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When Busted split up in 2005 they split up for good. Charlie Simpson, increasingly absent in mind and body, had grown tired of playing the pop idol in rebellious sixth-form attire, strumming along to simple chord progressions and wailing about adolescent strife. Shagging school teachers had lost its appeal, time travel and wedding crashing got lame and sleeping with the lights on got tiresome.  He was a highbrow musician in a lowbrow band, and something had to give. "Devastated", James...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  The collective hangover from yesterday’s hottest-day-of-the-year public park frolicking hangs heavy over the city today as Monday grinds its miserable gears towards home-time. Open your ears and take your medicine. Today we kick off with Georgia and move through moody Ital Tek and Buttering Trio vibes, through new Radiohead which everyone has already heard, and down towards a big...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Welcome back to the UK! Apart from our world-famous food and weather, what do you look forward to when you come here? Pubs and Pointless - I'm fascinated by the amount of filler in that show but I love it. The variety of restaurants here is incredible. I am a foodie. Feed me. Feed me spicy food. By the way, I've lived in the UK for almost 6 years now. I'm based in Stockwell :) Let's go back to the...

Radiohead have released a claymation video of their new single Burn the Witch. The new release is the first preview of Radiohead’s long-awaited ninth studio album, which has been shrouded in mystery after the band's internet presence gradually began to disappear, erasing all content from their social networks and official website. They broke the social media silence this morning with a 15 second clip of a bird tweeting. The second clip, released a few hours later, has been proceeded by this video of...

Today see’s the digital release of the debut EP from Copenhagen’s Baby In Vain. An infectious exploration of seductive desert rock, menacing post-punk and cosmic noise-rock, For The Kids is available to download and stream today via Partisan Records and released on vinyl on June 10th. The release of the EP comes just before Baby In Vain’s a run of dates with The Kills, which includes a show at London’s Village Underground on Wednesday 4th May. They will also play...

Latitude Festival today announces additional music, dance and theatre names for this year’s event which takes place from Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th July 2016 in the stunning grounds of Henham Park, Suffolk. Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele will showcase a new production with their band Soulwax for a UK festival exclusive, headlining the 6 Music Stage at Latitude 2016. The band broke the mould back in 1996 thanks to their mix of rock, electro, pop and punk and have made half the world dance since...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Gypsy Wood and yourself appeared together in Comic Strip in 2011. What was the impetus behind this new joint show? Is this the first joint project you've worked on since then? Do the names you’ve chosen for your characters have any special significance or were they chosen at random? We decided to try and make a new show together for the 2015 Perth Fringe, we didn’t know what form it would take but we were...

By Jack Peat (@JackNPeat) Explosions In The Sky Support: We Were Promised Jetpacks Royal Albert Hall 25.4.16 I feel I should start with a disclaimer. I'm not a music writer, nor am I a particularly big gig-goer, but there are certain concerts that compel even the most lukewarm music fan to pen their thoughts after. Explosions In The Sky at the Royal Albert Hall is one such concert. That noise, in that venue. You didn't have to be John Peel to know that...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  I’ve basically been listening to this Kate Tempest song on loop for the last week. I love what she does, how she articulates her vision and most of all what she represents in the music industry. She’s not trying to be anything she’s not and she’s found a home on Ninja where she’s not going to be manipulated into...