Tag: hip-hop

Untitled - Benji Reid

Benji Reid: Beyond This Space

06/07/2020

The transcendent choreo-photolist work of Benji Reid...

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Well Hi There Jazztronica

04/05/2019

The new EP captures the essence of what made Xover so memorable while also pushing the Blue Lab Beats sonic into new territory. ...

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Is This Inspired?

27/08/2018

Manchester firebrand Bugzy Malone returns to the spotlight with hugely anticipated full-length 'B. Inspired'...

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Unleash The Tyraid

30/07/2018

Underground Hip-Hop maverick Roqy Tyraid is returning to UK shores for a full headline run this August. So, what's he got in store for this side of the Atlantic?...

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Nerdcore: Next Level Hip-Hop?

22/01/2018

Trebuchet explores the Nerdcore Hip-Hop movement, its relationship with modern culture and music, and the issues with rigid genre categorization with help from Mega Ran, Sammus and Ben Knight....

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Carve + Gaze

Carve + Gaze (Wen)

22/09/2017

Cautiously affirmative urban angst meets minimalist structure and Gaze theory. Win!...

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ghettoblaster, Mega Ran

Mega Ran, Illerstate, Razorrawks and more. Lancashire’s Other City Steps Forth

30/05/2017

Rock, hip-hop and crossover grooves - urban stylings meet retro gaming geek culture ...

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Soweto Kinch

Loitered Lens: Soweto Kinch

20/11/2016

Evocative imagery from the launch of Soweto Kinch's Nonagram album at the Camden Roundhouse...

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Soweto Kinch

We Name This Album Nonagram (Soweto Kinch, Roundhouse)

12/11/2016

Entrancing sonic patterns and iconic imagery: Soweto Kinch's album launch at the Roundhouse...

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Loitered Lens: Sturla Atlas

12/10/2016

More than wannabe posturing, Sturla Atlas impressed with heartfelt lyrics at the Jazz Cafe...

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Mixed Bag: Bleeds, Deluxe Version (Roots Manuva)

24/08/2016

Remixed and reinvigorated, or bleeding a good album dry? Roots Manuva's Bleed, redux....

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Fun Lovin' Criminals

Fun Lovin’ Criminals Reissue Come Find Yourself (and Tour)

15/02/2016

Fun Lovin' Criminals reissue their breakthrough classic album and take it on tour...

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Roots Manuva, Bleeds

Reliable Witness. At the launch of Bleeds. (Roots Manuva)

15/12/2015

Roots Manuva has become almost a national treasure – certainly to anyone with even the most passing interest in UK hip hop...

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Sleaford Mods

Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods, The Forum

13/10/2015

Sleaford Mods. Pure energy from the post-punk/hip hop duo...

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Limp Bizkit 2015 Brixton-Lead

Loitered Lens: Limp Bizkit (Brixton Academy)

01/09/2015

Photos from Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015....

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Limp Bizkit 2015 Brixton-Lead

Pop a cap on your head. Limp Bizkit rock Brixton

29/08/2015

Limp Bizkit, Queen Kwong & Mother’s Cake kick out the jams at the Brixton Academy 27th August 2015. ...

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Deep vulnerability and paranoia. Salt (Roseau)

17/08/2015

Salt's sound palette mixes electronic pop with more organic, natural sounds - the record's sonics were apparently inspired by a walk around a giant abandoned warehouse nearby ...

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Fujako

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

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Loitered Lens : Hacktivist

21/12/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”B/dropcap-Boy posturing and errant guitars, tech-metal-grime-rock hybrid Hactivist performed a bruising show at London’s 02 Academy on...

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Yung Lean by Carl Batson

Yung Lean : The Garage [Live]

16/08/2014

Security looked like they were bricking it a bit, But Yung Chan delivered a sweat-soaked performance at the Garage to be proud of....

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tricky adrian thaws

Tricky : Adrian Thaws

12/08/2014

Adrian Thaws, Tricky’s new album, is accessible, and at points even memorable....

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A picture of MC Tunes, the North at its Heights

23 Years Late : MC Tunes

10/04/2014

Factory 251 will be the location for the first public airing of a 23 year-old piece of British music history. Showcase event for lost MC Tunes album...

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DELS: Black Salad [EP]

10/11/2012

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

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Zebra Katz unveils video for ‘Ima Read’

08/08/2012

The song depends upon a shock impact that was spent twenty-odd years ago with The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', the video has less visual impact than Spoek Mathambo's 'She's Lost Control' (which was...

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Yppah: 81

13/04/2012

An attempt to recreate or capture the melodic theme to his own childhood, Yppah (Joe Corrales Jr) named this album 81 to reflect the year of his birth. Childhood musical influences usually tend...

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Bang On!: [Sic]

26/03/2012

And, like many gobby kids with a sharp wit and an audience, he gets carried away at times. 'Picking fatties with big racks/ to lick their piss flaps/ like Johnny Vegas in drag' flies past, sexist and...

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Wiley – 100% Publishing

21/06/2011

'East London grime credibility or West Coast glamour, who cares? Just PICK ONE and get on with it!' ...

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Dels – Gob

17/04/2011

Fear, righteous anger, too much booze and a boldly-drawn emotional vision, this debut from Dels wraps the disorientation of over-intelligent urban British youth into forty minutes of poetic and...

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Grafitti Dalston Deco News

Chap-Hop Rivalry reaches New Heights

21/11/2010

Chap-Hop a particularly English form of Hip-Hop has become privy to some ugly scenes of one-up-manship recently between Mr B and Professor Elemental. ...

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