The death of David Bowie last January was met with grief throughout the musical community worldwide. From a marketing perspective...
Event Review: Manana//Cuba – A Night of Afro-Cuban Collaborations @ Barbican (London, 26th May 2017)
That euphoric swelling an artist feels when they connect with their audience is what rumba musicians describe as ‘Manana’. The...
Tamikrest always play pretty cool, eclectic music, with intricate layers of artistry. They blend rock and native music, native that...
Back in 2013, the story of Songhoy Blues made the headlines. After being forced to move to Bamako by a...
Contemporary Cuban music is currently enjoying a high profile with exciting, forward-looking releases from Dayme Arocena and Gilles Peterson’s Havana...
Formed in London in 1971, from a varied collection of Caribbean musicians, Cymande have blazed a funk-drenched trail and spread...
The 19th May 2017 saw the release of Mogoya (check our review), Grammy award-winning Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré’s seventh album. Her...
Yes, Ibibio Sound Machine are back, with their hotly anticipated second album and they have returned bigger, better, rougher and...
For Glitterbeat Records, Tamikrest’s Kidal represents the perfect balance between the rock and meditative elements. The importance given to the...
Totally unrelated to music, other than one of our new reviewers, Sarah Stonedale, took part in the Superhero Run, last...
You can strip them of their cables, pedals and stage costumes, but you can’t extinguish their innate psychedelic flame. As...
Snarky Puppy is a sonically charged revolution of intelligent, jazz-inspired funk-infused with a dizzying mix of rip-roaring bombastic rock, easing into...