It’s almost Bangface‘s birthday and they’ve got quite an event planned. This year, the party falls on the same date as the birth of Disney, the theme will be ‘The Junglist Book‘. According to the Bangface website, attendees should dress up as characters such as Mickey Acid Mouse, Bangbi, Spinderella, Peter Bang, Mary Poppin‘… you
Kutmah has just released a 20 track beat tape called ‘BLK/SMR‘. Kutmah, real name Justin McNulty, is famed for his heavy involvement in the LA beat scene, being an intrinsic member of the music collective ‘Dublab‘ and for his club night ‘Sketchbook‘ which was launched in Hollywood in 2004. The
Aaron Funk, otherwise known as Venetian Snares, has announced that he will be releasing a seven track EP on Planet Mu 24 July. The record comes as a follow up to last year’s ‘My Love Is A Bulldozer‘ LP. The first track, ‘Your Face When I Finally‘ is available to
Jamie xx‘s eagerly anticipated new album, ‘In Colour’, isn’t out for another few days. Luckily, the good folks over at Young Turks have made it available to stream for free via iTunes along with accompanying visuals. Featured on the album is ‘Girl‘, ‘Sleep Sound’, ‘Loud Places‘, ‘Gosh‘, and ‘I Know
Aphex Twin uploaded yet more previously unreleased tracks to Soundcloud this weekend. The SC account user48736353001 has now seen more than 110 demos uploaded to it and it’s all free to stream and download. Richard David James is known for his unusual behaviour (living in a bank, driving a tank and so
Since its official launch in March, Tidal has been deeply criticised by a huge proportion of the public; many of whom are very sceptical of its intentions. Tidal sells itself as “the first artist-owned global music and entertainment platform” – supposedly paying the highest percentage of royalties to music artists and songwriters within the music streaming market. For
Street Fest 2015 is the leading urban culture festival in London and this year will be taking place at East London’s Tobacco Dock, one of the cities most exciting venues. Ego Ella May, Hannah Faith, Elijah & Skilliam, Kutmah, Soom T, Loyle Carner and an array of others are all set to perform as
Over here at THE PLAYGROUND HQ, we’re excited to see that our YouTube channel TRAPaTRAP has just reached its first one million views and now has over thirteen thousand subscribers. TRAPaTRAP is dedicated to supporting the best in emerging bass and trap music and providing a platform for those artists to be
U.S man, Jesse Carey has raised over £11,000 ($18,000) for charity by promising to listen to only Nickleback for one week. The sponsorship conditions mean that he must listen to the Canadian rock band whilst he works, eats, sleeps and even showers for a total of 168 consecutive hours.
Love Saves The Day Festival has just announced the first acts that will appear on its 2015 line up. Four Tet, Floating Points, Grandmaster Flash, Crazy P, Tale of Us, Kelea and Daniel Avery are among the artists that will be performing over the two day festival. Jessie Ware and
