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Jessie Reyez had big things planned for 2020. The Columbian-Canadian R&B singer was poised for full-blown superstardom as the year kicked off, touring with Billie Ellish and releasing her hugely anticipated album Before Love Came to Kill Us—which we spoke with her about earlier this year—with Universal. Then, of course, the coronavirus pandemic hit—and the […]

Tiwa Savage, Queen of Afropop, continues her reign. One of the key players in helping to broaden the Afro sound globally, like true royalty, Tiwa has carried the Afrobeats scene with pure style and grace. Arguably the most popular woman in this scene, the Lagos, Nigeria-born singer-songwriter sits comfortably next to fellow West African pop stars such as […]

It’s March 2020. The world has been in an uproar due to the COVID-19 pandemic brewing. Enoch Ncube and David May have just moved into their new place in Toronto’s Little Italy, and have just had all their plans derailed. The pair have been close friends since 2005, and together are known as the genre-blending duo MONEYPHONE. Hailing […]

For Hackney’s Bree Runway, the past couple of years have been the most dramatic example of the “how it started vs. how it’s going” meme. Seemingly capable of making things happen by speaking them into existence, in March, she tweeted hip-hop superstar Missy Elliott asking her jump on a remix to one of her songs, and just […]

Hot on the heels of his September single, “Dangerous“, Wolverhampton-born artist S-X has returned with an emotive follow-up entitled “In Real Life”.  Sam Gumbley, known to his fans as S-X, has carved out his own lane as a singer-songwriter after producing one of the biggest grime songs of all time, “Wooo Riddim”, ten years ago. He went on to produce for the likes of […]

We may be hurtling headlong towards winter, but that doesn’t mean we can’t let our minds wander to warmer times — especially this year since most of us spent it indoors. Julius Black‘s ode to the season, fittingly titled “Summer” does just that, albeit with a bittersweet edge. In fact, this isn’t just about looking […]

Switching things up a touch from her usual guitar-led indie pop jams, Montreal-based singer-songwriter Sophia Bel is back with something a little different. Her new single “Voyage Astral” sees her team up with Félix Bélisle of Quebec five-piece Choses Sauvages for a dreamy, synth pop inward journey. A more electronic effort than past singles, Bel and Bélisle use the production […]

Johnny Nash, a pop and reggae music singer best known for his 1972 smash “I Can See Clearly Now,” died Tuesday, CBS Los Angeles reports. He was 80 years old. “He was a wonderful father and family man. He loved people and the world. He will be missed within his community. Family was his everything,” […]

Early next year, mononymous singer-songwriter Julietta will release her new EP, Levitate. The new collection was born from her experiences in lockdown, going stir crazy and longing for something, anything that lay beyond the confines of her home. Ahead of the EP’s release in February, she’s just liberated one of the key singles, “Ghosted For The Beach”. […]

For the past few years, Bristol-based singer, songwriter and producer Felid has been blending L.A beat-style haze with the leftfield sounds of Bristol as one half of Mauwe (pronounced Mo-Wee) alongside Portia Conn, but today he’s stepping out on his own with his debut solo single “Take It Off”, a highly detailed and completely seductive piece of lo-fi alt-pop. […]