Music podcast The Music Snobs is our One To Watch. I’ve throwing a curve ball with the latest selection for One To Watch in that I haven’t chosen an artist or producer. The Music Snobs is a podcast dedicated to the discussion and deconstruction of musicians and their output, past and present. This is something …
MED & Blu drop Peroxide, a funk synth crazy produced by Madlib and featuring psychedelic vocals from Dam-Funk. To get on a release with Madlib is good enough but two in the space of twelve months is pretty special. MED and Blu are the lucky rappers in question and with their latest EP, The Buzz, …
Photographer and former bartender Sheldon Nadelman shot hundreds of photos during his ten-year stint at New York’s seedy Terminal Bar. This is his son’s documentary about his father’s experience and the customers who visited. A lot of our Saturday Matinée features have a 70s blaxploitation slant and this week’s example slots right in. Between 1972 …
Joe Mansfield’s book Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession is a must have for any drum machine connoisseurs.
During her Control era, Janet Jackson was Paula Abdul’s choreography apprentice. Here’s some footage of them rehearsing in 1986. By the mid-80s, Janet Jackson had already released two albums, both met with little to no interest from the critics. It wasn’t until 1986 that her career started to take shape thanks to some savvy business …
Sit back and let us transport you to Black Milk’s magical performance at Scala in London alongside live band, Nat Turner.
Joey Bada$$ throws his rhymes over J Dilla-produced Two Lips, premiered on Rolling Stone. Never-before-heard Dilla beats just keep on emerging and the news of a Joey Bada$$ x Akomplice x J Dilla Foundation collaboration was surely enough to catch the attention of all fan bases. Well today, Rolling Stone premiered the track Two Lips …
Cali’s Iamsu! dropped an ode to hipster girls and it missed our attention. Until now. It took me over a year before I finally joined Instagram and Iamsu!’s “Hipster Girls” actually explains why. The Cali rappers gives a shout out to all those “hipster girls”, their fashion and how they live their lives. But perhaps …
Busta Rhymes is joined by Q-Tip, Kanye, Lil Wayne and some hip hop honeys in the video for Thank You. I’m rarely a fan of hip hop videos with copious amounts of alcohol, money, jewellery and Lil Wayne features but I can give this a pass for a few reasons. For a start, Busta Rhymes …
Bright young star Phoenix Martins’ new single “Sideways” is ready to give the music industry a new perspective.