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According to Brooklyn Vegan, American subscription streaming service Hulu has announced plans to stream music festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits in 2022 and 2023. The stream will include exclusive content such as “behind the scenes looks” and other “special footage.” Subscribers of the streaming service will be able to view the content at no extra charge.

Rock band IDLES have never shied away from the hard topics and that's no different on their 2021 album CRAWLER. The album mostly covers topics on addiction and recovery, working through heartache and struggle and overcoming. Despite the heavy subject manner the musicality remains high-energy barreling through 14 hard-hitting tracks. Vocalist Joe Talbot explains how they created the album during the pandemic with bridging the gap between their core audience and a new potential audience, experimenting with sound and story telling the band hadn't ventured into before. Watch a three song set in our performance studio as well as an intimate chat with Host Alisha Sweeney.

IDLES have announced a special Glastonbury warm-up show, which will also be their only UK headline gig of 2022. The five-piece will be among the major acts who will grace the Worthy Farm festival’s main stages from June 22-26. Ahead of their Glastonbury 2022 appearance, IDLES will play a...

Rag ‘N’ Bone Man, IDLES, Portishead and a number of other musicians appear in a new film about mental health called Man Down. The film, which is directed by Gemma Jennison, founder of the Man Down Programme, focuses on men working in the music industry and looks at topics such as isolation, depression and suicide.

Portishead haven’t released an album since Third in 2008, and before today they hadn’t performed in public since the 2015 Benicàssim Festival. But the band got back together in their hometown of Bristol tonight for a War Child UK benefit gig at 1,200-capacity O2 Academy Bristol, earning money for children affected by the war in Ukraine. This wasn’t a full Portishead set — fellow Bristol band IDLES headlined the show, after “a special appearance by Portishead” and sets by Billy Nomates, Katy J Pearson, Heavy Lungs, Wïlderman, and Willie J Healy — but even a mini-concert by this band is likely to be spectacular.

A variety of local heroes turned out for the UK’s “Help! A War Child Benefit Concert” at Bristol’s O2 Academy on Monday night – but it was the city’s twin bastions of loud and quiet rebellion who stole the show. With all donations from...

Thom Yorke has shared a new mix for his Sonos radio show, In The Absence Thereof, featuring an eclectic roster of artists including IDLES and Miles Davis. The Radiohead frontman began curating a station for the streaming service in 2020 and has since shared numerous wide-ranging playlists. The latest mix,...