Song of the Day: The innovative London rapper and acting star returns with a striking new track of intricate beats and agile lyrical flow on mercurial states of mind, the opener from her brand new EP, Drop 7, produced by Jakwob.
Read moreSong of the Day: Cakes Da Killa - Mind Reader (featuring Stout)
Song of the Day: The flamboyant, charismatic American rapper aka Rashard Bradshaw known as a key figure in hip-hop’s ‘queer explosion’ returns with slick, fast, articulate, confident delivery on this dance-music inflected track, with guest vocals by Stout
Read moreSong of the Day: Genesis Owusu - Survivor
Song of the Day: This striking new track by the Ghanaian-Australian rapper from Canberra, Australia (Kofi Owusu-Ansah) is a punchy potent mix of hip-hop, punk, funk, gospel and electro-pop, now an extension to this year’s August-released sophomore album, Struggler
Read moreSong of the Day: Fire Up The Sun - Between A Nail And A Sharp Place
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Belfast rap entry, now some sharp Scottish cross-genre spoken word / hip-hop, this time from lyricist MC Burnoot and Sweden-based producer ArrCee, with a combination of compelling beats and cleverly constructed, phrases
Read moreSong of the Day: KNEECAP - Better Way To Live (featuring Grian Chatten)
Song of the Day: The pull-no-punches Belfast rappers’ latest single features the Fontaines D.C. singer in an upbeat, sharp, articulate strongly bassy number about finding that little spark of joy in life’s monotony, and in the day-to-day things
Read moreSong of the Day: Enola Gay: Terra Firma
Song of the Day: A powerful, valedictory-style number, the final from their latest EP, Casement, the explosive Dublin punk/hip-hop quartet with an evolved, more tender sound mixing elements electronica with Belfast music producer Mount Palomar
Read moreSong of the Day: Balming Tiger - Trust Yourself
Song of the Day: Catchy, snappy, witty upbeat hip-hop and alt-K-pop by Seoul’s South Korean collective that includes San Yawn, rapper Omega Sapien, DJ Abyss, Sogumm, Wnjn, and Mudd the Student
Read moreSong of the Day: Bootsy Collins - Funk Not Fight featuring Baby Triggy, Fantaazma
Song of the Day: Superbly infectious brassy, squelchy Prince and also Parliament-like like funk of the highest order by legendary bass master with Queens rapper Baby Triggy and Hamburg singer Fantaazma
Read moreSong of the Day: Baxter Dury - Celebrate Me
Song of the Day: From his forthcoming seventh album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, the latest alternative hip-hop single by the London artist and son of the famous Ian is poetic, caustic, provocative and strangely beautiful, channelling new “faux-confrontational” character
Read moreSong of the Day: McKinley Dixon - Run, Run, Run
Song of the Day: Slick, catchy soul and hip-hop with a serious message about gun culture and youth by the multi-talented musician from Richmond, Virginia, from his forthcoming fourth album, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? out on City Slang in June
Read moreSong of the Day: Comfort - Wild and Fragile
Song of the Day: Just as the title suggests, a sensitive yet anarchically inventive fusion of alternative hip hop and beautiful, unwieldy sweeping strings and electronica by the Glasgow sibling duo from their forthcoming album What's Bad Enough? out in May on Fatcat Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Hak Baker - Telephones 4 Eyes
Song of the Day: Brilliantly energetic, angry, sweary rapping and vocals by the dynamic east London artist in a vibrant new post-punk number about the detrimental effects of social media technology and surveillance culture
Read moreSong of the Day: Meshell Ndegeocello - Virgo
Song of the Day: Wondrously beautiful, soulful, time-spanning, cosmic eclectic, delicate, intricate, funk-psych guitars, jazz, electronica, dynamic rhythm changes, harp and the gorgeous voice of the German-born American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist
Read moreSong of the Day: Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are (featuring Kae Tempest)
Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith
Read moreSong of the Day: The Go! Team - Whammy O
Song of the Day: Slick, clever, fast old-school-style hip hop from the Brighton band in this latest single written by Ian Parton and Nitzia Scott and taken from the forthcoming new album Get Up Sequences Part 2 out on Memphis Industries
Read moreSong of the Day: Steam Down - Overcome (feat. Afronaut Zu, TINYMAN, Germane Marvel)
Song of the Day: A superb, powerful, stirring fusion of hip hop, jazz, afrobeat and other genres with guest rappers, by Deptford-based collective formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Ahnansé
Read moreSong of the Day: Dave Okumu – Blood Ah Go Run
Song of the Day: A powerful song inspired by the documentary about the January 1981 New Cross Fire in south London that claimed 13 Black young lives, with the title from a chant of anti-racism protests that followed
Read moreSong of the Day: Orbital and Sleaford Mods - Dirty Rat
Song of the Day: A brilliant riposte to the omnishambles of the ongoing British Conservative government and all those voters responsible who blame others, including immigrants, in a no-holds-barred mix of beats by Phil and Paul Hartnoll and incomparably biting delivery of Jason Williamson
Read moreSong of the Day: Young Fathers - I Saw
Song of the Day: A brilliantly striking new single the innovative Edinburgh trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham 'G' Hastings, from their forthcoming next album, Heavy Heavy, released 03 February 2023 on Ninja Tune
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