Pitchfork Festival: Dalston Takeover 2026 @ Pitchfork Festival: Dalston Takeover 2026

Pitchfork Festival: Dalston Takeover 2026 @ Pitchfork Festival: Dalston Takeover 2026

Pitchfork Festival: Dalston Takeover 2026, , London

lau. 07.11.2026 00:00

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  • Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
    Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

    MUSIC/MERCH/TICKETS

    https://psychedelicporncrumpets.com

  • Freak Slug
    Freak Slug

    The name Freak Slug encapsulates Xenya Genovese’s artistic world perversely and perfectly. Her releases under the name so far - debut 2020 EP Videos and its viral hit “Radio” (15 million streams and counting), and follow-up EPs I’m In Love (2022) and Viva La Vulva (2023) - might have introduced listeners to a “more summery, happy, LA sound”, but with the advent of debut album I Blow Out Big Candles, this Slug is burrowing down into evermore unlikely places. As she accurately points out: “The name is giving more grunge than joy”.

    Hugely influenced by ‘90s cult heroes including Ride, Mazzy Star and Stephen Malkmus, Freak Slug is all about hitting a mood. Everything that fuels her creative output is raw, authentic, sometimes weird, but always totally true self-expression. I Blow Out Big Candles is a strong statement of all of this and more. Down there, picking through the curious mix of sounds and feelings, from nostalgic, 90s-influenced and dreamy as well as eccentric and experimental, lives Freak Slug.

  • 60 JUNO
    60 JUNO
    Emerging from Merced, CA, 60 JUNO (sixty juno) leads Central Valley Post-Punk with his own distinct blend of DIY indie-rock and dark-wave elements that create a truly notable sound worth remembering. By incorporating heightened energy and rough, low vocals into the usual wistful, dreamy componenets typical of the Indie-Rock genre, 60 JUNO has truly created a lane of his own making.

    The independent 22-year old musician is the sole driving force behind the bass, drums, guitar and vocals that seamlessly translate heavy nostalgia into deep, dreamy melodies.
  • Mandy, Indiana
    Mandy, Indiana
    Mandy, Indiana’s emergence last year seemed sudden. Based in Manchester – a city where the speed of word of mouth means new bands rarely remain unknown for long - the outfit’s brutally abrasive post-punk noire has forcefully grabbed attention in a way that feels as if it’s come from nowhere. Formed by Scott Fair (guitar/production) and Valentine Caulfield (vocals/lyrics), the band have signed to Fire Talk, attracted media coverage from the The Fader, Brooklyn Vegan, The Quietus and gained fans amongst the likes of Daniel Avery, Girl Band and Scalping. Their music to-date ranges from the warping techno of six-minute stomper Alien 3, to the likes of hallucinogenics-gone-dark industrial noise of Nike of Samothrace. These are tracks disparate in nature but connected by an explosiveness - a pyroclastic flow of energy that’s erupted from intense ramped up pressure. It’s music built on raw energy over meticulous composition and emotion over clinical structure.
  • Midwife
    Midwife

    Hauntingly minimal experimental-pop.” ~ Paste Magazine

  • Victoryland
    Victoryland

    Victoryland is the Brooklyn-based project of musician Julian McCamman. His label-debut, My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It, out January 23, 2026 via Good English, is a triumphant, despondent, and ultimately fun experimental pop-rock album. Victoryland started in Philly 2023 with the release of tape, Sprain, which echoed more of what the Philly scene was dishing out: lo-fi, tape-recorded rock with a capital R. It was the collaborative efforts of producer Dan Howard that brought the new vision and sound into full focus.Dan and Julian previously worked on Julian’s now-defunct Texas-to-Philly based band, Blood’s Loving You Backwards LP, a collaborative effort between six bandmates. That experience pushed Julian toward a more personal process of recording, starting with home demos and then bringing them to Dan to shape into songs. This relationship ultimately led Julian to move to NYC.

    The sound of the album, recorded between Julian’s Bed Stuy basement and Dan’s Williamsburg studio, is the sound of a bright and beaming collaboration. Landing somewhere between lo-fi and hi-fi production, the songs have the glossiness of a radio-friendly hit mixed with the distortion and rough edges of a home demo. Every song keeps at least one element of the initial recording, while building around the loops and half-songs Julian scrapped together. The lyrics on the record span from humorous self-aware popisms (“‘you and I’ will soon be, used to be ‘us’”) to crushing realities of bitterness(“i’ll never forgive you, that’s how I keep you close”) to abstract imagery (“mothers wave from doorways, in ostinato”), all delivered with such an immediacy and fervor that in the middle of singing along, you wonder if this guy slept much last night.

    My Heart wrangles with heavy subject matter (love, disconnection, sexual frustration, emptiness etc.), but the terminal statement of the record is about the cleansing nature of pop music. That, if a song can force you to “bliss out” over a hook or a loop, or even make you dance, it can be the spoonful of sugar to swallow the hard pill with; this is what Victoryland strives to do: package the most exhausting realities of life, love, and the search for connection in a world starved of it, into a fun 2-5 minutes, and for the runtime of Victoryland’s first major statement, you might even feel like you’re not alone.

  • MX LONELY
    MX LONELY
    MX LONELY BIO MX Lonely formed in 2022 out of the ashes of other projects. Rae Haas (lead vocals/synth) and Jake Harms (vocals/guitar) sought to create a heavier, more punk rock version of a dual-vocal, spidery songwriting style they had begun exploring. After a few lineup changes, the group solidified with Gabriel Garman (bass) and Andrew Rapp (drums), who together add a heavy, propulsive rhythm section to the band.
    Since early 2024 MX Lonely has been touring nationally. The live show aspect of their sound has a huge hand in shaping the dynamics and feeling of their recorded music. They describe themselves as “Loud As F*ck”, and tow multiple amps to every show.
  • Swapmeet
    Swapmeet

    Swapmeet is a band based on unceded Kaurna land. With an ever changing energy and aesthetic, Swapmeet’s sound is at once light-hearted and raw. With indie rock foundations, characterised by sonic experimentation, and a punk spirit, Swapmeet are known in the Adelaide circuit for their playful, chaotic onstage presence.

  • bloodsports
    bloodsports
    Taking over the sweaty New York venues and curbside congregations that came to be
    synonymous with the name, Bloodsports is set to release their long awaited debut LP Anything
    Can Be A Hammer via brand new New York label Good English Records on October 17th.
    Bloodsports has become an undeniable force amidst their latest line up, where members Sam
    Murphy (guitar/vox), Jeremy Mock (Guitar), Liv Eriksen (bass/vox) and Scott Hale (drums) find
    solace in the capitulation of sonic strain; where angular sedition blends with economical
    melodies that lighten the load of the self-destruction that these songs embrace. But as bold as
    their landscapes have been prior, Anything Can Be A Hammer finds the band embracing a more
    dynamic approach, maturing in their techniques as these songs brim over with subtle fixations –
    balancing a steady pace of experimentation and curiosity that linger amongst the rhythmic blows
    and befuddling depths that the band confidently explores. Fragile, yet abundant, Bloodsports
    leans into that patience that plays to our own interior designs, where Murphy’s lyricism is a
    notion of both what we know and what we think we know, as it all comes to the fore when our
    obsessions are at large. It’s an album that’s got blood in its veins and a finger on the pulse.