Manchester audiophile bar, NAM, has announced the programme for its Winter of Listening. Located in Ancoats, the venue boasts a bespoke sound system, which features rare Klipschorn 80s heritage speakers and was developed by London-based team Brilliant Corners. The space also features an upstairs bar and Vietnamese restaurant, with a basement dedicated to music events.[…]
Gábor Lázár has announced a new album, ‘Boundary Object’, which will land on Planet Mu next month. The record, which has taken two years to complete with work taking place in Prague and Budapest, was recorded in real time, with tunes unedited. This was made possible thanks to a bespoke compositional interface which Lázár designed[…]
Legendary Manchester venue Band On The Wall will reopen on 3rd March following a £3.5million expansion project spanning almost two years. The development sees the Victorian-era Cocozza Wood building, located behind Band On The Wall, brought into the complex. Overall main room capacity has been increased to 500, the first floor is now dedicated to[…]
Pope Francis was spotted visiting a Rome record store last week. The 85-year-old head of the Catholic Church made the visit to Stereo Sound, a small record store near the Pantheon, on Tuesday night. The trip was supposed to remain a secret but a local journalist, Javier Martinez-Brocal, happened to witness the event by chance[…]
Brighton club Patterns has announced its first run of parties for 2022, with line-ups confirmed from January up to March. DJs set to play the club over the next few months include Saoirse, Nia Archives, Helena Hauff, salute, dBridge, Tailor Jae. KETTAMA and Rhythm Section International boss Bradley Zero. You can see the full programme[…]
Shinichi Atobe has released his sixth album, ‘Love Of Plastic’ on DDS (Distort Decay Sustain). You can listen to ‘Love Of Plastic 5’ below. The nine-track release of distinctive deep house and dub techno follows the Japanese producer’s 2020 album, ‘Yes’ and 2018’s ‘Heat’, which was listed on DJ Mag’s electronic albums that defined the[…]
A new photobook, titled Location TBA, documents the “temporary utopias’ found in Prague’s contemporary rave scene. The book has been created and edited by photographer Gabriela Kontra, with design input by Michal Veltruský. Focused on the years between 2015 and 2020, the publication runs to around 300 pages, with text in both English and Czech[…]
The Happy Mondays’ famed percussionist and ‘freaky dancer’ Bez, AKA Mark Berry, has debuted on the ITV show ‘Dancing On Ice’, partnering with professional skater Angela Egan. The Manchester music icon appeared wearing a melon-patterned helmet — the first contestant to wear protective head gear — and was lowered to the rink on a giant[…]
Manchester United and England footballing great Gary Neville, now a prominent pundit working for Sky Sports, has spoken out about the UK Government over the lockdown parties scandal that has engulfed the Conservative Party in the past month. Allegations have emerged relating to a string of events — some attended by as many as 100[…]
FKA Twigs has released her new mixtape, ‘CAPRISONGS’. You can listen to it below. The 17-track release features contributions from a host of artists including Twigs’ recent collaboration with The Weeknd, ‘Tears In The Club’. Jorja Smith, Daniel Caesar, Shygirl and Rema also feature on the tape. It marks the multidisciplinary artist’s third full-length project,[…]
The first LGBTQ+ electronic music and camping festival will launch in the UK this year. London’s Flesh Queer Festival will take place on 28th and 29th May 2022 at Springfield Farm in St Albans. The bank holiday event welcomes LGBTQ+ individuals, their friends and allies. The full programme for the two-day event, which you can[…]
Lady Of The House is hosting an exhibition celebrating women in dance music from 8th – 12th March. Commencing on International Women’s Day, the Lady of The House cultural exhibition will take place at Lost Horizon in Bristol, with live-streaming also made available. The programme will kick off with an Under 18’s day on the[…]
Groundworks has dropped its second annual cypher. Following the 2020 GW cypher, which featured the likes of Digga D and M1llionz, the creative consultancy agency has returned with a 2021 edition starring some of the biggest names in UK rap. Alongside Unknown T, who made an appearance on last year’s instalment, fellow #98s collective members in the[…]
Jacques Greene has announced a new EP. The Toronto-based artist, who recently shared a number of early, out of print tracks from his back catalogue, will return to LuckyMe later this month with five-track EP, ‘Fantasy’. Featuring vocals from singer Leanne Macomber and mixing courtesy of Joel Ford, who worked with Greene on his 2019 LP ‘Dawn Chorus’,[…]
Kendrick Lamar and the creators of South Park are developing a live-action comedy film together. The California-born rapper and Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the duo behind iconic cartoon series, will begin production on the untitled project in Spring 2022 for Paramount Pictures. Lamar and his longtime manager Dave Free will produce the project through their[…]
The Streets has dropped a new single. Following the release of an LP under his side project The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light in July last year, Mike Skinner as The Streets has recorded a new single, ‘Wrong Answers Only’, alongside South London singer and rapper, Master Peace. Out today (14th) via Island Records,[…]
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the country’s clubs will remain closed until at least 24th January, in an attempt to help curb the spread of the Omicron variant. Yesterday’s announcement confirmed that restrictions on large outdoor events would be lifted from Monday, while restrictions on indoor venues will remain in place for at[…]
A new memoir, The Motel: High Times in ‘90s Ibiza, is set to be published by Unbound. Iconic club promoter Claire Manumission, who ran the legendary Ibiza Manumission parties alongside her partner Mike at Privilege, has penned a memoir that provides a “a darkly humorous look at hedonism in drug-kissed ’90s Ibiza”. “Over its 14-year history,[…]
Brighton venue Patterns has announced its January to March club listings. This month, the seafront venue will play host to a number of resident DJs and in-house events, including Friday night party Foundations. The likes of Daisha, Giulia Tess and T Dunn will also play out in January, during nights hosted by Patterns regular Faro[…]
The live-action comedy is an untitled feature film. Kendrick Lamar is teaming up with Dave Free and South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker to produce an untitled comedy. Written by Vernon Chatman, the comedy has been penned for Lamar and Free’s media company pgLang, as well as Park County and Paramount Pictures. Production will begin[…]
Brooklyn venue Bossa Nova Civic Club will be shut for a “notable amount of time” after a catastrophic fire in its building, it has been announced. On Wednesday night (12th January), a fire broke out on the third floor of the building that houses the beloved club. While the fire did not reach the ground[…]
