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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Farma Beats
In 2018, Brooklyn spitter Rome Streetz released one of the best collections of hip hop that year, Street Pharmacy. The album is filled with hard-hitting street stories, told with precision and skill, a cautionary tale that expressed some hard truths and offered some hard-won wisdom. Streetz is a skillful raconteur, but the album also featured …
Track: Spaza release new track ‘Xolile Mosi’ ahead of album
You know that jazz never goes away- it ebbs and flows in profile and popularity. But over the last five years or so jazz music has reached out, edged its way over musical borders and re-energised around unlikely geographies in south London, Chicago and Johannesburg. The label Mushroom Hour Half Hour has been a pillar …
SEE: Jorja Smith – ‘Come Over’, feat. Popcan: R’n’B grace tells of app disconnection
JORJA SMITH made it over to Jamaica before lockdown for inspiration and to write new tunes, before all this descended on the world. While she was there she hooked with the dancehall-bending singer Popcaan and together they fashioned up her new single, “Come On Over”, which you can watch today with us with its excellent …
Track: Telescreen – Moving On
Melburnian band Telescreen have just released a very vibrant and exciting new single ‘Moving On’, which is a sharp and melodic piece of intelligent pop dealing with real and tangible issues. A melodic, rhythmic spine is backed up with fuzzy walls of guitars and vocal layers that express anger and frustration about ineffective politicians. With …
Track: Majak Door – Will She Leave You
Melbourne’s Majak Door have released a fantastic jangling, jaunty tune ‘Will She Leave You’, which has chorus-soaked bubbling guitars lending an aquatic gurgle to the bright, sparkling tone. Very much in the vein of France’s Phoenix, this is effervescent pop with a melancholic sheen to its breezy veneer. It has a summer-perfect glow – matching …
Track: Blue States drop ‘Friendly Fires’ from the expanded ‘Nothing Changes …’
IT’S HARD to believe that Blue States downbeatz classic, Nothing Changes Under the Sun, has reached its twentieth anniversary – who pressed fast forward, cos it wasn’t me; but it’s great to know that in marking this milestone Memphis Industries will be releasing a 20th anniversary edition in three weeks’ time. This new expanded edition, …
TRACK: Annie returns with first album in a decade: hear ‘Corridors Of Time’
ANNIE, the Norwegian singer-songwriter and DJ who soo should’ve had the whole world supplicant on the back of the brilliant “Chewing Gum” back in the day, is all set to release a new album, Dark Hearts, on October 16th – her first album for a decade. Today, she’s dropped the darkly romantic swoon of “Corridors …
Track: Trivium frontman Matt Heafy shares a cover of My Mother Told Me taken from TV Show Vikings
Trivium frontman Matthew Kiichi Heafy, has shared a new solo track in the form of – “My Mother Told Me”. The track is a cover of a song that appeared on the show Vikings. Heafy offers up three dramatic iterations of the track — one in the heavy metal style that is his signature, along with an acoustic rendition, and an …
SEE: Andy Shauf – ‘Clove Cigarette’: A Proustian moment captured in baroque pop; live stream news
ANTI-‘S lovely baroque-pop song sculptor Andy Shauf has just released the video for “Clove Cigarette”, one of the standout tracks from January’s The Neon Skyline. Watch with us; it’s 184 seconds of Proustian recall set across gorgeous acoustic melodies, with a brilliant, digitally treated video courtesy Colin Medley and Jared Raab, with added animated spice …
BRONSON announce a trio of remix EPs; hear the Cassian mix of ‘KNOW ME’
BRONSON, the epic, bass-shakin’ progressive house project of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, of ODESZA, and producer Tom Stell of Golden Features, has announced a series of three remix EPs as an exciting and exploratory coda to their self-titled debut album for Ninja Tune. The trio of rerubs will feature names such as Riton, HAAi, TSHA, Patrick Topping, Prospa, Krystal Klear and …