Kanye West Reveals Why He Doesn’t Smile
You will be hard pushed to find a photo of Kanye West smiling. Up until recently this was much a mystery. However, whilst presenting an award at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Los Angeles Awards to Creative Director of Milk Studios, Mazdack Rassi, Kanye West enlightened us all as to why he doesn’t smile in photos. And it’s all […]
New Documentary ‘Fresh Dressed’ Looks At The Evolution Of Hip Hop Through Fashion
Sacha Jenkin’s, founder of hip hop magazine Ego Trip, premiered his latest creative project ‘Fresh Dressed’ at Sundance film festival 2014. Fresh Dressed is a chronicle of hip hop, looking at the influence style had on the hip hop heads trying to hustle with their backs to the wall and an MPC in hand. Adidas kicks, […]
Jon Hopkins Radio 1 residency mix and first ever radio show
Check out the latest residency mix from Jon Hopkins, which is co-hosted with Californian DJ/producer Nosaj Thing. The mix was aired after George Fitzgerald’s 2 hour set, and is Hopkins first ever radio show. The mix starts off with ‘Fortune brew’ by Nathan Fake, and as expected there are some hypnotic electronic soundscapes throughout, with cuts from Blue […]
Madonna’s Suspected Hacker Arrested In Isreal
Madonna had her computer hacked into late last year, with cuts from her forthcoming album Rebel Heart appearing all over the internet, leading to her likening this act to ‘Artist Rape’ and more controversially ‘Terrorism’….. Hmmm, not sure about that Well, just hours ago CNN have reported that Police have found and arrested the man linked to […]
Review: Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife
Last year brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy aka Rae Sremmurd released two haul-ass bangers that established them high in regard amongst the hip hip community. ‘No Type’ and ‘No Flex Zone’ became their flagship tracks, being featured on the US top 100 charts, setting the bar high for their latest album release Sremmlife. Released earlier this month on […]
Video for The Weeknd’s ‘Earned It’ track from Fifty Shades of Grey Film
This video was recently uploaded for The Weeknd track ‘Earned It’, which features in the new Fifty Shades of Grey film, due to be released on Valentines Day 2015. The video stars Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, alongside American actress and model Dakota Johnson who plays the lead role of Anastasia “Ana” Rose Steele […]
Romare Teases New Album ‘Projections’
London based producer Romare drops a cut from his forthcoming debut album release Projections. It seems Romare is having a creative awakening having only released Roots last month. The Ninja Tune artist and monthly resident at Oslo Hackney, has received extensive support from the highly prolific Giles Peterson in the past few years, and most […]
Laura Groves to release a new EP next month
Laura Groves is to release a new EP on Deek Recordings next month, entitled ‘Committed Language’. Her last release in 2013 was ‘Thinking about Thinking‘, a wonderfully subtle and elegant 4 track EP, demonstrating the broad harmonic in her angelic voice. You can pre-order the album by clicking here.
New album from Donato Dozzy in colaboartion with Caragnano
Donato Dozzy is soon to release a collaborative nine track album entitled ‘Sintetizzatrice’ with Rome based singer Anna Caragnano. Sintetizzatrice will be comprised completely of Caragnano’ voice, with Dozzy manipulating it to create interesting effects through experimental sound construction. It is a refreshing concept to see this rather enigmatic & prolific techno producer branching out in this creatively curious way. […]
Check Out Kasai Allstars Album Beware the Fetish
Kasai Allstars are a fresh and soulful african supergroup from Kasai (a Congolese province) comprising of 25 musicians from varying other groups such as Masanka Sankayi and Basokin. It is there affiliations with other groups from different ethnicities and cultures that define them as Allstars. The Kasai Allstars group is a neo-culture in its own right due to the collaboration […]