A judge has decided to uphold a previous decision to drop terrorism-related charges against the artist

Kneecap’s Mo Chara, real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, will not face a new trial on terrorism-related charges after the UK government lost an appeal against a previous decision to drop the case.

Following the outcome of the UK government’s unsuccessful appeal, Ó hAnnaidh took to Kneecap’s Instagram Stories to call himself a “free mawn”.

Ó hAnnaidh was last year charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig in London in November 2024. Last September, the chief magistrate at Woolwich Crown Court, Paul Goldspring, ruled in favour of the rapper’s defence team that there was a legal error in the way…

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It follows the group’s acclaimed 2023 mini-album On The Turning Ground

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Tara Clerkin Trio have shared details of a new album, titled Somewhere Good.

The eight-track record marks the first release of new material from the Bristol three-piece since 2023 mini-album On The Turning Ground. It will be released digitally and on CD and vinyl, with an additional limited-edition deluxe LP version featuring a two-track bonus 7-inch also set to be made available.

To mark the announcement of Somewhere Good, the band have shared the album’s title track, which you can listen to below.

World Of Echo will release Somewhere Good on 5 June 2026.

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Fifty years ago, a spat over the international market in aluminium and a porn star catching flu while working in Jamaica led to disco’s most unlikely crossover into the pop charts. Wrongtom takes us through the remarkable story of ‘More More More’

Buddha Records promo photo of the Andrea True Connection

Manhattan was a mess in the mid 70s. The middle classes had upped sticks to the suburbs, leaving the city centre to fester as Mayor Beame led New York to the brink of bankruptcy. In the thick of a fiscal crisis, unemployment rates were up while the Dow Jones was way down, but certain industries – especially the music business – thrived beyond the city’s rat infested sidewalks

Godfrey Diamond had secured a…

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The latest work for four guitars by the Miami-born musician and composer sounds like a history lesson in guitar technique to Bernie Brooks

This year, in our garden, we leaned hard into winter interest. Across the sixteen or so beds and borders in our small, suburban plot of land in Metro Detroit there are great, golden-brown bunches of bloodletting sawtoothed grass taller than me; dense knee-high rip curls of spent aster – under which a three-legged neighbourhood tabby cat overwintered; shocks of wheat and feathered grasses (less dangerous than their sawtoothed brethren). There are patterns and rhythms to all of this. The way stalks overlay stalks, the spirals of twined bundles made stubbornly strong to withstand cutting winter winds.

I am making…

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Phew and Danielle de Picciotto

Paper Masks

Shards of voice are reprocessed and repurposed in this eerie dialogue between former members of Japanese post-punks Aunt Sally and Australian rock band Crime & the City Solution

Paper Masks by Phew and Danielle de Picciotto

A celestial hum and a plinking sound slowly fall like fluorescent raindrops from an acid sky. “The cat watches fireflies in my garden,” Danielle de Picciotto narrates in a distanced deadpan, musing on the creepy feline habit of chasing things – ghosts, she tells us – that we humans do not register. Meanwhile, Phew has placed de Picciotto’s voice into a reverberating chamber, making each word and sentence sound as if it has been extracted from a disintegrating recording that survived…

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The first full-length from one-half of The Knife will be released through Dirty Hit sub-label DH2

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Olof Dreijer is to release his debut solo album this May.

The 14-track Loud Bloom includes a number of the colourful club tracks that he’s released on labels such as Hessle Audio, Dekmantel and AD 93 in recent years, alongside several other new productions. It also includes contributions from South African MC Toya Delazy, Colombian vocalist and percussionist Diva Cruz and Sudanse singer MaMan.

Speaking about the new record and the original material that he’s released over the past few years, the former The Knife member said in a statement: “After taking a break I’m very happy to have arrived at allowing myself to…

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The Riga-based festival returns for two days this October with Gudrun Gut, aya and more in tow

Skaņu Mežs has revealed the first wave of acts playing its 2026 edition later this year.

The Riga festival returns to its usual home of Hanzas Perons for two days this October, and will this year take in sets from the likes of aya, Gudrun Gut and metal group Krallice.

Also confirmed to play are the trio Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi & Daniel O’Sullivan; Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals; and the trio Michael Foster, Leila Bordreuil & Chris Corsano. More acts will be added to the bill in the coming months.

Revisit tQ’s round-up of seven key performances from last year’s Skaņu Mežs here.

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‘Look How Far…’ features former Sleater-Kinney member Janet Weiss on drums

Modest Mouse have shared their first new song in five years, titled ‘Look How Far…’.

The track features former Sleater-Kinney and current Quasi member Janet Weiss on drums, and can be listened to below.

This marks the first release of new material from Modest Mouse since 2021 album The Golden Casket. During the interim period, they reissued Good News For People Who Love Bad News for its 20th anniversary in 2024, and toured extensively.

‘Look How Far…’ is out now on GP Records.

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The 33-track project is fully produced by New York rap collective Surf Gang

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MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt are releasing a split LP, titled POMPEII // UTILITY.

The 33-track release is fully produced by New York-based rap collective Surf Gang, with whom MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt have both worked in the past. They’re lining up a number of live shows in support of the release, with an extensive run of dates scheduled across North America in June and July before they head to the UK and Europe in August and September.

Watch a video for the dual-lead single ‘Minty // Earth’ below.

POMPEII // UTILITY follows the two artist’s respective solo albums from 2025, with MIKE putting out Showbiz! and Earl…

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They’ve also confirmed one 2026 show, at Syd for Solen in Copenhagen

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Iceage have shared their first new song in five years.

‘Star’ arrives alongside news of the band’s first live show in some years also, which will take place at Syd for Solen in their native Copenhagen on 14 August. Watch a video for the new track below.

Iceage’s last album, Seek Shelter, was released in 2021, while they also put out Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015–2021, a collection of offcuts, in 2022. During the band’s downtime, frontman Elias Rønnenfelt has shared a pair of solo albums: 2024’s Heavy Glory and last year’s Speak Daggers.

‘Star’ is out now on Mexican Summer.
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