New York-bred R&B vocalist Yaya Bey conjures a comprehensive self-portrait on her new studio album, Ten Fold, out May 10th via Big Dada. Over rapturous production from Corey Fonville of jazz group Butcher Brown, Karriem Riggins, Jay Daniel, Exaktly and Boston Chery, Yaya delivers a free-spoken masterpiece that documents a year punctuated by grief and… Read more »
As a kid, singer-songwriter Annahstasia Enuke says she used to hear actor Morgan Freeman’s voice in her head. His distinctly rich baritone narrated her younger years as pleasantly as it does on screen. “The way I see things is very cinematic,” she says, touching on a childhood growing up in Los Angeles and classifying her… Read more »
Born inside a family with a long artistic history, DORA (Madrid, 2004) began to show her natural mus cal talent from a young age. She grew up surrounded by music at home, listening songs from Ella Fitzgerald to Kendrick Lamar. After having a successful YouTube covers’ channel and playing around as the Lead Singer in… Read more »
For producer Barney Lister and vocalist Kojo Degraft-Johnson, music is a place to belong. Hailing from different ends of England and disparate cultures, they have come together as MRCY, creating a shared space of soulful self-expression that combines the timeless musical warmth of Marvin Gaye with the modern sensibility of Khruangbin, Anderson .Paak and Sault.
British-born Sam Wills is rapidly becoming one of the most hotly-tipped artists of the UK the neo-soul / r&b movement. His debut album ‘Breathe’ released in summer 2021 has clocked up well over 300 million streams worldwide with the single ’Traingazing’ becoming a viral hit on TikTok and Instagram. In the recent past Sam has… Read more »
The Belair Lip Bombs are Maisie Everett (Guitar & Vox), Mike Bradvica (Guitar), Jimmy Droughton (Bass) and Liam De Bruin (Drums), four close friends from a coastal town in Victoria, Australia called Frankston. The band has really hit their stride recently with the release of their debut album ‘Lush Life’. The record is 10 tracks… Read more »
Butcher Brown is a jazz-funk fusion band that blends jazz, hip-hop, funk, soul, and rock with elements of psychedelia and soul-jazz. The band’s latest album, Letters from the Atlantic is described as a travelogue up and down the East Coast: from the Chesapeake Bay to New York, down to Florida, and over to Europe. Their… Read more »
In 2021, as the world looked like it was burning down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and global protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, Seattle-born rockstar Ayron Jones was achieving his dream. That’s when his song “Mercy,” from his debut major label record release, Child of the State, hit the No. 1 spot… Read more »
A band born out of small towns and spare time. Scott and Oli have neighbouring studios at their building in East London and first began making music together out of the desire to make something positive and unpolished in a scene where most music felt quite mellow and intimate. Their debut single ‘Home’ has amassed… Read more »
As Ride were working on their excellent new record, the quartet realised they had now been a band longer in their second phase than their original incarnation had lasted. When Andy Bell, Laurence “Loz” Colbert, Mark Gardener and Steve Queralt reunited in 2015, it was with a desire to re-conjure the musical alchemy that had… Read more »