The team behind Rainbow Venues is currently revamping what used to be an industrial facility in order to open a multipurpose space in Birmingham later in September. Located in Digbeth, the spot will be dubbed CRANE, named after the large crane that extends over the building. CRANE will be hosting
Birmingham / Crane / Digbeth / United Kingdom / Venue
Bjork will be performing an exclusive 4 hour DJ set on the opening night of this year’s Sonar festival, on Wednesday 14th June. An exhibition of her work, “Björk Digital” will open on the same day, at Barcelona’s Contemporary Culture Centre and will run until September 24. It is a
Legendary UK producer Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) has added his voice to the outpouring of international protest following Donald Trump’s recent immigration policy reforms. Hebden posted a selection of songs on Spotify by artists hailing from the countries hit by Trump’s immigration ban, including tracks by musicians from Syria, Iraq,
The twentieth annual Melt Festival will take place at Ferropolis open-air museum in Germany from 14 to 16 July 2017. As one of the biggest open-air electronic music festivals in Germany, Melt Festival has been named as one of Resident Advisor’s top ten festivals for three years running. This comes
Musician Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) has defended his debut film Kuso amid critical backlash and reports of mass walkouts from its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Techno website The Verge called Kuso “the grossest film ever made”, publishing an account of the audience walkout, as well as vivid descriptions
An exploration of intimacy, ‘Petty Passion‘ is a symbolic take on the nature of human relations in an overly dissociated and desensitized climate; exhibiting a curious and at times bizarre exchange. Subtly portraying deep-seeded human emotions and instinctual traits, or lack thereof, the film examines the peculiar relationship that is
Brainfeeder / Downtempo / electronica / glitch / Lapalux / London / music video
Robert Henke, the man behind Monolake and the groundbreaking audiovisual performance piece Lumiere II, has announced on Facebook that he will not play any live shows in the US this year. Furthermore, the German artist has declared that he will not be renewing his American artist visa, echoing the words
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood will score the new thriller by Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix. The film will premier at Cannes Film festival and is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Jonathan Ames. It follows the story of a war veteran’s
James Laurence, one half of the massively influential duo Friendzone, has passed away. Laurence and partner Dylan Reznick pioneered the genre of Cloud Rap (also known as Trillwave), overseeing the production of dreamlike, ethereal hip hop tracks, most notably for Main Attrakionz and A$AP Rocky. Tributes to the producer have
In preparation of the upcoming sequel to the original Blade Runner, a new animated short film titled Blade Runner 2022 is scheduled to drop on October 6th, marking the third in a series of prequels following the original film leading up to the upcoming sequel. According to Pitchfork, the short
