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  • End of the Road festival 2025
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    End of the Road Festival 2025: an eclectic paradise in rainy Dorset

    September 3, 2025 - By Matt Ganfield

    Meandering between sleepy Dorset woodland, End of the Road marks one of the most deftly-curated jewels of the UK’s festival season: a diverse weekend of optimism which even the British weather can’t quell. For a festival of its size (around 13,500 punters grace Larmer Tree Gardens over the weekend), End…

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  • Bristol's FORWARDS Festival 2024
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    FORWARDS Festival reveal full 2025 lineup featuring Doechii, Barry Can’t Swim and The Last Dinner Party

    March 11, 2025 - By Emily Jordan

    One of Bristol’s biggest festivals is set to return for its fourth year in a row, welcoming the hottest stars straight off the back of an incredibly successful awards season. Triple Grammy-winning Doechii will head up the Sunday. FORWARDS began teasing her appearance days before the stacked lineup was unveiled,…

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  • CMAT performing at End of the Road festival 2024
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    End of the Road Festival share full 2025 lineup

    February 13, 2025 - By Eliette Harris

    Featuring the likes of Mount Kimbie, Viagra Boys, Katy J Pearson and Black Country, New Road. Dorset’s End of the Road Festival has shared its – rather stacked – lineup poster for 2025’s event. Mount Kimbie, The National‘s Matt Berninger, Swedish punks Viagra Boys, Katy J Pearson and Black Country,…

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  • Overblown magazine's best albums of 2024
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    Best albums of 2024

    December 31, 2024 - By Matt Ganfield

    While the world burns on all other fronts, 2024 has truly delivered some great albums. Disruptive newcomers and rejuvenated stalwarts alike have stepped up to the plate with outstanding offerings which have defined the year in music, whilst a handful of Overblown favourites have seized their opportunity to become global…

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  • Mount Kimbie (L-R: Andrea Balency-Béarn, Dominic Maker, Kai Campos, Marc Pell)
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    Mount Kimbie – The Sunset Violent review: a fruitful reset from one of the UK’s best

    April 5, 2024 - By Matt Ganfield

    Fifteen years into their career, the newly unveiled quartet present a fourth album which feels as fresh and invigorated as a debut. Very few acts of Mount Kimbie’s stature have carved a cultural pivot from which they can freely move in any direction without so much of a wrinkle of…

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  • New York producer Chanel Beads on white background
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    Best new songs this week: Ob picks (15/3/24)

    March 15, 2024 - By Matt Ganfield

    Metronomy X Pan Amsterdam // Nice Town The ever-evolving Metronomy have newly signed with Ninja Tune, and how is this this for a first impression! ‘Nice Town’ pairs an archaic hip-hop flow with a modern twist, featuring NYC’s Pan Amsterdam. Mount Kimbie // Empty And Silent (feat. King Krule)Mount Kimbie…

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  • video still from ScHoolboy Q - Bluesides
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    Best new songs this week: Ob picks (9/2/24)

    February 9, 2024 - By Matt Ganfield

    ScHoolboy Q // BlueslidesShared this week alongside ‘Back in Love‘, ‘Bluesides’ addresses ScHoolboy Q’s recent absence to a smokey, minimalist piano track. New album Blue Lips lands next month. Mount Kimbie // FishbrainMount Kimbie continue their foray into 90s-inspired shoegaze with the beguiling ‘Fishbrain’. Forthcoming album The Sunset Violent is…

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