Festivals

This July 13th 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival will make its seventh annual return to Union Park in Chicago for its much revered three day music event. The festival which has in the past attracted the likes of Curren$y, Animal Collective, James Blake, Robyn, EL-P and Raekwon (to name but a few), will this year play host to A$AP Rocky,  Tim Hecker, Hot Chip, [...]

Following the announcements that YMCMB/OVOXO rap star Drake and Bajan pop star Rihanna would be headlining the 2012 Barclaycard Wireless Festival in Hyde Park this July, today brings us some exciting additions to the line up. [...]

It has recently been announced that Onika Tanya Maraj aka Nicki Minaj aka Roman Zolanski will be gracing the stages of the UK for the first time. Having caused a stir when she was last on this side of the ocean, and even almost kicked out from her hotel for an abundance of ‘Barbz’ surrounding [...]

With a heaving music line-up combined with costumes and surprises, the ninth Bestival event this year – taking place in the Robin Hill country park on the Isle of Wight, England – is just around the corner. [...]

Following the news that Rihanna would be Sunday’s headline act at this summer’s Wireless Festival, confirmation has just come through that the Canadian rap superstar Drake will be Saturday’s headliner. [...]

The full line up for this year’s Coachella Music Festival has been unveiled and reveals that the headliners for each of the nights are The Black Keys, Radiohead and the closing headliners being the legendary Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. This year’s line up also includes Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Azealia Banks, Flying [...]

At this very moment, London is playing host to Film Africa 2011. Over a 10 day period from November 3 – 13 with more than 50 fiction and documentary films, this festival is showcasing some of Africa’s up-and-coming movies from lead filmmakers. As well as the films themselves, the festival is also partaking sessions of [...]

The 10th anniversary of the Austin City Limits Music Festival kicked off yesterday and featured performances from the likes of Nas & Damian “Jr Gong” Marley, Coldplay, British beatbox legend Beardyman, James Blake, Big Boi, Miike Snow, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys and Theophilus London amongst many others. Kanye West, who was the three-day festival’s co-headline [...]

The legendary Rock The Bells concert series kicked off in San Bernardino, California a couple of days ago for its eighth year in circulation. With headline acts the likes of Erykah Badu and Common, the show was undoubtedly one to remember. Made all the more so by Lauryn Hill and Nas, who repeated their 2010 [...]

This years V Festival currently in full swing and one of the artists that kicked off the proceedings was award-winning Pop/R&B artist Jessie J. The resilient singer, who broke her foot in two places when she fell offstage at her show at Wembley Stadium in June, ignored doctors orders to rest her leg and once again [...]