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Grime star Kano takes us on a journey exploring the creative process and concepts behind his outstanding sixth album, Hoodies All Summer. The 13-minute short film follows one of British music’s most coherent storytellers as he pieces together one of last year’s best album releases. Hoodies All Summer, released in August 2019, saw Kano talk about the love […]

Les Benjamins took to Paris for their debut Fashion Week show, showcasing the ‘Wild Wild East’ for Autumn/Winter ’20.  A nostalgia trip of epic proportions, Les Benjamins takes strides through founder Bunyamin Aydin’s Turkish roots, offering a physical, Eastern vision of the 70s. Realised through a lens of teen dreams of rock ‘n’ roll, AW20 […]

Helly Hansen digs deep into their extensive archive as they head offshore for the HH-118389225 AW20 collection.  Inspired by their historic commitment to developing performance-driven, professional-grade products, Helly Hansen’s archival HH-118389225 reworks historical lines for a seamless premium capsule. Autumn/Winter 2020 puts a specific focus on HH’s late 90’s E-352 offshore survival suit developed for […]

Two titans of the industry, Toronto-born producer René LaVice and Future Cut, have teamed up for an explosive new drop on Metalheadz. René LaVice has a long and accomplished career as a both a drum & bass producer and as the current host of Radio 1’s long-standing D&B show. Hit-making duo Future Cut, one the other […]

Last night, after much anticipation and online speculation, DigDat finally sated our appetites with the drop of his brand new project, Ei8ht Mile, liberating visuals for the title track (which features Aitch) in the process. It’s not hard to see where at least some of the influence for this project came from — and that goes tenfold […]

Manchester-born, London-based GZ Tian was always destined to be musical. Born to a mother who was an internationally-respected Guzheng (Chinese harp) performer and a father who found success in the two disparate worlds of punk and jazz, GZ was encouraged to pick up music almost from birth. That discipline and appreciation for a vast array of […]

DRAMA — the multi-faceted collaboration between producer Na’el Shehade and singer Via Rosa — are fast approaching the release of their debut album Dance Without Me, out February 14 via Ghostly International. Ahead of that, they’ve just lifted the lid on the album’s lead single, “Years”. Ultimately, “Years” is a song about honesty. As the rousing […]

Much was made of Cadell‘s beef with Stormzy when they sparred a few years ago, but then things seemed to quiten down and we all got on with our lives. Now, however, with the increasingly heated war between Wiley and Stormzy, the details of Cadell’s situation have bubbled back up to the surface. Referenced in […]

The Wiley vs Stormzy saga continues. After Stormzy replied to Wiley‘s “Eediyat Skengman” with “Disappointed“, Wiley clapped back with a sequel that accused him of not caring about grime and citing his use of the “Know Better” beat as an example of that. Well, Stormzy’s replied with “Still Disappointed”, addressing every point that Wiley’s made and uses […]

It’s all kicking off. In the latest developments, Dot Rotten has re-entered the beef and now Wiley‘s escalated it with “Eediyat Skengman 2”.  Taking things to new levels, Wiley addresses some of the accusations Stormzy threw at him in “Disappointed“, denying most of them, and counters by going after his mum — If I see your […]