Music

It hasn’t taken long for Amsterdam based psychedelic, shamanic trio MY BABY’s swampy blues and funk-inflected sound to cast a formidable spell. Over the past 3 years, Dutch brother-sister-duo Sheik (drums) and Cato van Dyck (vocals) and New Zealand guitarist Daniel “daFreez” Johnston have had their mojo working overtime and are now ready for the release of their third album “Prehistoric Rhythm”. With their new album, the band aim to channel a primal awareness amidst hypnotic beats, shimmering soulful vocals...

Indie Daze is returning for its fourth consecutive year at the Kentish Town Forum. The House Of Love will headline with their first London show in four years, returning to the site of their legendary ‘Doing It For The Kids’ show in 1988. Also back are Voice Of The Beehive with the first show from their original line-up in 25 years (including Woody on drums having a couple of days off from Madness) and Apollo 440 who break cover for their first...

Girlpool Support: Ian Sweet The Village Underground 7.9.17 In the time since their last visit to London, Girlpool have plugged in and turned it UP. Their second album, Powerplant, saw the duo move away from the bedroom harmonies and no-frills production of Before the World Was Big and fill out their backline. With a drummer, an additional guitarist and a saxophonist, Cleo and Harmony sound positively huge in the caverns of the Village Underground. Older cuts like 'Ideal World' and 'Cherry Picking' are...

Members of the public arrive in high spirits wearing One Love Manchester T-shirts. There is tight security with police and searches outside Manchester Arena ahead of tonights benefit gig, the first show since the Manchester Bombing. Members of the public arrive in high spirits wearing One Love Manchester T-shirts. There is tight security with police and searches outside Manchester Arena ahead of tonights benefit gig, the first show since the Manchester Bombing. Women with tickets take selfies infant of security...

Celebrity power couple Beyonce and Jay Z have given veganism a major public image boost, according to new academic research. Not so long ago, veganism was considered suitable only for only extreme animal rights activists and hippies. Now the diet is considered trendy and healthy - and much of the credit for turning people off meat and on to veganism is down to the A-list couple along with their celeb pals Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez , according to a...

A man who claimed he was beaten up by Mobo award winning grime star Kano 'deliberately misled' the court to go on a climbing holiday causing the case to collapse today (wed). And the second victim also failed to appear as police admitted they had not heard from her for seven months. Throwing the case out, the judge asked for a full investigation after the defence unearthed social media pictures of Henry Kinman rock climbing in Grenoble after telling them...

Any seasoned festival goer will know the yearly schedules like the back of their hand. Dusting off their well-worn wellies for every major festival that hits the UK and worldwide alike. But is your diary set for the 9th September 2017? OnBlackheath popped its festival cherry in 2014, and now in its fourth year, the festival has grown in strength and following. And with the likes of Travis, The Libertines and Jake Bugg headlining over the weekend, the festival sponsored by...

If life hasn’t thrown you a few curveballs over the years, you probably aren't doing it right. Who wants to tread the straight and narrow route down a predictable path when a few diversions here and there can liven things up? If any band knows a thing or two about curveballs – and, more crucially, how to knock ‘em out of the park – it’s Glasgow hard rockers Gun. Hit albums and singles, break-ups, line-up changes… Gun have done them...

We’re at Broen Studio in Bergen. Øystein Braut, Njål Clementsen, Anders Bjelland and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde have locked into a groove that never seems to stop. Their bodies are swaying in time with the music, their heads are eagerly shaking to the song that’s pumping out of the room, and it seems like they’ll never get out of it. Maybe they don’t want to get out? It’s a little more than one year since Electric Eye released their second album, 'Different...