On the eve of the 72nd birthday of the folk rock legend, we look back on some of her most influential moments. A few months ago it seemed likely that the world was going to […]
Preview: Selected
Next Monday 9th, Leeds Student Radio host another array of some of the UK’s best underground acts at their infamous event, #SELECTED. The line up includes Dialect WY, Empress Imani, Weezy Jefferson, Lady Sanity, TACAT […]
Preview : Youth Club Sounds Launch Party
Thursday 5th 10pm, Distrikt Bar, 7 Duncan St, LS1 6DQ This Thursday, the Leeds air will be smoke filled, checked with needlessly expensive pyrotechnics and scored by cacophony of simulated weapon fire. Firework night, while […]
He was the Walrus
On the 75th birthday of the famous Beatle, Juliette Rowsell evaluates the lingering influence of John Lennon. From the fame, the talent and the beard, John Lennon apparently had it all. With the iconic […]
Sound System Culture in Leeds: Sixty Years of a Subculture
You’ve probably heard of dub reggae music, SubDub and Notting Hill Carnival. However sound system culture is something far more than a great night out – it’s a movement and verges on being a musical […]
Preview: Soul Rebels present Riot Jazz at The Wardrobe
Soul Rebels is back this Saturday 3rd of October after the long summer break. The underground soul/hiphop/jazz/funk/global beats session is also celebrating it’s third birthday and anniversary at The Wardrobe Leeds with another bumper line-up […]
Preview : Basel Symphony Orchestra at Leeds Town Hall
The world-renowned Basel Symphony Orchestra opens the Leeds International Orchestral Season 2015/16 at Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 26 September. Under the baton of American conductor Dennis Russell Davies the orchestra will tackle Stravinsky’s notoriously divisive ‘Rite of Spring’, a composition so […]
Preview : Subdub presents Sound System 60 Tour
To celebrate sixty years of Sound System culture in the UK, the world renowned Channel One Sound System leave their home of Village Underground in London to tour the UK and come to Subdub at […]
Preview – Leeds Festival
Leading names in music are set to return to Leeds Festival at the end of the month. The festival returns to Bramham Park for its seventeenth year, with The Libertines, Mumford & Sons and Metallica […]
Futuresound Competition Winners Announced
The Futuresound Competition, in which the winning acts earn themselves a slot at this year’s Reading & Leeds Festival, has announced its winners. Forty bands battled it out at The Wardrobe over the last month, […]
Leeds Festival announce Relentless Stage line-up
Leeds Festival has announced the line-up for Relentless Stage, featuring some of the biggest names in the current dance and electronic music scene. Positioned in its usual location between the Orange and Red campsites, the […]
Giving in to Record Store Day
Record Store Day is today and looks to be another huge success for independent record stores across the UK. The official Record Store Day began in 2008, celebrating the unique culture of each record store […]