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Live music sector raises concerns over UK’s proposal to scrap free lateral flow testing

This past weekend UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he intends to scrap free lateral flow Covid-19 testing at concerts and live music events. In a report from The Sunday Times, it was revealed that Johnson plans to do away with free testing everywhere with the exception of high

FKA Twigs announces new mixtape, ‘Caprisongs’

FKA Twigs has announced the her new mixtape, Caprisongs, will be released next week. Featuring seventeen new songs, the mixtape marks Twigs’s first fresh solo material since 2019’s Magdalene.  Speaking on the direction of the mixtape, Twigs shared: “Caprisongs… it’s bronzer in the sink, alco pop on the side, a

Skee Mask removes all music from Spotify

Bryan Müller has removed all of his music from streaming service Spotify. The German producer, known as Skee Mask, announced via social media on January 2nd that he made the decision to cut ties with the streaming juggernaut. He stated, “My music will be available there again as soon as

Roundup, January #1 : Most anticipated releases of 2022

Ah, the new year. Our annual clean slate. A time to reflect on another 365 days around the sun, pick up the pieces from the year gone by and hit reset. It’s a time of looking forward to things, and if you’re anything like us it’s the prospect of new

Burial – ANTIDAWN

It often feels as if Burial occupies an entirely different time space to everyone else, an outsider quality that has made the UK producer both icon and enigma. Maintaining a ghost in the machine aura that’s had people guessing he could actually be anyone from Four Tet to Skrillex for

Q+A: 5 Minutes with Little Boots

Electro-pop songstress Little Boots a.k.a. Victoria Hesketh is a divine breath of nostalgia as she takes us back to the ‘70s with her disco-infused track ‘Landline’. Released via her independent imprint Repeat Records, the singer has shared that this is her first big producing project. ‘Landline’ is set to feature

Roundup, December #3: Albums of the year

2021 has been a year for dance and electronica quite like no other. Coming out the other end of a pandemic where isolation became the new normal and online party Club Quarantine became the new Berghain, the future of a form inherently rooted in human connection and our instinct to

Jlin – Embryo

Indiana producer Jlin’s polyrhythms and syncopations might appear as apparent chaos, but therein lies the brilliance of her skill as sound designer or perhaps more appropriately, auteur. With her origins in footwork, Jlin has continuously broken the boundaries of her own genre, cooking up increasingly more ambiguous drum beats and

Gina Jeanz – Lucid Theory

Over the past few years, Namibian born DJ and producer Gina Jeanz has risen to prominence as one of the foremost female DJs on the South African circuit. Known for her blend of smooth house and Afro fused club beats, she has quickly become a mainstay on the lineups of

Major labels pledge to be net-zero by 2050

Major record labels Warner, Sony and Universal have pledged to halve their total carbon emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. They join an increasing number of independent labels in signing a pact to reach these targets. The Music Climate pact addresses the carbon impact of activities such as

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