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The Glades Shopping Centre Commemorates David Bowie With Interactive Musical Wall

January 10, 2019

It’s hard to believe but January 10 marks 3 years since the death of music legend David Bowie.

HERE COMES SICKNESS – Mudhoney Bring Their 30th Anniversary Tour To London’s Camden Electric Ballroom

December 20, 2018

A little over a decade after punk kicked over the traces with its back to basics approach, a gaggle of lumberjack-shirted miscreants from Seattle picked up the baton and ran with it.
Reared on diet of hardcore, MC5 and The Stooges, Mudhoney were at the vanguard of the grunge revolution and their debut mini-album Superfuzz Bigmuff remains a defining document of the times.

The Essential Advent Calendar: December 13 – The Waitress Asks If ‘Somebody Mentioned Christmas’

December 18, 2018

Manchester based singer songwriter Ben Turner performs as The Waitress, and with thoughtful storytelling, combined with bursts of energy and intensity, creates music which is a seamless blend of folk, jazz, country, and pop.

STIR OF ECHOES – ‘The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society’ Evokes An Arcadian Vision Of A Vanishing England

December 10, 2018

One the few bright spots In an Autumn dominated by knife crime, lousy weather and the endless, wearying, machinations of Brexit, was the news that The Kinks had finally gone gold with The Village Green Preservation Society.

UP ON THE STAND – MC50 Kick Out The Jams At The Shepherd’s Bush Empire

November 23, 2018

Anniversary tours are always tricky, especially for a band with the cachet of the MC5.
Reputations can be destroyed, legacies tarnished and there’s always the risk of being accused of “selling out”. Wayne Kramer has faced such a backlash before having previously reformed the band for a one-off show in 2003 with two surviving members as part of a Levi’s ad campaign.

Kasabian’s Serge Creates Bespoke Track For Launch Of New Winter Experience: After Dark

November 14, 2018

After Dark at Chiswick House Gardens has announced that singer and songwriter of Kasabian, Sergio Pizzorno, has created a bespoke track exclusively for new winter experience, After Dark.

STARDUST MEMORIES – Last Spider Standing Woody Woodmansey On Keeping Bowie’s Music Live With Holy Holy

November 9, 2018

Between 1970 and 1973 Mick “Woody” Woodmansey played drums on four successive David Bowie albums, which saw the Starman skyrocket from relative unknown to…

deadmau5 announces London pop-up ‘lots of stuff in a store’

November 8, 2018

After successful pop-up shops in LA and NYC, deadmau5 and mau5trap – along with The Pop-up Agency and Mclaren are bringing back ‘lots of stuff in a store’. This time the pop-up shop experience will travel across the Atlantic to the UK for a special run of dates to coincide with mau5’s headline shows.

Roundhouse Announces Patti Smith, Fatima, Shirley Collins, This is The Kit

October 30, 2018

Roundhouse Presents ‘In The Round’, 22-31 January 2019. An eclectic mix of artists in a rare, intimate setting, featuring Ana Moura, Fatima, Patti Smith, The Hot Sardines, Ronnie Spector, This Is The Kit and Shirley Collins.

Celebrating George Harrison’s 75th Birthday – November 3 At The Beacon in NYC – The Fab Faux

October 29, 2018

For those of us who never got to see The Beatles in concert, we’re fortunate to have The Fab Faux dedicate themselves to faithfully recreating some of the most extraordinary music ever written.

CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE – Axeman Jon Spencer Returns With Bone Rattling Debut Solo Album

October 24, 2018

Like all the best guitarists Jon Spencer’s signature sound is instantly recognisable. Whether it be Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Heavy Trash or the Blues Explosion, the…

BLACKPINK, YG Entertainment’s Chart-Busting K-Pop Girl Group, Signs To Interscope Records

October 23, 2018

YG Entertainment and Interscope Records are thrilled to announce a global partnership for BLACKPINK, one of the world’s biggest all-female K-pop groups. The South Korean quartet is currently the highest-charting female K-pop act in Billboard Hot 100 history. Interscope and Universal Music Group will represent the group’s music in all of the world excluding Asia.

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