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Notting Hill Carnival 2025 to Go Ahead After Securing Additional Funding

The additional money will help address 'critical public safety concerns' that were identified in an independent review of festival

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Semibreve Reveals New Names for 2025 Edition

Lyra Pramuk, Rafael Toral, Nazar and more have been added to the bill for the Braga festival

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EFG London Jazz Festival Adds Nubya Garcia, Mulatu Astatke and More to 2025 Lineup

The festival will also host a special celebration of the last 20 years of jazz featuring Shabaka Hutchings and Camilla George

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Berlin Atonal Confirms Full Music Programme for 2025 Edition

Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo will play live with Peder Mannerfelt and Yonatan Gat at this year's event

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New David Bowie Box Set Collects Output from 2002 to 2016

The 18xLP set, I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016), includes Bowie’s final albums, as well as rarities and live recordings

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Soulwax Detail First New Album in Seven Years, ‘All Systems Are Lying’

The new record is described by the brotherly duo as "a rock album made without any electric guitars"

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The Rapture Announce European and North American Tour Dates

Kicking off in September, the run of shows will mark Luke Jenner and co.'s first live dates in several years

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Jim Legxacy Reveals New Mixtape, ‘black british music (2025)’

The much-anticipated release is out later this month

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A Certain Ratio’s ‘Live In America’ to be Reissued for 40th Anniversary

The live LP captures the Manchester band's tour of America with New Order

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Neko Case Unveils First LP in Seven Years, ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’

The singer-songwriter has also shared the record's lead track, 'Wreck'

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Fever Ray Details Live Album, ‘The Year Of The Radical Romantics’

It was recorded during Karin Dreijer's tour in support of 2023 album Radical Romantics

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BBC will not Broadcast Performances Deemed ‘High Risk’ after Glastonbury Bob Vylan Fallout

The organisation's Head of Music has also temporarily stepped down after the duo's set was streamed live online as they led the crowd in a "death to the IDF" chant

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SHAPE+ Artist Sofi Shares Recording Captured During Residency at Prague’s MeetFactory

The 27-minute performance is a collaboration with the artists Sorbitol Drops and Natálie Pleváková

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Warner Music Group Announces Plans to Cut Annual Costs by $300 Million

CEO Robert Kyncl said the cuts will be fully implemented by the end of 2026

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Le Guess Who? Launches Fundraising Campaign to Help Secure Festival’s Future

The annual Utrecht event has been hit by rising costs, inflation and increasingly costly and complex visa processes

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Optimo’s JD Twitch Diagnosed with Inoperable Brain Tumour

The widely-respected Scottish DJ shared news of his diagnosis earlier today

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Supersonic Festival Adds The Bug and More to 2025 Lineup

The festival takes place in late August

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We Play For Real: Remembering Douglas McCarthy, Son of Essex

Reflecting on the life of Douglas McCarthy, who died this week, Tim Burrows writes that he was a man whose art and hypnotic stage presence was forged in the tough, working class Essex attitude of the 70s and 80s

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Remembering Alan Lamb, by Lawrence English

As is the wont of a true artist, Alan Lamb's practice grew out of a chance encounter. Hearing the aeolian song produced by phone lines went on to propel him into becoming one of the pioneers of Australian exploratory sound practice

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Remembering David Thomas of Pere Ubu, by Sean Kitching

Long-time fan Sean Kitching celebrates the legacy of a true ‘Crocus Behemoth’ of the avant garde, post punk, underground rock and pop Americana, David Thomas, who passed away yesterday after a long period of ill-health

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Pathways Uncovered: David Lynch Remembered

John Doran remembers his favourite filmmaker David Lynch, but also praises a true artist, a mapmaker and draughtsman who recorded the weird zones and occult dimensions of life. Portrait by Josh Telles

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The Strange World Of… Buh Records

Jakub Knera speaks to Luis Alvarado, founder of essential Peruvian label Buh Records, and offers a beginners guide to their vast discography that takes in the country's rich musical traditions, avant-garde greats both old and new, unreleased gems from wider Latin America and more

Black Sky Thinking

Are Chrome Hoof The Best Live Band In The UK In 2009?

Live, the mighty Chrome Hoof follow in the footsteps of Parliament, Funkadelic and David Bowie, says Luke Turner. But in these strangely conservative times, are they literally too good for the mainstream?

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The Sound Of Wretchedness: A Playlist By Author Andrzej Tichý

To celebrate the recent publication of his novel Wretchedness by And Other Stories, Czech author Andrzej Tichý shares the music that soundtracked the book

Film

Gore Blimey! Video Nasties: Draconian Days Reviewed

Jake West's documentary about the moral panic surrounding alleged 'Video Nasties' gets its claws into Mat Colegate

Baker's Dozen

Awakening Songs: Buju Banton’s Favourite Music

As Buju Banton releases his first album in a decade, he guides Zakiya Mckenzie through the songs that shaped him, from discovering dancehall on the school minibus to collaborating with Pharrell Williams

A Quietus Interview

Through The Kaleidoscope: An Interview With Hyetal

With new album Modern Worship, Bristol's former dubstep experimenter Hyetal expands his vision into crystalline, colour-saturated forms of electronic pop. He speaks with Ammar Kalia about using music to visualise imaginary worlds and his storming new collaborative 12" with Kowton

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JME Shares New Mixtape

New mixtape from JME made in 48 hours in collaboration with Noisey and Pepsi Max

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East India Youth & Toy Set For Field Day

Quietus Phonographic Corporation signing among latest acts joining an already embarrassment-of-riches line-up; listen to new episode of Field Day Radio below

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Notting Hill Carnival 2025 to Go Ahead After Securing Additional Funding

Semibreve Reveals New Names for 2025 Edition

EFG London Jazz Festival Adds Nubya Garcia, Mulatu Astatke and More to 2025 Lineup

Berlin Atonal Confirms Full Music Programme for 2025 Edition

New David Bowie Box Set Collects Output from 2002 to 2016

Soulwax Detail First New Album in Seven Years, ‘All Systems Are Lying’

The Rapture Announce European and North American Tour Dates

Jim Legxacy Reveals New Mixtape, ‘black british music (2025)’

A Certain Ratio’s ‘Live In America’ to be Reissued for 40th Anniversary

Neko Case Unveils First LP in Seven Years, ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’

Fever Ray Details Live Album, ‘The Year Of The Radical Romantics’

BBC will not Broadcast Performances Deemed ‘High Risk’ after Glastonbury Bob Vylan Fallout

SHAPE+ Artist Sofi Shares Recording Captured During Residency at Prague’s MeetFactory

Warner Music Group Announces Plans to Cut Annual Costs by $300 Million

Le Guess Who? Launches Fundraising Campaign to Help Secure Festival’s Future

Optimo’s JD Twitch Diagnosed with Inoperable Brain Tumour

Supersonic Festival Adds The Bug and More to 2025 Lineup

We Play For Real: Remembering Douglas McCarthy, Son of Essex

Remembering Alan Lamb, by Lawrence English

Remembering David Thomas of Pere Ubu, by Sean Kitching

Pathways Uncovered: David Lynch Remembered

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