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Sooner or later, the Africa Centre’s summer festival will have to find a new home that’s alot more spacious than its current residence in Covent Garden, judging by the hoards that flocked to the free annual this year. With a stellar line-up of musical acts, exhibitions and fashion shows, the 2015 outing…
Before there was Spotify, Soundcloud, Bandcamp or any of these fancy apps for discovering new music, there were the pirate radio stations. These illegal outlets could only be found through perseverance, existing somewhere along the FM frequency and celebrating black music often ignored by the commercial mainstream. Thanks to pioneer…
The 90s is an era that refuses to be forgotten. It lives on in every kid that struts along Shoreditch High street with a towering high top fade, the crews getting from A to B on their skateboards and the fashionistas digging out their dungarees whenever we hit the spring and summer…
It’s been three years since Secret 7″ arrived in the capital, inviting creatives from across the globe to design record sleeves for songs by well-known musicians. But there’s more to this project than just a very cool collaboration of art forms; it’s an open brief for a collective of renowned and budding artists to…
It’s fair to say that the world’s digital explosion in the last 40 years has been something like a phenomenon. Rapid, progressive and artistic all at the same time, we’ve seen it stretch across many facets of life and industries – and this generous show at the Barbican does its…
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…