The letter from organisers of the annual event was addressed to Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

The future of London’s Notting Hill Carnival is “in jeopardy” without “urgent funding”, according to a leaked letter from organisers of the annual event.

The letter was sent to Lisa Nandy, who is Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and leaked by the BBC. In it, Carnival Village Trust chair Ian Comfort said that financial support was “essential to safeguarding the future and public safety of this iconic event”.

This follows an independent safety review of the London event which identified “critical public safety concerns” that will require additional funding to address, the letter said. The full findings of the…

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“Rents are rising, costs increasing, and the political climate has become hostile towards independent spaces, grassroots culture and organisations that platform marginalised voices,” a note shared by the station said

Berlin-based online radio station Refuge Worldwide has launched a fundraising campaign to help it continue broadcasting amid rising costs.

Announcing the fundraiser via an Instagram post, the team at Refuge Worldwide said: “While considering our options and the current climate in Germany, we have decided that we have little choice but to launch a crowdfunder in order to support the station’s projects and stay on air.”

In addition to broadcasting radio shows from a diverse cast of DJs, musicians and various other figures, Refuge Worldwide also facilitates various workshops and teaching programmes to…

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The third instalment of the trio’s recent series of joint records is out in August

Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin have shared details of a new album, Ghosted III.

Spanning six pieces, the new record marks the third instalment of a series of collaborative records by the three artists, which began in 2022 (appearing among our favourite albums of that year) and continued in 2024 with Ghosted II. A press release says that this latest match-up finds them sounding “a little looser and wilder than before”.

Ambarchi plays guitar on the record, while Berthling handles bass and Werliin takes care of drums. It was recorded across three days last December at a studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Erasure, Depeche and Yazoo synthmeister conjures banger, listen now on tQ

The current run of new music from The Hidden Cameras is proving to be one of 2025’s most exciting musical returns. First, there was the fantastic Pet Shop Boys reworking of ‘How Do You Love?’ that made our Music of the Month for April, now Joel Gibb has teamed up with yet another synth pop legend to rework the latest new tune. Yep, none other than Vince Clarke is on the remixing duties for ‘Undertow’, sprinkling all sorts of classic Vince magic all over it – there’s even strong hints of early Depeche Mode and ‘Can’t Get Enough’ in this. You can listen to the track here. About the untimely end of…

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From teenage awakenings at the hands of Björk and Stereolab via English folksong, a lockdown obsession with Dead Can Dance and a newfound love of Lili Boulanger, Patrick Wolf takes Luke Turner through the thirteen records that have defined his life

Crying The Neck, Patrick Wolf’s seventh album, is shaped by the folklore of the county of Kent and inspired by the lessons learned and home truths discovered during his 10-year absence from releasing music. As has widely been reported in the press around the release of this excellent record, it was a fraught period of bankruptcy, addiction, and over it all is the death of his mother from cancer. Sometimes the narrative can overwhelm the music, and in this case…

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Haress

Skylarks

On their third album, the Shropshire band do folk horror shorn of the Wicker Man clichés, finds Alex Deller

Skylarks by HARESS

With their third album, Haress join that rare class of bands that can honestly be described as elemental. While the tangled roots of their sound can be traced back to folk, post-rock, ambient and the more literate, gently arcane fringes of indie rock (Arbouretum, Daniel Higgs, All Structures Align), Skylarks places them at a juncture that’s hard to either pinpoint or entirely fathom.

Comprising four tracks, the album stretches and sprawls in a manner that might initially be described as ‘meandering’ – until, that is, you realise just how much intensity of purpose dwells within. Motifs are half-started, seemingly forgotten and…

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Like modern day musical alchemists, MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel turn lead (and tin and steel and brass and aluminium) into sonic gold, finds Daryl Worthington

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Imagine if instead of images and words we documented our lives by collecting sounds. Diaries and photo albums were replaced with audio recordings of objects being sounded – some musical, some otherwise – capturing things that moved our ears and needed to be inscribed for posterity. To organise this archive we latched onto the recurrence of a particular material rather than people, places or times. That’s the project Baltimore-duo Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt, aka Matmos, undertake on Metallic Life Review. The album is made from recordings of metal objects captured throughout their…

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The Spanish artist has also launched a new label called AWOS

Photo by Rachel Israela Scheidt

JASSS is to release her third studio album this September.

Titled Eager Buyers, the seven-track record will mark the inaugural release on the Spanish DJ and producer’s new label, AWOS. The LP takes inspiration from post-punk, post-rock and trip-hop, and features guest contributions from james K and Alias Error.

In a statement that explains the themes of Eager Buyers, JASSS said: “Whether you buy into the dream of capitalism or not, on a subconscious level, many people that lived through the 90s and 00s had capitalist hope from the 80s and 90s drummed into them. It was a promise of something that never came true. We put our…

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It’s the second single to be unveiled from the rap duo’s forthcoming comeback album

Clipse, the duo of Pusha T and Malice, have shared a new single, ‘So Be It’.

The new cut is the second song to be shared from the rap pair’s forthcoming album, Let God Sort Em Out, which is out next month and marks their first full-length release together since 2009. Read a GQ interview with Clipse’s Pusha T, in which he explains that ‘So Be It’ was partially written as a diss to Travis Scott, here.

Clipse previously released the single ‘Ace Trumpets’ in May, and will head out on their first full tour of North America in 15 years at the start of August.

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Hundreds of people gathered outside the court room in support of the musician as he appeared on a charge related to the alleged display of a Hezbollah flag during a gig

Kneecap’s Mo Chara was today (June 18) granted unconditional bail on a terror charge related to an alleged display of support for Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group.

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the preliminary hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in support of Chara, and chanted “Free Palestine” while waving Irish and Palestinian flags. The case will properly commence on August 20, when legal arguments will be presented by both the prosectuion and defence.

Wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, Mo Chara, whose real name is Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, spoke only to confirm his identity. If…

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