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Green Man Festival has announced the key speakers heading up the Talking Shop area when the gathering returns this August. One of a trio of headline guests, the BBC Radio 1 presenter Annie Nightingale will discuss her broadcasting career and how events have unfolded since being named the first female presenter on the station in 1970. Four decades in the job, Nightingale will reflect on the ever-changing industry with her inimitable mixture of irreverent humour and punk enthusiasm. Green Man’s...

Self-confessed "ugly" popstar ZAND has been announced to play at this year's Loud Women Fest. The one-day festival takes places at both The Dome and Boston Music Room in Tufnell Park on Saturday 15 September 2018. Speaking about the festival, ZAND says: "I'm so excited to be on the bill for a festival with such an important message, along with playing alongside some of the sickest female and non-binary punk bands about in music at the moment! Feminism is lit." Known online for speaking out...

London soul quintet Mama's Gun are heading out on a week jaunt around the UK in June. The 4-date headline UK tour will start at The Jam House, Birmingham on June 21, 2018 and finish at the Omeara, London on June 29, 2018. The dates arrive as part of a wider world tour in support of the band’s forthcoming album,Golden Days which is due for release on May 18, 2018 via Candelion.  ‘You Make My Life A Better Place’ follows in the footsteps of the Lauren Laverne-supported...

Some off-the-wall budget weirdness from London, now. Sorry today released their second visual mixtape Home Demo/ns Vol II, and it's a trip. Expanding on the idea of Sorry as a collaborative, and strictly DIY affair, the band said: Asha said, " have been making videos for fun for years and feel like the videos have built up our personality as a group. The themes just came together by things we had, found or cheap props we bought.” “We try and just make...

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor has shared the video for brand new track ‘Oh Baby’, and it's got us a bit creeped out. Opening comments: try to keep your eyes in your head, sir. They'll only get sticky and covered in dust and fuzz, and that thought basically makes me want to be sick. Alexis says of the song: “‘Oh Baby’ is an exuberant love song, with a nod to the music I love by the likes of Alex Chilton and Paul McCartney....

We're all guilty of ducking issues. The biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK is suicide, and it's because we let issues mount up rather than letting them out. Which is why Ducking Punches strike such a poignant note with their first new video since the release of their assured fourth album ‘Alamort’. "I Ruin Everything" is about as honest, as brazen and as powerful a hit as you are likely to hear this year. The video features the band opening...

Australian alt-pop group Cub Sport have released the video for “Good Guys Go” - the third official single off of their sophomore album, BATS. The track is about an unfortunately common theme; being in a relationship where you’re doing everything you can to keep the other person up and make sure they’re happy, but that attention and love isn't being reciprocated. Inspired by hearing similar situations told to him by friends over and over, lead singer Tim Nelson explains: “I...

Ahead of the release of TesseracT’s highly anticipated new studio album Sonder the band have revealed their first official video, for their new single “King”. The emotive and viscerally challenging clip, was directed by Kyle Kadow & Steven Cleavland and shot in a snowy Wisconsin following a brutal storm, which all added to the atmospheric footage as bassist Amos Williams explains "We have been very lucky to work with two cinematographers of such vision and quality as Kyle and Steven. We gave...

Solicitor said the guilty plea could be challenged and court bent the rules because he was famous