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New Zealand-based songwriter and producer Fazerdaze, a.k.a. Amelia Murray, released her debut album earlier this year entitled Morningside, and today she shares a charming DIY music video for 'Bedroom Talks.' Filmed on an iPhone during a recent trip to New York City, and edited by Murray herself, 'Bedroom Talks' is premiering now via Gorilla vs. Bear

Australian producer and multi-instrumentalist LUCIANBLOMKAMP today reveals Still No (feat Trim), the second cut to be shared from his new album Sick of What I Don't Understand, after first single 'Nothing' (feat Rromarin)

The Secret Variety Society announces a one night only performance of variety, featuring the mind-boggling contortions of sex kitten, Miss Ekaterina, the slutty songstress Sabrina Chap and the comedy-magic of Magic Brian! at the Slipper Room on Wednesday, September 27 at 8pm.

At the end of 2016, The xx announced their return and news of a new album, I See You, with the lead single On Hold. An undoubted highlight of one of the year's most critically acclaimed albums, On Hold has quickly become one of The xx's biggest songs to date.

Iceland in the 19th Century was not exactly an idyll; it was an island nation of farming and fishing communities, pretty much cut off from the much of the rest of the world. Crime was rare and capital crimes rarer still. So the country's criminal cases have become the stuff of legend, including the child rape case in Rifsaedasel of 1837, which is as infamous to Icelanders as The Manson Family is to Americans. Contemporary Icelandic playwright Hrafnhildur Hagalin revisits this infamous case with 'Guilty' (2014), a verse play that gracefully and provocatively examines issues of obsession and mercy which cling to it to this day.

ONE DAY, MAYBE, the latest show from site responsive theatre company dreamthinkspeak, takes place in a multi-storey office complex in Hull City Centre. The journey begins after you buy your ticket.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts's production of Shear Madness, the uproarious whodunit that holds the Guiness world record as the longest-running play in America, celebrates 30 years of hair-raising hilarity as it resumes performances tonight, August 29, in the Kennedy Center Theater Lab.

The Secret Variety Society have announced a special "one-off" variety performance featuring the comedian Matt Roper, the singer-songwriter Sabrina Chap, and the magician The Great Dubini at the Slipper Room-the house of varieties on the Lower East Side-this Wednesday, 30th August at 8pm.

Midnight Sun, was the inaugural event of his new company, Elephant in the Room Productions.

ONE DAY, MAYBE, the latest show from site responsive theatre company dreamthinkspeak, takes place in a multi-storey office complex in Hull City Centre. The journey begins after you buy your ticket.

BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, has just announced the complete list of artists awarded BRIC's new ArtFP commission.

Iceland in the 19th Century was not exactly an idyll; it was an island nation of farming and fishing communities, pretty much cut off from the much of the rest of the world. Crime was rare and capital crimes rarer still. So the country's criminal cases have become the stuff of legend, including the child rape case in Rifsaedasel of 1837, which is as infamous to Icelanders as The Manson Family is to Americans. Contemporary Icelandic playwright Hrafnhildur Hagalin revisits this infamous case with 'Guilty' (2014), a verse play that gracefully and provocatively examines issues of obsession and mercy which cling to it to this day.

Today, Australian producer and multi-instrumentalist LUCIANBLOMKAMP announces details of his new album Sick of What I Don't Understand, which will be released in three parts over the coming year, beginning with Part 1 on October 13th via Different Recordings.

Blurring the lines between live art, dance, theatre and fine art, The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein plunges into the ghostly underworld of popular culture. Examining the myth of Medusa, Nicki Minaj and her own legendary self(ie), Notorious examines pop culture's take on the female monster.

???????APRA AMCOS has announced the winning Australian songwriters and composers in the 2017 APRA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDS (PDAs).

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will co-present the 12th annual MFA Playwright's Workshop (MFAPW) in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Stanford University's National Center for New Plays.

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will co-present the 12th annual MFA Playwright's Workshop (MFAPW) in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and Stanford University's National Center for New Plays.

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced that renowned choral director Robert Porco will step down from his position as the Orchestra's Director of Choruses with the conclusion of the 2017-18 season.  At that time, he will be the longest-serving Director of Choruses and Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in the ensemble's history, he began his tenure with the 1998-99 season.

'Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal' by Paul David Young, a political satire of the Trump fiasco performed by an ensemble of four clowns, will have its world premiere June 11 to 26 in The Meeting Room of Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, presented by Skylight Productions.  Augustus Heagerty directs.

On the heels of their wildly successful ongoing U.S. tour, The xx will return stateside to play a very special, limited engagement of select headline dates and festival appearances this fall.

The New York premiere performances of acclaimed Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Aeriality will be given by the New York Philharmonic led by Music Director Alan Gilbert on May 19 and 20 at 8pm, and May 23 at 7:30pm, at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall.

As one of the world's most unique and exclusive party experiences through days of non-stop daylight and one-of-a-kind side parties, Secret Solsticereveals the details for their electronic stage takeovers, and a Ministry of Sound hosted Secret Solstice Presents Into The Glacier party onSaturday, June 17, 2017. 

In the second of Alan Gilbert's final four subscription weeks as New York Philharmonic Music Director, he will lead the Orchestra in a program that highlights important artistic relationships he has cultivated during his tenure.

Sono Luminus announces the April 7, 2017 worldwide release of Recurrence, a new recording from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO).

Celebrated Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect will tour the U.S. for the first time in April, with performances at Chicago's Constellation presented by the Frequency Series (April 9), Berkeley Art Museum's Full Series (April 11), the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Reykjavík Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall (April 13-15), and National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY (April 19).