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Live Review: The Dualers / Bare Jams – O2 Academy, Sheffield 26.11.2022

By Phil Wright Bare Jams In 2011, school friends Sam and Ollie decided it was time to stop fence jumping at festivals and formed a duo in their garden shed. …

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Meet: Captain Accident As They Get Set To Embark On Their Bad Press Album Tour – Part 2

With the band all set for the Bad Press Album Tour – Part 2, to support their 4th album ‘Bad Press’, we asked Captain Accident how he writes, what inspires…

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News: Dancehall legend Beenie Man Announces London Show

Preparing for his first UK shows since, Beenie Man will be heading to the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo on Thursday 22 September 2022. Moses Davis, better known by his stage moniker Beenie…

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Album Review: Aotearoa outfit The Black Seeds deliver depth and sunshine with their long-awaited lockdown album, Love & Fire.

There’s something special about growing up with a band. It seems like only yesterday, we were stumbling across muddy festival fields towards the infectious beats of Keep On Pushing and…

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Track: Sunny vibes only on Soul Sugar’s new single “Cool Down” feat. Booker Gee and Blundetto

Guillaime Metenier – France’s jazz, funk and reggae organist extraordinaire – unveils his latest Soul Sugar release, Cool Down feat. Booker Gee & Blundetto, and it provides a sun-kissed taste…

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See: Chronixx’ new track ‘Safe N Sound’ is a controversial but gracious magnum opus; watch the new video, here

Chronixx is a man who needs almost no introduction, a king of the modern reggae and dancehall scene. His name is synonymous with the genre and has been for quite…

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Premiere: J. Chambers releases the brilliant Sirens feat. Dei.3avu

Taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Escape the Kingdom’, a work concerned with being Black and British and out on 26th, ‘Sirens’ is the new single from Manchester poet and hip-hop…

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