Category: Reviews
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Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials | Album Review
Florence Welch and her Machine are back with the follow up to their 2009 release, Lungs. After being hotly tipped by many to do big things, Florence + The Machine scored a UK number one album, performing well in other European territories as well as down under. It seems this time, Flo and the crew…
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Statik Selektah – Population Control | Album Review
The terms grafting, grinding and so on are so often thrown about in Hip Hop because anyone refusing to put in the work eventually falls far behind in the never ending race to remain relevant in the scene. Fortunately for respected DJ, Producer, label CEO and radio host Statik Selektah his non-stop efforts have secured…
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Rapper Big Pooh – Dirty Pretty Things | Album Review
It’s become quite apparent that even in 2011, some years after the Carolina based group Little Brother called it quits, their spirit still remains ever present. Not just because the die-hard fans continue to bump The Listening, The Minstrel Show and the rest of their cult classics but because two thirds of the former trio…
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Snoop Dogg @ The O2 Arena, London | Live Review x Photos
No stranger to the UK having performed here on numerous occasions [and even banned once because of drug and firearms convictions in the US], it is with goodwill and excitement that Snoop Dogg returns to perform on London’s 02 Arena stage. After possibly the longest line up of opening acts I’ve ever seen, including the…
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Styles P – Master of Ceremonies | Album Review
Arguably the most revered group of the late ’90s and beyond, Yonkers’ The LOX lyrically (and at times physically) shook the competition into submission. With each of the members playing their part – Jadakiss being the franchise and Sheek Louch the street general – it was Styles P who somewhat surprisingly managed to stand comfortably…
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We Remember Gregory Isaacs (Various Artists) | Album Review
On 25 October 2010, the music world lost legend Gregory Isaacs in physical form following a battle with liver cancer. A legend never really dies though, and Isaacs is testament to that as he lives on through a slew of classics. Isaacs’ career started out in the late 1960s, becoming one of the most highly…
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Sir Michael Rocks – Premier Politics | Album Review
Even though the current fashion of tight jeans and colourful attire has led to much verbal castration of rappers, one duo which have been spared much onslaught are the Cool Kids. Chuck Inglish and the newly named Sir Michael Rocks have instead won more respect for their ode to 1980s Hip Hop, fashion and more.…
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Lowkey – Soundtrack To The Struggle… | Album Review
After months of speculating an official release date and two revised tracklistings we finally have the sophomore album from London rapper and political activist Lowkey, crafted 100% independently with no aid from a record label. The end result of the long awaited Soundtrack To The Struggle… is a 26-track LP including six album skits. Since…
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Phonte – Charity Starts At Home | Album Review
Even though much time has passed since the split of revered trio Little Brother, one of Hip Hop’s most cherished groups, deep rooted amongst many fans has been an impatient craving for something new from either 9th Wonder, Rapper Big Pooh or the artist in question today; Phonte. Whilst Wonder has given us his Wonder…
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Fink – Perfect Darkness | Album Review
As the name suggests, Perfect Darkness takes on the chiaroscuro effects it evokes, and forms a deep thunderous catharsis with the voice of a melancholic baritone acoustic singer called Fink. Fink’s fifth album sounds like a broken man who’s torn away the passions of his heart and laid it to rest onto this CD –…