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From destroying The Daily Mail to setting Article 50 to music, The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band turn referendum blues into a show-stopping extravaganza.

I’ve had a glut of gigs recently: Gas – music as you’d expect (great) and incredible visual accompaniment, like a HD acid trip deep in […]

Experimental Philadelphia four-piece Palm are almost telepathically tight, but is that enough to win over the midweek throng at Brighton venue The Joker?

Boasting big names, chill vibes and its own amusingly-named currency, Lowlands is one of the Netherlands longest-running festivals. Mansoor Iqbal went to check it out...

As POP Montreal celebrates it’s 16th birthday (and the city itself turns 375), we select some of the festival's most unmissable acts...

After a record-breaking bank holiday heatwave, The Necks manage to counteract a roasting Cafe Oto with a sublime performance, as part of their latest residency...

From quasi-Brechtian encounters to skull-piercing rods, we take a look at the impressive A/VISIONS programme at this year’s MUTEK Montréal...

As one of the biggest Dutch music festivals, Lowlands pulls in plenty of well-known names. Here are five smaller acts we suggest you catch there instead...

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and his orchestra paid tribute to the legendary J Dilla at KOKO last week, and it proved to be a moving, mesmerising experience...

An incredibly intimate performance by the recently reloaded Portico Quartet gave Emma Hall the perfect excuse to go full fan-girl...