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Preview: Pendulum Curate Matter

They might not be slimming down from filling the likes of Milton Keynes Bowl to dear old Matter when it comes to their brain bashing live shows, but Pendulum will be the first band to curate Earstorm, a new series of nights at the O2 …

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Listen Up Interview: Example

Fulham rapper Example has been knocking about for a few years, first releasing records on Mike Skinner’s The Beats label, before returning this Autumn with a new label and a new sound. The Ibiza sounds of first single ‘Watch The Sun Come Up’ have propelled …

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In Pictures: “Chord” At Kingsway Tram Tunnel

Beneath the streets of Holborn, something is growing in the Kingsway tram tunnel. The usually padlocked doors at the tunnel’s Southampton Row entrance, which last saw tram traffic when a young Queen Elizabeth II had been on the throne for just a few months, have …

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Win: Tickets To Wu-Tang Clan @ Matter

Wu-Tang Clansmen Rza and Raekwon (pictured) will play a special one-off gig on October 3rd at Matter in The O2, to showcase group founder and producer Rza’s new book on the Clan’s labyrinthine mythology, The Tao of Wu. Yet after the row that engulfed the …

Win: Etienne De Crecy @ matter

Combining eye-popping visuals with thumping Gallic electro-house is something for which Daft Punk are justly famous, but they’re not alone. Like les robots, Etienne de Crécy emerged in the mid-90s but has spent more time giving other artists (most recently Cut Copy) the benefit of …

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Win: Matter’s Launch Party Tickets

Clubbers of London must be very excited about this weekend as Matter prepares to open it’s doors over at The O2. The people behind the awesome Fabric have created this new bespoke space with three floors and a 2,600 capacity complete with body kinetic dancefloor …

Live Review: LINDSTRØM @ Rough Trade East

Norway’s Hans-Peter Lindstrom takes to the stage (if you can call it that) in Rough Trade East looking unassumingly geeky in a checked shirt and a hat that covers most of his face. He is playing as part of the shop’s heavily Converse-branded first birthday …