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Lana Del Rey, Jack White and Florence among headliners for free Hackney Marshes festival BBC Radio 1 announce 100,000-capacity festival set in east London.

The strange, soggy sonic fictions of SpaceGhostPurrp Re-tooling rap history and launching linguistic attacks on the internet are just two of the reasons you should be paying attention to A$AP Rocky collaborator and Mortal Kombat-obsessed Florida rapper/producer SpaceGhostPurrp.

CFCF - Exercise #3 (Building) Enchanting, absorbing new composition that will do wonders to your mood from Montreal’s Mike Silver.

The 2 Bears – Whatever The Weather mix Free mix from hairy Hot Chip-related fellas behind the lovely house album out now.

Watch a Latvian DJ 'scratch' up a tape deck at 1991 Technics convention Incredible live footage from a 1991 Technics convention in which a Latvian DJ shows the hip hop don’t stop even without access to vinyl.

Band photography by Drew Barrymore Drew Barrymore shoots 9 bands including The Drums, Spank Rock, Mac Miller, War Paint at an LA house party.

Music & Politics John Street The politics of apolitical music and its power to provoke social change are the subject of interesting but flawed new book.

Dogs doing lists #18: Faithful Unto Death This week’s list from our favourite canine friends finds them turning their piercing gaze towards the New York Police Department.