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Young Spray was knifed repeatedly while in a backstage dressing room at the Apollo in Hammersmith, west London, during the GRM Daily Rated Awards

Mission: Impossible-style ebooks which self-destruct after reading went on sale in Britain yesterday. Digital products at the Nobu.store are fitted with electronic fuses that are set to ‘detonate’ when the rental period expires. Consumers have between two and 20 days to read the book before a ‘coded bomb’ explodes and wipes “every trace of data” from their smartphone or tablet. Similar software is already in use for movie and box set rentals, but it is the first time that so-called “timestamp...

Here at TLE we're big fans of Jilian Medford's Ian Sweet. Last September we got ourselves along to the Village Underground to catch her support set on Girlpool's autumn UK tour and it was a delight. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZA59ZKnjub/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=c1yofksotoxa Now Ian Sweet has returned, sharing a video for 'Spit', the latest from her upcoming album Crush Crusher. Noisey, who premiered the video and profiled Medford said “‘Spit’ roils on a storm of tightly-wound guitar parts that sound like seasick Ride riffs, while...

The Prisoner’s precise. It’s as perfectly formed as a ripple caused by a stone dropping cleanly into a lake. It’s a play about what punishment should be. It asks who has the right to mete it out, what form it should take and tells us to be wary of impure motives. It focuses on internal reckoning and rubs up abrasively against our western character driven theatrical diet.  Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, who have written the text together, make formidable...

Jon Hopkins has released the video for the title track of his latest album, Singularity, directed by Academy Films’ Seb Edwards. Jon Hopkins says of the video: “This is the single most epic video I’ve ever had made. Seb has been a friend and collaborator for nearly 15 years now, but this is the first opportunity we’ve had to work with total freedom on a video for my own music. The power of what he has done left me speechless the first time I saw...

Ahead of their upcoming October and November tour dates, 65daysofstatic have shared the odd algorithmic results of a new musical technique: ‘Z1’. Sound weird? it is. Check it out below: To explain the strange tech which lies behind 'ZI's creation, 65days said: "We've been busy trying to write music that isn't also a song at the time. So - here is some brand new music from us. It is a live take of some machines we made to make music...

But her pet spaniel Mia can only manage second place

Rising Leeds band Fizzy Blood released their anticipated third EP Pink Magic on Friday To mark the occasion, the band have collaborated with Distiller TV to release a live rendition of Pink Magic, which was recorded around their appearance at Bestival this summer. Watch the video below: The EP title track Pink Magic landed on the BBC Radio 1 playlist in June. Recorded in Brighton with producer Alex Newport (Bloc Party, Tigercub, The Mars Volta), the Pink Magic EP captures Fizzy Blood's as a multifaceted and self-assured force, testament to their rapid growth in the UK DIY scene....

Organised in conjunction with the RSPB, the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers Bird Photographer of the Year competition shows our feathered friends in a new light.