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Southbank Centre to host South Asian Sounds event series in March

The London venue is set to host a new South Asian Sounds programme, spotlighting artists and musical traditions from the wider Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Afghan diaspora

The Soft Moon’s Luis Vasquez has passed away

The news was shared via The Soft Moon social media account today (19 January). Luis…

Silent Servant has died

The news was confirmed by the influential LA-based DJ and producer’s management today (19 January)….

Jlin announces new album Akoma, featuring Björk and Philip Glass

The 11-track releases for Planet Mu leads with closing cut – and Philip Glass collaboration – ‘The Precision of Infinity’

La Fraicheur

High-energy hardcore, hard house and trance from the Barcelona-based DJ, producer and House of (S)PUNK founder

Pitchfork is being merged with GQ

There has also been significant staff layoffs from the music publication amidst the changes

Saffron and Black Artist Database are teaming up for a series of workshops

The music production workshops will take place online over the next few months with sessions from B.A.D. co-founder NIKS, multidisciplinary artist Coco Em and composer and sound artist [M]

OK Williams, Karenn and Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy confirmed to play E1

The London club has announced its programme for the first quarter of 2024

Pop Zone: Maud

Norwegian artist Maud – aka Kristine Hoff – delivers a “rapid and experimental but mostly soft and dreamy” Pop Zone mix filled with PC Music, hyperpop and trance pop goods

Vegyn announces new album featuring John Glacier, Lauren Auder and more

‘The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions’ is due out 5 April via the artist’s own label PLZ Make It Ruins

Live from Lost Music Festival 2023: Listen to the mix series

Hit play on a handful of sets recorded at Italy’s Lost Music Festival last year, and bring a dose of sunshine to your speakers. Featuring DJ Python, Dinamarca, Virginia WWW, Alto Fuero and Reptilian Expo

Live from Lost Music Festival: Dinamarca

Pure dancefloor bliss to get lost in from the Staycore co-founder, recorded at Lost Music Festival 2023

Live from Lost Music Festival: Virginia WWW

A brain massage in performance (now mix) form from Spiritual Sauna’s Virginia WWW

Live from Lost Music Festival: DJ Python

For his two-hour set at Lost Music Festival 2023, DJ Python kept the mood steamy and the energy high throughout

Live from Lost Music Festival: Alto Fuero

For their live performance at Lost Music Festival, artist duo Alto Fuero tapped into a transportative ritualism – ranging from otherworldly incantations to frenetic club-rooted rhythms

Live from Lost Music Festival: Reptilian Expo

Step into the Italian artist’s surreal dreamworld, filled with wiggy electronics and aqueous basslines

Rizla launches design competition

The winner will see their Rizla Silver design stocked in shops across the UK and also receive a Macbook Pro as a prize

Pioneering radio presenter and DJ Annie Nightingale has died

The legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ, who was the station’s first woman broadcaster, passed away on 11 January 2024, aged 83

Sunday Mix: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

“Music for reflection, empowerment, heart strengthening, joy, and open-mindedness” from the prolific Los Angeles artist and Brainfeeder affiliate

Daisy Moon

The long-overdue turn of Bristol stalwart Daisy Moon, who turns in a 90-ish-minute set representative of the music she enjoys mixing at home. Hypnotic, loopy club music mixed with finesse, with some unreleased newness inside

Bristol’s The Love Inn announces 10th birthday weekender

The celebrations commence on 1 February and will feature over 30 artists, regulars and special guests

Four Tet releases new single, Loved, from forthcoming album

“It’s the opening track from the new album which is coming soon”

Martyna Basta, bela and Lamina to play Belgium’s schiev festival next month

The Brussels-based festival returns to multidisciplinary arts centre Beursschouwburg from 2 to 3 February

A Q Lazzarus reissue and documentary are set to be released this year

Dark Entries Records is set to release a Q Lazzarus reissue this year along with a documentary, made by director and writer Eva Aridjis, about the mysterious singer of ‘Goodbye Horses’

Soundcloud is up for sale

The music streaming platform is reportedly valued at over $1 billion

The latest round of Youth Music’s NextGen Fund is open now

Applications for the eighth round of the funding initiative are open until 5pm (GMT) on 19 January

Brad Stank curates an eclectic and free-flowing playlist

Featuring tracks by Cleo Soul, Jessica Pratt, Faye Webster, Alice Coltrane, Eddie Chacon and more

Bang Face Weekender’s home, Southport Pontins, has shut with immediate effect

Bang Face is “looking at how this may affect the 2024 Weekender and will provide an update as soon as possible”

Skee Mask drops new compilation of previously unreleased tracks

Listen to ‘C’ now

City Girls’ JT teases collaboration with Arca

The City Girls rapper hinted to a potential collaboration after sharing a snippet of a new track seemingly produced by the former Crack Magazine cover star to social media