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Armando Ianucci’s HBO series Veep is due to start on Sunday April 22. Similar in style to The Thick of It the show is set in the office of a fictional US Vice President.

Sacramento trio Death Grips are due to release the follow up to last years Exmilitary and will be their first release on Epic Records. The record is due to be released on April 24 but can be listened to in its entirety below:

As part of their current brewery expansion, Meantime will be opening a new visitor centre at the start of next month. Alongside the daily brewery tours for visitors, the site will showcase London’s brewing history, as well as giving a wider audience an understanding of the company’s approach to beer making. You can book a tour here.

Ink & Paper is set to take place from May 11th-13th off London’s Brick Lane at The Rag Factory. It will be one of the first major exhibitions of gig posters in the UK to feature many of the UK’s exciting crop of poster designers alongside some of the best known from Europe and the US. Some of the artists getting involved include Drew Millward, Sean Mort and Telegramme Studio.

Over the weekend Silent UK scaled the unfinished Shard in London to take this incredible set of pictures. Check out the full set here.

Robert Howsare‘s Drawing Apparatus is a mesmerising and simple drawing tool that builds up pictures with the use of 2 turnables at different speeds. Check out the video of it in action below.

Based on the successful book by Graham Jones of the same name, Last Shop Standing is a  documentary exploring the decline and the recent resurgence of the independent record store. The project is currently looking for investors through the crowd funding website IndieGoGo. 

The trailer for this years reboot of Spider-Man was released today and is set for release on July 3.

Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco is currently hosting the debut solo show by Austin-based artist Tim Doyle. Unreal Estate  explores locations found throughout popular culture including Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, as well as Tom’s Restaurant made famous in Seinfeld all recreated in a slightly more eerie light. The show runs until February 23.

YCN are now selling the 24 Hours in… City Series prints by Brazilian based artist Fernando Volken Togni. The A3 series includes prints of Brussels, Melbourne, Cairo, Phuket, London and Moscow and are all available here for only £20.