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By Michelle Ryan (@ShellRyan33) Infinity Girl may not be the hottest name on everyone’s lips right now but give it a minute and you’ll be glad you stopped by to check them out. The group emerged in 2012 with their Stop Being On My Side album before releasing an EP later that same year, starting to build buzz around their noise. Their sound became decidedly experimental and deviant. Now, the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston band have taken another turn in their musical navigations...

By Tom Stocks @actorawareness  I have been running the Actor Awareness campaign for two years now. The campaign is slowly gathering support from all corners of the industry social media, local newspapers and bloggers. The deeper I look the more apparent it becomes to me that working class actors can not seem to find a way into acting without bags of money. The awareness is at an all time high with high profile actors speaking of the issue and new...

Swedish garage pop project Boys (AKA Nora Karlsson from HOLY) are set to release their first EP. Kind Of Hurt is slated for a 25th September release date through PNKSLM Recordings. Whet your appetite for its lo-fi garage and melodious pop with lead single 'Ever Before' which you can listen to below.

The Truth of Revolution, Brother  by Lisa Sofianos, Robin Ryde and Charlie Waterhouse is both an immersive read and art book. Over 288 pages, 30 in-depth interviews are mixed with striking illustration, intimate black and white photography and original art from several of the book’s interviewees. The interviews and analysis gently reveal proven strategies for alternative living more relevant now than they were in punk’s 70s/80s heyday. Artistic highlights include new work by Crass’s Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud, David...

Blacklisters, the Leeds quartet who were once described as 'Mclusky being Pulled Apart By Horses' by NME, are putting the finishing touches to their latest release, Adult.  Before the release (18th September, get it down on a post-in somewhere) the band decided to head up to Greenmount Studio to thrash out a live performance of 'I Knock Myself Out'. Have a watch below. If you like what you hear Adult will be released via Smalltown America (home of Jetplane Landing, USA...

By Henry Austin Described as “a swarm” by Prime Minister David Cameron, images and stories about migrants attempting to gain access to the Eurotunnel have saturated British media this summer. But as Emily Dugan points out in the prologue of her new book “Finding Home, Real Stories of Migrants in Britain,” it is easy to forget we are talking about a collection of disparate people from across the globe. Focusing on 10, The Independent newspaper’s Social Affairs Editor succeeds in...

Trolls, whether they claim craggy woodland and moist caves as their home or the dark caverns of the internet, have always been a blight on society, fictional or otherwise. Has a definitive troll-slaying method ever been developed? We're not sure, but Sun Club seem to have the right idea giving them a good smashing in their video for 'Tropicoller Lease'. Sunshine pop meets off-kilter alt as the band's frolicking turns to frenzy, the pink-haired creatures arriving to disrupt an idyllic summer...

Robocop, Leatherface, He-Man and a rather sinister xenomorph all star in the latest apocalyptic video from synthwave crew Gunship. Events unfold in a Claymation wasteland, brought to grisly life by award-winning animator/director Lee Hardcastle (The ABC’s of Death, ). It's a loving homage to iconic 80's do-gooders and big-bads with a razor-sharp cyberpunk soundtrack to score the carnage. Gunship's new album is out now via Horsie in the Hedge available to order here.

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The BBC Symphony Orchestra is to perform at the Sibelius Festival in Finland to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Unique celebrations will take place over a week from 31st August – 6th September at the 16th Sibelius festival to honour the distinguished composer’s life and work.  Visitors can enjoy six orchestral concerts directed by the renowned conductors Okko Kamu, Osmo Vänskä, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sakari Oramo and Leif Segerstam performed...