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Critical Mass: tQ’s Highlights Of Supersonic Festival 2023

Attending Supersonic Festival's chaotic, communal, cacophonous twentieth anniversary edition, Patrick Clarke picks out eight of the best from a weekend of extraordinary sets

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We Are Getting Healed: Sanatorium Of Sound Reviewed

Jakub Knera reports from the ninth edition of the Sanatorium Of Sound, in Sokołowsko, Poland and focuses on the wild intonarumori instruments of Italian futurism, takes a deep listening walk to a mountainous opencast mine at dawn, and enjoys the healing properties of outdoor sound

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Home Away From Home: Green Man 2023

One night of torrential rain can't dampen Julian Marszalek's spirits as he has a hoot at Green Man 2023, taking in sets by the likes of Devo, Jockstrap, Spiritualized, Bob Vylan, Billy Nomates, Nuha Ruby Ra, Lankum and his festival highlight Mandy, Indiana

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Are We Not Done? Devo’s Final Tour Reviewed At The Oya Festival

Long-time Devo fan Sean Kitching travels to Oslo in Norway for the second date in the Ohio synth-punk’s farewell tour. Photos by Pål Bellis/Øyafestivalen

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Where We’re From, Where We’re Going To: On Death & Bruce Springsteen

Wiltshire-based novelist Tariq Goddard and New Jersey-resident writer David Shaftel set aside their cultural differences to enjoy what could be Bruce Springsteen And The E-Street Band's last shows in the UK

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Love & Disappointment: Peter Gabriel Live

Keith Kahn-Harris is haunted by a childhood humiliation as he experiences the 2023 live version of Pater Gabriel. All photographs by York Tillyer

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Child’s Play: Currents Festival At E-WERK Luckenwalde

After attending E-werk Luckenwalde's Currents festival with her one-year-old in tow, Claire Sawers writes on the delights of experimental arts events where children aren’t just tolerated, but welcomed

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Big Music: The Cure Live At Wembley Arena

Rather than the miserabilists they’re often unfairly painted as, watching The Cure at Wembley Tariq Goddard finds a band of sincerity and empathy, with superb new songs of colossal scale and a bond between artist and audience that continues to grow tighter and more heartfelt as time keeps passing

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The Legacy Of The AACM: Anthony Braxton And Henry Threadgill Live In London

Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill’s double headliner at EFG London Jazz Festival is a reminder of the astounding achievments of their musical collective AACM, says Stewart Smith

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Truth Music: Le Guess Who? 2022 Reviewed

Lentils as projectiles, a medieval answer to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, twin xylophone attack from Mexico City, a post-punk opera about the paranoid mind – Richard Foster and Patrick Clarke report back from another headspinning edition of Utrecht’s Le Guess Who?

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Multisensory Essence: Lunchmeat Festival 2022 Reviewed

Jaša Bužinel, our dance music correspondent, rounds up his favourite AV shows and DJ sets at this year’s Lunchmeat Festival

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Space-Time Dilation: Semibreve 2022 Reviewed

Daryl Worthington visits Semibreve Festival in Braga, Portugal, and finds a mind-boggling, perception altering array of boundary-pushing performances

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Different Worlds: Unsound Festival 2022 Reviewed

At the 20th edition of Krakow’s Unsound Festival, Jakub Knera focusses on the event’s wide-ranging program of Eastern European artists, and finds a cornucopia of sonic juxtapositions, and a series of thought-provoking discussions

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Dustbowl Delights: Houghton 2022 Reviewed

Following a raft of cancellations in recent years due to freak weather and the COVID-19 pandemic, Craig Richards' Houghton festival finally returned for its third edition last month, and it was well worth the wait, finds Christian Eede

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I’m Scum And I’m Your Son: Robbie Williams Live In London

At Robbie Williams’ first date of a major new UK tour, Fergal Kinney explores what the entertainer’s Odyssean career to date tells us about the evolution of English masculinity

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What’s Kraftwerk? Green Man Festival 2022 Reviewed

At its 20th anniversary edition, Green Man's all-inclusive spirit of embracing the unconventional remains stronger than ever, finds Julian Marszalek

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The Element Of Surprise: Dekmantel 2022 Reviewed

Following the return of Amsterdam's Dekmantel festival for its eighth edition this past weekend, Christian Eede looks over standout moments from the likes of Kampire, Eris Drew and Batu

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Opened Conversations: Heroines Of Sound Festival 2022

Esme Bennett presents her picks from the performances at this year's Heroines Of Sound festival in Berlin, dedicated to experimental and multifaceted works of the world's most forward-thinking female and non-binary composers. Photos by Ulla C. Binder

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Perfect Imperfection: Kendrick Lamar Live At Glastonbury

Kendrick Lamar might not be our saviour, but his headline slot at Glastonbury 2022 is a staggering demonstration of how an embrace of complexity and contradiction can make for an extremely powerful live performance

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Beats Across Borders: Tallinn-Narva Music Week 2022 Reviewed

Richard Foster travels to Tallinn-Narva Music Week 2022 and sees how tough circumstances can create a strong cultural response

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Long Revelations: Rewire Festival Reviewed

From a broad-ranging celebration of Meredith Monk’s genius to a mind-melting show from Mabe Fratti, and stellar performances from Circuit Des Yeux, aya, Caterina Barbieri and more, this year’s Rewire showed Richard Foster and Jasper Willems glimpses of a better possible world