The Life and Songs of Martin Carthy is set for September

Photo by Jon Wilks

The longstanding folk musician Martin Carthy will play a special show at London's EartH on 27 September, alongside a number of guests including Billy Bragg, Graham Coxon, Peggy Seeger, Maddy Prior, Marry Waterson, and many more.

Titled The Life and Songs of Martin Carthy, the night will draw on Carthy's enormous and influential back catalogue, including work in collaboration with Dave Swarbrick, as part of Albion Country Band, Steeleye Span, The Watersons, Brass Monkey, The Imagined Village, Waterson:Carthy and more.

It comes following the release of his latest album, Transform Me Then Into A Fish, this month, which marked his 84th birthday and saw him reinterpret music from his...

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David Lynch Memorabilia to be Placed for Online Auction 30 May 4:05 AM (3 days ago)

Items such as the late director's chair and personal 35mm print of Eraserhead will be sold in the live auction event on June 18

A collection of items belonging to the late David Lynch are to be placed up for auction in June.

Overseen by Julien's Auctions and Turner Classic Movies, The David Lynch Collection takes in more than 450 items belonging to the director. Among the memorabilia set to be sold are Lynch's director's chair, the Black Lodge curtain and rug from the Twin Peaks set, his personal 35mm print of Eraserhead, and various props from Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: The Return.

Announcing the auction, Catherine Williamson, the managing director of entertainment at Julien's Auctions, said: "Julien's and TCM are honoured...

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Berghain Relaunches Ostgut Ton Label Following Four-Year Hiatus 30 May 3:12 AM (3 days ago)

A new compilation, Klubnacht 01, marks 20 years of the Berlin club's in-house imprint

Foto: Arne Müseler

Ostgut Ton has returned from a four-year hiatus with a new 18-track compilation, Klubnacht 01.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Berlin club Berghain's in-house label, the release features new cuts from the likes of Steffi, Verraco, JakoJako, Fadi Mohem, Virginia and Efdemin. Its tracklist represents both the main Berghain floor of the club, and the house music-oriented Panorama Bar.

Founded in 2005, Ostgut Ton is one of the most influential and revered house and techno labels of the 21st century, having put out records from the likes of Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Martyn, Barker, JASSS, Shed, Function and Luke Slater. Its last release before now was 2021...

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Clipse Detail First New Album Since 2009, ‘Let God Sort Em Out’ 30 May 1:23 AM (3 days ago)

The hip hop duo of Pusha T and No Malice enlisted Pharrell Williams to produce the new record

Clipse have shared details of their long-awaited new album, titled Let God Sort Em Out.

After years of teasing a new project, the hip hop duo of Pusha T and No Malice have revealed that the follow-up to 2009's Til The Casket Drops is produced by longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams and will be released in July. Its lead single, 'Ace Trumpets', can be listened to below.

Having formed in the 90s, Clipse released three studio albums through the 00s: 2002's Lord Willin', 2006's Hell Hath No Fury and 2009s' Til The Casket Drops. After going on hiatus, the project's two members released a number...

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Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of May 2025 30 May 1:07 AM (3 days ago)

Here are the albums and songs from the last month that we think you should hear, as selected by tQ's staffers

I spent most of May feeling disconnected from music, something that happens from time to time, usually in lockstep with cycles of overwork and burnout that have come to define the experience of most people I know who work within underground, DIY and experimental creative spaces. Then, when listening to the new These New Puritans record, it was as if the music arrived as a crack of light through the darkness, boring a hole through which the streams of sonic excellence I'd been resisting could pour.

You'll find that album, as well as an imperious comeback LP from Stereolab, new...

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Reissue of the Week: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly (10 Year Anniversary Edition) 29 May 11:30 PM (3 days ago)

In 2014 Kendrick Lamar found himself in South Africa, an experience that helped to shape his third studio record, which is perhaps his most complex and enduring statement. Siobhán Kane revisits To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar's third album was almost called To Pimp A Caterpillar, a title that would reference an acrostic touchstone (Tu-P-A-C), but the rapper’s own metamorphosis was, by this point, more butterfly than developmental stage. To become a butterfly, a caterpillar must pupate within a chrysalis for radical transformation. Lamar’s journey had been just as dramatic, with 2011’s Section.80 and 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city announcing a new and singular sensibility. 

As a Gemini, duality and nuance is perhaps rooted in Lamar’s spirit, and To Pimp a Butterfly...

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tQ Subscriber Release: Mohammad Syfkhan 29 May 11:00 PM (3 days ago)

This month's exclusive tQ subscriber download is a storming set from the mighty Mohammad Syfkhan

Photo by Michael Rodham-Heaps

It’s been almost a decade since Mohammad Syfkhan, temporarily living in an Irish holiday camp having just arrived from Syria, chanced upon Lankum’s Cormac Mac Diarmada. Mac Diarmada was among a group who’d been asked to perform a few tunes there on Christmas Eve, and Syfkhan asked if he could fetch his bouzouki and join in. “When he played,” Mac Diarmada told us in a profile of Sykhan last year, “we were all totally stunned, he was unreal! I’ve seen him play a couple of times since and each time I’ve been absolutely entranced. He has a beautiful, melodic, driving style that weaves...

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Abul Mogard – Quiet Pieces 29 May 9:02 PM (3 days ago)

Abul Mogard

Quiet Pieces

The latest from Guido Zen's ambient alterego evokes the colourfields of abstract art, finds Aydin Khalili

Quiet Pieces by Abul Mogard

Using fictional characters as alter egos is nothing new among musicians. From Gorillaz to the late MF DOOM, many have adopted fictional personas, sometimes fully fleshed-out characters, to perform live or create within the studio. Once, Ghost Bath, a North Dakotan black metal project, even claimed to hail from China. Guido Zen, aka Abul Mogard, belongs to this tradition, too. For years, he released ambient drone material under the guise of a retired Serbian factory worker, a man with formal musical training who, in the silence that followed retirement, found himself longing for the clunk and clatter of the...

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MUTEK Unveils Full Lineup for 2025 Edition 29 May 11:52 AM (3 days ago)

Shackleton and Speedy J are among the acts rounding out the bill for the Canadian festival

Photo by Bruno Aiello Destombes

MUTEK has shared the complete lineup for its 2025 edition, taking place this August.

Returning this year for its 26th edition, the Montréal festival will newly take in two live sets from Shackleton: one solo and the other in collaboration with Wacław Zimpel and Siddhartha Belmannu. There are also newly confirmed sets from Speedy J, Topdown Dialectic, Valesuchi, Hodge, Al Wootton and Bergsonist, among others.

They all join the previously announced likes of Max Cooper, Slikback, Valentina Magaletti, Yu Su and many more on the bill for the festival.

MUTEK will take place from August 19 to 24, 2025. Find more information here.
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Talking Heads’ ‘More Songs About Buildings And Food’ to be Reissued 29 May 10:56 AM (3 days ago)

The newly remastered album will be released in various CD and vinyl editions with added bonus material

Talking Heads' 1978 album More Songs About Buildings And Food is being reissued.

Due in July, the album has been newly remastered for its updated release, and will be made available in various CD and vinyl editions with additional unreleased studio and live recordings. A 3xCD super deluxe edition will also come with a Blu-ray disc featuring concert footage from a 1978 New York show, while a 4xLP edition will come with additional reissues of four 7-inch singles.

Pre-orders of the various formats of the reissue are live here.

To mark the announcement, Talking Heads have shared a previously unreleased alternate version of album track 'Found A...

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The Sabres Of Paradise Albums Set for Reissue 29 May 8:58 AM (3 days ago)

Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall have both been newly remastered for an updated release this August

The Sabres Of Paradise's first two albums, Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall, are to be reissued.

Due out in August, the two records have been newly remastered for the updated release, and will be made available in both CD and double-vinyl editions, as well as on digital platforms. The reissue is going ahead with the full collaboration of surviving group members Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, as well as with the full support of the estate of the late Andrew Weatherall.

In a statement, Kooner said: "We just thought it's time to go back and revisit this. To let people know that it was a pivotal moment in time,...

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Bruce Springsteen Shares ‘Adelita’ from ‘Lost’ Album ‘Inyo’ 29 May 6:56 AM (3 days ago)

It appears on the US artist's upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, compiling several albums' worth of previously unreleased material

Photo by Neal Preston

Bruce Springsteen has shared a previously unheard track, called 'Adelita'.

The song is lifted from the unreleased album Inyo, which the US artist recorded in the 1990s as a possible follow-up to The Ghost Of Tom Joad. Plans to release the record, however, were shelved until now as it's set to appear on Springsteen's forthcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, which compiles several albums' worth of unreleased material recorded between 1983 and 2018.

'Adelita' is described as an ode to Mexico's "soldadera" freedom fighters, with Inyo featuring contributions from several mariachi musicians. You can listen to...

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Eternal Cities: How Underworld Embodied the Agony and Ecstasy of Urban Life 29 May 5:59 AM (3 days ago)

As Underworld's discography from 1994 to 2016 receives a 'perfect sound' reissue, Darran Anderson surveys how their frantic, beautiful music both embodied the overwhelm of city life and offered a rapturous escape from it

Underworld in 1996

Never trust an artist. Returning to his apartment, the young Soviet cinematographer Aleksandr Lemberg discovered his friend and colleague David Abelevich Kaufman had blackened the walls and ceiling in soot, upon which, he had drawn a multitude of clocks in chalk, all showing different times with wildly swinging pendulums. “I did not like this at all,” Lemberg later recalled. Kaufman was, by contrast, manic in his enthusiasm. In his mind, he had transformed what was merely a family home into a Russian Futurist masterpiece. The clocks were...

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Visible Mending: caroline 2 is Our Album of the Week 28 May 9:02 PM (4 days ago)

Youthful London-based octet take a kintsugi approach to songcraft on their second album, with a little help from Caroline Polachek

Photo credit: El Hardwick

In recent weeks I’ve been obsessed with r/visiblemending, a joyously strange corner of the internet. Users of this subreddit don’t simply mend their own clothes, already a revolutionary act in the age of fast fashion, but do so in ways that make their garments look as though they have been amateurishly hand-fixed. Cross stitches in brightly coloured thread, patches of wholly different material, and a bit of ornamental sashiko for good measure, the visible menders transform their wearisome clothes into wearable artworks, beloved celebrations of the crafting process.

I find it impossible not to draw parallels between this phenomenon...

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Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko – Гільдеґарда (Hildergard) 28 May 9:01 PM (4 days ago)

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

Гільдеґарда (Hildergard)

Recorded in a Cistercian abbey, electronic producer Oleh Shkudeiko joins forces with Ukrainian vocalist Andriana-yaroslava Saienko to pay tribute to the 12th-century German mystic

Гільдеґарда (Hildergard) by Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

Already on the fractious Madrigals, Heinali (Oleh Shkudeiko) impressed with his ability to combine Renaissance polyphony with modern electronics. He created music that does not recreate the past but uses it as a foundation for contemporary sound constructions. That wasn’t only a formal experiment; today, it is also a gesture of memory, resistance, and spiritual mobilization. On Гільдеґарда (Hildegarda), a new album recorded with vocalist Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, this tension becomes the axis of their latest work.

Heinali has been exploring early music for the past decade, but not...

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Portugal’s OUT.FEST Unveils First Acts Playing 2025 Edition 28 May 7:46 AM (4 days ago)

The Portuguese festival will host Divide And Dissolve, Rashad Becker and more this October

Photo by Vera Marmelo

OUT.FEST has shared the first wave of acts playing its 21st edition later this year.

Taking place in the Portuguese town of Barreiro, the festival will feature headline sets from the likes of Divide And Dissolve, Rashad Becker, Beatrice Dillon, upsammy and Cuntroaches.

Also confirmed among the first artist announcement are Bhutanese guitarist Tasha Dorji; Japanese experimental musician Miki Yui; Galician sound artist Carme López; Swiss bassist Martina Berther; and Nyege Nyege Tapes affiliates HHY & The Kampala Unit.

Further names will be added to the bill in the coming months.

OUT.FEST will take place from October 2 to 5, 2025. Find more information here.
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Heavy Metal Rituals: Osmium Interviewed 28 May 1:10 AM (5 days ago)

Richard Foster speaks to four "serious geologists" – Hildur Guðnadóttir, Emptyset's James Ginzburg, Senyawa's Rully Shabara and Sam Slater – about designing new instruments and the racket made by the heaviest of heavy metals

Photo by Camille Blake

OSMIUM by OSMIUM

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Words can, like Shelley's, bring a certain irony to a situation. Written down, the bare facts about experimental supergroup Osmium and their self-titled debut look daunting. Oscar-winning composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, Emptyset and Subtext engineer and producer James Ginzburg, Rully Shabara from Indonesian experimental duo Senyawa and Grammy-winning sound designer and producer Sam Slater used an array of custom-built instruments, self-designed robotics and modulations of the voice to “explore the relationships between humans and technology,...

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Ain’t it the Truth: Robert Lloyd of Nightingales’ Favourite Music 27 May 11:05 PM (5 days ago)

In the wake of Nightingales' new record The Awful Truth, the band's leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater

Photo by Ming de Nasty

To the Shrewsbury Hotel by a bend in the Severn, where the décor features images of the city’s most famous son – Charles Darwin. Darwin with beard, Darwin with birds, Darwin with a monkey. There will be more monkey business in The Shrewsbury as the day evolves. 

Robert Lloyd, head Nightingale, Cannock Man, sits studying the form in his copy of the Racing Post. As hinted in Stewart Lee’s superb film on the songwriter, King Rocker,...

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Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) 27 May 11:02 PM (5 days ago)

Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

On its tenth anniversary, the Midwestern singer-songwriter returns to his classic autobiographical album with a new release featuring previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Listening to now double-disced record anew, Kat Lister finds a profound meditation on the nature of grief

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) by Sufjan Stevens

In 1978, a couple claimed to see a three-humped creature break through the surface of Wallowa Lake in Oregon. A beast that, to their eyes, most resembled a twenty-foot snake. Although if you had asked a woman called Irene thirty years earlier, she would have told you that it had the head of a hog. A century prior, a local resident heard a low bellow, like that...

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Smerz – Big City Life 27 May 9:03 PM (5 days ago)

Smerz

Big City Life

Norwegian anti-pop duo send voice notes from the abyss of the contemporary mediascape

Big city life by Smerz

Big City Life isn’t so much an album as it is a masterful sequence of gestures: flickers of sound, half-decisions, the musical equivalent of shrugging while making eye contact. The Norwegian duo – Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt – still sound like they’re texting each other ideas at odd hours, deliberately left open-ended to preserve their magic.

Smerz are still working in the zone where club music, art-school minimalism, and emotional confession overlap. Big City Life operates on a kind of low-battery logic: everything flickers, fades, or folds back on itself with hypnotic intention. These are ideas introduced and strategically abandoned. Beats arrive...

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Saint Etienne Reveal Final Album, ‘International’ 27 May 8:27 AM (5 days ago)

The band's 13th album will be released in September

Photo by Rob Baker Ashton

Saint Etienne have announced their last album, International.

Drawing to a close 35 years of recording music together, the band have decided to amicably call it quits with their 13th studio LP, which sees them team up with a cast of collaborators that includes Confidence Man, Erasure's Vince Clarke, Erol Alkan, Paul Hartnoll of Orbital and Nick Heyward.

To mark the new record's announcement, Saint Etienne have shared lead track 'Glad', which was co-written and produced with Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, and also features guitar from Doves' Jez Williams. You can watch a video for the song below.

In a statement about 'Glad', the trio's Sarah Cracknell said: "We...

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SHAPE+ to Host Event at London’s Cafe OTO 27 May 8:00 AM (5 days ago)

The June 16 event will feature sets from four artists on the 2024/25 roster of SHAPE+ artists

SHAPE+, the European Union-funded platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, is putting an event on at London's Cafe OTO next month.

Scheduled for June 16, the event will take in sets from four acts who appeared on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ roster of artists: Brussels-based Aulos player Lukas De Clerck (as chosen by SHAPE+-participating festival Rewire); Paris-based sound artist and composer Eve Aboulkheir (as a representative of Portugal's OUT.FEST); Latvian interdisciplinary artist Paula Vītola (on behalf of Riga's Skaņu Mežs); and ambient music producer and Paralaxe Editions label founder Dania (as a chosen by Serbia's Polja festival), who hails from Iraq and is based in...

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Lucrecia Dalt Details New Album, ‘A Danger To Ourselves’ 27 May 7:47 AM (5 days ago)

Out in September, it features contributions from David Sylvian

Photo by Louie Perea

Lucrecia Dalt has shared details of a new album, titled A Danger To Ourselves.

Spanning 13 tracks, the follow-up to 2022's ¡Ay! features David Sylvian appearing as a guest co-producer and guitarist on select tracks, while there are also vocal contributions across the record from Juana Molina, Camille Mandoki and Eliana Joy.

The new record, a press release said, strips away "fictional narratives" present on Dalt's past albums, focusing instead on "emotional sincerity".

The artist has shared lead track 'divina' alongside the album's announcement, and you can watch a video for the song below. The visual stars Dalt and multidisciplinary artist Lucia Maher-Tatar, and is directed by filmmaker Tony Lowe.

RVNG Intl. will...

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Greece’s Subset Festival Unveiled 27 May 6:53 AM (5 days ago)

International and local artists including Lyra Pramuk and Arca meet in June

Lyra Pramuk by Leonard Scotti

The  Athens Epidaurus Festival has unveiled a programme of events under the Subset banner, scheduled to take place at venues across the city this June. With immersive soundsystems installed in venues from the Ioannis Despotopoulos Amphitheatre to the Athens Conservatoire, the line-up will include Lyra Pramuk playing her forthcoming album Hymnal, as well as sets from Ryoji Ikeda, Christina Vantzou, Mouse On Mars, and many more. Arca and Greek PAN artist Evita Manji will open the Athens Epidaurus Festival and Subset via live performances at the open-air Lycabettus Theatre on 31 May – this will be Arca's Greek debut.

Speaking about the festival, curator Stavros Gasparatos said "When I...

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