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By Bill Lytton “A lazy long slow braise in the oven and deep pleasure awaits” -- Nigella Lawson, Simply Nigella, Ep. 4 Three hours have passed, it would seem, since we started on a verbose journey into the crude depths of the chai-dairy-free-almond-milk-mega-breakfast muffin. Nigella starts strong. With reckless abandon for rational word-use, straight-talking and general timing; she convinces us into thinking this muffin is not just a regular muffin recipe with almond milk and the excavated contents of chai...

If you’ve ever liked raving and misbehaving (post 1999) then you will probably have heard of Redlight. Known as a producer of quirky club music, the Bristol-raised, London-based producer has stepped away from his previous sound to deliver a bassline driven debut album: X Colour. The album is full of constant changes: an intro track eases in the listener and builds to the bass orientated house track ‘Gold Teeth’. It then unexpectedly shifts to the more radio friendly tropical house...

2016 marks the 10th Anniversary of Slam Dunk Festival and it looks like they're setting up to make it a big one! Panic At The Disco are set to headline in their first appearance at the festival, with Of Mice & Men, New Found Glory and Four Year Strong putting in killer sets, too. This is only the first round of acts to be announced, with 40+ bands still to announce over 7 stages. The dates and sites for next years' Slam Dunk Festival are:...

New research looking into the use of smartphones at live music events has found that we’re more interested in promoting ourselves on social media than taking the time away from our phones to enjoy the music. Nearly a quarter of those polled by Mobiles.co.uk said they would use their phone at a live music event to represent themselves in a certain way on social media, hunt for Likes (22%) and prove they attended the event (30%). In contrast, only 1 in 10 said they...

By Miranda Hazrati @mirandahazrati Rufus Norris has enjoyed a successful few months since he took over as Artistic Director at the National Theatre in April this year with ‘Beaux’ Stratagem’, ‘Everyman’ and The Motherf**cker With A Hat’ all proving his salt. But that might be about to change with ‘An Evening At The Talkhouse’ which opens this week and looks set at the very least to divide audiences. An almost unbearable 100 minute no-interval mish-mash of undeveloped and half-baked themes and...

Built To Spill Support: Disco Doom Electric Ballroom, 25.11.15 Later this week 90's indie legends Built To Spill will bring their genre-spanning sound to the confines of Camden's Electric Ballroom. For the uninitiated, expect winding Pavement-style pop and loose low-end jams. These boys have eight albums and twenty years under their belt; it might be a Wednesday night but it's going to be all-killer. Zurich-based art rock quartet Disco Doom are also along for the ride, getting the fresh sounds of their latest LP Numerals...

By Steve Taggart Eagles of Death Metal have bravely spoken out in an interview with Vice about the massacre at their gig at the Bataclan concert hall, Paris. They were performing their set when gunmen burst into the venue and and fired into the crowd, who initially thought it was part of the act, killing 89 people. Shockingly, several people fled to the band's dressing room, but were pursued into the backstage area and massacred there. One fan managed to...

By Michelle Ryan (@ShellRyan33) These days when it comes to music, especially of the pop genre, it’s either music or lyrics. One will suffer to give centre stage to the other but every so often there are those exceptional moments when an artist gets it all right. Musically and lyrically Charlotte Carpenter has done just that. She knows what she’s doing and she’s not afraid to show it off on her new collection. From the very start, The Fault Line...

For those yet to give Gunship's self-titled album a spin, Gunship is an evolution of the recently popularised synthwave genre, which was originally started by Rosso Corsa records & The Valerie Collective artists. It's nostalgic synth at its best, and it helps that they're in the habit of accompanying their noise with very cool videos. In keeping with their old school aesthetic the band are salvaging yet another relic from the retro gaming hall of fame, re-releasing their critically acclaimed self-titled album on...