Music
Soumik Datta, Oslo Hackney, live music review: ‘A true work of art’
The expert player of the Indian sarod launched his latest album with a gig that shone a light on deforestation and climate change
Read MoreHannah Cohen, SET Dalston, live music review: ‘Powerful, melodic rollercoaster’
The San Franciscan gives a ‘soulful’ performance at the unassuming Hackney venue
Read More‘True celebration’: Latin music festival draws 30,000 people to Finsbury Park
Singers and dancers from across the UK wowed the crowd at La Clave Fest earlier this month
Read MoreDon’t miss Songhoy Blues at Royal Festival Hall this Sunday night
Born out of war and exile, this Malian group creates blistering, compelling West African rock music fused with reggae and country
Read MoreBird On The Wire Turns 10, live music review: ‘Eclectic and unpredictable’
The promoters, who started off in a Dalston basement, celebrated 10 years in the business with an evening of experimental sound and ‘guilty pleasures galore’
Read MoreBiig Piig, Village Underground, review: ‘Delicate voice that belies brutal realism’
The 21-year-old YouTube phenomenon’s gig ‘retains the intimacy of those first bedroom tracks’
Read MoreDeath Valley Girls, The Victoria, live music review: ‘Goth gang brings glam back’
The American band’s Dalston gig shows ‘comparisons to Black Sabbath are not misplaced’
Read MoreTommy Genesis, Oslo Hackney, live music review: ‘Tongue-in-cheek seediness’
The Canadian rapper, who has worked with stars like Dua Lipa and M.I.A, ‘unashamedly seduces the audience’
Read MoreEFG London Jazz Festival, Dalston, live music review: ‘Effortlessly cool, utterly mesmerising’
Saxophonist Nubya Garcia and drummer Makaya McCraven lit up EartH as part of November’s 10-day jazz fiesta
Read MoreJuniore, The Victoria, live music review: ‘A warm show of Anglo-French unity’
The Parisian band’s mix of yeye, surf rock and garage swept the audience off its feet
Read MoreUK’s only floating record shop docks in Hackney for the winter
After a month of repairs to the canal boat it calls home, The Record Deck is back to business on the River Lea
Read MoreMenace Beach, Oslo, live music review: ‘No better way to spend a Thursday night’
The few there to witness it were treated to a special performance by the Leeds five-piece
Read MoreEleanor Friedberger, Oslo, live music review: ‘Eclectic, cosy and unpretentious’
The American singer-songwriter’s psychedelic electro-pop proved hit and miss
Read MoreOkay Kaya, Chats Palace, live music review: ‘A masterclass in understated fragility’
The New Yorker’s ‘DIY bedroom pop’ had the audience transfixed
Read MoreConcert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for July 2018
This month’s local live music listings ranges from the A$AP Mob to a pair of ‘howling’ violins, via indie-pop and free-jazz
Read MoreConcert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for June 2018
This month’s local live music listings features supergroups, atomic age rock, Dutch anarchist jazz punk and some experimental luminaries
Read MoreGet your Kicks on Root 73 – affordable recording studio and arts hub opens in Stoke Newington
Root 73 puts out the call to young artists who ‘have the dream’ and want to develop their work and collaborate for free
Read MoreVinyl hurrah: new wax-slinging shops fire up the wheels of steel
As demand for the classic format gathers pace, a growing network of independent retailers emphasise the social aspect of shopping for music and the opportunities record shops present to discover something unexpected
Read MoreDream Nails, interview: “we’re under no illusions that art is enough”
The Hackney punk band have a lot they want to do, and a bout of flu isn’t going to stop them. They talked to Kate Wilsea about their new song, how London’s music scene is changing, and their DIY attitude to pretty much everything
Read MoreConcert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for May 2018
This month’s guide to gigs in Hackney and nearby features both high-minded songwriting and booty-shaking bounce music, via synth pop, indie and all manner of noise…
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