rap
News: Parklife 2023 lineup announced
The only date needed in the diary, Parklife 2023 is here. The UK’s largest Metropolitan festival and the go-to home of the biggest and the best is ready to serve up THE lineup of the summer as a melting pot of the sounds defining 2023 and beyond. Its roots in Manchester shine bright this year, with the …
News: Falling In Reverse share video for new track ‘Watch the World Burn’
Today, Falling In Reverse share the video for new track ‘Watch the World Burn.’ The song is another epic anthem that finds frontman Ronnie Radke laying his lyrical cards up on the table while his vocal style escalates from a rhythmic cadence to an earth-shaking howl. Falling In Reverse continue to explode by leaps and bounds in this nascent decade. The band’s catalog has clocks …
News: Snoop Dogg announces rescheduled tour dates for 2023
Celebrating over 25 years at the pinnacle of hip hop, it’s been a career that has seen the Doggfather cement his undisputed influence on music with chart-topping, multi-platinum records, while also solidifying his importance to wider culture as an actor, businessman and more across the board. The tour sees Snoop Dogg enlist a selection of …
Live Review: Nothing,Nowhere./guccihighwaters/sadeyes – Manchester Club Academy 18/11/22
First up tonight supporting nothing,nowhere. is Oregon based rapper, sadeyes. Whilst not being the most talkative with the odd few lines said in between songs he left it to his actions on stage. Throughout the set he doesn’t stop moving, delivering his lyrics to as much of the crowd as he can and singing towards …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – The Kid Laroi, MyState Arena, Hobart, 11.06.22
For the uninitiated, at only eighteen years old, The Kid Laroi (the nom-de-guerre of Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard) has made quite a global impact, made all the more remarkable given his age and the fact he grew up in the poor inner city housing estates of Redfern in Sydney. Now living in LA, he has …
News: Ed Sheeran releases new remix with Irish rapper Denise Chaila
Irish rapper Denise Chaila has teamed up with Ed Sheeran for a remix to his song ‘2step’, and it’s out now!
Album Review: Mallrat’s ‘Butterfly Blue’ is a perfect collection of pure pop jewels, fused with indie rock and rap, that glitters and glows.
It’s hard to believe ‘Butterfly Blue’ (out through Dew Process) is Mallrat‘s debut album. She has graced us with two stunning EPs and a series of brilliant singles that have illustrated her perfect amalgam of feisty yet achingly beautiful tracks that seamlessly drift between pure pop, indie rock and rap (sometimes all within one song), …
EP Review: LOXY & INK – SPRAY TRAINS OF THOUGHT – on R&S
Stalwarts of the drum & bass scene for nearly three decades, London duo Loxy & Ink open up their 2022 account with a new single ‘Spray Trains Of Thought‘. The UK breakbeat pioneers have racked up an arsenal of releases for breakthrough labels such as Metalheadz, Hospital Records and Renegade Hardware, as well as their …
News: UK rap phenomenon Stormzy announces rescheduled Australian/New Zealand ‘Heavy Is The Head’ tour.
UK rap phenomenon, Stormzy, has has announced that he will bring his ‘Heavy Is The Head’ (H.I.T.H) World Tour to Australia and New Zealand in November/December 2022, through Handsome Tours, Astral People, and triple j. Kicking off this November, Stormzy will perform his biggest Australian shows to date in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, …
Track: Elsy Wameyo drops new track ‘River Nile’ ahead of April EP release. Ignore it at your peril.
Elsy Wameyo, the Adelaide-based singer who originally hails from Nairobi has released a new track ‘River Nile’. An EP ‘Nilotic’ will follow and be available on the 1st April via Music in Exile. The multitalented Wameyo has also released an accompanying video for ‘River Nile’ that she produced and directed, with co-direction by Leighton Bond. …