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.

Twigs’ music has always been elaborate. That’s part of what makes her great. When I listen to the brittle shards of…

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Angus Batey takes a look at LL Cool J’s two greatest LPs and considers the difference five years can make in a rapper’s career. This feature was first published in 2015

It’s all too easy to look on LL Cool J today as something of a side-story to the major figures in hip hop’s evolution. He wasn’t the first rapper to have a hit, and he wasn’t making the kind of politically charged musical statements that helped define the possibilities of the music in the late 1980s. When he decided to write about something other than himself and his boundless skills as an emcee, the results weren’t always completely convincing, and these days it’s almost as if we judge his…

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Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all

In 1987, David Bowie was feeling relaxed. In later years, he’d claim maybe less so, but doing the rounds of interviews to promote Never Let Me Down was old hat in terms of procedure, and so sitting down with Scott Isler for a feature that would be the cover story of a major US music monthly publication, Musician, went conversationally, giving enough away and helping prep the way for the Glass Spider tour as well.

By then, of course, he’d seen a few things, heard a few things,…

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Lawrence English speaks to art director Hiromasa Ogura and composer Kenji Kawai in order to celebrate one of the greatest anime ever made. Japanese interview translation by Haruna Ito. Cover portrait of Hong Kong courtesy of the author

In 1990, the final serialised chapter of Masamune Shirow’s The Ghost In The Shell (攻殻機動隊) was published in Kodansha’s Young Magazine in Japan. The manga, a seinen title aimed at young adult men, was the third major work he had completed across the 1980s. Shirow (a pen name, for the author Masanori Ota), had created a series of densely textured, often technologically inspired and politically engaged, speculative manga including Appleseed which was awarded the 17th Seiun Award for Best Manga in 1986. 

At the…

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Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones

New Monuments Live in Vilnius

Playing live in the Lithuanian capital in 2024, the New York quintet stretch and expand the compositions from their acclaimed album of earlier this year

New Monuments Live in Vilnius by Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones

Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones project has been releasing music for almost a decade. The group immediately set itself apart from the greater avant-garde jazz world for a variety of different reasons. There’s Kidambi’s incorporation of synthesizers and harmonium, her steadfast refusal to let the politics of her music take a backseat, and most notably, her endlessly captivating and dynamic voice, an elastic force shaped by her backgrounds in new music, Carnatic classical music, free jazz and punk. But there’s an…

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From radical dance music to triumphant, intricately layered synth pop and a levitating collaboration between a Ugandan embaire ensemble and a Japanese dub producer, Daryl Worthington finds rays of joy on cassette to blast away the impending winter entropy this November

Tomas Senkyrik, photo by Sona Sommerova

In the mid 20th century Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappié proposed the law of syntropy. The idea was an inversion and counter to entropy. Against the tendency pushing things to melt into chaos and disorder Fantappié suggested there might be an opposite force towards order, organisation and complexity. DJ Galen is the club leaning project of Portland, Oregon-based producer Galen Tipton, and her new tape The Death Of Music, built from hours of live improvisation whittled…

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JJJJJerome Ellis

Vesper Sparrow

Tidewater, Virgina-born artist and ‘proud stutterer’ returns with an album built on backwards violins, granular synthesis, fluttering sax and quiet transcendence

Vesper Sparrow by JJJJJerome Ellis

There are perhaps only two things you need to know about JJJJJerome Ellis before listening to Vesper Sparrow: they live in a monastery in Norfolk, on traditional Nansemond and Chesepioc territory in Virginia; and their name onomatopoeically includes their stutter, which acts up most when they introduce themselves. What you’ll know after listening to Vesper Sparrow, is an option for the album of the year.

Ellis’s musical practice thus far has focused on stuttering not as an impediment but as a deconstruction – and by implication, a premise for reconstruction – of language, sound and…

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In an exclusive extract from his new book, Strange Young Alien, the founder member and principal songwriter of the Monochrome Set discusses the ruptured cerebral aneurysm that changed the way he thought about music and the creative process

In 2010, I survived a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The following is an extract from Chapter 2 of the book, Strange Young Alien. The references to Lille and Osaka concern two gigs in early 2011 when I had to stop playing as I had completely lost comprehension of the songs.

In the summer of 2011, I started to write the songs that were to make up the Platinum Coils album. As the lyrics started to glide out of me, it was clear that the subject…

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Newly reissued to mark its 40th birthday, ‘Ring The Alarm’ continues to rattle speaker boxers and make sound men and women tremble. Wrongtom charts the history of its Stalag rhythm, from overlooked origins in the early 1970s to Tenor Saw’s 1985 masterpiece and beyond

1985 was ostensibly the year everything changed for the Jamaican music industry, with the Casio tones of Wayne Smith’s ‘Under Mi Sleng Teng’ seeing every producer reaching for a synth and drum machine, leaving the island’s grass roots musicians in a panic over their diminishing role in this digital dancehall revolution.

That’s only half the story though. While Sleng Teng sparked numerous versions, classic rhythm tracks made by traditional studio bands still dominated the dance, and top of…

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