Fresh from the BRIT Awards where he appeared on stage with Kanye West and a number of other grime MC’s, Skepta has just shared a brand new track entitled ‘SHUTDOWN’. Referencing his track ‘That’s Not Me’ and the previously mentioned…
15 years after their debut Ordinary man, 8 years since its follow up Probably Art, Fuel for Fire is the first track to surface from the brand new Day One LP (Phelim Byrne vocals, Matthew Hardwidge music/production). Click here to…
Best known for his bass playing in Babyshambles, Drew McConnell has today released a brand new album with his side project, Helsinki. Titled A Guide for the Perplexed, the album is full of beautiful acoustic-led tracks, two of which we…
What do you get if you cross a 17 year old MC from the West Country with a producer and MC from Birmingham? The answer is ‘Foolish’, the latest track from Isaiah Dreads featuring C4 and produced by Preditah. Having…
Rating: “Err, sort of if Neil Young joined Kraftwerk, or something… I suppose.” That was the rather embarrassed, shoe shuffling description Ripley Johnson offered of the Moon Duo sound in an early interview. His partner Sanae Yamada smiled awkwardly, tried…
I was jealous of Jasia before I’d even heard how talented he was musically. He’d lived in Jamaica, the U.S and Australia all by the age of 18, whereas I’ve been in Manchester for my entire 18 years – I…
Rating: Take Purity Ring’s debut album, Shrines, and smooth over the jagged, untamed edges with sand paper until they conform to a softer, more manageable format and you get their latest album, Another Eternity. Moving away from their alien sound…
Due to the bane of modern life that is public transport, I unfortunately missed the majority of the slot of the opening act of the evening that took the form of The Wytches, who were recently added to the bill…
Way over across the black river, the Canary Wharf spires’ lights winked through the murk of cloud, turning the sky into a boiling sump of bilge. Northern weather had arrived with the northern posse, and Alias Kid were playing the…
I’ve always said that Manchester is the only other city with a vibe similar to New Orleans. Well, on 27th February, the two cities met up on Oxford Road, a brave move on the part of NOLA with it being…