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  • Field Maneuvers 2025: The best ‘worst rave’ on the planet

  • Sam Austins: “That viral moment saved my life”

  • Listen to a playlist for fireside summer nights by the lake, curated by Loukeman

  • RALLY 2025 through five key performances

  • james K is hopping between soundworlds with curiosity and precision

  • Decoding the quiet influence of The Raincoats

  • "Stand with justice. Don't stand with genocide" - On the ground with protestors outside the Kneecap court hearing

  • Jeshi: "Sometimes physically removing yourself from your bubble helps you gain clarity"

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Listen to a playlist for fireside summer nights by the lake, curated by Loukeman

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

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Junction 2 festival completes line-up for 2025

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HARD Summer adds to 2025 line-up

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Shambala completes line-up for 2025

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Pohoda Festival reveals this year’s line-up

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No Bounds festival announces phase one of 2025 line-up

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Kappa FuturFestival announces stage splits for 2025

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Southbank Centre announces further events for Little Simz’ Meltdown

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SHAPE+ announces programme as part of Unsound’s Ephemera festival

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Le Guess Who? announces guest curators and first 100 artists for 2025

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Win tickets to the Barbican’s new Feel the Sound exhibition, Simple Things & more

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Skaņu Mežs Festival reveals first names for 2025 programme

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Semibreve Festival announces first wave of artists for 2025

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Festival Guide 2025

A rolling, regularly-updated directory of essential events in the UK, Europe and beyond.

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In Solidarity with Gaza: A Guide to the Music and Resources That Support the Humanitarian Effort

A regularly updated list of releases raising money for the relief effort in Gaza, and a list of resources and organisations doing crucial work on the ground.

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⌘R: The Best New Music, curated by Crack Magazine

A rolling playlist of the best new music, curated and regularly refreshed by Crack Magazine.

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Listen to a playlist for fireside summer nights by the lake, curated by Loukeman

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

  • Live Reviews

Field Maneuvers 2025: The best ‘worst rave’ on the planet

The Norfolk-based festival brought the heat for its 11th edition, with standout performances from Big Ang, Kode9 and more.

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Sam Austins: “That viral moment saved my life”

Sam Austins’ rise hasn’t been straightforward. A period of houselessness followed his isolated teenage years, while label rejection forced a rethink – hardships that have shaped the contours of his uncompromising avant-pop. Then, ‘Seasons’ went viral – and a new chapter was written.

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RALLY 2025 through five key performances

RALLY returned to South London’s Southwark Park last weekend for its third edition, spotlighting left-field pop, stirring live jazz and esoteric house, with standout sets from Moin, Geordie Greep and Nosedrip b2b Orpheu the Wizard. 

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Decoding the quiet influence of The Raincoats

In her new book, ‘Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats’, author Audrey Golden traces how the band inspired generations of music and movements, from Sonic Youth to riot grrrl to queercore.

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Listen to a party playlist selected by Sir Hiss

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

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Circuit des Yeux
'Halo on the Inside'
Central Cee
'Can't Rush Greatness'
Shigeto
Cherry Blossom Baby
Nídia and Valentina
Estradas
Beabadoobee
'This Is How Tomorrow Moves'
Remi Wolf
Big Ideas
$uicideboy$
'New World Depression'
I Saw The TV Glow review Various Artists
I Saw the TV Glow (The Original Soundtrack)
Mount Kimbie
The Sunset Violent
Erika de Casier
Still
The Smile
Wall of Eyes
Shabazz Palaces
Robed in Rareness
Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Kylie
Tension
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The Ones Ahead
Anohni and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross
Amaarae
Fountain Baby
Bar Italia
Tracey Denim
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Yaeji
With a Hammer
μ-Ziq
1977
boygenius
the record
Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
100 gecs
10,000 gecs
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Listen to Mia Lily‘s playlist of dancefloor sounds from across the North

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

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Listen to a playlist of Mathew Jonson‘s best Bandcamp jazz finds

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

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Listen to a deep dive into Finnish dance music, selected by Sansibar

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

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Nuits sonores 2025 through five key performances

Lyon’s forward-thinking dance music festival returned to the city for its first-ever sold-out edition.

  • Long Reads

David Blot and Turbo Island’s graphic novel celebrates the life of disabled disco innovator Cola Boyy

‘The Cola Boyy Bookk’, created by French radio DJ David Blot and artist Chris Wright, a.k.a. Turbo Island, bottles the late artist’s vibrant character, legacy and sound.

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In Photos: AEF Presents Arca

Kicking off Athens Epidaurus Festival’s 70th anniversary year, Arca made her debut in Greece to a crowd of over 4000.

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Wet Leg: Strange Fascination

Much has changed for Wet Leg since ‘Chaise Longue’ catapulted Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers to indie omnipresence, but as their second album proves, the band’s knack for mining the peculiarities of everyday life – and love – remains firmly intact.

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Ten years of GALA through five key performances

The south London festival celebrated its tenth anniversary with a three-day programme stacked with dance music’s biggest names.

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Multidisciplinary artists James K, Heith, Günseli Yalcinkaya and Andrea Belosi on their surreal new live show, The Talk

Inspired by the Antikythera mechanism – believed to be the world’s first analogue computer – ‘The Talk’ explores the ways in which narratives, as told through the lens of various technologies, shape our perception of reality.

  • Long Reads

Cue Points: DJ Gigola

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.

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Cue Points: O Ghettão

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.

  • Long Reads

Pay It Forward: Sherelle on SBTRKT

DJ, producer and broadcaster Sherelle reveals the monotony-nuking impact SBTRKT had on her listening habits.

  • Long Reads

Listen to a playlist of tactile and textured audio balm, courtesy of Christina Vantzou

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

  • Profiles

Lauren Duffus makes music for a fractured, post-everything era

The London-based producer and vocalist tunes into the rhythms of dancehall, trap and grime corrupted by half-remembered melodies.

  • Long Reads

In Photos: Figura – Seeing in Dreams

From 9-10 May, Figura’s Seeing In Dreams took over London’s The Lower Third and HERE at Outernet for two days of showcases from PAN, Accidental Meetings and more.

  • Mixes

Sunday Mix: LEYA

NYC duo LEYA take over this week’s Sunday Mix with a winding, hour-long journey through classical, rap and otherworldly experimental sounds.

  • Long Reads

Crowded Market: DVS1 and architects Leopold Banchini and Giona Bierens on reimagining festival dancefloors

At this year’s edition of Horst, DVS1 teamed up with architects Leopold Banchini and Giona Bierens to build semi-permanent stage Dark Skies.

  • Profiles

Nazanin Noori‘s new exhibition asks us to reflect on an alternative political reality

In her first UK exhibition, multidisciplinary artist, DJ and ambient hardcore producer Nazanin Noori uses a cacophony of sound and visuals to shock us into imagining a vastly different alternative political present.

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