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Locals crowdfund legal opposition to festivals in South London’s Brockwell Park

Festivals taking place there this summer are Mighty Hoopla, Wide Awake, Field Day, Cross The Tracks and City Splash

Ireland's only vinyl pressing plant is now open for business

Based in County Kildare, Anthem Vinyl will offer a full-range of press options to both independent and major labels

New music on our radar this week: BICEP, Bambounou, Kwengface

All the biggest releases on our radar

An artificial ‘brain’ grown from an avant-garde composer’s blood is making posthumous music

Alvin Lucier died in 2021. Now his brain has been "resurrected" and is making music at an art exhibition in Australia

Cultural support initiative launched in Vilnius with €165,000 fund for grassroots venues

The programme, named Dainyklos, aims to support independent spaces in the Lithuanian capital

fabric to host one-off event at the British Museum next month

The free-to-attend session will feature performances from A Guy Called Gerald, Anna Wall and ABSOLUTE

Fyre Festival 2 postponed just weeks before it was due to go ahead

Didn’t see that one coming

New community radio station to launch Wigan next month

Broadcasting on Wednesday evenings for the next 12 months, Alltrax hopes to merge local and established DJs from the Greater Manchester area

Posthumous 19-track Avicii album set for release next month, ‘AVICII FOREVER’

News of the record follows recent criticism from Avicii collaborator Sandro Cavazza against the release of posthumous music

SOPHIE Scholarship Fund established to support women, trans and non-binary artists

In honour of the late electronic pioneer, the fund will support college students studying music production and other related fields in the US

Shangri-la announces line-up and redesign for Glastonbury 2025

Worthy Farm's most esoteric field has gone "offline" this year with its new theme "The Wilding"

Techno DJs to start performing at Berlin’s U-Bahn stations

Transport company BVG said it wants to bring “the lively and vibrant Berlin into the station”

Death toll of Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse rises to 231

The family of one victim have pressed charges against the club’s owners

Psytrance festival blocked after local residents complain music is "form of torture"

One Gloucestershire resident claimed music heard from last year's Goa Cream Festival had given them "a headache all weekend"

57% of London's clubs and pubs will close by 2030, new research suggests

The report predicts that Brighton, Leeds and Bristol will also be hit hard, each forecasted to lose over 60% of their pubs and clubs in the next five years

Reggae and roots legend Max Romeo has died aged 80

The reggae star was best known for tracks including 1976's ‘Chase The Devil’, which was later sampled by The Prodigy

New club space to open within Liverpool's Invisible Wind Factory

A collaboration between IWF and Sun Palace Sound System, Kapsule has been outfitted with a 4-point high fidelity system and a substack

BAMBII hits out at Coachella for "paying artists in exposure"

The Canadian DJ and producer claimed that her set at the Do LaB had caused her to be “embarrassed and misrepresented” due to its malfunctioning soundsystem

Oneman has opened a new 120-capacity club in London, HONOR

It's situated in a railway arch beneath Peckham Rye station

Kneecap accuse Coachella of cutting pro-Palestine message from livestream

The set had reportedly cut out on YouTube shortly after the Irish rap trio had led an anti-Margaret Thatcher chant

The Prodigy showcase laser tribute to Keith Flint at Coachella

A laser outline of the legendary frontman was beamed during 'Firestarter'