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London festival season takes another hit as LIDO cancels two days, reschedules the third

LIDO Festival Canceled

The festival canceled acts by CMAT and Bombay Bicycle Club in an effort to “protect park grounds conditions.”

5 songs you need to hear this week

This week’s best new songs roundup features Cactus Lee’s beer can triumph, Lip Critic’s doomscroll scorcher, and Los Thuthanaka’s ecstatic sunrise folktale.

30 years ago, Revival was a beautiful, messy remedy to country music’s identity crisis

Gillian Welch Revival

On this day in 1996, Gillian Welch’s debut album rejected modernity, reaching instead into an older, darker era of country and Appalachian folk music.

Those pristine days of Human Performance I recall so fondly

Parquet Courts Human Performance

Ten years ago, Parquet Courts figured out what kind of band they actually were, which turned out to be a bigger, stranger, and more emotionally complicated kind than anyone, themselves included, had believed.

Meet EXO-TECH: An improvisational collective in NYC

EXO-TECH

EXO-TECH is a dynamic collective of musicians brought together by musical director Sophia Brous and vocalist Kimbra to experiment in real time, blending styles and talents in unexpectedly brilliant ways.