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At Skrillex's tiny London show for Eat Your Own Ears this weekend, dancers and moshers alike were flattened by sonic junk and wave upon wave of bass, "the pitiless God that reigns supreme in the EDM universe". Words John Calvert Pictures: Pete Fallan
This year, the Southbank Centre invited Antony Hegarty to curate their annual Meltdown Festival. We assembled a crack team of reviewers to cover a selection of its highlights. Words: Rory Gibb, Russell Cuzner, Joseph Burnett, Chris Roberts, Lee Arizuno
It's a fruity Sunday at Lovebox, as the gentlemen's gentlemen take over the disco with help from Grace Jones, Chic, umpteen hot drag queens and "the world's first travelling homo disco". Andy Thomas gets down. Photographs thanks to Katja Ogrin
The mighty Sunn O))) returned to London this week for a scorching show at Koko. Angus Finlayson was there, and felt striking parallels with the physically overwhelming rituals of dance music and sound system culture. Photography by Maria Jefferis of Shot2bits
We had another rare old time at Field Day in London, curating the Village Mentality Stage and hurtling around the far larger, better sounding site catching all the other ace stuff that was on. John Calvert, Angus Finlayson, Matthew Foster, Rory Gibb, Emily Mackay and Julian Marszalek pick up pens and pieces of their minds, and review the best of the day. All photographs by Jenna Foxton
Visit Estonia’s Tallinn Music Week – now in its fourth year –and you will find an event that is very much ahead of the curve, in a country where the power and political significance of music is not to be underestimated or forgotten. Zoë Howe writes. Photo thanks to Mari Kadanik
It's a perplexing weekend of particle physics, crazy boffins and the elusive Higgs Boson as British Sea Power premiere their soundtrack to Out Of The Present at the CERN CineGlobe 2012 film festival. Luke Turner (words and pictures) rode the beam...
At Newcastle's AV festival this weekend, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti premiered Throbbing Gristle's take on Nico's Desertshore, originally the brainchild of late TG/Coil member Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Luke Turner was there, and witnessed a moving tribute to Sleazy's life and work
Wyndham "indie Wyndy" Wallace was afraid of the enjoyable extremes of music. A fluffy bathrobe, infinity pool, some top nosh and music from KTL, Nadja and Tim Hecker in Madeira provokes a Damascene conversion. All photographs also by Wyndham Wallace.