Issue: Sound City 2019 | Bido Lito!Bido Lito!

WELCOME TO SOUND CITY

Read our special preview section covering all the highlights of this year's festival

Sound City COO Rebecca Ayres looks ahead to an exciting 2019 for the festival as it returns to the Baltic Triangle.

Some highlights selected from this year's festival bill, including headliners and ones to watch

Sound City+ at a glance: a selection of highlights from the range of panels and discussions from this year's industry conference

Festival headliner, and one of the hottest hip hop talents in the UK, Loyle Carner speaks to us about his new album

A selection of artists to look out for on this year's Sound City bill.

Beija Flo meets trilingual maverick Gwenno, who is leading Sound City’s five-day creative residency Both Sides Now

With their hymns to a life of mundanity and political strife, Shame have found the pulse of an angry, unsatisfied country.

The Derry-born, Manchester-based artist makes a welcome return to the live scene at Sound City with a new album

The engineer and producer who worked on Bowie's Blackstar talks about her experience of the music industry