Hip-Hop
Live Review & Gallery: A Look Into 2024’s Listen Out Festival Featuring 21 Savage, Skepta and John Summit! Eora/Sydney, 06.10.24
Listen Out 2024 took over Centennial Park on Sunday, transforming the lush parklands into a full-day festival, blending hip-hop, house, R&B, and everything in between. The sprawling space became a playground for music lovers who eagerly bounced between the three stages—Atari, 909, and Prophet. With a few last-minute lineup changes, there was plenty of anticipation …
Track & News: BARKAA Announces Nationwide Tour to Celebrate Much-Anticipated EP ‘BIG TIDDA’
BARKAA, the acclaimed Malyangapa, Barkindji rapper and recent winner of the 2024 NIMAs Artist of the Year, is set to hit the road this spring with a nationwide tour. The tour comes just in time for the release of her much-anticipated EP, ‘BIG TIDDA’, which drops on Friday, 30 August via Bad Apples Music. BARKAA’s …
Premiere: Terry Jones speaks up in ‘Silent Like Chaplin’ video; new EP out next month
‘What’s Terry Jones doing releasing a video for a song off an album that’s already been out 18 months?’, you may find yourself asking. Well, the song in question is just as relevant as it was back in October of 2022, when the Pittsburgh artist released his debut solo album Friday the 14th; and furthermore, …
Live Review & Gallery: Live Nation’s Ones to Watch spotlights Australia’s rising stars, Adrian Dzvuke, Chanel Loren, and Phebe Starr – 06.03.24, Eora/Sydney
Last night’s Ones to Watch event at Oxford Art Factory illuminated the stage with a dazzling showcase of rising talents handpicked by the global entertainment giant Live Nation. With Vodafone backing the initiative, the Ones to Watch program has been a beacon for budding artists, a platform that has previously launched global sensations like Dua …
Live Review and Gallery: Atmospheric Beats and The Spellbinding Charisma of Destroy Lonely – Enmore Theatre, Sydney/Eora, 09.01.24
In a mesmerising showcase of entrancing rhythm and atmospheric trap beats, America’s rising star, Destroy Lonely, took centre stage at Sydney/Eora’s Enmore Theatre last night. The eagerly anticipated event marked the premiere Sydney headline show for Bobby Wardell Sandimanie III, professionally known as Destroy Lonely, as he treated Australian fans to an unforgettable night of …
News: grandson gears up for UK leg of his world tour in September
grandson moulds genres, sculpting rock, hip-hop, and electronic into a vision of alternative you’ve never quite heard, seen, or felt before. Having amassed a staggering 2 billion+ streams globally, the platinum-certified Canadian/American maverick flouts boundaries only to achieve stylistic unity with alacrity. Meanwhile, grandson has impressively collaborated with everyone from Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Steve Aoki …
Album Review: McNeal and Niles – ‘Thrust’/ Wilbur Niles and Thrust – ‘Thrust Too’ : Late seventies lo-fi funk gems re-discovered.
Super curators We Are Busy Bodies are at it again, digging up those buried sounds and the forgotten stories from music’s underground archive. Last year saw them spotlight Almon Memela’s joyous South African funk and the pristine latin jazz of Virgilio Armas after near fifty years gathering dust. Now comes another retrieval from the backroom …
Album Reviews: Claude Cooper & Brain Fog – More Myriad Sounds : Raucous rhymes and blistering jazz breaks make for one rebellious reworking.
Ah yes, the mysterious Claude Cooper – one person or many, illusive or illusion, prankster or producer, rumoured from Bristol but maybe not…still one thing is for certain, last year the Claude Cooper nameplate fronted the extraordinary ‘Myriad Sounds’ album, a riotous explosion of wild jazz and breaks that rightly slayed the critics and fired …
PREMIERE: hurt season wants you to ‘feel sum’n’
If we could have your attention for exactly 54 seconds – here’s a brief new song from the pseudonymous hurt season. He doesn’t waste time – all bar one of his singles since relaunching the project in July have been under two minutes in length. Of his especially brief new song ‘feel sum’n’, which has …
PREMIERE: Berlin-based Nigerian Isis Salam is ‘Westcoast Chillin’ on swaggering new track
Isis Salam is going places. She’s been plenty, too – born in Nigeria, she was raised in Toronto, had stints in school on both sides of the Atlantic (New York and London), and is now based in Berlin. She’s got previous in THUNDERHEIST, and has been quiet for a little bit since late 2019’s Last …