Nights like these are what London’s Jazz Cafe was designed for. Yes, of course there is a self-conscious eclecticism inherent in the venue’s choice of artists. However, the response to this should always be ‘if not us, then who?’ It is a warm spring evening in Camden. Even on a…
This is not a ‘nice’ album, it is not ‘good vibes’ in fact the vibes are actively bad. This is not a coffee table album, nor something to be played in the background to your dinner party – unless it’s the dinner party from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. billy woods doesn’t…
An energetic and riotous show put on by a band who seem to take themselves far less seriously than their audience. By the time Squid arrive on stage the venue has the atmosphere of a festival tent at around 4pm. Closer to the stage is a solid knot of the…
For the second year running, Burgess Park will play host to Jazz Café Festival: the dynamic new addition to London’s day event roster. It’s April. Festival season is looming. From late May to early September, parks across the UK will brace for the day-festival circuit; an onslaught of spenny plastic-glassed…
Over the course of an immaculately curated lineup, four artists pushed the limits of sound and genre in Dalston’s grassroots hub, The Shacklewell Arms. Musical categorisation is something that critics, record labels and pretty well everyone in the industry relies upon to keep things running: to market, to critique, to…
Knoxville native Nikki Nair returns to London to seamlessly meld US and UK bass music. This country has such a rich history of bass music that it sometimes gets forgotten that most of its influences are from elsewhere. There is now, however, a growing understanding of the debt that British…
With venues operating on a knife edge and the cost-of-living decimating audiences, now seems to be the worst time to start promoting your own events. On a cold Thursday night in January, Venue MOT in Bermondsey is getting lively. A steady trickle of punters have taken the time out of…
The iconic London venue well and truly leans into the world of UK electronic music. This night confirms RIZ LA TEEF‘s status as the best DJ operating in the UK right now. If his iconic Boiler Room Bass and Percs set back in 2019 put him on the map as…
Big swings and (mostly) big hits on the New-Orleans artist’s experimental third album. Benjamin Booker is not an artist to whom subtlety comes naturally. At its best, his music is a dark, lacerating and often deliberately abrasive melange of punk, blues, country and a dash lo-fi hip-hop production. And LOWER…
Moonchild Sanelly first entered popular consciousness in the UK through collaborations with Ghetts and Ezra Collective. Collaborations that, although objectively good, in no way prepare you for the sheer intensity of Full Moon. Stylistically making for a more polished distillation of what has come before, Full Moon sees the ‘future-ghetto-funk’…