Dour Festival, 12-16 July 2017, Belgium
Brilliant new music, huge legends, and an overwhelming feeling of happiness – it’s Dour 2017. Award winning Belgium Festival, Dour sits in a unique…
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The surprising academic origins of memes
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Instagram is making you a worse tourist
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Trillions of cigarette butts are littered each year and it’s damaging environment
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Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
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Brutalism in Tangier, Morocco’s most artistic city
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Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
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Collage art and activism in Chile: Instagram posts building on the legacy of Latin American ‘mail art’
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The pioneering queer artists who opened Vietnam to gay culture
In an historical decision, Taiwan’s top court has ruled in favour of gay marriage. The May 26 verdict raised the hopes of many LGBT…
Live Review: Parklife 2017
Mud, music and mayhem – Parklife was here and everything we wanted it to be. 80,000 people descended on Heaton Park for the seventh…
Refugee Trails: A European Odyssey – a deeper perspective on the refugee situation
Since 2015, we have been witnessing one of the worst global humanitarian crises of our time – the Syrian Civil war. Millions of innocent…
Preview: Buiten Westen 2017
With its most ambitious lineup to date, Buiten Westen 2017 could be the single-day festival of the summer in Amsterdam. For the second year…
The Crave: Putting The Hague on the Festival Map
Many festival goers woke up Saturday morning to the sounds of booming thunder and torrential rain, and probably thought they were in for a…
Introducing: Prequel Tapes
Prequel Tapes is a new signing of R’COUP’D Records set to release his debut album titled Inner System on 13th November. While Inner System is…
Preview: Paradise City Festival 2017 – Perk, Belgium
Looking for sustainable festivals this summer? Craving an adventure to some unknown land, set a world apart by storybook scenery and an A-grade soundtrack? Search Ribaucourt Castle,…
Festifest, 17th June 2017, Amsterdam
Festifest is back again, this time celebrating its 4th year at Noorderlicht Café, Amsterdam on 17th June. Over the years, the festival has continued…
Is Costa Rica the world’s happiest, greenest country?
Costa Rica was the most environmentally advanced and happiest place on earth last year, followed by Mexico, Colombia, Vanuatu and Vietnam. That was the…
The Crave Festival, Den Haag
The Crave Festival is looking to find its home this year at the idyllic Zuiderpark, The Hague. Packed with veteran house and techno DJs…
Lente Kabinet Festival 2019: a spring in Amsterdam’s step
Head out of the busy dance music capital on 26th-27th May to Amsterdam’s northern hinterlands of Het Twiske. Lente Kabinet is an intimate, eco-friendly…
UK General Election: A Note From Our Editors
We will be getting a bit political so bear with us for the next few days until the General Election in the UK. We…
DGTL Amsterdam 2017: A Perfect Start To The Festival Season
The sun is shining, the ferry is sailing and DGTL is upon us once again – there are times when being young and in…
Food security: how drought and rising prices led to conflict in Syria
Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University In 2015 the Welsh singer and activist Charlotte Church was widely ridiculed in the right-wing press and on social…
SW4, 26th-27th August 2017, London
‘Quaint’, ‘lovely for a picnic’, ‘great for the Sunday morning rugger’ – these are all ways the delightfully well-educated and polite graduates that reside…
Why you shouldn’t dismiss Jeremy Corbyn as a leader
Words by Tom McGivan Like most people, I’m fairly wary of unsubstantiated claims. Particularly at election time. One I’ve repeatedly noticed over recent…
Parklife 2017, 10th-11th June, Manchester
Year-on-year Parklife gives London’s increasing number of inner-city festivals a run for their money. With last year’s 150,000 people marking Manchester’s biggest attendance yet,…
Bearcubs: Live Review & Exclusive Interview
Bearcubs’ rise to success over the last two years has been fairly consistent. The steady flow of originals, collaborations and remixes of household names…
Jacques Greene: Feel Infinite | Album Review
Jacques Greene’s- real name Philippe Aubin-Dionne- debut album Feel Infinite has been a long time in the making. Having first released music in 2010…