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Firefighters tripping while responding to moorland blazes and being hit by equipment falling from overhead lockers are among the accidents reported by West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
The boss of Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI) has told councillors: “We need a new hospital, plain and simple.”
West Yorkshire Fire Service staff were scalded because of a boiler fault in their new £31 million headquarters.
“Say My Name” brings together three artists coming at house music from different directions. ERAN has spent the past few years moving beyond the Afro-centric material associated with some of his earlier releases and deeper into melodic, tech and…
A senior Reform UK councillor has defended a plan to withdraw Bradford from City of Sanctuary status.
The salon offers a range of beauty services, nails and waxing remain its most sought-after treatments.
The article is guest contribution by Candese Charles As the moon glowed high above the cranes and ships that make up Pier 80, Portola Music Festival raged on for two nights of glory the weekend of September 26 this year. Now in its fifth year, the…
ONE of Warrington or Wakefield will win their maiden Super League Grand Final this evening, and it is 25 years since Bradford Bulls first managed that.
Between the Hologram Microcosm, Chroma Console, and SOMA WARP, I already have plenty of ways to add delay, reverb, and granular processing to my music. Another expensive hardware effect needs a specific reason to earn space in my studio, and the…
Summer Fades Away and Vaudlow’s Get Together works because the collaboration does not feel like a novelty. The story is easy to pitch on paper: a Chinese post-rock band and a Nashville instrumental duo meet at Asia’s largest post-rock festival, stay…
Store owners said that half of their equipment was stolen by burglars
Shimza has long been a superstar in South Africa, but as his profile grows abroad, he feels like he's "building from scratch". This year's major Ibiza residency marks a new career landmark. Bringing peers along with him, he's influencing the spread…
Edu Schwartz returns to Magnetic Magazine Recordings with “This Feeling,” out today, October 2, 2026. The Brazilian DJ and producer’s latest single carries catalog number MMR073 and marks the label’s 73rd signing. Available on Beatport as an…
DFRA and Nick Weaver Beautiful Place works best when it lets the city press in from all sides. The album is built around one person’s search for peace inside Buenos Aires, and that idea gives the project a clear emotional center without making it…
LARSa returns to Magnetic Magazine Recordings with his remix of D&S’s “Time & Space.” Released on October 2, 2026, the track is the label’s 82nd signing and carries catalog number MMR082. The release is available exclusively on Beatport, where it is…
Locked Club’s PZDC is the kind of electronic album that does not ask to be understood before it starts moving. It kicks forward first, then lets the rest of the record reveal itself in broken machinery, blown-out vocal fragments, acid lines, punk…
Chris Luno’s (@chrisluno) remix of Rodriguez Jr.’s “Higher” starts with a useful kind of restraint. He did not treat the original as raw material to overpower or flatten into his own format. The piano was already carrying the emotional center, and…
Amsterdam, we need to talk. ADE 2026 has dropped its second wave, and the 30th birthday party is shaping up to be massive. Running from 21st to 25th October, Amsterdam Dance Event now has over 1,500 artists confirmed. And it’s barely halfway there…
The last single before an album has a different job than the early ones. It has to point forward without giving the whole thing away, and it has to make the album feel closer rather than simply adding one more track to the rollout. Monkey Safari’s…
Modern production tools can create a strange problem for artists: the session fills up faster than the track finds itself. A plugin can throw out ten usable ideas in seconds, a sample library can surface another hundred options before the loop has…
AI makes the wrong comparison easier than ever… A producer can now sit with a rough loop, open a feed, hear someone else’s finished record, then watch a tool generate something polished in seconds, and suddenly the early stage of their own work…
The hardest part of building a recognizable artist project is knowing when recognition starts to become a cage. Whisnu Santika knows the advantage of having a sound people can name. Indo Bounce gave audiences a way into his music, helped define his…
Star joins line up for Leeds International Festival of Ideas which is due to start next week
Meet the Wakefield Trinity fan who is travelling 10,000 miles to be at the Grand Final
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