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At Tallinn Music Week 2026, electronic artists are making the case for human-made music

Check out the best electronic artists at TMW, their gear must-haves, and how DJs feel about the future of dance music in the face of rising AI technology.For the past century, electronic music has become a prolific platform for genre-bending experimentation. At Tallinn Music Week (TMW) 2026, talent in this arena is overflowing, from mainstream genres to niche underground scenes you wish you knew more about. Spread across four days in the surprisingly sunny capital of Estonia, Tallinn, the festiv...

Why People Are Upset with Kanye Playing Wireless

Famous rapper, producer and songwriter Kanye West is receiving backlash since the UK music festival, Wireless, booked him for a headline slot.


Unless you’re living under a rock, you have probably heard or read by now that Kanye West is headlining Wireless Festival. Since the announcement on Wednesday, 1st April, it has sparked a huge debate online. With comments from credible music industry figures and even British politicians addressing the matter.


Wireless is a live music festival that...

Album Review: Hey Colossus, 'Heaven Was Wild'

A new record from the noise rock stalwarts will always have us pricking up our ears at tQ towers, but despite a newfound sense of joy and even a certain swagger, this latest album is far from the group's peak, finds Laviea ThomasWhen Hey Colossus released their debut album Hey Colossus Hates You in 2004, they turned heads, as one of the few bands experimenting with a sound that was both psychedelic and hardcore. Planting themselves at the heart of the noise rock scene, the group made it known th...

Club Venues Aren’t Dead: A Look at London’s Newly Refurbished Ministry of Sound

For the last 35 years, London’s Ministry of Sound (MOS) has been a catalyst for dance music. Since founder Justin Berkmann first opened its London doors in 1991, the venue has championed all walks of dance music, from kaleidoscopic house to techno-colored techno and trance-inducing drum and bass.
On Thursday, February 26, the venue re-opened its doors for an exclusive first look at a renovation five years in the making. MOS transformed its Elephant and Castle location into a networking hub of in...

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Discriminatory, Unlawful and Unjust: The Nationality Bill and a Decadent Britain

Discriminatory, unlawful, and unjust: just three ways of describing the inhumane alterations made towards the latest Nationality and Boarders Bill. Adapted by the British Nationality Act in 1981, The Nationality and Boarders Bill was originally referred to as an act of last resort, in protection against terrorists, extremists and spies entering the UK, with asylum seekers somehow finding themselves wrongfully falling into this category. As it stands The Nationality and Borders Bill is currently...

'Some of my biggest memories are from Donnington': Korn’s Ray Luzier in Conversation

Lauded as one of the first groups within metal to fuse hip-hop with nu-metal, (not that they need the introduction), Korn are a notorious asset to the evolution of metal. Set to unleash their fourteenth studio album Requiem via independent label Loma Vista this Friday (4 February), Requiem welcomes honourable mentions from producer Chris Collier, mixer Rich Costey and an audio-visual playback experience in central London. 
Three years since their obliterating, introspective offering, The Nothing...

Dame Dash: How I Made It

Everything, I’ve fought for my freedom, my independence, I fight to see my kids, I fight to put out music. The bottom line is, life is nothing but a fight and this vibration is nothing but test after test after test. The real thing is to see how you’re going to react to certain things, and when you’re willing to compromise. We’re currently in a hurricane zone, but I’m going to have fun. We’ve been so productive in this hurricane you know; we’ve been able to do things. There’s a positive to find...

In Conversation: Deftones

“The guitar has a bit more drive in this album, the band has always been based around a very heavy distorted guitar sound,” says Abe Cunningham, discussing Deftones mammoth ninth studio album ‘Ohms’.
Today (September 25th) marks the release of Deftones, ‘Ohms’ and boy does it erupt – driving you through ten alt-metal tunes ‘Ohms’ exposes heavier drops, raw lyricism, and addictive hooks.
Returning four years after their last instalment ‘Gore,’ in a lot of ways ‘Ohms’ is a new direction for the co...

Digital Cover: Nella Rose is Living in the Moment

Although most of us will never be in a room with Nella Rose, her infectious laughter, no-filter ad-libs and feel-good aura create the sense that when you’re watching her onscreen, you’re connecting with a long-lost friend. Gracing the phones and laptops of her 600,000 Instagram followers daily, over the last six years of content creation Nella has cultivated a career as a successful influencer, entrepreneur, online personality, and interviewer. Working and mastering various platforms, while accu...