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For the past year or so, Steel Banglez had been a little quiet on the music front. After the passing of his good friend Sidhu Moose Wala, the producer understandably took a little time out of the limelight. He returned last month with “Mera Na”, the third posthumous release from Wala that also served as Banglez’s […]
Two years ago, the late Jamal Edwards MBE co-founded a new app under the name 8BARS, a slick new platform geared at democratising talent discovery and nurturing connections between audiences and grassroots music culture. Since Edwards’ untimely passing, the platform has continued to develop and has now rebranded and relaunched as ONE2 1TWO. The new […]
We are officially in Nines season. After dropping his long-awaited and long-overdue Crop Circle 2 last week, Nines has just dropped off the video for its latest single, “Different League” with Nafe Smallz and Clavish, along with the official Crop Circle 2 short film (his third short film) which features artists such as Knucks, Miraa May and Litty Lightz, and […]
A week or so ago, Nines was spotted meeting up with Larry June and The Alchemist. Earlier this week, Twitter was arguing about which UK artists Al should work with. Rightly, someone pointed out that there aren’t many UK rhymers who would mesh with that sound, either because of style or experience. One exception that […]
After a bit of a quiet spell, which the vast majority of us assumed was the retirement he spoke about a few years ago, Nines is back with a new video and confirmation that the rumours are indeed true: Crop Circle 2 is happening and it’s happening very, very soon. Back in December, Nines posted a picture on […]
Creativity juices are flowing. Inside Metropolis’ lofty halls, music is being made at an almost industrial scale, but in ways that can only be termed organic. In Studio A, producer Ben Billions and alt-pop queen La Roux are cooking up a beat while, in Studio B, UK rap wonderkids A1 x J1 have finished a […]
Footwear and apparel store size? has stepped outside the box and announced a music festival, which is set to take place in Manchester next month. Aiming to unite lovers of music and sneakers alike, the music festival—which takes place at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse on August 20—will bring together a range of artists across genres, including South Kilburn’s finest, […]
Road rap legend Skrapz has just dropped his new mixtape, Be Right Back. The project follows the Ice City star’s fiery Daily Duppy freestyle from last September, and his laid-back jam with Haile, “Real Like Us”, released a few weeks back. The 10-track tape is laced with some of the finest rap production you’ll have heard this year, courtesy of Chucks, Show […]
The Grammy Awards have always been controversial. For as long as they have existed (61 years), their results have been hotly debated. This year, however, “music’s biggest night” was perhaps its most controversial ever. Already on the backfoot thanks to pandemic restrictions, with no live audience and awards presented on an outdoor stage, the ceremony netted its […]
As we wave goodbye to another year in the terrordome and try not to think about what 2021 will bring, we can at least be grateful that British musicians somehow managed to top the year before—no mean feat, given the blockbuster works 2019 gave us. Established dons like Footsie, Manga and Potter Payper all released […]
