Lead single from ‘coming of age’ follow-up to 2019’s No 6 Collaborations Project has spent seven weeks at No 1 in the UKEd Sheeran has announced his fifth studio album, = (pronounced equals), to be released on 29 October.Sheeran had trailed the album w…
‘Rawness, freedom, experimentation’: the Brit jazz boom of the 60s and 70s
Swinging London’s cultural melting pot was channelled into vibrant jazz by John Surman, Alan Skidmore and others – and it has inspired the resurgent scene of todayIt was in the dusty depths of Birmingham record library in 2000 that Shabaka Hutchings fi…
Jade Hackett on hip-hop dance: ‘Black joy is just as powerful as protest’
The choreographer felt the urgent need to bring happiness and relentless fun to the weekender she has curated for the Southbank Centre’s Summer Reunion series‘With the year we’ve had, we just needed people to have insanely, intensely engrossing, almost…
“What are the lyrical themes on Vadak?”
“The loose concept is we, like all living creatures, are chased by death in a woodland of time. We are wildlings and not hunters.”
Interview with Tamás Kátai about Vadak (2021) (full album on youtube), the latest album of Thy Catafalque, perhaps the …
Sonos Gets Early Patent Victory Against Google Smart Speakers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sonos scored an early victory in its case against Google Friday, when the US International Trade Commission ruled that Google infringed five of Sonos’ smart speaker patents. The ruling is prelimina…
‘A way to be heard’: the New Zealand Pasifika youth subculture devoted to emergency sirens
Siren kings battle their way through several carefully judged rounds to establish who has the loudest, clearest sound On the streets of south Auckland, Pasifika youth equipped with plastic siren cones have created a new sound – one that stormed TikTok…
Nanci Griffith: a folk singer committed to the genre as much as activism
The late singer-songwriter was dedicated to the fundamentals of folk music and her Grammy-winning music also found space for politicsIn 1993, when the world was enthralled with the new sound of grunge rock emanating from the Pacific north-west, Nanci G…
GA-20: Try It… You Might Like It! review – a rowdy blast of primal blues
(Colemine/Alligator)This unusual US trio of two guitars and drums keep things fierce and simple on their homage to the great Chicago bluesman Hound Dog TaylorWhen the young Bruce Iglauer witnessed a performance by Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers …
One to watch: Alewya
Arabic scales and nu-metal converge in this Saudi Arabia-born Londoner’s unique brand of dance-popIt’s a special sort of artist who can rope in one of the main men in UK jazz on a track that sounds like prog-metallers Tool and is about periods, but Ale…
Kano review – rage, joy and seriously pre-pandemic vibes
Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonThe grime hero makes an impassioned return to the stage with brass, strings, gospel – and a moshpit making up for lost timeFive singers stand at the lip of the stage, sweet gospel harmonies filling the west London theatre….