Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Acclaimed electro-rock band LCD Soundsystem’s Gavin Rayna Russom and Nancy Whang have just dropped the news that the two of them will be embarking on a DJ tour as ‘Ladies of LCD Soundsystem’. The tour will be a just under two months-long US stint that begins
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Kieran Hebden, the mastermind behind electronic experimental project Four Tet, has just released a new live album. The new release covers the entirety of Four Tet’s set performed at Funkhaus Berlin on May 10 and includes re-worked versions of tracks from his last studio album ‘New Energy’ as well as
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão The iconic UK synth-pop duo made up of Marc Almond and David Ball, Soft Cell, who brought us immortal hits such as ‘Tainted Love’, are back for the first time in a decade and a half. The pair have just shared their new single, titled ‘Northern
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Electropop songstress La Roux’s critically and commercially acclaimed single ‘Bulletproof’ from 2009 was recently used in a segment on the Fox Business Network show Mornings With Maria Bartiromo about “high-end bulletproof backpacks and clothing“, marketed at kids who are heading back to school this year. Not
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Although he has yet to announce an exact date, Paul Oakenfold has confirmed that he will be performing a live DJ set for fifty guests at the UNESCO World Heritage Site this September, making him the first ever DJ to do so. The historic show will
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Follwing a five-year battle with with anxiety that came along with his cancer diagnosis in November 2011, Danish DJ and producer Kasper Bjørke announces a personal account of his journey through ambient sound and art film, in the form of a concept album called ‘The Fifty
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[Image: Emily Lazar, Grammy-nominated mastering engineer, who has worked on over 2000 albums including releases by David Bowie, Björk, Goldfrapp, Moby, Paul McCartney, The Naked and Famous, Sonic Youth, Wu-Tang Clan, Tiesto, Thievery Corporation, Depeche Mode, Jedi Mind Tricks, The Prodigy, Morrissey, and many more.] Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Spotify
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão Legendary American pianist Robert Glasper called out Lauryn Hill for ‘stealing music’ and mistreating fellow artists this week on a radio interview with Houston radio station KBXX. Lauryn Hill’s 1998 album ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ has been hailed as a classic by many; the album
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Interview by Arnold van der Walt Berlin-based DJ and producer, Eugène Schieffer, has been making waves in the online community with his carefully curated weekly techno mixes and regular original releases. He shared another track exclusively with The Playground, entitled ‘Keep Quiet’. An architect by education, Eugène Schieffer found himself
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Written by Maya-Rose Torrão They say that plastic is estimated to outweigh fish in the oceans by 2050, a shocking and devastating thing to think about, but Canadian tech house DJs Anstascia D’Elene Corniere and Vivie-ann Bakos, who go by Blond:ish, are not going to stand idly by and let
