Music

I’m going to say it. It's needlessly convoluted but I like the word and I want to use it. Look at our latest playlist and tell me June wasn’t the most dichotomous month on the 2018 release calendar so far? We’ve got truly world-class atmospheric, experimental jazz rubbing shoulders with some nu-metal/jump-cut metalcore crossover. We’ve got sultry makeout RnB sharing breaths with prime happy hardcore sleaze. It’s a high tech, low life, kind of feeling, June, I’ll give you that....

Venue: The Lexington, Islington Date: 22.6.18 Support, Fresh, itoldyouiwoudeatyou, Conjurer Photos: Graham Berry (@BlkTPhotography) Words: Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) They should have booked a bigger venue. For weeks the date has been looming; and odd clash of scenes and styles. When Nervus first announced they would be putting on this show – along with the pop punk of Fresh, the neo-emo of itoldyouiwouldeatyou, and the metal shred of Conjurer – it felt like a subversive move. This feels like a line-up...

Venue: Heaven, London Date: 19.6.18 Photos: Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Anna Calvi is a true talent. As a performer, Calvi utterly dominates the stage (a formidable feat given the double-stage set-up at Heaven tonight). As a musician, the execution of her range-exploring songs is flawless. Ah oh, the shred. While a runway into the crowd can feel like a self-indulgence, a posing ramp for an inflated ego, Calvi maximises its impact. This truly is a solo strut, jutting into the crowd,...

Venue: The Lexington, Islington Date: 22.6.18 Support, Fresh, itoldyouiwoudeatyou, Conjurer Photos: Graham Berry (@BlkTPhotography) Look at this line-up and tell me you can’t feel the posi vibes? The Lexington was the venue for a meeting of scenes last Friday, as fans of emotive indie, forward thinking pop punk and bruising metal clashed in an enclosed space. Luckily enough, the combination of this unlikely lot made for a very good time indeed, all held together by a banner performance from headliners...

After a successful event at Basement Sate raising over £500 for CALM last year. Rant + Rave the online music magazine is returning on 13th July with a brand new event and proudly supporting Teenage Cancer Trust. This time round they're taking over Protein Studios Shoreditch to bring you an eclectic mix of the best House cuts in the beautiful surroundings of this amazing venue in the heart of the hippest places in London. You can purchase tickets from Resident...

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Fort Process is an expansive bi-annual music and arts festival that takes place in the evocative spaces of Newhaven Fort in East Sussex. The 2018 edition is set to continue the critical success of the first two. The experience of Fort Process takes festival-goers wandering through underground tunnels, caverns and old armaments rooms, coming across new immersive artworks as they go, before emerging into the sunshine.  Musicians perform on old gun emplacements high up on the fort’s ramparts while the...

Award-winning composer and music producer, Benson Taylor, will join the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) in Uganda on World Refugee Day, 20thJune 2018, as part of their Storytellers project to draw attention to the stories of South Sudanese refugees living in Bidibidi, Uganda. Benson’s composer credits include Suits, Grey’s Anatomy, Orange Is The New Black, The Big Bang Theory, Two and Half Men, Breaking Bad, Comedy Central’s 30 Rock, The NFL Superbowl and many more TV shows and films around the world....

By Victoria Bamber, Building Giants’ Manager and Head of Communications at Skiddle It’s 2pm and we are running late. Again. Due in Camden at 6pm for a soundcheck, we are loitering 300 miles away on the M6 crawling by in second gear. Again. “What’s the Sat Nav saying?” I ask for the sixth time that hour, chewing on my thumbnail and pulling out another chunk of hair. I make a call to The Monarch apologising and sink back into a...