Posts by Maya Ellwood

EXIT festival announces new names to play Dance Arena and NSNS stages

Exit Festival has just announced the big names set to join them at their Dance Arena and NSNS stages for the 2024 edition.

Bilbao BBK Live completes 2024 lineup

Joining the existing headliners Arcade Fire, Jungle, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Underworld, Khruangbin and Parcels, Bilbao BBK Live have now announced a further three headlining acts in the way of Grace Jones, AIR and Slowdive as well as a slew of new names across the bill.

Crack Mix 565: Bonebrokk

This weeks Crack Mix is courtesy of Athens-based Sound Artist, Music Producer, DJ and Audio Engineer, Bonebrokk. A skillful producer, influenced by late capitalism and sci-fi dystopias, Bonebrokk is known for his ability to masterfully combine elements of techno and electronic music.

Listen to Jlin’s pick me up playlist

An immediate success, Jlin’s debut album, Dark Energy, dropped in 2015 when Patton was still working as a steel mill worker. The acclaim of the album allowing her to quit her job to focus on music full-time, she’s now an artist of her own league

Sónar Lisboa 2024 announce set times and immersive installation

The Portuguese festival taking place this weekend (22-24 March) has announced set times and a new immersive installation.

Logic1000

An accomplished DJ and producer with a handful of celebrated EPs who has already graced the stages of festivals the likes of Glastonbury, Coachella, Primavera and Field Day, Logic1000 steps into the mixing booth to provide some feel-good house heaven

Annie Mac to headline Bristol Sounds 2024

The globally renowned DJ has been announced as the final headliner for the series of harbourside events.

Mama Snake, KI/KI and Young Marco confirmed for PollerWiesen Festival 2024

PollerWeisen’s flagship festival celebrates its tenth edition with names including Mama Snake, KI/KI, Vhoor, Clara Cuvé.

Watch Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla for free on MUBI

The critically acclaimed biopic, Priscilla, based on the 1985 memoir of Priscilla Presley, Elvis and Me, is now available to stream online exclusively to MUBI members.

Jenny Hval, Aunty Rayzor and Gazelle Twin to play Donaufestival 2024

The Austrian festival returns this April with a programme spanning music, art and performance.

Cormac, L.B Dub Corp and Romeu added to Waking Life line-up

Waking Life festival has added more names to it’s 2024 line-up including, Cormac, L.B Dub Corp, Romeu, DJ Rino, e/tape, Magda, Rhadoo and Tozé Diogo amongst the new DJ additions.

Polyester opens applications for Eden Young Fellowship

Applications for the Eden Young Fellowship are open now until 11 March to aspiring working class journalists

Listen to Alice Glass’ hype playlist

Ahead of this year’s Wide Awake Festival, Alice Glass curates a playlist featuring Shygirl, SOPHIE, Aqua, Babymetal and A. G. Cook

Polifonic Milan announces 2024 line-up

The full lineup for Polifonic’s Milanese edition has been announced today including DJ Gigola, Simone de Kunovich, Roi Perez, Shanti Celeste and more

L’Abarset shares programme for its remaining 2024 season

The electronic apres-ski series has a number of events left for the 2024 season ending with a finale event hosted by Brunch Electronik.

Forecast Festival to showcase mentees’ work next month

The 2023-2024 cohort will present the interdisciplinary works they have been developing over the past year

Sunday Mix: JJJJJerome Ellis

For today’s Sunday Mix, multi-disciplinary artist JJJJJerome Ellis reads two excerpts from their book ‘Aster of Ceremonies’, via which they “meditate, through poetry and music, on lineages of Black and stuttering life”

Playlist: Grime Love Story

An alternative V-day playlist to soundtrack your February 14.

Jeff Mills and Héctor Oaks confirmed for Neopop 2024

Neopop returns to Portugal this summer from 8-10 August for its 17th edition

Joe Armon-Jones and Jlin join In the Round Festival 2024 line-up

Camden’s Roundhouse has announced the full line-up for the seventh year of its event series, In the Round Festival

Kneecap claim UK government is silencing them by blocking funding

The Irish punk-rap band released a statement on X, formerly Twitter, to announce that funding initially awarded by the ‘Music Export Growth Scheme’ had been blocked by the British Government.

Sónar and OFFSónar launch Sónar Week

The Barcelona events are teaming up to offer festival goers a new Sónar Week Pass which will allow access to all of Sónar by Day, Sónar+D, OFFSónar, and Sónar by Night

Sonic Acts Biennial returns for 2024

Sonic Acts Biennial takes place from 2 February to 24 March, celebrating the festival’s 30th anniversary with a series of performances, special commissions, workshops, a symposium and an exhibition

Nick Cave, Warren Ellis are scoring Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black

The anticipated Amy Winehouse biopic will feature an original score from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Nuits Sonores announce the Crack Magazine Pass

Crack Magazine have teamed up with Nuits Sonores to create a bespoke pass that provides access to our picks from the festival’s lineup.

Jamz Supernova © Ben Brook

Jamz Supernova, Kampire and BADSISTA to feature in new podcast on DJ culture

The ten-part series will go out weekly from today (1 February) with the first episode featuring UK funky DJ and producer Roska

Arca, Hessle Audio and Billy Woods to play Turin’s C2C Festival

Over a dozen artists have been revealed in the first announcement for C2C Festival, including Arca, Bicep, Darkside, Billy Woods, Sofia Kourtesis, Nala Sinephro and Romy.

Chuquimamani-Condori to headline Somerset House Studios Assembly

Somerset House Studios has announced the return of Assembly, a four-day experimental sound, music and performance series coming this March

London music and arts venue IKLECTIK launch crowdfunder for next iteration following eviction

The team behind the not-for-profit space and community are raising funds for a new creative hub after the closure of the physical venue last weekend (20 January)

In Photos: BlockParty in Lagos

A few weeks back, Nigeria’s BlockParty brought the year to a close with a pair of packed-out events featuring a slew of national names. Plug Films captured the highlights from the two gatherings, take a look at the gallery