Once a music journalist, always a music journalist. A PR hit me up recently to let me know that Eric Benét was coming to town. Now, aside from recent shady shots fired from Jay-Z, I can’t say the fella’s been on my mind of late. And the feminist within hasn’t…
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I am notoriously bad at buying tickets for gigs before they sell out. That is how I missed those Prince gigs in 2014. And in 2007 (but then I realised, I actually don’t love Prince that much, so the FOMO wasn’t really strong enough). But when I heard my new…
The seated art deco styled interior of the Hammersmith Apollo made for a suitably relaxed venue for experiencing the Robert Glasper Experiment. As a jazz pianist and producer, Glasper won a Grammy for best R&B album with the original Black Radio album in 2013 and has collaborations with Erykah Badu, Jill…
As they say in the US, “game recognises game” – and hip-hoppers rarely hesitate to bestow honour upon its pioneers for teaching those next in line a thing or two – and the new kids who are doing it so well. So there’s moments tonight when, despite being age-mates, Public…
It’s rare you’d find me at an outdoor event involving wellies, mud or rock music, but as part of the Acer U-Experience, I spent Saturday at the Isle of Wight festival and discovered that if you’re a family type or get your kicks from angsty acoustics and radio-friendly pop, it’s a worthwhile…
When it comes to Drake, critics like to focus on the 25-year-old Canadian’s excessive compulsion to over-sentimentalise his rapid flight to fame and the many women he’s slept with (plus the ones who got away), often disregarding that it takes a certain kind of man to present all that mushy…