The UK festival returns to Herefordshire on 30 June to 3 July 2022. El Dorado Festival is making a comeback, and has announced its upcoming line-up. Sherelle has been confirmed for the programme, along with HAAi, Moxie, David Rodigan, Horse Meat Disco, Nia Archives, Skream, Afriquoi and more. Furthermore, revellers can expect to hear sets[…]
The project has launched an open call for musical projects that align with its guiding ethos. REMAIIN, or Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature, is a music-led project that spotlights non-European cultural influences within experimental and avant-garde music. Since its launch in 2020, the project has presented a variety of works spanning film, music[…]
The first names are in for Ortigia Sound System 2022. The Italian festival, which takes place on the Sicilian island of Ortigia, will return for its eight edition on 27-31 July. The event’s first artist announcement boasts a pair of former Crack Magazine and The Collections cover stars: Anz and Loraine James. Elsewhere, the likes[…]
London venue Printworks has added an array of new shows and artists to its spring and summer 2022 calendar. Now in its fifth year of operation, Printworks is marking the milestone occasion with a packed musical programme that now includes parties helmed by the likes of Glitterbox, Foreverland and Clockwork Orange. Famed LGBTQ+ collective and[…]
Leeds venue Wire has announced a slew of new events set to take place across February and March. On 25 February, the cosy basement club will welcome Evan Baggs and Hessle Audio co-founder Pearson Sound. Anz, Two Shell and Jameela will take to the venue the following weekend (5 March), with DJ Boring, Laurine &[…]
Employees have raised concerns over Vice Media’s involvement with Saudi Arabia. Vice Media was involved in the organisation of a music festival in Saudi Arabia, the Guardian reports. According to the Guardian, Azimuth Festival was organised through Vice’s creative marketing agency, Virtue. The Guardian reports that contractors employed to work on the festival were asked to sign NDAs[…]
The celebrated Croatian event will stage its first edition in the UK from 30 June to 3 July. The first names are in for Outlook Festival‘s debut UK edition. The festival will venture to Cholmondeley Castle, in Cheshire, this June for a four-day celebration of electronic music and sound system culture. Outlook has enlisted the likes[…]
Watch the new film in the player above. Last year, London-founded online radio station No Signal launched an academy for young Black creatives. The first NS Academy guided participants through the “how-to’s” of the industry, with leading figures from radio, graphic design and social media backgrounds, among others, involved in the initiative. Each participant received £1,000[…]
Rihanna is expecting her first child with rapper A$AP Rocky. The pair were photographed out in New York over the weekend, with the ANTI singer debuting her baby bump during the stroll. The artist’s bright pink coat was unbuttoned above her bump, which was adorned in jewellery. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were first linked back in 2013.[…]
The hit show returns to Neflix in March. A new season of Top Boy is on its way, and the premiere date has just been unveiled. The show will return for its fourth season on 18 March. The season launch date was unveiled today (31 January) via the show’s official social media channels. The premiere[…]
Isaac Wood is leaving Black Country, New Road. The band have announced that singer and guitarist Isaac Wood is departing from the group. Wood has cited his wellbeing as the reason behind his departure. “I have bad news which is that I have been feeling sad and afraid too,” Wood wrote in an online statement.[…]
The park will open its doors in November. A new theme park centred around the works of Studio Ghibli will open in Japan on 1 November. The celebrated animation studio confirmed the park’s debut on social media, having previously teased “Fall 2022” as an opening period. 「ジブリパーク」の開園日が発表されました。 pic.twitter.com/weMpQjsyEV The park is situated within the Aichi[…]
Sons of Kemet, anu and DJ Harvey are also among the latest additions to this year’s programme. South London’s Gala Festival has finalised its 2022 line-up. The event is set to stage its sixth edition in Peckham Rye Park from 2 to 4 June. Taking place across the June bank holiday weekend, this year’s festival[…]
The Bristol festival will mark its milestone birthday with an ambitious event staged at its new Ashton Court home. Love Saves The Day has announced the line-up for its 10th anniversary edition, set to take place across this year’s double bank holiday weekend, on 2-3 June. Bicep and Chase and Status will headline the two-day[…]
Listen below. PinkPantheress just dropped a new remix album. to hell with it (Remixes) sees the likes of LSDXOXO, Nia Archives, Flume, Powfu and El Guincho remixing tracks from the London-based artist and Collections cover star‘s debut mixtape. Anz has also contributed to the project. The OTMI label boss hinted at a potential collaboration last week,[…]
The line-up has been revealed for the last ever event at London venue The Drumsheds. The ‘NOT TO BE’ event, taking place this Saturday, 29th January and organised by promoter The Hydra, will see a number of dance music’s biggest names playing together to see off the venue. Running from midday until 10.30pm, there will[…]
Mary Anne Hobbs is teaming up with fabric to put on a special event marking International Women’s Day this March. All Queens, set for 12th March, will see Hobbs take over the London club with an all-female line-up including AFRODEUTSCHE, TAAHLIAH, Jamz Supernova, Elkka, Jossy Mitsu and Nia Archives. Laurel Halo and Courtesy are also[…]
Kenyan composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariūki will release her debut EP, ‘peace places: kenyan memories’, next month via SA Recordings. Listen to the single, ‘Equator Song’, below. Across the EP’s six tracks, Kariūki, who lives between Nairobi, New York and Maryland, weaves elements of experimental electronic music, contemporary classical, choral pop and East African[…]
India Jordan, Jossy Mitsu and Romo Weeks will play at Birmingham’s Space 54 next month with DJ Mag Presents. The event will take place from 10pm – 4am on Friday 18th March in the club space attached to the recently reopened Forum venue. Tickets are on sale now and are available here. India Jordan has[…]
Listen to The Smoke below. The Smile, a new group comprised of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have just dropped a new track entitled The Smoke. It’s the band’s second musical offering, following on from their debut single You Will Never Work in Television Again, which arrived earlier this month. The[…]
Leon Vynehall will handle the next instalment of the ‘fabric presents’ mix compilation series. Out on 25th March, Vynehall’s mix spans 33 tracks and includes new and exclusive tracks by the likes of Skee Mask, Or:la, Ehua and Vynehall himself, who contributes the track ‘Sugar Slip (The Lick)’. Elsewhere, there’s music from Mosca, Hagan, Steevio,[…]
