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As big wave surf season swirls towards us, Lomography shares its exhibition of images taken by photographers Bastienne onnarme, Benjamin Wu Tiu Yen and surfers during Nixon Surf Challenge 2015 with Lomography cameras and lenses. Open for a month from 8th October in Lomography Gallery Store, Soho, the show is part of an international exhibition…

After a whirlwind couple of years from recording Creature Songs EP to selling out their upcoming UK tour, Wolf Alice have now released the first new material since their debut album, My Love is Cool. The team created new track, Baby Ain’t Made of China, over just a weekend at Bad Robot, a production company…

As summer sadly comes to an end we look back at the action from On Blackheath festival and the beautiful leafy SE13 borough for a weekend of family fun and food. Despite a weather report of pure rain, the whole weekend shone bright in the gorgeous setting of Blackheath, complete with pink sunsets. The festival had a…

WORD!  There's a load of FREE summer cinema screenings in Victory Park, East Village this August as the Nomad Cinema experts teamed up with East Village to offer something for everyone. You've got the family friendly Paddington, Thelma and Louise for a rebellious evening of fun, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the more sensitive of…

Having almost doubled its capacity in two years, the third Brainchild Festival is set to provide another interesting authentic experiences for this weekend’s audience. Almost 400 artistic collaborators have been asked to explore the theme of body, space, power and change for the visual and audio pleasure of the festival-goers. Grab a ticket quickly if you…

SCALA, KINGS CROSS 20TH MAY 2015 For the last few months, the sexy funky R&B sounds of New York duo Lion Babe have been infiltrating Radio 1 playlists and causing a stir ahead of their UK tour. Singer and performance artist Jillian Hervey provides soulful and blissful vocals whilst instrumentalist and producer Lucas Goodman whips…

XOYO 16TH APRIL 2015 Off the back of their European Soul album release and kicking off their European tour, we saw Citizens! strut their well-dressed stuff at XOYO. The four Kitsuné pals played to a packed out sold out venue supported by the awesome Zibra. Tottenham based youngsters Zibra started out with their electro-indie synth…

Want some free food to get you through hump day? This Wednesday 15th April, get to Aubaine, Broadgate Circle, next to Liverpool Street Station, to grab one of a thousand tasty french treats! The chic french patisserie and bakery will be making rush hour a tasty one from 7.30am until the thousand pastries are all…

The time has come to reveal not only the theme but even more stellar acts to play Standon Calling this summer. The theme is rather ambiguously, that being 'The Town of Two Faces', which we're sure many will interpret in their usual creative ways! But for now it seems any kind of cowboy or evil robot…

Have you got what it takes to survive the 9 hour thriller fest movie marathon that is the Fight for Survival? Bring your hangover and an accomplice to the Prince Charles cinema, Notting Hill Gate, this Saturday (14th March) and see if you can endure The Hunger Games, Tomorrow, When the War Began, The Faculty…

Pinkyshinyultrablast’s single ‘Holy Forest’ is a cheery yet immense math rock shoegaze baby with beautiful twinkling guitars and ethereal eastern elements. Just like the single, the slightly trippy video montage of marital arts tapes leaves you bewildered and hypnotized but content. There should be an extended loop version for stoners or they could happily just…

BRIXTON ACADEMY 25TH FEBRUARY 2015 Death from Above 1979 exploded over 10 years ago with the iconic album 'You're a Woman, I'm a Machine', the band burnt themselves out and broke up exploring other sidelines like drummer and vocalist Jesse’s successful Modular dance duo, MSTRKRFT. To get an idea of the huge elephant shaped hole…