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27 Aug

Posted at 17:23h in Features, Music
Another weekend has passed us so it's time for our regular Monday mixtape round-up. Last week saw a swarm of Hip-Hop goodness from the likes of Busta Rhymes, DJ Green Lantern and Styles P, plus London indie group The xx provided our alternative music fix with a stream of their upcoming album, whilst Lady Leshurr and Delilah each get one in for the girls with mixtape releases. Catch up on all the goods below.

20 Feb

Posted at 03:00h in Interviews, Music
Hard work, passion, intense creativity (and big hair) encapsulates 19-year-old Indigo Charlie. A student at FIDM university in Los Angeles and Solange Knowles’ former PA, Indigo recently found time to begin launching her music career, releasing her debut cut, “Never Change”. Last month SoulCulture spoke to the up-and-coming indie-soul songstress about individuality, record labels and her love of fashion.

17 May

Posted at 15:37h in Reviews
The XX continue to tag the international concert scene with their iconographic marker XX, kicking off last week in Tokyo and whirlwind-ing Europe and the US for the next three months. Now a threesome since guitarist Baria Qureshi left the band last November, this all-black-clad crew was and still is one of the most exciting new bands on the UK music block, dropping last fall their first album on XL Records through Young Turks, soberly titled XX. You may want to box it as rock with or without the roll, indie... but who needs the clutter of boxes. Flowing through the barriers of music genres, they had mixed previously their unmistakable guitars’ vibrating-staccato-play and sung murmurs to covers of R&B tracks. See surprising and pitch-modified interpretations of Aaliyah's 'Hot like Fire' and Womack & Womack's 'Teardrops'.