Nigerian MCs and dancehall specialists skating across Baile funk beats? Asake, Fuji extraordinaire and Street Pop rebel, sampling Louisiana bounce? Young Jonn, resident Afropop loverboy, crooning over ...
Nadia Says pens a panorama of the Tunisian electronic music scene, including interviews with key figures such as Afrika Cassette Club’s archivist Tangal Beatz, experimental dance DJ Marwa Belhaj ...
Born amid a protest movement in 2000, 25 years later EXIT Festival has found itself caught between its foundational values and commercialisation, deciding to leave Serbia against a troubled backdrop ...
Chunky's voice has been the sound of the UK underground for more than a decade. As an MC, he's a magnetic presence with an immaculate pen game. His catchy turns of phrase made him a standout fixture ...
While TikTok’s prevalence has been undeniable over the last eighteen months for everyone, the popularity of the platform within the music industry has been especially noteable. A report in July showed ...
What makes Artist Lebo special is her early adoption of the 3-step sound (a more recent strand of South African dance music characterised by its three beat kick drum). First appearing around 2022, ...
It is vital that the economics of the music industry change to challenge exploitative power, support independent artists and benefit society. Tom Gray, founder of the #BrokenRecord campaign, explains ...
Warped basslines and inched-up garage have been hurtling through UK clubland since the late ‘90s and rippling through the noughties. Decades on, these sounds have come back into the charts and the ...
There ain't nothing like a banging, fast-paced drum 'n' bass soundtrack to get you through tough times. Whether that's getting your head stuck in books studying, ticking off your job to-do list or ...
In the back room of a bar in the South London suburb of New Cross, there’s a revolution happening. Or maybe it’s not so much a revolution as a de-volution, a rolling back to the backend of music ...
Dance music continued to blur the lines between the underground and mainstream this year with the embracing of pop edits and outlandish new stars who look tailor-made to achieve viral fame. Perhaps ...
Mikey Shulman has responded to backlash, admitting that he "expressed his thoughts badly" during the interview with 20VC's Harry Stebbings The CEO of Suno, a generative AI music app, has been ...