Category: Club Scene

GALA festival, South London’s biggest independent music festival, has announced its lineup for 2025. The three-day event will take place over the May bank holiday weekend at Peckham Rye, and will include performances from artists like Floating Points, Caribou, Moodymann, Hudson Mohawke, and Avalon Emerson. Detroit DJ and producer Theo Parrish will also be playing… Continue reading GALA festival announces full line-up for 2025 edition

Sziget, Budapest’s six-day music and arts festival, has unveiled its second wave of acts for its 2024 event, including Post Malone, A$AP Rocky and Shawn Mendes as headliners, as well as 16 additional artists. The festival returns to Óbudai-Sziget, or ‘Old Buda Island’, from 6 to 11 August. Among the fresh line-up are HorsegirlL, Hermanos… Continue reading Budapest’s Sziget festival adds horsegiirL, Caribou and A$AP Rocky to 2025 line-up

XL Recordings has released ‘Bastard,’ a new single by DJ Joy Orbison, in collaboration with Southend rapper Joe James. The single features a misty beat and James’ subtle suburban storytelling. The track is available on all streaming platforms and accompanied by a music video directed by Josh Renaut that appeared on YouTube. The visuals display… Continue reading Joy Orbison collabs with UK rapper Joe James on new single, ‘Bastard’

Erykah Badu has made an appearance on producer Jamie xx’s latest single ‘F.U.’. The track features on the deluxe edition of Jamie xx’s second album ‘In Waves’, which was released to critical acclaim in 2024. Badu’s improvised vocals, captured during a Primavera Sound afterparty in 2019, are layered over a synth-heavy house beat. The recording… Continue reading Jamie xx enlists Erykah Badu on new single, ‘F.U.’

Sacha Lord, the founder of the Warehouse Project and Parklife, has resigned from his position as Manchester’s night-time economy advisor following allegations of fraud. Lord’s firm, Primary Event Solutions, received a £401,928 grant as part of the Cultural Recovery Fund in 2021, a program aimed at providing aid to businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.… Continue reading Sacha Lord resigns as Manchester nightlife advisor amid £400k arts funding fraud allegations

Dimensions Festival 2025 is returning to the Dalmatian Coast, Croatia this summer, from August 28 to September 1. After the 2021 event was moved from Pula’s Fort Punta Christo to its current location at The Garden Resort, Tisno, the festival will host more than 70 artists for its fifth edition in the same location. Some… Continue reading Dimensions Festival 2025 line-up grows with CCL, Helena Hauff and LTJ Bukem

The Boomtown festival has announced the first round of acts for its 2022 edition, including Bicep, Peggy Gou, The Blessed Madonna, David Rodigan, and many more. The festival, which takes place at Winchester’s Matterley Bowl from August 10-14, will feature over 1,000 performances across more than 25 stages. The theme for 2022 is, “A Radical… Continue reading Boomtown adds Kojey Radical and Koffee to 2025 line-up

Consultancy AKAS has published a report titled “Missing Voices of Women in Music and Music News”, which shows that only 28% of this year’s GRAMMY nominees are women. Despite the media giving coverage to “clean sweeps” by artists like Adele, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift during previous ceremonies, the figures suggest that men make up… Continue reading Only 28% of nominees for the 2025 GRAMMY Awards are women, report finds

Belfast’s AVA Festival has unveiled the first wave of acts that will perform at their 11th edition, set to take place at the Titanic Slipways from May 30-31. The event is headed by two esteemed Welsh music collective groups: electronic outfit Underworld and sibling duo Overmono. The event will also see the return of 160’s… Continue reading Underworld and Overmono to headline AVA Festival 2025

Chase & Status have been confirmed as the headliner for the upcoming All Points East Festival that is set to take place at Victoria Park in London this summer. The duo will bring their popular RTRN II DANCE event to the festival alongside other artists in a takeover of the main stage on August 16,… Continue reading ​Chase & Status to headline London’s All Points East 2025