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Album Review: Aaron Shaw – ‘And So It Is’: Tingling with raw beauty, an inspiring spiritual jazz statement.

This has to be said upfront, even before you get deep into the music this album is inspirational. Saxophonist/ flautist Aaron Shaw, one of the names to be named on…

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Album Review: Raffy Bushman – ‘Here Today Gone Tomorrow’: More thrilling post-bop nu jazz from the London pianist and composer.

For a musician who puts out an annual album release, pianist, cellist and composer Raffy Bushman manages to keep surprisingly under the muso-radar but you sense that’s just how he…

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Live Review: Azealia Banks – Stylus, Leeds. 17.09.24

Hitting the road in the UK for the first time in over 5 years, Azealia Banks brings her “Back to the Union Jack” Tour to Leeds having started with 2 nights at Brixton Academy.

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Live Gallery: GLU at Knitting Factory – Spokane, Washington 12.11.2022

Photos by Anthony Moore Mikey Shuman‘s (Queens of the Stone Age) new solo project GLU blends a mix of hip-hop, electronic beats and technical guitar rifts to bring a unique…

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Track: Dazzling lyrical flow and taut, smoky bass combine on The Allergies and Andy Cooper’s ‘Utility Man’

AS ANYONE well acquainted with The Allergies’ party beatz will testify, former Ugly Duckling riddim and rhymer Andy Cooper is pretty much a permanent house guest round at their Brizzle…

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See: DJ Harrison drops the claymation-accompanied lyrical roll of ‘Cosmos’ feat. Pink Siifu

FOLLOWING the low-slung, out-there, conscious funk rumble of last month’s single, “Be Better”, which came heralding a second album of excellence on that reliable marque Stones Throw, Virginia’s DJ Harrison…

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Track: Kid Acne digs deep in the crate for the prime illbient of ‘NEON FOGOU’

YORKSHIRE hiphop? Yep. Bring it. BRING. IT. ON. Lad. Comin’ atcha straight outta God’s Own Country, Kid Acne is burrowing deep down into the world of the cheese dream to…

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Track: Bronx Slang are wise to wonder what will become of ‘Jane’

FABYL’S no-messin’ duo Bronx Slang have been bringing us the B-boy flow on a regular basis, track by track, news bulletin by news bulletin, across the past few months; dropping…

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Track: ECHT! – ‘500 gr.’: towering, atmospheric breaks from Brusseleir quartet preludes their September album

ECHT! is a fat-as-hell beats collective which calls Brussels home, although each of the four hails from elsewhere, drawn to the open, centrifugal force of the Belgian capital. The name…

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Track: Bronx Slang – ‘Happens A Lot’: examining the rise and fall of the rhymer with tough old-skool breakz

STILL rhyming with power, truth, rhythm; still living it in the Big (Rotten) Apple, Beeks and Miggs of Bronx Slang keep the gems coming from street-level observations as they shape…

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