hip hop
Live Review & Gallery: Night Lovell, Haarper, and Standout Opener MUDRAT – Liberty Hall, Eora Land/Sydney, 16.11.25
Night Lovell and Haarper playing the same show already felt like someone stacked the deck in any fan’s favour. Then I saw MUDRAT was opening, and honestly, that was the part I was most curious about. I have been trying to catch them live for ages. MUDRAT didn’t waste time. No big entrance, no drawn-out …
News: Pertinence Brings His Honest and Reflective Hip-Hop to Australia
Arizona-born rapper Pertinence will make his Australian debut in February 2026, performing in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane with his unique blend of lyricism and introspection.
Live Gallery: Burna Boy Brings No Sign of Weakness Tour to Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena 18.10.2025
At Qudos Bank Arena, Burna Boy turns his No Sign of Weakness tour into something more than a show — a seamless blend of rhythm, movement, and connection that transforms the arena into a single, beating pulse.
Track/Video : Hip Hop duo JED & Kavzad offer up new vid “COME&GO” from their spikey debut album ‘BROKEN GLASS’.
Brighton may be best known musically as an indie outpost but fizzing around the fringes there’s some potent R ‘n B meets garage meets hip-hop alchemy going on. Step up long-time pivots in the scene, Bristol raised, Iranian rapper/songwriter kavzad and wordsmith/poet/ grass roots music champion JED with intel about their sharp-edged debut project as …
Album Review: Reginald Omas Mamode IV – ‘Rivière’ Noire’: Forward-thinking lo-fi funk and hip hop with a bold, direct message.
Dalliance or daring, ‘Rivière’ Noire’ the fourth album from singer, producer and beats aficionado Reginald Omas Mamode IV is, whichever way you look at it, a bit of a leap. This Anglo-Mauritian musician has since 2012 been at the forefront of the UK soul jazz, groove scene, lauded by Giles Peterson, loved by Mojo, The …
Track & News: Hilltop Hoods Release New Single ‘Never Coming Home’ ft. SIX60 Ahead of Upcoming UK/EU Tour and Ninth Studio Album Release
Hilltop Hoods are back with ‘Never Coming Home’, the first proper taste of their next album ‘Fall From The Light’, which lands August 1. The single features New Zealand’s SIX60 and arrives with a full-scale music video that ropes in some of the biggest names in Australian combat sports, including UFC world champ Alexander Volkanovski. …
Live Review & Gallery: Over Two Decades In, Bliss n Eso Are Still Taking It to the Moon – Enmore Theatre, Gadigal Land/Sydney 11.07.25
Bliss n Eso packed out the Enmore Theatre on Friday night, bringing with them a multi-generational crowd and a career-spanning show. From the opening moments, a cinematic, space-themed intro, to the final notes of 2010’s ‘Addicted’, the energy never waned. And with the scale and momentum of this mammoth national tour, I’d expect nothing less. …
News: Hilltop Hoods Prepare for their Biggest Tour Yet + Upcoming Album Announcement
Australia’s hip-hop heavyweights Hilltop Hoods are stepping back into the spotlight. Today, the Adelaide trio announced their Never Coming Home national arena tour, their first since 2022’s sold-out Show Business run. The tour lands in major Australian cities early next year, coinciding with the release of their anticipated eighth studio album, ‘Fall From the Light’, …
Album Review: Franz Von –‘Take What You Want’: Conscious hip hop on the fusion front foot.
If you’re a gig goer who’s ever crossed paths with the fusion blast of TC & The Groove Family or going back further been levelled by Kweku Sackey, aka K.O.G, in his Zong Brigade days, then the chances are you’ve encountered Franz Von, out front in full flow. That sharp delivery, those spikey, incisive rhymes, …
News: Hip Hop Icons Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Announce 2025 Tour with Xzibit and Too $hort
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony reunite and head to Australia with Xzibit and Too $hort this October.