In Photos: How Reload Sound & Friends celebrate Bristol’s musical legacy

Bristol DJ soundsystem collective team up with Foot Locker and Salomon at iconic club Lakota to explore the city’s musical identity through a genre-spanning night of music.

Rising: IMISSMYMOM are making existential shoegaze with a side of doom

With their second album, London-based band IMISSMYMOM are holding onto the spontaneity that first brought them together.

Napoli Segreta’s playlist for a red heat alert

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

The V&A’s Lost Music Venues: A celebration of the grassroots spaces that sustain British music culture

The V&A’s ‘Lost Music Venues’ display is part eulogy, part call to action and part cultural archive-in-the-making, curator Harriet Reed tells us.

Iceage’s guide to Copenhagen

As the Copenhagen band’s new album arrives just in time for a long summer in the city, drummer Dan Kjær Nielsen shares the local music spaces and hidden corners that continue to inspire them.

Open’er Festival 2026 through five key performances

From David Byrne’s orange-hued optimism to Nick Cave’s rousing, devotional headline set, Open’er Festival transformed north Poland’s Gdynia into a four-day celebration of music legends and contemporary pop icons. 

Decoding… ongaku kissa

Filmmaker Nick Dwyer traces the origins, evolution and enduring appeal of Japan’s ‘ongaku kissa’.

11 tracks for the shortest flight of your life, selected by Bassvictim

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

In Photos: Gottwood Festival 2026

Gottwood celebrated a landmark 15th anniversary this year, rewarding its dedicated community with its first-ever 24-hour programme across the Carreglwyd Estate.