Ava Franks & Young Rising Sons Bring 90’s Indie Rock Energy To ‘Sweetless Surrender’

Soaked in nineties style and glowing with the spirit of Lilith Fair classics, the track captures the exhilarating rush of romance through a perfect blend of rock and pop. The arrangement unfolds with deceptive…

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Juan Atkins built a cybernetic future for music – but invested it with humanity

He was the oldest of the founding fathers of techno known as the "Belleville Three", along with his junior high school friends Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May. He was the first of the trio to buy a Korg MS-10…

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Rhythms & Cinematic Shadows As Pen Pin’s ‘Vampire’ Lands

Aptly titled ‘ Vampire, ‘ the new single and accompanying visual arrive as a deliciously dark treat, perfectly tailored for the eerie nights upon us. Jeni Magaña and Emily Moore bring their experience as songwriters…

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Live Report: Left Of The Dial 2026

There was also the interesting venue choices, clustered together in convenient pockets of the city, as well as the type of draws unseen at other festivals, from a daytime edition of the festival to secret venues selling…

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Ghost Town review – the phantoms and lost souls haunting a Japanese city after the 2011 earthquake

Conversations between the drivers and their customers drift back towards the cataclysm of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami with an undertow of grief, loss and absence. But at least this time there's someone in the…

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‘We’re all on constantly shifting sands’: the play capturing life during the US midterm elections

In the program notes for We'll See, the latest in what has become a 12-play series, he admits he used to view the plays as "disposable, because of their being tied to a given time and place". Every November from…

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Her New Knife Conjure Crunching Trip-Hop Percussion On ‘lyre’

The Philadelphia group seem to open out questions with every release, merging jagged post-punk with layers of ethereal shoegaze noise. The four-piece tap in to new levels of intensity on ‘lyre’, opening up a fresh…

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The Assassin's Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore tease why their characters are "back to square one" in season 2

In season 1, Edward discovered that Julie, who he was raised by, wasn't actually his birth mother, and in actual fact took him in after killing his father on a job. By the end of the season , they seemed to be in a…

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Choose U: Living Boldly with HIV

For some, living well is found through movement and creativity; for others, through words and community. What connects these experiences isn’t the form they take, but the choices behind them. This is the message of…

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Kate Voegele Sings From The Other Side Of A Bad Experience On ‘Bad Taste’

The handclaps set the rhythm at the start and serve as a percussive hook before the main instrumentation and vocals come in. They give the song a dynamic, bold feel. The production has pop-rock energy and gets straight…

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