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The livestream will be broadcasted on Facebook Live & Instagram Live on Friday 10 Feb at 9:30 AM PT/ 5:30 PM UK / 6:30 PM EU and will be a special opportunity for fans to get up close and personal with Linus and Christian. Alongside answering burning questions from fans, Galantis will also run through the exciting plans they’ve got in store for 2017. The duo will speak about new music releases, upcoming residencies, and their Spring tour schedule -...

Last year punk legends Descendents returned with their first album in 12 years, and now they're heading back to UK shores. The Cali crew, who are the brains behind the mega-influential punk rock staple Milo Goes To College, have announced  a new show scheduled for Sunday 4th June at the 02 Brixton Academy in London. Tickets will be available from this Friday, 10th February from 9am (GMT) via Ticketweb:    The band played a series of shows in Latin America last December playing classics...

“Gender enlightenment has not exactly reached the world of Tango Fire,” Lyndsey Winship wrote in the Evening Standard ahead of German Cornejo’s latest work, currently playing at the Peacock Theatre. From the outset you can see why that may be the prevailing opinion. “Knicker-revealing slits in the dancers' glamorous dresses” hark back to a time when pimps and prostitutes would practice this seductive art form on the sordid streets of Buenos Aires. But put your 21st century goggles on and...

I love surprises. The anticipation of a million possibilities is often just as exhilarating as the performance itself. It is with a head-in-a-bucket methodology that I choose the shows I’m going to see at the London International Mime Festival each year – basing my selection not on titles or posters or research, but only on which evenings I have free. I leave the rest to chance. This year the two completely random tickets I ended up with were firstly to...

Rapper, producer, director and visual artist M.I.A. has been announced as the curator of the Southbank Centre's 24th Meltdown Festival, which will take place from 9-18 June 2017. Launched 25 years ago, the festival is famed for bringing to life the world of its curator, counting Patti Smith, David Bowie, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Ray Davies, Morrissey and Ornette Coleman amongst those that have held the position. M.I.A., said: "For me this Meltdown will be about putting on a musical week...

Travel company Expedia have partnered with eight of the UK’s most promising young photographers to capture a ‘better perspective’ of London’s most commonly photographed landmarks. The project aims to offer an alternative view of the sites most commonly filling our Instagram feeds, Snapchat stories and Twitter galleries. To see more from the project, click here. Lamarr Golding – Tower Bridge I’m an urban explorer and free-runner, so I see London as a playground. Most people just see skyscrapers and buildings,...

By Carl Allen, author of London Gig Venues London has a rich and varied history of live music venues from pubs to theatres, churches to warehouses. A new book –‘London Gig Venues’ by Carl Allen explores almost 600 of the capital’s venues from the lost and forgotten to the internationally famous. We asked Carl to share some of the most interesting venues and gigs that have happened in the capital. 1.Islington Assembly Hall A 1930s civic dancehall that sprang into...

Anybody approaching newsstands for tomorrow's press will be forgiven for thinking the Sun's masthead had been designed by a 5-year-old child. It has, as it happens, been created by acclaimed artist David Hockney, a man who is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. The prominent 'Sun' wording is mirrored by a schoolboy sun sketch, a stroke of genius by Hockney's account, who said of the opportunity: “I was delighted to be asked. Once I thought...