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“It’s this feeling that you might stumble upon something brilliant by pure chance”: Iceland Airwaves 2024
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Iceland Airwaves, artists from Reykjavík’s eclectic music scene joined acts from across the globe – including Bar Italia, Magdalena Bay and Lambrini Girls.
Returning to Turin for its 22nd edition with the theme ‘Living With The Gods’, C2C Festival saw highlight sets from A. G. Cook, Nala Sinephro, Mica Levi, Mabe Fratti and more.
070 Shake’s moody, uncontainable sound has quietly left fingerprints across contemporary pop’s landscape. Now, with her adventurous new album and a carefully managed relationship with growing media glare, she’s ready to let in the light.
Known for sets that move through techno, hardgroove, dubstep, footwork and more, DJ and producer Neffa-T takes us on a high-energy ride through the sounds he knows best.
Keeping its promise to spotlight challenging music and original artistry, Semibreve’s carefully curated programme focused on intimate, high-impact shows.
Are you not entertained? Robert Del Naja and Matt Clark on creating confronting, exhilarating live visuals
Reflecting on Massive Attack’s pioneering low-carbon ACT 1.5 event in Bristol this summer, Robert Del Naja and UVA’s Matt Clark discuss their evolving artistic collaboration, the show’s themes and the legacy it will leave.
In a murky political present, Laurie Anderson is still finding light in the future
Four decades after performing her live dissection of Reagan’s America, Laurie Anderson will debut the next instalment in Manchester this month, throwing a typically clarifying light on our uniquely troubled times.
A mix of new music and collaborative demos tied together with Lister’s distinctive flair: hyper-detailed percussion, futuristic soundscapes and unexpected turns.
Canadian minimalist Sarah Davachi’s love for the pipe organ has defined her music: dramatic, ambitious and physical. On her latest album, she weaves modern electronics with these centuries-old instruments to create a vast, layered world of her own.
For Crack Mix 597, Jokkoo Collective’s MOOKI6 provides a twisting 70-minute journey through menacing trap instrumentals, off-beat industrial techno, dubstep and experimental club music.
This is Cue Points, a series where DJs get granular with current tracks in their sets, giving us the low-down on what makes them work. This week, Detroit trio HiTech pick five of their favourite tracks for high-energy sets to make the club move.
With highlight sets from Flowdan, Lord Spikeheart, DJ Storm and Iceboy Violet with Nueen, No Bounds brought a weekend of thoughtfully curated music and art to 11 venues across Sheffield and Rotherham.
Twenty years on, Sung Tongs is still Animal Collective at their most elemental
Inspired by classic pop, freak folk and minimal house, Animal Collective’s strange and beautiful second album deserves greater recognition for its sonic experimentation and emotional resonance.
Lunchmeat Festival 2024 through five key performances
Trippy audiovisual sets were the star of the show at Prague’s Lunchmeat this year – from object blue’s collaboration with Natalia Podgórska, to Toumba’s link-up with local artist Kristýna Sidlárová.
Chat Pile: “It’s just a big anti-war statement, the whole album”
Oklahoma’s dirtbag metal band Chat Pile are taking on the great, stinking mess of 21st-century America, armed with gallows humour, acerbic lyricism and a crushingly heavy sound.
“It was like leaving each other little messages”: Iceboy Violet in conversation with Nueen
The ‘You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through The Fire’ collaborators catch up to discuss creating a cathartic project, ambient music as an attitude, and why there’s never been a more exciting time in rap than now.
Listen to a playlist highlighting forms of resistance through music, curated by Saya
DJ, artist, researcher and activist Saya puts together a playlist exploring forms of resistance through music, with sounds ranging from Palestinian trap to dabke, hard drums and kuduro.
Marking the official start of The Warehouse Project’s 2024 season, Repercussion returned to Depot Mayfield with a stacked line-up celebrating dance music in all its forms.
Japanese techno originator Ken Ishii takes over the Crack Mix, where he provides an all-systems-go, peak time club mix of four-to-the-floor heft and wonky bangers.
“Then we watched Philadelphia” – Midland in conversation with artist and writer Huw Lemmey
To mark the release of his debut album, ‘Fragments Of Us’, Midland sits down with ‘Bad Gays’’ Huw Lemmey to discuss queer spaces, histories, otherness and togetherness.
Meakusma Festival 2024: “Guaranteed encounters with the unexpected and brilliant”
At this year’s 20th anniversary edition of Meakusma Festival, a tight crowd gathered in Belgium’s Eupen in search of sounds and experiences they wouldn’t find anywhere else.
Berlin-based sound artist and experimental composer NEXCYIA provides the weekend soundtrack with a Sunday Mix of serene, pad-filled ambient, metallic downtempo and confounding IDM.