JK Flesh, Ana Roxanne and Theo Parrish are among those playing the Salford venue before it closes in January

The White Hotel has revealed its final autumn programme of events ahead of the venue’s closure in January.

The much-loved Salford space, which confirmed its plan to close earlier this year, will host live shows from the likes of JK Flesh, Ana Roxanne, Horse Lords, BIG|BRAVE, Carla dal Forno and Nathan Fake in the coming months.

There will also be all-night-long DJ sets from Theo Parrish, Kode9 and Call Super, in addition to label nights from SVBKVLT and The Trilogy Tapes. Other DJs lined up to play between now and the end of November include SHERELLE, Pangaea, Peverelist, Shanti Celeste and Josey Rebelle.

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Okkyung Lee and Horse Lords are among the final additions to the bill for this year’s festival

Le Guess Who? has shared the full music programme for its 2026 edition.

Returning this November, the Utrecht festival will newly take in a performance from cellist and composer Okkyung Lee, who will combine Korean traditional instrumentation and experimental improvisation for a new project called ‘gyeol’. Horse Lords, Bitchin Bajas, Tony Njoku, The Shits and Serokolo 7 are among other live additions to the bill.

Eris Drew & Octo Octa, DJ K, DJ Plead, and Príncipe’s DJ Danifox & DJ Lycox feature among the new DJ confirmations on the lineup for this year’s event.

They join the previously announced likes of Loraine James, Tortoise, Grouper, Ana Roxanne,…

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His 31-track set features music by Venetian Snares, Skee Mask and Idris Ackamoor

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Djrum has been drafted to produce the next instalment of the DJ-Kicks mix series.

Recorded on vinyl, the 31-track mix includes four new songs by the artist himself, in addition to exclusive productions by Skee Mask and Clark. The mix also features cuts by Venetian Snares, Idris Ackamoor, upsammy, The Raincoats, Chris Watson and emptyset, among others.

Describing his mix and his overall mixing style, Djrum, real name Felix Manuel, said in a statement: “I like things to be a bit bumpy, to have ups and downs and fuck with expectations!”

This new instalment in the DJ-Kicks series follows on from the release last month of Djrum’s latest…

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Grants of £10,000 to £20,000 will be given to music creators to develop their careers and fulfil ambitious creative plans

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Arts Council England (ACE) has announced the introduction of the Music Creators Growth Fund, which it says will focus on supporting established artists to cultivate their careers.

Forming part of the £45 million Music Growth Package that ACE announced in July, the fund has been established via money provided by the UK Government, The National Lottery and ACE. Grants of £10,000 to £20,000 will be allocated to established music creators – including artists, artist collectives, bands, composers, DJs, groups, producers and songwriters – who can demonstrate a strong track record over at least three years.

It’s hoped that the funding will allow these creators to…

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The eight-track record features vocals from Alison Skidmore and Elaine Howley

Andy Stott has shared details of his first album in five years, titled Late Loop.

Spanning eight tracks, it features contributions from vocalists Alison Skidmore and Elaine Howley. Stott gave himself a number of parameters when he set out working on the record, deciding to use no basslines, no reverb and no effects, save for a delay unit.

Stott previously worked with Skidmore on past material, including classic 2014 cut ‘Faith In Strangers’. This album marks the first time he has collaborated with Howley, on the other hand.

Watch a video for lead track ‘Something In My Mind’, featuring vocals from Howley, below.

Modern Love will release Late Loop on 30 October…

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Pulp’s post-comeback material was always rooted in live performance, says Claire Biddles, who finds them at their freest, most organic and untethered in a new document of their triumphant London gigs

The magic of pop music is catalysed in its melding of twin elements: sound and lyric; intellect and emotion; heart and head. Pulp have been making perfect pop music since the mid-1980s, but their brilliance has always been led by the mind; blooming from the deft observations and exacting words of Jarvis Cocker. 

But this hierarchy switches when a band plays live, when feelings outrun logic. When post-break up Pulp reunited in 2011, they did so primarily as a live band, only releasing one ‘new’ song (2013 single ‘After You’, actually…

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The God Of Hellfire takes Jeremy Allen through the songs that have soundtracked his life, from Elvis to Laurie Anderson via practising James Brown dance moves in the back of a shoe shop

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The UK has recently endured five vexing summer heatwaves with temperatures reaching higher than 36°C on four separate days for the first time. It seems apt then that The God Of Hellfire is back and is seeking to stage an intervention. Arthur Brown’s new album Nature offsets the spiritual benefits of communing with the environment with the warning that none of it is going to last long if we continue on our course of neoliberal-driven societal collapse. Moments of serenity collide with fist-thumping anger at…

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Tyondai Braxton

Splayed Werks

The American composer (and former member of Battles) mutates familiar sounds into unrecognisable new forms

Splayed Werks by Tyondai Braxton

Despite the availability of affordable recording technologies, whole careers, movements, and scenes still live and die scarcely documented. Some of it is by choice – music whose authors want it defined by ephemerality and elusiveness. But in most cases, the reasons are practical, ranging from a chronic lack of time in a hyperactive world to stubborn perfectionism. Conscious of this, US composer Tyondai Braxton posits that the artist’s essential task is to document one’s creative practice and preserve it as a testament of lived experience. For him, the act of capturing ideas as they arise becomes one of the most…

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Catch up with what our subscribers received over the past month, as well as hours of music that we’ve covered on the site

It’s that time again when we round up the exclusive perks that our subscribers have had over the past month. In August 2026, the Low Culture Essay saw Kirsteen McNish explore her relationship with Jason Molina’s Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go, an album she first heard after-hours in the smoke-filled Hull Adelphi as the staff wound down from another gig. The Low Culture Podcast featured John and Luke chatting about Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love and this month’s Organic Intelligence newsletter was on political reggae in 1970s Jamaica. Our Subscriber Plus members had playlists on the Strange Worlds of Krallice,…

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It will be released through Ideologic Organ next month

Kali Malone has shared details of a new album, titled Burning Song.

Marking her first LP of solo compositions since 2024’s All Life Long, the new LP takes in seven tracks. It was recorded at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where Malone became the first musician to perform contemporary works on the church’s Bach organ.

Lucy Railton provides cello accompaniment on Burning Song, while Stephen O’Malley also plays bowed acoustic guitar across the album. Recording took place over the course of two late nights in August 2025, with the engineer Francesco Donadello placing over 20 microphones around the room.

Malone will support the album with two special shows at London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields church on…

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