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By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The new Tate Modern is to open to the public on Friday 17 June 2016, Tate announced today, with school children from around the UK invited to visit on the day before the opening to explore the new building and respond to the modern and contemporary art on display. Created by world-leading architects Herzog & de Meuron, the new Tate Modern will feature a complete re-hang, bringing together much-loved works from the collection with new...

Willie J Healey has announced the forthcoming release of his second EP Saturday Night Feeling  on November 6th. Check out lead single 'Dude Like Him' below for some summer vibes in the vein of Maccabees and Hooton Tennis Club. ‘Dude Like Him’, demonstrates a more direct and punchy side to Willie’s typically hazy and meandering surf-rock persona. He is, in his own words ‘a lover of all things simple, cult films, surf tones and the girl next door’. Willie deals in...

By Emma Silverthorn (@HouseOf_Gazelle) In The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence theatre group Vital Xposure is set to tell another hidden story from an otherwise repressed voice. In the centenary year of the Suffragette movement it’s not surprising to find more art dealing with the stories of those women key within it; with the film Suffragette, out next month and starring powerhouse Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, being the most high profile of all. But Dorothy Lawrence is not a well-known...

Stephen Volk is the legendary British horror writer who began his career penning the spec script that became Ken Russell’s sensual, surreal and nerve-shredding movie Gothic, re-imagining the night that Mary Shelley created the story of Frankenstein. Since the film’s release in 1986, it has become a cult classic. Not content with creating just one piece of landmark entertainment, in 1992 Stephen conceived and wrote the BBC’s infamous Halloween special, Ghostwatch. During the broadcast, a ‘ghost hunt’ in the style...

By Kane Power (@ElHeavio) I saw Svalbard live a few months ago doing an admirable job opening for Holy Roar label mates Rolo Tomassi. They are back on my radar with a new release One Day All This Will End, out this week on the 25th of September. I initially thought of Svalbard as a post-hardcore/post-rock crossover band, and I’m not entirely wrong, but with the clarity of recording, their music displays a much more melodic basis. Chord changes and...

Organisers of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay have announced that Biffy Clyro will headline the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2015/16 Concert in the Gardens, joined by Idlewild and Honeyblood in a very strong all-Scottish line-up. This will be Biffy Clyro's one and only UK performance of 2015 and will be the stage from which they will kick off 2016 and what is being lined up to be an absolutely huge year for them. Biffy Clyro said “We are so happy to come out of musical hibernation...

Here at TLE we bloody love We Are The City. Second album Violent was a powerhouse of sleepy-cool synth and conscientious, poetic lyricism that moved our hearts as much as our feet. It didn't hurt that it was also the soundtrack to a beautifully-shot film of the same name which is still picking up awards to this day. Now it seems their third album is on the way, announced with a new track - 'Keep On Dancing' The band self-produced the...

Mark McGuire (who you might recognise from Cleveland noisies Emeralds) has announced his latest album, Beyond Belief, the follow up to 2014's Noctilucence, with the release of new track 'Earth: 2015'. It's intricate, melodic and more than a little bit chaotic. Mark McGuire is also set to play one of our favourite fests, Le Guess Who? Festival, on 20th November, where he will share a line-up with Sunn O))), Chelsea Wolfe, Destroyer and a bunch of other acts. Lucky Utrecht. Each pre-order package...

Sad news, post rock fans. Maybeshewill are calling it a day after a decade of service to the good-time instrumental cause. The band are currently putting together their final tour, culminating at Koko, London on 15th April 2016, so there's still plenty of time to pay your respects. Check out the full statement from Maybeshewill below. 'When we started this band over a decade ago it was just a bedroom project that we never really imagined playing live with. Every...