Hip-Hop
EP Review: Matt Ó – MESSER
One half of the acclaimed Irish breakout duo Tebi Rex, Matt Ó is no stranger to success. Now taking his first dive into a full solo release, the hip-hop-come-RnB artist has today released the 7 track stunner MESSER – a brilliant representation of Ó’s soulful soundscapes and ability to move flawlessly between moments of witty …
NEWS: Pitch Scotland 2022 – With PRS Foundation support showcase applications open, new outdoor venue announced and conference programme additions
Pitch, Scotland’s international, multi-venue conference of hip hop and underground culture takes place on Saturday 27 August across four venues in the East End of Glasgow. Applications are now open for two artists to perform at Pitch’s live evening showcase at Saint Luke’s alongside Aberdeen’s rising star AiiTee, Dundee’s MC Salum, pioneering Edinburgh MC LOTOS and Cardiff rapper/Triskel Award …
TRACK: YINYANG – Happy Money
YINYANG is the moniker of Irish artist Lauren Hannan who has released her latest single ‘Happy Money‘. YINYANG evolved during lockdown in 2020 when Lauren taught herself how to produce music and cultivated her writing by working on it every day. Technology was a blessing during this enforced period of isolation and Lauren looked to …
Live Review: Teddy Swims / Saibh Skelly – The Academy, Dublin 29.05.2022
Atlanta singer songwriter Teddy Swims stopped off in Dublin on his ‘Tough Love’ world tour, and it was powerful!
PREMIERE: Philadelphian Lushlife streams deluxe ‘Redamancy’ remixes ahead of vinyl release tomorrow
If you haven’t listened to Raj Haldar before, now’s as good a time as ever to get on board. He’s been making music as Lushlife for the better part of 15 years; with the odd detour into (bestselling!) children’s literature, which in turn led to a TV development deal and (separately) an India-set TV series. …
Track: Sampa The Great as her higher self shares new single + video for ‘Lane’ feat. Denzel Curry
After absolutely smashing her set last weekend in the Gobi tent at Coachella, poet/rapper extraordinaire Sampa The Great continues to collect more career milestones with the release of new track Lane featuring US rapper Denzel Curry. ‘Lane’ is the artist’s first single release via Loma Vista and her first offering since 2019’s ARIA Award and …
Album review: The Allergies – ‘Promised Land’: on a hot streak with huge melodies
IN THESE days, months, or years even, when everything has been dominated by viruses, or at least one in particular, there have been many earnest releases focusing on the despair, isolation and loneliness that these have caused us all. There’s nothing wrong with that at all; after all art reflects life (or near enough anyway) …
See: Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams – ‘Stigmata’: a dark, hallucinatory rap chemistry
CHEMISTRY students, listen up good. Here’s a new formula to examine. Take the wired, wild inventiveness of a Kool Keith; introduce it to the in-your-grill breaks innovation of MF DOOM; it’s gonna make a brilliantly unstable and fun isotope of leftfield hip-hop, right? Indeed it does. As you’ll see for yourself below with the dizzying, …
NEWS: EUGENIUS’ “MIDLIFE” ISSUED ON CASSETTE.
I’ve admittedly slept on Ohio experimental hip-hop artist Eugenius when his album, Midlife, dropped in late 2020. Which is criminal given my appreciation of Death Grips, the sorely missed MF Doom and Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition. Midlife by Eugenius Originally released in October, Eugenius’ fifth album “combines elements of hip hop, industrial, pop, noise and …
Feature: The 50 best albums of 2020
Well, it’s been a bit of a year, hasn’t it? Global pandemics, George Floyd, environmental issues, terrorism, dissatisfaction with those in charge, not least in the ongoing (it seems) fallout from the American Presidential election. None of that has stopped artists from all persuasions and genres making some fantastic music over the last 12 months. …