Författararkiv: Mike Whyte

The Orb have released a new single ”Rush Hill Road”, to be followed on the 22nd June by the new album ”No Sounds Are out of Bounds”. Both form part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the seminal ambient electronic music group, along with the festival to be held at the Roundhouse in London – …

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Chvrches third album ”Love Is Dead” is now 20 days away (release date May 25th) and the synthpop trio will head off on a world tour the day after that.

Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, Sonar Barcelona are planning to send more tracks into space.

Orbfest will take place at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, on 23rd June this year. Marking their 30th anniversary, it promises to be a celebration of the Orb and the music they have inspired in one of London’s most interesting music spaces.

Primavera Sound is another great festival held in Barcelona, usually earlier than the often mentioned Sonar Festival. Though it isn’t often mentioned in these pages, as the music sits a little more in the alternative and indie areas of the music spectrum, Primavera Sound could be of interest to some of you out there this …

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Though the Grammys 2018 featured all of the acts you might typically consider as winners of such awards, there were actually, and maybe surprisingly, some Release-worthy winners.

Jack Dangers returns this month with a new Meat Beat Manifesto album called ”Impossible Star”.

LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz, Ólafur Arnalds, Laurent Garnier and Richie Hawtin have been announced amongst the first wave of acts for what is set to be a huge 25th anniversary line-up for Sonar.

According to FACT magazine, and mentioned by the NME, it may be possible that Björk actually has unreleased tracks recorded with members of the Wu Tang Clan.