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Glastonbury 2024: Organisers reveal more artists, events and stage times for this year's festival

Worthy Farm will host more than 3000 performances later this month across multiple stages - as organisers also confirm Glastonbury app will arrive later this week

Louder

“We didn’t really tune our guitars. We’d tune to the track. He’s like, ‘No, listen to what you’re playing’”: IDLES explain why Radiohead’s producer banned them from using guitar tuners

IDLES enlisted Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich to push their sonic palette via tape loops and not tuning their guitars

Guitar World

More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine

Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor Barclays

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‘We answer to nobody’: duo Bob Vylan on humility, hell-raising – and punk hypocrisy

The London punk-rap duo’s second album advocates for repatriation and an aggressive approach to the rental crisis. But equally important, says frontman Bobby Vylan, is promoting hope and self-worth

The Guardian - UK

“We’re trying to avoid sounding like a conventional guitar band… Our goal has always been to expand what guitars can do”: Idles’ radical guitar duo dissect their “violent, dark tones” and explain why modeling is “wack”

Savage, socially charged and allergic to cliché, Idles are less categorisable than ever on fifth album, Tangk, and its dynamic guitar partnership Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan are holding nothing back

Guitar World

“I have dreamt of this moment all my life”: Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA confirmed as Glastonbury headliners, with Shania Twain set to play the 'legends' slot

Idles, Disclosure and The National will headline the Other Stage

MusicRadar

Glastonbury 2024 lineup announced: Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline, Shania Twain, Idles, Heilung, PJ Harvey, LCD Soundsystem, Avril Lavigne, Sleaford Mods and many more confirmed

The world's biggest music festival has officially unveiled its lineup for 2024!

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“I hate modeling, I think it’s wack. You can hear it right away”: IDLES explain why recording with an amp modeler risks messing with your tone, your head – and probably your dog

UK post-punk heroes Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan reckon modelers are best consigned to the role of live backups – and you shouldn’t let them near your recordings

Guitar World

"I wish you could feel what I feel, it's magical": Idles feel the love at joyous homecoming show in Bristol

Idles may have traded aggression and abrasion for melody and mindfulness on new album Tangk, but they're still a thrillingly liberating force of nature live

Louder

Idles - TANGK album review: the band's incendiary energy takes a surprising diversion

Fittingly, this post-Valentine’s Day release shows a soppy new side to the spiky Bristol punks

Evening Standard

Idles: Tangk review – a return to joy as an act of resistance

It doesn’t all work, but there are plenty of smart, intriguing ideas as Idles prove they don’t just do howling fury

The Guardian - UK

The new Idles video is sung by a deep fake version of Coldplay's Chris Martin as he appeared in the video for Yellow two decades ago and we have no idea what's going on any more

Idles' single Grace comes from new album TANGK, out this Friday

Louder

“I have always been interested in writing about empathy and communion as a tool to fight the fascist government that we are under": Idles' Joe Talbot wants to see the British government "crushed"

Idles may be releasing an album of love songs, but don't get the idea that they're toning down their views

Louder

The return of Idles: ‘I don’t have to hide behind violence any more’

The outspoken British band have a new album full of love, but still feel anger towards a heartless government and a collapsing society

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Louder

"Much of TANGK lacks the outspoken, no-holds-barred spark of their earlier outings": on album five, Idles argue that love is all we need. You may crave something more

As they continue to evolve, IDLES resist the temptation to revisit former glories on TANGK

MusicRadar

“It just has this resonance to it that I saw someone describe as an angry piano”: Watch Idles’ Mark Bowen give a guided tour of his top three electric guitars

Featuring an acrylic super heavyweight with an metal neck, and the “twangy” baritone Strat that just rocked The Tonight Show and is all over Idles' forthcoming studio LP, Tangk

Louder

"Working with your heroes, you come at the situation with self-doubt": Idles on teaming up with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for their new album

The punk five-piece also enlisted Kenny Beats and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy

Guitar World

Three “God-like guitarists” join forces and stadium-conquering rockers channel their inner spy: This week's essential guitar tracks

Must-listen-to tunes from Guns N' Roses, Architects, IDLES, The Libertines, Devon Ross, Ryujin and many more

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The National (Scotland)

Rock band announces OVO Hydro date on world tour

Metal Hammer

Architects, Enter Shikari, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and more sign an open latter asking for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, while Bob Vylan call IDLES and Sleaford Mods "cowardly" for not speaking out on the bombing of Palestine

"This idea that ‘a band won’t end a war’ is such a foolish way to view using platforms of visibility"

Metal Hammer

10 new albums coming in 2024 to get incredibly excited about right now

New music incoming from Green Day, Bob Vylan, The Last Dinner Party, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, IDLES and more? Hurry up 2024

Louder

A beginner's guide to post-punk in 5 essential albums

The rise, fall and rise again of post-punk, explained by five albums that define the genre

The Guardian - UK

Let’s go round again: the ridiculous rise of fifth-anniversary vinyl reissues

With young fans craving vinyl copies of relatively recent releases, the industry is shortening the nostalgia cycle to almost nothing. But how long can this boom really last?

Pedestrian.tv

Put Your Gumboots On Pre-Order Bc The Splendour In The Grass 2023 Lineup Just Dropped

Tickets go on sale at 9am AEST April 14.

Tribune News Service

Re:SET concert series, a mini-Coachella, headed to 12 cities, with LCD Soundsystem, boygenius

SAN DIEGO — The producers of the new Re:SET concert series, which will be held for three days in San Diego and 11 other U.S. cities in June, aren’t calling their event a mini-Coachella.

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