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So… I wasn’t 100% sure what I wanted to do for this month’s Five Dope Tracks (as I’m actually looking forward to the October Edit which may or may not be a podcast!?!? Waaaahhhh….We’ll see). Anyway, I knew I wanted to make this month’s more artist focused. Jill Scott popped…
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…
When Nas announced some years ago that ‘hip-hop was dead’, it was an OG (older generation) of heads who resolutely roared in agreement. But while the music we grew up listening to may not resemble anything in the charts nowadays or tickle the mainstream Powers that Be, at least it…
If, like me, you were among the generation of music-savvy teens in the late 90s who analysed album sleeve notes for production credits and could spot a sample in a heartbeat, then you probably welcomed the arrival of “neo soul” with open arms. This progressive genre and its experimental mesh…