Tag: Grime

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    Reece Beckett

    “Just keep going” – An Interview with Pete & Bas

    Reece Beckett catches up with the legendary Pete & Bas.

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Pete & Bas @ Engine Rooms, 21/10/21

    Pete & Bas may be the strangest addition to U.K. grime, if not all of music, in recent memory. With a ‘combined age of 150’ years, according to their DJ after a specifically high energy track, they are the surreal embodiment of the long time running joke about the distance between the elderly and the […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan

    A film finale to the cult favourite mockumentary sit-com which ran from 2014 to 2018, People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan centres around the Kurupt FM gang – a group of friends running a Pirate radio station. Reunited by their loyal manager, Chabuddy G (played brilliantly by Asim Chaudry), the gang discover that the […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Kurupt FM – The Greatest Hits (Part 1)

    Released as a tie-in record with the recently released to cinemas People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan, The Greatest Hits (Part 1) is a collection of new songs from the comedy rap group Kurupt FM, a collection of mostly nostalgic and very funny, but also genuinely very good, ear-worms and hilarious skits (the one […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Skepta – All In

    Reece Beckett is All In on Skepta’s new EP.

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gem: Manonmars – Manonmars (2018)

    Manonmars, the self-titled debut record from Young Echo member Jack Richardson, sounds a shocking amount like the end of the world. Being the love-child of young visual artist, photographer and rapper Manonmars and brilliant producer O$VMV$M (the bleaker of their two projects – In Colour, released last year, is much lighter and still great), Manonmars […]

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    Morgan McMillan

    Introducing: House of Pharaohs

    Hailing from South East London, House of Pharaohs have been transforming the rap scene. The group first established their distinctive sound with debut mixtape Southern Stamp in 2015. Unlike other traditional rap groups, House of Pharaohs blend hard-hitting grime/trap beats with psychedelic synths making their sound “free, versatile and eclectic” as said by rapper DannyStern. […]

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    Morgan McMillan

    The Next Big Genre

    Morgan McMillan explores which genre will be taking over the music industry

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    Morgan McMillan

    Artist in Focus: Stormzy

    Morgan McMillan tells us why Stormzy deserves his spot at the top of the music industry

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    Morgan McMillan

    Genre in Focus: Grime

    Morgan McMillan takes a look at the 21st Century’s biggest genre

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    Morgan McMillan

    Review: Stormzy – Heavy is The Head

    Morgan McMillan reviews the monumental second album from the king of grime

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    Vicky Greer

    This Week In Records (15/12/2019) – Harry Styles, Stormzy & Dua Lipa

    Records Editor Vicky takes a look at what music we’ve been blessed with this week.

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    Lauren Payne

    Preview: South West Four 2019

    Lauren Payne previews the much-anticipated South West Four festival 2019.

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    CM Kavanagh

    “I don’t believe being female should make you not an equal to men” – An interview with Nadia Rose

    Nadia Rose chats festivals, future plans, and a pinch of her feminist philosophy.