hip hop
News: GLU releases new single ‘NIGHT SHIFT’
GLU, the indie/hip-hop solo project from Michael Shuman, has released a new single today. Fans can listen to the dark and vibey NIGHT SHIFT now here. “NIGHT SHIFT discusses the impending doom we feel, generated by the current state of our world,” explains Shuman on the track. “And with those existential feelings, living your life without a proper concern about tomorrow, …
News: Tkay Maidza Announces Dua Lipa AU/NZ Support & drops ‘High Beams’ remix
Tkay Maidza announces tour in support of Dua Lipa and drops remix of ‘High Beams’
News: Highly Suspect return with new album / Share two new tracks – Tour Dates.
HIGHLY SUSPECTRETURN WITH NEW ALBUM, THE MIDNIGHT DEMON CLUBOUT 9TH SEPTEMBERSHARE TWO NEW TRACKS NATURAL BORN KILLER & PINK LULLABYE Roadrunner Records / FRKST band Highly Suspect have announced details of their anxiously awaited fourth full-length album, The Midnight Demon Club, which will arrive on September 9th. It is available for pre-order / pre-save at all streaming platforms now. The three-time GRAMMY Award-nominated band have …
Track: Elsy Wameyo drops new track ‘River Nile’ ahead of April EP release. Ignore it at your peril.
Elsy Wameyo, the Adelaide-based singer who originally hails from Nairobi has released a new track ‘River Nile’. An EP ‘Nilotic’ will follow and be available on the 1st April via Music in Exile. The multitalented Wameyo has also released an accompanying video for ‘River Nile’ that she produced and directed, with co-direction by Leighton Bond. …
News: Ghanaian-Australia hip-hop and indie artist, BLESSED shares his visceral and evocative single ‘No Changes’, and announces signing to Matt Corby’s record label, Rainbow Valley Records.
Songwriter, producer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist BLESSED has just released a powerful track ‘No Change’ accompanied by a raw and enigmatic video filmed in Western Sydney, capturing the powerful messages of the track. BLESSED says of the track: ‘No Changes’ is an anthemic commentary on what seems like an endless battle to be seen, heard and treated …
Droppin’ Knowledge: 03CAS, Hip Hop’s Monet, Creates Painterly, Impressionistic Music That Defies Easy Categorization
When the musician and experimental hip hop iconoclast 03CAS emigrated from South Africa to the United Kingdom, he landed at London’s Heathrow Airport with little more than the clothes on his back. “It was the first time I was on a plane,” recalled the artist, born Caleb Mateus, as he recently recounted his early days …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Baltimore’s Zen Master Of Sound, Shine
And we back…nah, nah, nah… Veteran Baltimore, Maryland producer Shine recently released his new album, As The Beauty Became, a lovely and luxuriant collection of mostly instrumental hip hop that pulses and hums with an organic vitality. This contemplative set of nine tracks also includes two sterling guest cuts, one with Brooklyn’s Nappy Nina, and …