Entertainment

Today, Vagabon has shared a music video for "Fear & Force." NPR, who premiered the Zadie-directed video, say this of it: "The love it portrays is not interested in your labels; the world it creates is too expansive and realistic for that." Vagabon's critically acclaimed debut album, Infinite Worlds, is available for now via Father/Daughter Records. Vagabon has also announced upcoming tour dates with Tegan & Sara, Pinegrove, Girlpool and headlining dates with Nnamdi Ogbonnaya in the US and will also be following up her...

The Maccabees have announced another show in the lead up to their upcoming farewell tour, which will raise funds for the MS Society. The announcement comes on World MS Day. The exclusive gig will take place at Omeara in London Bridge on Friday 16 June. It’s been organised by guitarists and brothers Felix and Hugo White whose mother had multiple sclerosis (MS) and passed away when they were teenagers. The band, who announced their split last August, are offering fans...

With change or revolution comes a breakdown in convention and relationships between things have to be re-established and new narratives invented. I get this from reading journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason’s Wtf is Eleni Haifa? inspired by Viginia Woolf’s argument with Arnold Bennett who believed that after WW1 writers could not author good novels because they could no longer create characters. Woolf of course argued against this notion and modern literature was born. It struck me after attending Belarus Free...

ArcTanGent Festival 2017 has revealed the final two bands for the line up, with both the mighty Ho99o9 and Shitwife being added to this years' event. From festival booker, James Scarlett - "Ho99o9 and Shitwife are genuinely two of the most mind-blowing live bands I’ve seen this year. Ho99o9 in particular are just something else – they were on the last The Dillinger Escape Plan tour and more than held their own, which is obviously not an easy task!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLIjZf6bf8w...

Holy Boy is the new project from Norwegian-born, LA based, Helene Alexandra Jaeger, who has had support from the likes of The AV Club, The Sunday Times and The 405, under previous outfit ‘Her Royal Harness’. Recorded and produced with the acclaimed Ben Hillier (The Horrors, Depeche Mode, Blur) at The Pool Studios in London 2016, her new EP is an ominous, metaphysical arrangement out June 9th via Native Habitat. The first single to be released from it is the dark, brooding...

Eventually we learn at least three things over the course of a long and frequently lively life – our wit and charm is not enhanced by copious drinking no matter what we think at the time, the pain of a loss lasts longer than the thrill of a win, and don't get your hopes up. There are more of course (the two things in life everyone you know thinks they know how to do better than you know how to...

A Cards Against Humanity-type game created just for miserable Londoners has launched today on Kickstarter. Created by Londoner Jamie Willcocks the game is packed full of London in-jokes, making it a great way to alienate your friends who live outside of the M25. To play, one player picks a ‘Question Card’ and all the other players anonymously submit one of their ten ‘Answer Cards’. The funniest one wins. It can be played as a standalone game or as an unofficial expansion...

Starting your own festival can be a daunting task for anybody whether they’re new to the game or you’ve already gone through a couple yourself. Everybody wants a hugely successful festival and getting to that point takes a lot of work and mostly, lots of planning. Planning for every eventuality takes a long time but it’s vastly worth it to avoid any problems that could occur. If you don’t get ontop of them straight away then your festival can fall...

Jamie Lenman Scala 2.5.17 Support: HCBP, Frauds Jamie Lenman may never escape the shadow that his hard-fought time in Reuben has cast, but he’s been giving it a damn good go. Almost four years on from the duplicitous fury and folk of his debut solo double album Muscle Memory new music has finally made its way out to the public, and so Jamie has found himself back in the fray, and he’s brought friends with him. First up are Frauds,...