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In Henri Lefebvre’s book, the Critique of Everyday Life, there is a chapter entitled Notes Written One Sunday in the French Countryside. Here, he details the idea of ‘festival’ in medieval French peasant culture. He identifies a Bacchic…

They’re still pushing, still desperate for the new, past success be damned. It wasn’t a greatest hits set but it wasn’t a B-sides and rarities set either, it struck a beautiful, chiming chord in between.

Twisted, and at times terrifying, The Horrors’s fifth album, ‘V’, is a return to form for the Southend five piece, cementing their status as 21st century legends.

American Dream is a mostly unfulfilling journey backwards that doesn’t do a band of LCD Soundsystem's calibre justice.

Green Man 2017 seemed to have themes running throughout it. This shows an attention to detail on the behalf of the organisers but also an organic quality on the behalf of the punters, as well as a belief that all share in the power of this…

Ahead of what is surely going to be a festival set that will go down in Welsh history, we caught up with Bristolian bangarang boys Lice. We talked Mark E Smith, spring reverb, and Farr’s School of Dancing in Dalston. Lice are one of the…

If you don't know you won't know. Sonic Sahara is a club night in Leeds that hit Headrow House on the 3rd of June. The night boasted up-and-coming tastemakers Chaos in the CBD, as well as a host of other amazing DJs such as the Sonic Sahara…

It is, as ever, a stellar lineup this year for Green Man festival and I've picked the four key artists that are essential viewing. I think it's clear from the cross-section I've picked that Green Man is wonderfully eclectic, it doesn't…

Madonnatron are one of the most exciting new bands around at the moment. They specialise in their own unique brand of (in their own words) ‘psychedelic witch prog’. Although they haven’t released that much online, what they have got on is…

Bluedot festival has announced its lineup, and it’s probably the best British summer festival lineup that has come out for 2017. It features huge names like Pixies, Orbital, alt-J, Soulwax and The Moonlandingz to name but a few. Bluedot has…

Green Man Festival is returning to the Brecon Beacons once again this August. Set in the stunning depths of the Black Mountains in a verdant valley, the festival is fast becoming one of the best places to hear the finest music from…

Toy have released their third album and it’s a riotous mix of sixties-flavoured melodies, motoric beats and soaring guitar lines. This new LP represents something of a change on two fronts for the Brighton quintet. Their original…

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have released their sixteenth studio LP. Entitled ‘Skeleton Tree’, the album is a bleak, stark work of art, with occasional white-hot shards of pure beauty permeating through the music. ‘Skeleton Tree’ is a…