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Festival Review: Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival stays weird and wonderful and wholly necessary

Joshua Pickard·April 4, 2023

Big Ears still feels like a secret, a hidden treasure nestled in The Marble City. Gathering together artists...

Rob Hakimian·March 24, 2023

There was a sense of celebration throughout Alex G’s headline performance at London’s Roundhouse on Thursday night –...

Rob Hakimian·February 15, 2023

Desire Day. It was always meant to be this way: Caroline Polachek releasing her hotly anticipated new album...

Tom Williams·January 25, 2023

Human frailty has always animated Lucinda Williams‘ music. Ever since the release of her first solo material in...

Jasper WIllems·November 23, 2022

Even amidst a crisis within the live music circuit, Le Guess Who? 2022 hauled over another expectation-defying lineup...

Rob Hakimian·August 29, 2022

It had been almost five years since Fleet Foxes had played live in London, but on their long-awaited...

Todd Dedman·July 4, 2022

Margate is the quintessential seaside town that they forgot to close down. Kent’s former carbuncle has been getting...

Alex Nguyen·June 16, 2022

As one of the first major U.S. music festivals to kick off the summer months, New York City’s...

Todd Dedman·May 13, 2022

After two frustrating years of cancellations due to you-know-what, Desertfest returned to London in triumphant manner at the...

Miranda Remington·October 17, 2021

As it had been long anticipated, the faces of over 700 people at London’s Village Underground, confronted with...