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Showcase festivals! There’s at least one a month these days. A network of music industry types networking and hyping a steady...

A stark contrast to the stereotypical blazing sunshine and beer-in-fields impression of music festivals, Rockaway Beach occurs in the first few...

In 1994, in the midst of the Britpop knees-up and the explosion of Oasis, painting a picture of Britain full of...

At birth, Imperial Wax was overshadowed equally by a blessing and a curse. Despite being very much their own entity, they were...

It’s that Bloopcast time again. Well it’s past that time! We got so inundated with great new music that we didn’t notice it...

This is no joke! Thrust into the middle of a satire-meets-reality political situation this April Fool’s Day, legendary anarcho-punks CRASS have a free download...

We get so much incredible new music coming our way, it’s almost impossible to keep up. We spend so much of our time talking...

Food is often overlooked as the very core to so many of our relationships. What, how and when we eat shapes many of our...

Building on the brilliant monthly Satori Screen showings, Quad Derby welcomed the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme for another year to showcase 11 Japanese...

The best art draws on heritage, a sense of identity. Work that tries to discover the artist’s place in the world through their creativity. Cannibals...

Experimental DJs Copper Sounds talk about their part on an innovative new tour.   Sound is a powerful thing, it has the power to ignite, manipulate...

Stepping away from the fairytale streets of the Old Town opens up the collision of ideals that make up the city's modern history. We...

Everywhere you look there are passionate pockets of promoters bringing brilliant and unexpected music to their locales. And so, I made the trip to...

Rashid Khalifa’s show ‘Penumbra: Textured Shadow, Coloured Light’, currently on display at Saatchi, is not only metaphorically immersive but physically, involving sculptures which dominate...

In ‘Companion Pieces’, Robert Fitzmaurice’s solo show at no format Gallery, abstracted figures recur in many of the artworks, presented with a varying mix...

Time’s a funny thing! Loads of it has elapsed since we did one of these new music lists. Where have we been? Kidnapped by...

Featuring a collection of playful, experimental and abstract artworks by Roger Holtom, ‘Boom’ is now open at Fiumano Clase. The artist, who’s been friends with...

Evoking narrative, and a sense of place, through sound is a skill often most recognised in the worlds of jazz and classical music –...

Fresh from collaborating with robots, Haiku Salut has concocted another event that explores technology and thought to launch third album There Is No Elsewhere. The...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe returns for its 71st year this August, promising a huge number – and vast variety – of theatre shows across the...

Indietracks 2018  is now just days away. We’ve checked out all the bands, downloaded the excellent 40-track compilation and started packing for a weekend...

Nestled away in the Derbyshire hills, on the site of a steam railway museum, Indietracks has forged an existence as one of the UK’s...

Hong Kong based Thud are a shoegaze connoisseurs’ wet-dream. The five-piece take the best elements of classic bands like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine and...

Since 2002, German label Le Pop Musick, coming out of Cologne, has been putting out their Le Pop compilation, highlighting the best new music from the French...

Our new feature series, ‘The fabric of’ looks at the inspiration behind some of our favourite new acts. What influenced their sound, their outlook...

Good things come to those who wait! We’ve been off discovering new music at festivals and the like, and this is the first new...

Since the opening of ‘Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World’ – a new exhibition of Carla van de Puttelaar’s work at Weiss Gallery...

Each year, Brighton, becomes the nucleus of the global music underground for The Great Escape, attracting the most beautiful budding talent to spaces in...

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are an indie-cinema dream-team, and with The Endless have created a movie taking on the big studio efforts created...

“I don’t want anyone to think that is what John was like, he wasn’t. He’s just that good an actor,” explained Sir John Hurt’s...

Borley Rectory is a documentary like no other. Director Ashley Thorpe explained his fascination with the ‘most haunted house in Britain’ at Borley Rectory as...

To say that The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai is a “good” movie would be to over-play its hand. Even to suggest it is...

Derby Film Festival’s ‘ParaCinema’ programme set about shining a light into the dark corners of the cinematic universe. It was inevitable that Calum Waddell’s...

With high-quality artworks, welcoming owners and an adorable gallery dog, Fiumano Clase is a joy to visit. Their current show, 円熟 (Enjuku), is Takefumi...

The short version of this review is that Attack of The Adult Babies is the most unexpected, disgusting, brilliant, hilarious and through-provoking film you...

When you learn that a movie has been made on a budget of 100euros it is safe to say expectations are low, especially when...

The human mind is a tricky place, smashing our rationality with irrational thoughts. That is where phobias come into play, taking us on a...

The potential horror of our relationship to scientific advancement and technology has long been a rich source of information for the fright-inducing genre. Bodies...

Ouija boards unleashing the powers of darkness with horrific effects is not a new idea in horror, but the British twist thrust on to...

Three years ago, at a record store in France, I came across what was possibly the greatest album artwork I’d ever seen. The album...

Derby Film Festival is launching the first edition of ParaCinema this weekend – an event that delves into the outer reaches of cinema and...

Zaragoza, Spain - a siesta-filled quiet city brimming with antiquity, is the home of Kim Fasticks - an acoustic singer / songwriter who wanders...

Few places in the modern world come attached with as much folklore and mythology as Chernobyl. The radiation only recently subsided enough for humans to...

If you are a UK resident, chances are you haven’t heard of German 90’s alternative band, Locust Fudge. Although signed to Sub Pop’s Euro division,...

The stand-out point from this year’s Tallinn Music Week was its promotion of new voices. Artists that are using their uniqueness to subvert the...

This time last week Bloop was at Tallinn Music Week being exposed to new music from around the world. As if this wasn’t enough...

Kenya has long musical heritage connecting the traditions of the past with the ever changing social and political climates. Its forays into the world...

We live in a moment of profound change in attitudes and understanding of transgender issues. Much as moved on since Emmy Award winner Bruce...

Representing a world of people who are “out for themselves”, Josie Spencer’s upcoming exhibition ‘Murmuration’ at The Playground Theatre, London, will have nine life-size...

Many things have been getting in the way of getting this latest Bloop list published. Easter’s chocolate overdose being one. Also, the majority of our...

Derbyshire based festival Indietracks, nestled in the hills of the county and set on a steam railway museum, has long been a Mecca for...

“To me it’s the opposite of sad. To me the sad part would be if that message wasn’t there and you’re just going to...

Estonian capital, Tallinn, has a history as a pan-European playground, an intersection of greater powers vying for its wonders – Soviet, Danish, Swedish, Polish,...

2017 was a bad year for Detroit, Michigan's prolific singer/songwriter (and my friend and occasional music collaborator), Chris Oliver.  While his wife and mother...

I’ve heard four separate world leaders compared to Hitler this week, without any irony. Admittedly one accusation of Hitlerness came from a guy who...

Appendix is the third installment of an album trilogy from Derbyshire multi-instrumentalist James Machin, in his Grawl!x guise and ends the trio of releases...

Humanity is crushing the world with junk, with debris. The cast away remnants of our excesses. We look to the skies as our saviour when...

Are we in the middle of a new cold war? Is that what’s happening? This has nothing to do with new music or this list...

This is the first new music list to appear as the site goes live. Everything on the site so far has been so underground...

Bordering Albania and Montenegro, Lake Skadar is often described as one of the most beautiful places on earth. But the Skadar I found was a...

Bloop is drowning under a literal tidal flow of incredible new music each week.This new weekly list will highlight the pick of this musical...

Nandi Rose Plunkett's synth-pop alter-ego Half Waif is ready to release new album Lavender next month, and has teased it’s quality with new single ‘Keep...

Swiss Canadian duo, Peter Kernal, are about to drop their third album The Size of Night which promises to be a leap forward for...

Beats in Space only dropped into my consciousness this week with a serious bout of ‘how in hell have a missed this label’. I was...

Manchester-based trio GoGo Penguin have always fused different genres but forthcoming album A Humdrum Star leans heavier on their shared love of electronica than...

The world, at present, is all bluster and turmoil, a broken cacophony of madness. In to that void stepped the latest album from general...

Keiron Melling was the drummer in the final line-up of The Fall after ten years working with legendary front-man Mark E. Smith. Following his...

As Britpop petered out and the late 90s charts packed with bland pop, a new self-referential and singular noise was emerging from the Lancashire...

We’re sat in the upper floors of the labyrinthine Hare and Hounds in King’s Heath and ‘slop pop’ duo Diet Cig are enthusing about...

The city gave birth to movements that changed the world, here’s how to explore them on your visit.   San Francisco is a city oozing with...

When bands talk about the different ‘eras’ of their existence it usually spans many years or even decades, but Derby rock trio Unqualified Nurse...

Mark Lamarr is quoted as saying “Everyone has four good stories, Neville Staple has the rest!” And spending time with the 2 Tone legend...

With a relentless touring schedule, a stunning debut album and a message to believe in, Bristol’s Idles are proving to be the most vital...

“It’s not the beginning of a new punk movement with people in tuxedos and dickie-bows, it’s just a bit of fun, serious fun but...

Who is Hussain Manawer? For starters, Hussain Manawar, is the performance poet that earlier this week broke the world record for the world’s largest mental health...

The SU venue at Goldsmith’s is an echo from a by-gone age – an age of free education, £1 pints and living off grants,...

There are few cities in the world that have as much music heritage flowing so visibly through their veins as New Orleans. It is a...

Despite playing a major and active part in how heavy music expanded into new realms in the late 80s and early 90s, Chuck Mosley...

In a modern musical landscape that sees ‘authenticity’ as the ultimate standard, Hot 8 Brass Band should be viewed as one of the greatest...

“Farting is one of the rules of Troma script writing. In return to Nuke 'Em High you see a beautiful woman fart, you see a duck...