Category: music artist
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Kid Cudi: “Entergalactic” – artful project mixes music with splash of animation magic
When Kid Cudi announced a new album was on the horizon, accompanied with a full feature-length animated film, many avid Cudi fans were sceptical whether it would pay off. But we needn’t have worried. Visually stunning animation, with a pizzazz of Cudi spark-and-sound, it has the delicacy and poise for a black adult-animated rom-com production […]
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have we lost our punk?
Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is starkly different to what it meant to being punk in the 1970s. Of course, that will come naturally over time as music preferences bend and […]
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Clash or Pistols: Who was more righteous with their music?
The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but The Clash were the real definitive British punk rockers. Brash, fiery and bolstered with an outlaw image, they were charged with a certain righteousness that only a select few punks were able to pull off. Despite a band that seemingly had “traditional” […]
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Kofi Stone: “Nobody Cares Till Everybody Does” – Your Album Review
As we still swim in the streams of jazz rap and lo-fi hip hop with Loyle Carner, we move to a fellow Londoner and a fellow underground hip-hop rapper with Kofi Stone. “Life’s already harder when your skin’s a little darker.” ___ ______// From Stories in Pyjamas to Diamonds in the Water…Kofi’s weaving flows are […]
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Your New Music Friday: 08/07.
Evening folks! I’ve got a special one for you here.. a quick NMF review of two stand-out songs that were released today. But the writing credit doesn’t go to me this time. Oh. No. It goes to my other half, my girlfriend, who has picked up the duty tonight for one time only – or […]
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