SOUND CITY 2021 ANNOUNCEMENT
The festival returns in 2021 with first names including Rejjie Snow and Working Men’s Club.
FROM THE VAULTS
We dig back through the Bido Lito! archive and re-live some gems from the past decade.
SOUND CITY 2020
The festival announces that Friendly Fires, Marika Hackman and more top acts are joining the Baltic festivities in May.
SUB BLUE
Tyler Mensah is an artist shedding light on the struggles of suburban life via deft electronic soul.
WELCOME TO SOUND CITY
Read our special preview section covering all the highlights of this year's festival
STRENGTHENING OUR ROOTS
Sound City COO Rebecca Ayres looks ahead to an exciting 2019 for the festival as it returns to the Baltic Triangle.
SOUND CITY 2019 LINE-UP
Some highlights selected from this year's festival bill, including headliners and ones to watch
SOUND CITY+
Sound City+ at a glance: a selection of highlights from the range of panels and discussions from this year's industry conference
LOYLE CARNER
Festival headliner, and one of the hottest hip hop talents in the UK, Loyle Carner speaks to us about his new album
GWENNO MEETS BEIJA FLO
Beija Flo meets trilingual maverick Gwenno, who is leading Sound City’s five-day creative residency Both Sides Now
SHAME
With their hymns to a life of mundanity and political strife, Shame have found the pulse of an angry, unsatisfied country.
SOAK
The Derry-born, Manchester-based artist makes a welcome return to the live scene at Sound City with a new album
ERIN TONKON
The engineer and producer who worked on Bowie's Blackstar talks about her experience of the music industry
SOUND CITY 2019 LINE-UP ADDITIONS
Find out who's been added to the line-up for this year's Sound City
SOUND CITY 2018
Photo gallery by Jessica Grace Neal featuring, Dermot Kennedy, Matt Maltese and The Night Cafe.
SOUND CITY 2018
Photo gallery by Stuart Moulding featuring, King Khan and The Shrines, Black Honey and Superorganism.
KEYCHANGE IS COMING
During this year’s Sound City, our Student Society team took a closer look at a sector-wide initiative aimed at bringing gender equality to our festivals within five years.
PEACE
The B-town pioneers have transcended from darlings of the indie scene to socially-conscious, festival-headlining behemoths. What’s next for Sound City’s 2018 headliners?
ISSUE 88 EDITORIAL
Editor Christopher Torpey on the spirit of change and the region's appetite for cultural renaissance
SUPERORGANISM
Pop Art 2.0: meet the multilimbed, multinational collective dismantling our conceptions of music-making and creativity in the digital age.
BAXTER DURY
The Prince Of Tears has carved out his own niche in scabrous, orchestral pop, finding his groove on an album replete with heartache and squalor.
IDLES
Breathing fresh air into Britain's independent scene, this Bristol five-piece are reviving guitar music's punk spirit with equal parts intellect and anger.
ZUZU
The Birkenhead based indie sensation talks to us on the eve of releasing her debut EP Made On Earth By Humans
BOTH SIDES NOW
With the help of Stealing Sheep music charity Brighter Sound are actively seeking change in gender balance throughout the music industry
SOUND CITY+
The British Music Experience plays host to a series of panel discussions and conversations with industry experts from across the world.
SOUND CITY 2017
BIDO LITO! COMMENT | For Sound City to reignite its flame, it must be embedded back within the city itself
A DECADE OF SOUND
Pre-order your programme for Pioneers of British Electronic Music, The Velvet Underground & Nico Reimagined and Sound City
WELCOME TO SOUND CITY 2017
David J Pichilingi, Sound City CEO, welcomes in the festival's 10th anniversary celebrations
PEACHES
“What else is in the teaches of Peaches?” Sex positivity and coming of age with the art pop icon.
DON LETTS
The Don talks rebellion and the importance of cultures coming together in his Sound City+ keynote conversation.
TIM BURGESS
The Charlatans’ main man brings Tim Peaks Diner to Sound City for unmissable conversations and live performances.
ISSUE 77 EDITORIAL
Editor Christopher Torpey muses on the passage of time ahead of a whirlwind summer of music and culture in Liverpool
SOUND CITY 2017
Sound City returns again in May, ready to celebrate its tenth anniversary with an extravagant array of bands and events.
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