There is this dark suspense which flusters around in Elia Martina’s music. The one that mimics the loud eagerness to reflect on … something. 

Varied. Surprising. In the open air. And with a lot of Swissness. Up in the Alps, the Swiss army knife has just become the second most important tool of the mountains.

I bet you’ve felt that frustration. That knot in your stomach. One that circles around with a certain urgency. Where you can’t even tell whether you’re enjoying it or whether it is consuming you.

Yes, all Kurdish music and it’s culture was banned in Syria up until 2011 during the Arab Spring. When the Kurdish regained control, centres to study music started reemerging. But yes, all literature and writing in Kurdish was not allowed before.

I'm mindful that we must be creative with protest because of the recent laws enacted in the UK. So I explored something that would express how I felt about the suppression of protest whilst also matching up with my music.

It’s no secret the rather illusively silk-masked rapper has been making good impressions on our little rock. His link-up with stalwart Verbz earlier this year does more than confirm that.

Once you engage with the band’s fuzz-like induction of what Stan describes as “The Technicolour Liquid Audio Machine”, you begin to understand a journey

Johnston, a small factory town in Western Pennsylvania, is known more for its deadly floods than its music. Two major floods struck in 1889 and 1977, the latter of which Nondi’s family survived.

Lucy's musical journey began in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she was eight. She started her first band at school, creating shows and performing alongside her classmates.

During the lockdown, Kitty Ca$h launched her captivating IGTV series, 'Kitty's World'. In this digital realm, Kitty's animated caricature fearlessly delves into the experiences of black women, addressing important topics like politics, medicine, finance, and female empowerment.

In February 2022, as war engulfed Ukraine, Tasha Tarusøva’s musical journey took an unexpected U-turn.

I remember telling on my sister once. It was one of those turbulent moments in your young ignorance, where your sibling turns into no other than a walking bag of trickery.

The wasps have drowned and been observed. Onto the next offering from Scottish emcee and producer Tzusan; psychedelic rap but dripping in concrete grittiness, he pulls in fellow Scot and spitter Shogun for the first in a series of projects from the pair 'Lead Wetsuit Schematics'. 

Their prolific writing of tech-infused sounds has resulted in a Beatport top 10, more than 10 million plays on Spotify and releases on Ultra Music, Warner, Sink Or Swim, and Mother Recordings.

The oldest written poem found on earth was about the one thing human beings have managed to understand the least about.

Through reworking, sampling and experimenting, he meticulously put together a new body of work that would become his seventh album.

My mission is to inspire and empower young minds, just as poetry and music did for me when I was growing up.

Group BraCil are back putting new artists into ears and onto vinyl after a small but necessary break; Ghrelin is the latest to be added to their roster, with his soulful single 'T-Shirt 5am'.