Chiddy Bang's new album: Breakfast

Chiddy Bang's new album Breakfast is full of insanely catchy hip hop songs. From beginning to end it’ll make you sing along. From the swing/hip hop song ‘Breakfast’ to the pure hip hop song ‘4th Quarter’, Chiddy Bang knows the ingredients of Read More

Mystro - What Type Of Drug Is Mystrogen? EP

In anticipation of his forthcoming album ‘Mystrogen’, the UK’s finest lyricist-cum-comedian Mystro returns with the free EP ‘What Type of Drug Is Mystrogen?’. Featuring four tracks and five skits, you can see that Mystro values the comic side of his music as highly Read More

ASHER ROTH 's Come-Back!!!!

  American Rapper Asher Roth comes back after his first album “Asleep in the Bread Aisle” in the stores in April 2009 for his long-awaited second studio album. Scheduled for early March and with the first title called “Last man standing” Feat AKON.  The new album Read More

Dennis Brown Tribute Opening Event

  The public tribute to Dennis Brown is now the opening event for the annual Reggae Month calendar. Organised by the Reggae Industry Association, the crowd has certainly grown. The line- up has gotten bigger too and the tributes on the night were fluent. Artists such as John Holt, the Read More

Review: Live at the Turntable Club, Various Artists

  Live At The Turntable Club, initially released in 1974, was the first live album recorded in Jamaica and now for the first time it’s available on CD. This is a genuine heartfelt roots reggae compilation. These are the type of songs that your parents used to listen to Read More

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

  Opening an album with four of your most well known tracks is a ballsy move, but from the start Lana Del Rey has never made things easy for herself. Coming from (seemingly) nowhere, Del Rey's homemade vintage clips for her YouTube hit, Video Games quickly made her the Read More

Vanilla Ice Goes Indie Rock

  Vanilla Ice has been involved in a comedy sketch for Soup TV, posing as a hipster to perform an indie rock song. The song was intended as a joke but it’s actually surprisingly good. At the end of his sketch he jokes about being booked at Coachella, Read More

Artist of the Month - Dry The River

Dry The River formed in 2009. They describe their style as “folky gospel music played by a post-punk band.’’ Critics have labelled them ‘’grime-pop’’ and ‘’folk-rock’’, but no matter what you call it, there is one thing that looks certain: 2012 Read More

Soldiers of Jah Army Album Release

  For all major S.O.J.A fans out there, there is some good news for you.  Their new album ‘Strength to survive’ will be out on January 31st. For those of you who haven’t heard of them, Soldiers of Jah Army is an Read More

Indie Album of the Month: Emeli Sande - "Our Version of Events"

  The summer of 2011 was huge for Emeli Sande. Her first single, “Heaven” was a radio hit, “Read All About It” which she produced with Professor green went number one, and recently, her second single “Daddy” has been getting major airtime. Following a massive Read More

Naughty by Nature: Anthems Inc.

  ‘’Mean like Idi Amin,’’ a line from track 13, Flags, well describes the better parts of this new album from these seasoned Hip Hop veterans.  A combination of new material and re-recordings of old classics, the album’s generally lively tempo is reminiscent of Read More

Subwave – Subwave LP (Metalheadz)

  Russian producer about to drop his new album on the legendary Metalheadz imprint. Subwave’s long anticipated self-titled album dropped as a new year’s present to us all on January 2nd. He has already received recognition as one of the artists, which delivers the unexpected to Read More

Two:10

  Hertfordshire’s hottest prospects in the world of indie. A very promising new band from East Herts, Two:10 have rocketed from the humble beginnings of the open mic night to playing at the 100 Club in London. That would be considered a great achievement for  most people, but Read More

Playing In The Shadows - Example

  Could this give him the shine he deserves? From the album Playing In The Shadows here’s a club song mixed with a few moments of dubstep flavour. It’s a new joint from the frequently underrated singer/rapper, Example. His album which was released on 4 September 2011 Read More

You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep (Album Review) British pop-heroes You Me At Six impress fans with their new debut album “Sinners Never Sleep.” With the success with their latest UK tour, You Me At Six’s loyal fan-base continues to grow. “Sinner’s Read More

Awolnation

  The Guestlist Network reviews the L.A Bands trendiest gig of the year at Old Streets OXYO. It was time for Arron to contradict his nick and band name once again and don the stage, this time in London’s OXYO,  as Awolnation’s planned to Read More

A Big Step for Dub!

  A round-up of the young bass genre in the form of a two disc compilation Starting off underground, Skream, Benga and Mala were some of the key players in forming the beats that made dubstep really take off. From their homes and studios in South London this sound continued Read More

Hideout Festival Review

Hideout Festival ZRCE Beach Island, Croatia 1st  - 3rd July www.hideoutfestival.com Whether it’s the price, the weather or a combination of the two, Croatia has firmly cemented its reputation as a party capital this festival season. 2011 saw a combined effort from Mancunian giants Warehouse Project Read More

Gueslist Recommends

  Guestlist Recommends... Alexis Raphael   Hailing from Camden, this DJ has quietly been making his mark on the House scene   Underground music is at an all time high right now, with different forms morphing into one another and tracks being released everyday from producers all over the world. Read More

Nine Signs and Heavy Bliss by Sheya Mission

  Old Rastafarian teachings and modern city life meet in the middle on Sweden’s introspective answer to Reggae Although Sheya Mission is of African descent, she grew up in the metropolitan Swedish capital, Stockholm, and her interest in Reggae only formed upon her taking a trip to Jamaica Read More

Icicle- Redemption EP

      We take a look at the latest album from one of Shogun Audio’s newest recruits. Jeroen Snik, better known as Icicle, is a recent addition to DJ Friction’s acclaimed label and brain child ‘Shogun Audio’. Since breaking onto the UK Drum Read More

David Rodigan's Dubwize Shower

We are all starting to get familiar with David Rodigan by now; a white, middle-aged, middle class man from England with his heart in Jamaica. He is well known for his encyclopedic knowledge of reggae music, his exciting DJ performances and his general youthful enthusiasm for good music. David Rodigan Read More

Ms Dynamite New Track!

After a long absence, Ms Dynamite is back on the music scene this month with her new single Neva Soft and a completely different sound to anything we’ve heard from her before. Taking inspiration from Katy B (with whom she collaborated on her track Lights On), her lyrics are Read More

The Horrors, Still Life- Track Review

Track Review The Horrors- Still Life Southend’s finest shoegaze band The Horrors are back in the game with the first track to be dropped from their forthcoming third record Skying. The tune itself is Still Life and it accurately reflects the stunning progression the band have made since releasing Read More

VIDEO OF THE MONTH: Vato Gonzalez ft. Foreign Beggars - Badman Riddim (Jump)

  VATO GONZALEZ FEAT FOREIGN BEGGARS - ‘BADMAN RIDDIM’ OUT JUNE 19 THE BIGGEST INSTRUMENTAL OF 2010 RE-WORKED WITH UK URBAN HEAVYWEIGHTS – FOREIGN BEGGARS! RADIO 1 – B-LIST 1XTRA – A-LIST PLUS KISS FM & CAPITAL RADIO PLAYLISTED & RIDING IN THE SHAZAM TOP 10 AS PLAYED Read More

X-Press 2 FT. Doll- This Is War- Track Review

X- Press 2 are back in a big way with their huge new tune This Is War featuring Doll of Doll And The Kicks fame on guest vocals. Doll's previously mentioned vocals provide a subtle feel to what is otherwise an epic, anthemic, dance floor filler, and The fact that the Read More

Arctic Monkeys, Suck It And See- Review

Rarely does a band or artist of any description explode on to the music scene in quite the way Arctic Monkeys did in 2006 with their debut LP ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’. A mere five years later the band are Read More

South West Four

With summer just around the corner, London is definitely the place to be with every large green space being infected with some form of music or another. One big event that should be marked on our calendars this year is the Southwest Four Festival, taking place in the trendiest place Read More

Exit Festival

Every year it appears that we have a greater variety of music festivals to choose from. So when we’re picking festivals to go to, we’re no longer only looking at the line up but also the location and what it has to offer. Taking all of Read More

Seasick Steve

Usually people don’t get very excited at the prospect of seeing a pensioner with a three string guitar, quite understandable really as this isn’t the normal recipe for soul stirring music. Then again Seasick Steve is not your usual pensioner. He’s an emotionally charged, Read More

GOB by DELS

Dels aka Kieren Dickens has recently signed to the Big Dada record label who are known for nurturing hot UK talents such as Wiley and Roots Manuva. He has exploded onto the scene with ‘GOB’, his debut album: an album full of emotional topics, vividly creative lyrics and musical Read More

New Artist Alert! Mike Hough

It looks as though Mike Hough certainly has nothing to lose, especially with his new unbelievably catchy track. Already featured on 1Xtra, the up and coming artist is definitely one to watch with his new release exposing a soulful demeanour with dreamy effortless vocals. Nineteen year old Mike Hough has& Read More

James Blake: New Video!

Disturbing video for ‘Lindisfarne’!! Licking your own blood and drinking other people's spit? James Blake has established himself as the talent that renovated the dub step scene with stretched distorted vocals and slow progressive sounds, but this depiction of teenagers experimenting in weird rituals makes Lady GaGa& Read More

The Weeknd - House of balloons

  Possessing the smoothness most often found in a tub of Bailey’s Hagen daas, The weekend certainly restore the sensual ease that most pop drunk RnB fail to. Yearning, almost decadent vocals counteract the hard-hitting lyrics to create a stunning debut. ‘Wicked games’ brings emotional rawness Read More

Rihanna's new video

 California king bed: ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me’… well, we may begin to question the extent to which this claim is true! The new video clearly reveals Rihanna’s preferred pastime of swimming in grass and floating Read More