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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The entirely instrumental record will be released in August

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Steve Gunn has shared details of a new instrumental album, titled Music For Writers.

Spanning 10 tracks, the LP was recorded in New York, Berlin and Latvia, and clocks in at almost 47 minutes. It marks Gunn’s first solo album since 2021’s Other You.

Since that last solo LP, the guitarist has linked up with Bing & Ruth’s David Moore to release Let The Moon Be A Planet and Live In London, and also collaborated with several other musicians on various projects.

Ahead of the album’s release, Gunn has shared lead track ‘Slow Singers On The Hill’, which you can listen to below.

Three Lobed will release Music For Writers on August…

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It features guest contributions from Armand Hammer, Loraine James, Moor Mother and more

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Shapednoise has a new album on the way.

Titled Absurd Matter 2, the 10-track record follows 2023’s Absurd Matter, and features contributions from rappers such as Armand Hammer (the project of billy woods and ELUCID), Fatboi Sharif and ICECOLDBISHOP. Slikback and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith are also listed among the featured artists.

Loraine James and Moor Mother appear on the album’s lead track, ‘I Saw The Light’, which you can listen to below.

WEIGHT LOOMING will release Absurd Matter 2 on September 19, 2025.

Absurd Matter 2 by Shapednoise
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Dublin spaces such as Wigwam and Yamamori Tengu were among the beneficiaries of a new government initiative

A €500,000 grant has been shared out between 33 music venues in Ireland.

The newly launched Grassroots Music Venues Support Scheme is a government initiative designed to ensure that small, established music venues can continue to operate and showcase the talent of emerging artists across Ireland. Among the beneficiaries of the first round of grants were Dublin venues such as Wigwam, Yamamori Tengu and The Bernard Shaw, as well as Cork spaces Dali and Connollys Of Leap.

Over 100 venues applied for the grant, covering clubs, gig venues, theatres and pubs. Those who applied were asked to demonstrate evidence of a strong track record of regularly…

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The six-track record explores the concept of rave brutalism

Vienna-based composer and producer Dino Spiluttini, one of the artists featured on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ roster, has released a new EP, titled Eros.

Following on from releases for labels such as Editions Mego and Umor Rex, the six-track record explores the concept of rave brutalism, applying such an idea to the composition of minimalist club music.

The new release sees Spiluttini continue to seek to remove all unnecessary material from his music, keeping only the raw elements of acapella, pads, stabs and sparse percussion.

You can listen to Eros in full below, and get it on Bandcamp here.

SHAPE+ is a European Union-funded platform for innovative music and audiovisual art. Bringing together 54 artists,…

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The original record has been re-released with two added bonus cuts

SOPHIE’s 2015 record PRODUCT has been reissued to mark its 10th anniversary.

Out now, the updated release features the project’s original nine tracks, such as classics like ‘BIPP’, ‘LEMONADE’ and ‘HARD’, as well as two added bonus cuts.

The first of these is ‘OOH’, which is described in a press release as one of SOPHIE’s earliest productions that went through several iterations since it first emerged in 2011. The version of the track featured on this new edition of PRODUCT was finalised by SOPHIE into 2019.

The second of the bonus tracks, ‘GET HIGHER’, was first produced in 2013 and was previously only released as a bonus track on the Japanese CD…

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The new cut is a rework of Mazzy Star’s ‘Into Dust’

Four Tet has released a new song, ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’.

Containing a sample of Mazzy Star’s 1993 track ‘Into Dust’, the new track has long been a fixture of the artist’s DJ sets and its release has become highly anticipated by fans as a result. It’s been released both digitally and on 12-inch vinyl.

You can listen to the song below.

The release of ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ comes ahead of Four Tet, real name Kieran Hebden, putting out a collaborative album with folk and country musician William Tyler, titled 41 Longfield Street Late ’80s, this September.

‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ is out now on XL Recordings.
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The Kraków festival will take in sets from caroline, billy woods and Moin, among others

Unsound has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2025 event later this year.

Built around the theme WEB, this year’s edition of the Kraków festival will take in live sets from the likes of caroline, billy woods, Moin, Joan La Barbara, YHWH Nailgun, Smerz, Nazar, A Guy Called Gerald and Tashi Dorji.

The event will also feature some special collaborative performances, including Actress & Suzanne Ciani, presenting their Concrete Waves show; FUJI||||||||||TA & Ka Baird; Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi; RP Boo & Gary Gwadera; and Harry Górski-Brown & Wojciech Rusin, who will team up with Sinfonietta Cracovia to present a show called Drift.

There will also…

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When a mechanical fish brought novel horror to the big screen in 1975, little did the filmmakers realise that they were about to warp an entire generation and help usher horror into everyone’s homes, says Joel McIver

The international news headlines were pretty grim in 1975. Lest we forget or never knew in the first place, events that year included the Angolan civil war, a flood in China that led to the deaths of 230,000 people, an Australian submarine leaking nuclear waste, a bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a German embassy siege in Stockholm by the Baader-Meinhof gang and two assassination attempts on President Gerald Ford. 

If you were a kid in the 70s, as I was, not much of…

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Jane Paknia

Millions Of Years Of Longing

New York composer glides through jazz, electroacoustic composition and more dancefloor-friendly sounds to push pop music into fresh and thrilling new directions

Millions of Years of Longing by Jane Paknia

If you don’t commit your whole body to your practice, devote every moment of dreaming, longing, and care to your own creative ideal, whatever it may be, then who will? So asks Jane Paknia on Millions Of Years Of Longing, the New York City-based musician and composer’s second album. With self-honouring declarations like, “Time is the thing I just can’t give to you / I’ve given you everything else,” placed over a dizzying sea of multi-genre sounds (with a drum and bass breakbeat to curtain the final…

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