We’ve picked four incredible highlights from this year’s Brighton Festival, curated by the great Brian Eno.
Brighton

The Ghost of a Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations
New Hopes is packed tightly with different ideas and an excitable pulse. If the superstardom of the likes of Gallows has alienated their message to you, consider The Ghost of a Thousand.

Brakes – Touchdown
They used to be referred to as Brighton’s supergroup, but now onto their third album Simon Tyers asks: are they just a super group? (Sorry.)

Brighton’s Loop festival announcement
The first set of acts have been announced for this years Loop festival in Brighton, taking place over the weekend of the 10th-13th of July.

Brighton’s Great Escape gets Kasabian… and better bands
The headliners for Brighton’s Great Escape festival have been announced, along with a whole load of other fine acts.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










