Supernormal festival 8-10 August 2014 Braziers Park, Oxfordshire http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk It’s not exactly news that the festival market has exploded over the last 10 years, with anything up to 1000 festival events taking place in the UK alone. Nowadays the issue for most festival punters is not the lack of choice but the abundance. In a […]
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When a guy makes a proclamation as bold as: “If lyrics are going to be the new in thing, I should be the front new guy,” it’s tempting to dismiss it as typical hip hop posturing. When you find out that guy is Kid Vishis, one of the hottest names to come out of Detroit […]
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With a superb debut album under their belts, and an astonishing live energy to their performances, it’s surprising that more people aren’t aware of the London based four piece who call themselves Zoo Zero. Musically the band are sharp, and energetic while also capable of tripping into weirder, more cosmic places. Their sense of melody […]
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Rapper Coops has gone from Chillin’ to counting his Blessings as he drops Lost Soul mixtape. Not many people can brag that their first ever performance was at London’s o2 opening for Nas, but that’s because they are not Coops – the laidback rapper who is earning so many stripes you would think he was […]
View Post Blessings, Chill, chillin', Coops, Deadicated, Talos, uk music, UK Rap
Cutting a path through the male dominated rap scene is Lady Lykez – the female rapper with more bars than a penitentiary. Lykez made an impressive debut in 2013 with the ferocious Eurgh! followed by derriere ditty I love my butt. Her status as a rapper worthy of keeping on the radar was solidified after […]
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It was many years ago during a cold winter evening when I discovered the sumptuous piano breezing sweetly over a glitchy rhythmic backdrop, accompanied by some massive guitars and thunderous drums. I instantly fell in love with this general disregard for the standard strict rhythms, structures and sounds that, in their blandness, had engulfed […]
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James Lavelle, more widely known for his electronic work as UNKLE, his unfathomably established record label Mo’ Wax and his militant genre-flouting approach, collaborating with contemporaries such as Thom Yorke, DJ Shadow and Joshua Homme, has been asked this year to programme a line-up for the Southbank’s festival to fit all ages, Meltdown. Unsurprisingly, Lavelle […]
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EofE are a four-piece made up of Tom Harris (Vocals) Dan Bremner (Guitar/Backing Vocals) Luke Bradley (Bass/Backing Vocals) and Nicky Waters (Drums) who make classic cross-over rock. Hailing from the Black Country (their feet firmly planted in rock tradition) they are a new take on what went before. I caught up with them just before […]
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