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Intonal announces 2022 festival line up

Intonal have revealed who will be joining them in Malmö for the 2022 edition of the celebrated music and arts festival.

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Meakusma 2026 – In Praise of Not Seeing Everything A biennial gathering, spread across churches, a disused shopping centre and a converted slaughterhouse, in a Belgian border town nobody's heard of - Tia and Wil go to Meakusma and won't shut up about it.

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Meakusma Festival announces stacked 2026 lineup for Eupen return Cosmic Pineapple is taking things deeper this summer with a Cosmic Campout gathering heads at Spirit Horse in Wales from July 24–29 for a five-day immersive experience of nature, ceremony, sound, and community - the biggest edition yet.

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Cosmic Campout Returns to Wales for Its First-Ever Five-Day Edition Cosmic Pineapple is taking things deeper this summer with a Cosmic Campout gathering heads at Spirit Horse in Wales from July 24–29 for a five-day immersive experience of nature, ceremony, sound, and community - the biggest edition yet.

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Iceland Eclipse Brings Together Music, Art and a Once-in-170-Years Astronomical Event On August 12, the sky above Iceland's Snæfellsnes Peninsula will go dark for just over two minutes. The first eclipse over Iceland since 1954 & an astronomical rarity, a small group of people have built a five-day gathering around it.

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Yaga Gathering Announces 2026 Lineup and Introduces Mycelium Institute The Baltic festival, now in its third decade, introduces the Mycelium Institute for its 2026 edition, a conceptual framework and three stages of electronic music.

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Sonica Festival 2026 Announces Programme: Suzanne Ciani, Dinos Chapman, Lyra Pramuk & More Descend on Glasgow Glasgow's biennial audiovisual festival returns this September with its most ambitious edition yet, taking over historic mansions, churches and shopping centres alike.

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Review: Parallel Society, Marvila, Lisbon A blaze of sunshine, an instant catapult into spring...

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Value Based Curation: Positive Education Festival in focus

Next month will mark the return of arguably one of the most innovative and interesting European music and arts festivals.

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In Praise Of: Saccade This is a prayer. To the unknown

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PARAISO: Portugal’s Rave History gets its UK Premiere this May The documentary tells the story of the underground movement that rewrote Portugal's cultural soundtrack, one strobe-lit warehouse at a time.

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Harry Styles to curate Meltdown 2026 as Southbank Centre turns 75 The world's longest-running artist-curated music festival has found its next keeper - and it's Harry Styles.

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Ransom Note returns to Berlin with ERIS for Arkaoda party Rounding off the 15 year celebrations in style, Ransom Note touches down in the German capital for a late night special.

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Review: Convenanza 2025: A First-Timer’s Confession I'll admit that when embarking on my maiden voyage to Carcassonne, I had mixed feelings about the whole thing.

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Repercussion returns to The Warehouse Project with headline performance from Underworld The iconic party will return to Manchester's heralded The Warehouse Project with a special line up which includes a headline performance from Underworld alongside the likes of Caribou, Floating Points, Sherelle and Shanti Celeste.

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Pop-Kultur 2025: Sonic Crossings and Spaces in Flux For its eleventh edition, Berlin’s Pop-Kultur Festival stretched out into a slightly different outfit.

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Wheel to Gaza – Glasgow to Gaza by wheelchair This Sunday 28th September, Shaho Qadir, a Kurdish Londoner and double amputee, will embark on a heroic journey.

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From Dancefloors to Trail Running: Finding my new festival fix at Salto ...with all these reclaimed weekends that once belonged to beautiful, reckless abandon, what do you do now? Turns out... Salto

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Watching Trees announces dates for 2026 edition Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside has been announced.

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Isulia Festival returns for its 5th edition Isulia Festival announces 5th edition in Bordeaux with Bambounou b2b Sedef Adasi, Cassius & Miley Serious, LB aka LABAT, DJ MELL G & Djedjotronic and many more.

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(Re)treat announces lineup for 2025 (Re)treat announces full lineup for 2025, which includes artists such as Di Linh, DJ Masda, Axel Boman,, Chida and more.

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Review: RALLY Festival 2025 Something strange happened at RALLY Festival this year. Something utterly strange.

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Ransom Note to host 15 year party in Paris with Yu Su, NIKS and Louison Ransom Note head to Paris for another 15 year party at Badaboum on Friday 19th September with Yu Su, NIKS and Louison.

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Pop-Kultur 2025: In Focus This year the festival showcases a broad representation of musicians and artists who will showcase the future potential and genre bending sensibilities of underground creative culture.

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Somerset House announces new commission from Tai Shani Contributions will be made by Cécile B Evans, Moor Mother, Cecilia Vicuña, Yanis Varoufakis, Brian Eno, Jay Bernard, Maxine Peake, Tanya Tagaq, Max Porter, Suzanne Treister, Mark Leckey, Hannah Black, Anne Boyer, The Palestinian Sound Archive and more.

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Watching Trees announces names for 2025 edition Sonic rambling returns to the North Wiltshire countryside with the soundtrack for the weekend revealed for the joint festival between Optimo (Espacio) and Ransom Note.

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Ransom Note to host 15 year party in Lyon with Paula Tape Ransom Note return to France for another 15 year party at Le Sucre on Saturday 17th May 2025 with Paula Tape.

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15 Years of Ransom Note at Tempio del Futuro Perduto Ransom Note team up with Tempio del Futuro Perduto for another special 15 year party on Saturday 10th May 2025.

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Rare Effect Returns to Lisbon for its 2024 edition: Exploring Humanity’s Place in a Tech-Driven World Now in its fifth edition, the festival will explore this year’s theme of “Obsolescence,”

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Sasha Announces New Score for Da Vinci Genius Exhibition The project marks a return to Sasha’s cinematic ambitions, reminiscent of his 2016 album Scene Delete.

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Bibio returns with haunting new ambient album on Warp Records The album marks a return to his ambient and hauntological sound, Inspired by decaying landscapes and abandoned industrial sites across Britain.