Music
Galantis Are About to Host their First Q&A Livestream
The livestream will be broadcasted on Facebook Live & Instagram Live on Friday 10 Feb at 9:30 AM PT/ 5:30 PM UK / 6:30 PM EU and will be a special opportunity for fans to get up close and personal with Linus and Christian. Alongside answering burning questions from fans, Galantis will also run through the exciting plans they’ve got in store for 2017. The duo will speak about new music releases, upcoming residencies, and their Spring tour schedule -...
Descendents Hit Brixton Academy this June
Last year punk legends Descendents returned with their first album in 12 years, and now they're heading back to UK shores. The Cali crew, who are the brains behind the mega-influential punk rock staple Milo Goes To College, have announced a new show scheduled for Sunday 4th June at the 02 Brixton Academy in London. Tickets will be available from this Friday, 10th February from 9am (GMT) via Ticketweb: The band played a series of shows in Latin America last December playing classics...
M.I.A to Curate Southbank Centre’s 24th Meltdown Festival
Rapper, producer, director and visual artist M.I.A. has been announced as the curator of the Southbank Centre's 24th Meltdown Festival, which will take place from 9-18 June 2017. Launched 25 years ago, the festival is famed for bringing to life the world of its curator, counting Patti Smith, David Bowie, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Ray Davies, Morrissey and Ornette Coleman amongst those that have held the position. M.I.A., said: "For me this Meltdown will be about putting on a musical week...
Touched and De:Tuned Top Secret Compilation For World Cancer Day
Illustrious Belgian techno label De:tuned and Touched - home to legendary Intelligent Dance Music compilations - have joined forces with some of the planet’s greatest electronic musicians for an amazing cause on World Cancer Day 2017. The result is a unique piece and milestone: the first ever vinyl release ‘Various - Covert II’ for Touched - Music for Macmillan Cancer Support. Only they won’t tell us who the acts are. It’s a secret. There’s always a buzz about Touched compilations. Some...
10 Amazing London Live Music Venues.
By Carl Allen, author of London Gig Venues London has a rich and varied history of live music venues from pubs to theatres, churches to warehouses. A new book –‘London Gig Venues’ by Carl Allen explores almost 600 of the capital’s venues from the lost and forgotten to the internationally famous. We asked Carl to share some of the most interesting venues and gigs that have happened in the capital. 1.Islington Assembly Hall A 1930s civic dancehall that sprang into...
Mac DeMarco Announces Third Album ‘This Old Dog’ and Two New Tracks
Mac DeMarco has announced This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on May 5th 2017 worldwide. In conjunction with today’s album announcement, DeMarco is announcing a North American tour and sharing two lead singles - “My Old Man” and “This Old Dog.” DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving to the West Coast I thought I’d get to finishing it quickly. But then I realized that moving to a new...
ArcTanGent Announce 2017 Headliners: CONVERGE and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
We're huge fans of ArcTanGent at TLE. If you're a fan of post rock, guitar music and generally heavier-than-thou time signature weirdness, there really is nothing else like it. That's why yesterday's ATG 2017 headliner announcement has us excited. Explosions in the Sky and Converge, on the same bill, playing their only UK shows of the year. Outstanding. The guys at ATG rarely miss a trick when it comes to filling the top slots on the bill. In 2016 we were...
Green Man 2017: PJ Harvey, Ryan Adams and Future Islands to Headline
Time for a reccie up to Brecon - Green Man have just announced the headliners for their 15th anniversary year and it looks killer. PJ Harvey, Ryan Adams and Future Islands will hit the Mountain stage over three glorious days, heading a bill that will also see appearances from BadBadNotGood, Angel Olsen and Jon Hopkins. Check out the full line-up below. Green Man 2017 takes place between 17th – 20th August Tickets on sale here.
GALLOPS Reform for New Release ‘Bronze Mystic’
After releasing their debut album, a monstrous slab of dark experimental rock Yours Sincerely Dr. Hardcore in 2012 and at the peak of their sci-fi powers Wrexham’s Gallops soon announced they were no more and broke up in 2013. In 2016, almost three years to the day, they announced their return. “We missed it too much, basically having some time away from the band gave us a fresh perspective and made us realise that Gallops still has life in it....