Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime
What’s known as “desert blues” by western music consumers clearly has a history aeons older than Tinariwen – but it’s fair to say that the sound was popularised by their second album, 2004’s Amassakoul, a hybrid of assouf and electric rock. If the Malian...
Sons Of Kemet Black To The Future
The tuk-band is not one of the Caribbean’s more famous musical exports, but it is a relatively common sight at carnivals around Barbados, the island where Sons Of Kemet leader Shabaka Hutchings spent much of his childhood. It is a marching band featuring snare...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Sometimes, the only way to follow-up a best-selling critically acclaimed album is to do it all over again, only bigger. That’s the approach Crosby, Stills & Nash took in 1970 with their follow-up to May 1969’s Crosby, Stills & Nash. They enlisted Neil Young...
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Just 15 people have tested positive for COVID-19 following government-run live event trials organised to see how mass gatherings can resume safely. READ MORE: On the scene at the first big gig in the new world – Blossoms at Liverpool’s Sefton Park That’s according to...
Beck cancels UK and European tour
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Posthumuous U-Roy album announced with Santigold, Ziggy Marley, Mick Jones and others
A posthumous album from late dancehall and reggae icon U-Roy has been announced, featuring guest spots by Santigold, Ziggy Marley, The Clash‘s Mick Jones and others. ‘Solid Gold U-Roy’, which drops July 16 via Trojan Jamaica/BMG, features the late vocalist’s classics as well as a...
London’s legendary Crobar has been saved from closure: “You did it!”
London rock venue The Crobar has been saved from closure after reaching its Crowdfunder‘s £100,000 target. It was confirmed last September that the legendary bar, which is a favourite of many rock stars including Dave Grohl, would be closing its doors due to losses...
Listen to Glass Animals team up with Bree Runway on ‘Space Ghost Coast To Coast’ rework
Glass Animals have shared a new version of their track ‘Space Ghost Coast To Coast’ featuring Bree Runway – you can listen to it below. Premiering on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show tonight (May 20), the reworking of the Oxford band’s ‘Dreamland’ song finds...
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album ‘Sour’ has a Taylor Swift co-writing credit
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