Cuban music fever hits London this summer as Havana Cultura supports a series of events taking place in June and July at the Barbican Centre. Havana Cultura is a cultural initiative developed by Havana Club. It aims at increasing the visibility of emerging Cuban artists. This summers events form part of this year’s Cuba50 program, which celebrates Cuban culture and also marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Events include exclusive performances from some of the world’s best musicians flown in straight from Cuba, groundbreaking Cuban films during the Cine Cuba festival, free performances in the public spaces of the Barbican and free cocktail classes by Havana Club’s top Mixologists.

The Havana Cultura initiative is the first of its kind to profile artists from all disciplines, including musicians, visual artists, dancers, performers and writers raising awareness of contemporary art and culture of the city of Havana. Havana-Cultura provides the artists living in Hav

With the onset of warm weather just around the corner, Get Digital usher in Spring flowers and May showers with two smooth and sultry tracks from Pierce and Jerl. The collaboration of long time DJ and accomplished producer Jens Lissat and Pierce Treude. Their collaborations have appeared on My Best Friend, and the eTools label of Marc Romboy. In the last year they have honed their sound while incorporating a wide variety of influences and styles. 'Amourette' stands out due to its gently strummed Latin guitar and 1960's musical style female vocal, quite an unusual touch, but employed with brilliant results. Slowly shuffling percussion, jittering claves and filtered bells are slid perfectly and subtly into the mix. This is a hit from top to bottom. Frankfurt's M.in pumps this jam up with a blistering House beat, Chicago style male vocal snippets and a warm bass line that pumps just as much as it does in the low end as it does in the mid range. The boys turn again to Latin influences on 'Brazilique'; this time

WOMAD Festival announced more names for the 2009 edition of the festival: Paris-based Algerian chaabi stylist Kamel El-Harrachi. Down and dirty Spanish soul funk outfit The Sweet Vandals. The all drumming-dancing-singing Creole Choir of Cuba. Gallic-fuelled, Louisiana-inspired Cajun sounds from Sarah Savoy & the Francadians. The phenomenon that is London-based Latin jazz D.J Snowboy. WOMAD returns this summer to Charlton Park in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, from 24 to 26 July 2009.

More exhilarating performances: Kuwaiti-born Arabic jazz-guitarist Kamal Musallam Musical theatre from 30-strong Zimbabwean troupe Zambezi Express. Trinidadian calypso, pop, reggae and sunshine courtesy of the UK’s finest steel band, Reading’s very own Raspo. Live jazz and hip-hop dance moves from French company Styl’O’Styl. Mongrel are the most talked about indie supergroup in Britain. With a nucleus comprising Babyshambles’ Drew McConnell, British-Iraqi rapper Lowkey, the Arctic Monkeys&rsq

Morning all. On this day when, courtesy of the RMT, everybody is working from home (read: sitting in pants eating soup and watching Loose Women) here are the highlights from last weeks activities on Diesel U:Music Radio. With much rumination as to what the people behind the mics might look like. Zombie Disco Squad Zombie Disco Squad: a name that conjures up images of the 'Thriller' video. And because this is radio, you can go through the whole show thinking thats exactly what ZDS look like. Brilliant. And having seen real life snaps of the duo, I strongly advise this as a branding gimmick. Anyways, the show brought in friends and buddies such as Hannah Holland of Batty Bass fame and Jesse Rose of Jesse Rose fame. And everybody sounded like they were having a lovely time (read: were shitfaced), giving us rare treats like Detroit Grand Pubahs Sandwiches. Altogether now, in creepy voices: "you can be the bun" Black Lips Its funny, really " with a genre described as "flower punk", youd e

Essentially a sampler introduction to Lullatone as prelude to the release of Songs that Spin in Circles. Thematically gentle tender sleep rendered music, first wrought in the mode Shawn James Seymour as a method of working at night while vocalist and partner and Yoshimi Seymour slept. The arrival of their child Niko also seems to have provided inspiration for this collection of electronic lullabies whose intricate and delicate glistening easily seduces the listener. Conceptually it could be said to be in the form of music for babies, if this concept were not derived from the play Mozart to them to increase their intelligence but that formal aspects of music provided excellent tools for the calming of the young as well as being in themselves intelligent and well wrought popular formal exercises. Cuteness is essentially a guise, however endearing. In Marching to sleep a combination of excellent glockenspiel brightness with marching tempo drumming, clever sampled marching feet, delicate vocal, sampled and pl

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Hey Everybody- This is our 3rd Annual Goa Gil party " Mantra of Bliss. We would love to see you all there, basking in the blissness of the danceness!!!! Grab your dancing shoes and get to Asheville to help us Welcome Goa Gil back to the Southeastern United States!

Friday May 15th - Sunday May 17th, 2009 at Deerfields, Asheville, NC.

(Gates open at 4pm on Friday and close Sunday evening.)

Tickets are on sale now at www.psyblime.com

Join us in a regional gathering of the tribes as we celebrate Goa Gil's sonic transmission of cutting-edge psychedelic trance across the amazing Deerfields, a 940-acre family-owned retreat of unspoiled wilderness full of lush green valleys, apple orchards, and freshwater ponds for swimming after a long hot dance!

Bring your art, vibe, rituals, dancing shoes, and meet us on the dance floor for transcendental communication through sound and movement. Deco by Pyite and The Community. Visu