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Hold on to your bowling balls, the first annual Punk Rock Pins And Pin-Ups Bowling Weekender rolls into London's O2 Brooklyn Bowl in October, and they're bringing The Bronx, Cockney Rejects and H2O with them. Punk Rock Pins And Pin-Ups Bowling Weekender is going to transform Brooklyn Bowl London at the O2 on October 7th to 9th into one giant punk and bowling party. The opening night, Friday 7th October sees LA hardcore punk rock giants The Bronx headlining, with Birmingham UK82 heroes...

Some slightly odd news has emerged from Canada after a male staff member at the Royal Canadian Mint is accused of smuggling out $180,000 worth off gold using in anal canal to hide it. The mint worker, Lester Lawrence, was employed at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ontario, Canada, when the incidents were said to take place. The court heard how he hid the gold in this most secret of places, so he could get through the high security building,...

The Roundhouse is calling upon unsigned artists aged 18-25 years old for the chance to record a track with a top producer, all they have to do is submit a song by 30th September. Rising Sounds 2017 offers 12 unsigned artists or bands of any genre of music an exclusive opportunity to shape one of their tracks with a professional songwriter and some of the best music producers in the UK. The selected artists will get a top quality mastered...

Copenhagen trio Baby In Vain have unveiled the cinematic new video for ‘The Urge’. The video for the  synth-laden desert rock track see’s the band take a hazy trip around a Danish quarry in a hearse. ‘The Urge’ is taken from the band's’ debut EP For The Kids, which was recently released by Partisan Records. Video director Palle Demant says: "We talked about how to get the gear down to the limestone quarry in a cheap way - and I...

A new track by pink haired star Ängie has left many music listeners in a state of shook. Her song is called “Smoke Weed Eat P***y” and it isn’t one you might want to sing in public. It is doubtful it will get much radio play, as the lyrics are highly explicit and the video contains constants images of the singer smoking joints. Don’t expect it to be on Magic radio in the near future. The track isn’t a call...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  Happy Monday people. We’re back on track with back to back weeks for the first time in a long time. This week we start with some impossibly cool French jazz-funk from Cortex, moving into fuzzy electronica from Kutmah and some funk from The Jimmy Castor Bunch. Some Polish Afrobeat is next, and after that we have a track from...

Arctangent was a bit mental this year, wasn't it?  Now in its fourth iteration, the UK's only festival dedicated to post rock, instrumental and generally mind-bending guitar music did not disappoint, with huge performances from some of the genre's biggest acts. TLE were there to get muddy, chat to bands and sample the bloody delicious scotch eggs. Oh, and Rich got some stellar shots of TTNG, American Football, AndSoIWatchYouFromAfar and many more doing their thing. Check out the full gallery...

With more than 900 of them littered around houses in London, the blue plaque has become a focal part of our historical streets commemorating celebrities, politicians and nobility. The scheme, started by the Royal Society of Arts and administered by English Heritage since The Greater London Council (GLC) was abolished, has been running since the 19th century with Napoleon III's plaque, which was installed in 1867, still there today. This week a blue plaque marking the first home of Freddie Mercury...

In the first of our Arctangent 2016 interviews, The London Economic braved the rain to catch up with Glasgow instrumentalists Dialects. Conor and Steven talk new music, superhuman fretwork and the future of post rock. TLE: Thanks for taking the time to chat to us, Dialects. I’ve heard you’ve been busy over the last few days? Conor: Oh yeah, we left Glasgow at maybe 2am on Thursday to make it down to Bristol for Arctangent to enjoy the first day....