Michael Hubbard

1 week ago | musicomh.com | Michael Hubbard

The opening of London’s 2025 music festival season has been fraught, with obstacles in nature both local and global thrown in its path The festival that is now called Field Day is a very different offering from the independently minded, superbly curated yet logistically problematic event which debuted in Hackney’s Victoria Park way back in 2007.

2 weeks ago | musicomh.com | Michael Hubbard

Sofyann Ben Youssef’s third album marries his Tunisian identity with wall-shaking bass futurismWith his 2020 album Global Control / Invisible Invasion, AMMAR 808’s Sofyann Ben Youssef explored music from southern India. In contrast, with Club Tounsi Copenhagen-based Youssef has returned his musicologist’s gaze closer to the land of his birth. This time he brings together Tunisian mezoued music – centred on the mezoued, a type of bagpipe – with rumbling futurist electric bass beats.

1 month ago | pingidentity.com | Michael Hubbard

As Ping’s Chief Customer Officer, I’m honored to celebrate our most innovative customers around the world with the 9th annual Identity Excellence Awards (IX awards)! Our customers are often the unsung heroes of their organizations, wielding identity as a competitive advantage in driving growth, reducing fraud and costs, and much more.

1 month ago | musicomh.com | Michael Hubbard

With the release of Neon & Ghost Signs, their first album in over 20 years, Louis Eliot’s band is back and better than ever. But what took them so long? After fizzling to a close at the tail end of the Britpop era a quarter of a century ago, suddenly Rialto are back, with career-best new album, Neon & Ghost Signs.

1 month ago | musicomh.com | Michael Hubbard

More than two decades since their last album, Louis Eliot and co return older, wiser and with intentYou’d be forgiven for thinking that Rialto’s greatest ambition was to obtain immortality as the answer to a pub quiz question, that being: which band had the longest period between second and third albums? In the case of this band, who fizzled to a couple of minor hits only at the very end of the Britpop era, it’s been 24 years.