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London's cosmic punk quartet WACO have announced their brand new EP URPISE, slated for a June 10th release on Venn Records. Unabashedly melting 70's rock influences with punk, hardcore and garage, UPRISE is as loud and urgent, as it is crafted and honest. Alongside the announcement of UPRISE, they're also debuting their blistering new single and video, SE17 and have been confirmed as main support's for both Juliette Lewis & The Licks' and The Dirty Nil's European Tours this April, and also as main support to The...

Earworms can be a dream or a curse. One day it's James Hetfield's raspy Yeah-Heahhs running hefty loops in your brain for a while, the next it's the strains of Boney M's Rasputin. On Repeat. Forever. Music-streaming service Deezer has put the latest hits to the test by analysing its global streaming data to reveal the tracks that are generating the most repeat listens so far in 2016. The slow southern rhythm of G-Eazy’s Me, Myself & I is the...

Polish alt/pop musician Brodka has unveiled the darkly dystopian video for her new single ‘Horses’. Expect engaging visuals, mystery and metaphor as illusive as the track's soundscape. "It's about transformation and spiritual metamorphose," Says Monica Brodka. "Mechanical horses. Glorifying of metal and cars. An escape into an imaginary world." Brodka recently announced the release of her first fully English language album Clashes, due for release May 13th via Play It Again Sam. Having already released three acclaimed albums in her...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Funmbi Omotayo’s friendly, instantly likeable style won him the award for Best Newcomer at the Black Entertainment Comedy Awards. He is creating a huge storm on the comedy circuit with tales of living in Hackney, his Nigerian roots and his hilarious day to day observations. We met him for a chat. You are bringing Legal Immigrant to London’s Soho Theatre, can you tell us a bit about the show? My show is about me discovering...

By Daniel Mackenzie (@EkcaLiena) There's a unique joy in spending hours in a dark underground bunker with nothing but bass heavy drones and noise for company, the brief shuffles and breaths of other audience members reminding you that you're not alone, or dreaming; then soon afterwards standing atop a cliff overlooking the Atlantic, letting the first vibrations of a party segue, via an elaborate and extensive buffet, into early hours hedonism. This nightly sequence is simple, refined and addictive. Such...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) New research conducted by audio, video and lighting specialists AVonics has shown that live music venues may be becoming less appealing to the British public The survey discovered that 63% of people in the UK hadn’t visited a live music venue in the past 12 months. People in the 25 to 34-year-old category were more likely to have attended a live music show, with 46% saying that they had been to a concert in the past year. But...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Coldplay. Coldplay, Coldplay, Coldplay, with their tepid ear porridge and the reappropriated worldliness of the proudest gap year knobhead. We aren't big fans of Coldplay at TLE, and as it turns out, neither are you, really. Following the announcement of the band’s fourth time headlining at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, people across the UK took to Twitter to express their anger. This prompted international ticket reselling platform, Ticketbis, to invite 1,000 Brits to play a simple game...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music.  We’ve gone a bit weird this week, maybe as a result of seeing Nurse With Wound live over the weekend, but whatever the reason, I like it. Some old classics in there like the Gimmik track from odd bleepy label Toytronic, a very peculiar track from Simone White and Kassem Mosse called ‘Flowers In May’ and some Toru Takemitsu...

You may not have heard of escape room puzzles, or you may be a locked-in-a-room junkie already (not in the Trainspotting sense).  Until now I viewed this leisure activity as a Mensa club hobby for those who opt for puzzle solving over physical contact with the opposite sex, but these mind workouts are becoming increasingly popular. This time last year there were five main escape room operators in London, today we counted at least 25, which demonstrates the growing demand...