An investigation by Fair Play found that an estimated £5.7 million in electronic music royalties is being misallocated each year

A new report has found that only 36 percent of UK club performance royalties are allocated to the right artists each year.

Independent industry watchdog Fair Play published a report based on a six-month audit of how performance royalties are collected and distributed across the UK nightlife sector. The organisation found that nearly two-thirds of UK electronic music performances fail to produce accurate royalty payments, and Fair Play put this partially down to a problem with technology that tracks the relevant data.

Less than seven percent of UK nightclubs use Music Recognition Technology (MRT), a Shazam-like system that generates reports for performance rights…

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It’s Dan Snaith’s first full-length release under the moniker since 2022

Dan Snaith has announced a new album under his Daphni alias.

Following on from 2022’s Cherry, the 16-track Butterfly features the single ‘Sad Piano House’, which Snaith released in June. He’s also shared two new songs from the album to coincide with its announcement, ‘Lucky’ and ‘Waiting So Long’, the latter of which credits his alternative Caribou alias as a featured artist.

“People understandably always ask about the difference between Caribou and Daphni music – how I decide which is which,” Snaith said of why Caribou is credited on ‘Waiting So Long’. “I think there have been times where the music I’ve made under the two aliases has been farther apart and times –…

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Due out in February, it’s preceded by lead track ‘The Man I’m Supposed To Be’

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Bill Callahan has shared details of his first studio album since 2022’s YTI⅃AƎЯ.

Spanning 12 tracks, My Days Of 58 was made by Callahan together with the band that backed him on his last tour in support of his previous LP: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White. The experience of touring with the three musicians showed the artist “that they could handle anything I threw at them,” he said.

Going into further detail, Callahan added: “Improv / unpredictability / the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a…

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The score, produced by band members Deakin and Geologist, features in the film on the reconstruction of New York’s Rockaway Beach following its destruction by Hurricane Sandy in 2012

Animal Collective have released their soundtrack for the documentary Jetty.

Produced by band members Deakin and Geologist, the 15-track score collects various ambient pieces and field recordings. It follows Deakin and Geologist’s soundtrack for 2021 documentary Crestone, while all four members of Animal Collective also soundtracked 2022 film The Inspection.

Jetty follows the reconstruction of New York’s Rockaway Beach after its destruction by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The film is available to stream online here.

Listen to the full score below.

Jetty (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out now on Domino.

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The band have promised that the release of a “cache of work created in the recent past” is on the way next year

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Massive Attack have taken to social media to tease new music.

Writing on Instagram, the group said: “From next year, we will release a cache of work created in the recent past. Tracks will be available physically and digitally via a new label.” They added, however, that this music will not be available for streaming via Spotify, in opposition to the platform’s business practices that many believe short-change artists, as well as CEO Daniel Ek’s continued investments in artificial intelligence military services.

The band also directed fans to a new WhatsApp channel where there will be “direct announcements on 2026 releases and…

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The album will also be performed live in its entirety for the first time during a series of gigs this April

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Jane Weaver’s fourth studio album The Fallen By Watch Bird is being reissued to mark its 15th anniversary.

Originally released on Weaver’s own label Bird Records, the new edition will be made available via Fire Records, and will mark the first instalment of a new reissue series that will explore Weaver’s early back catalogue across 2026. An expanded double-vinyl edition will include the full original album, in addition to companion record The Watchbird Alluminate, which saw Weaver reinterpret songs from The Fallen By Watch Bird with the help of Demdike Stare, The Focus Group and others.

In a statement, Weaver said: The…

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The standalone release was co-written by Brian Eno

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David Byrne has shared a new song, ‘T-Shirt’.

Released as a standalone track following recent album Who Is The Sky?, the electro-pop cut was co-written by Byrne and longtime friend and collaborator Brian Eno. It’s been a fixture of the artist’s recent live shows in support of his latest solo album.

Listen to ‘T-Shirt’ below.

‘T-Shirt’ is out now on Matador.

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Luster (Remixes) is out in January

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Maria Somerville is releasing a remixes EP to accompany her 2025 album Luster.

Somerville has enlisted the likes of Seefeel, YHWH Nailgun, Boris and Chanel Beads’ colle to rework tracks from the original LP. Featuring six cuts, three songs from the EP are available to listen to now ahead of the full record’s release at the start of 2026.

Listen to Seefeel’s remix of ‘Stonefly’ below, and revisit tQ’s review of Luster here.

Domino will release Luster (Remixes) on January 21, 2026.

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Touts and regular people will no longer be allowed to charge anything more than the price at which they bought an event ticket

Reselling event tickets for profit is to be outlawed under new UK government plans reportedly due to be announced this week.

As The Guardian reports, the new rules are due to come into effect amid a long-awaited crackdown on touts and resale platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub, following high-profile cases involving tickets for tours by the likes of Oasis and Taylor Swift in recent years.

Ministers had initially been considering allowing people to resell a ticket for up to 30% above its original face value, when carrying out a consultation process on crackdown plans last year. It’s now emerged, though, that…

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FKA twigs

EUXEUA Afterglow

A hastily assembled ‘part two’ to the Gloucestershire-born singer-producer’s last album fails to live up to their best, finds Liam Inscoe-Jones

Eusexua Afterglow by FKA twigs

For a while, FKA twigs felt imprisoned by her music. “It felt like I’d made this ornate golden birdcage” she told The Guardian in 2019, “everything was so intricate… tapestries and beading and beautiful wirework… I was like, ‘oh my gosh, this is actually a nightmare’”. It’s a sentiment made strange by its context, given as it was on the press run for MAGDALENE, an album in no short supply of intricacy or opulence.

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