• Akala talks the history of hip hop at UoN

    As part of Black History Month, hip hop artist and writer Akala spoke about the ‘Evolution of the EMCEE’ at the University of Nottingham. The talk covered the history of the art of rapping, of which the modern incarnations are grime, garage, jungle and hip hop. Akala started looking...
  • Live Review: Hinds, Rescue Rooms (17/02/16)

    Madrid lo-fi garage rockers Hinds returned to Nottingham last Wednesday to treat Rescue Rooms to an evening of grooving, infectious tunes from their critically acclaimed debut album Leave Me Alone. Delivering a pacy set just over an hour in length, their endearing, slacker-rock aesthetics are present immediately – the rest of...
  • Album Review: Hinds – Leave Me Alone

    The highly anticipated debut LP from Madrid garage-rock group Hinds, released on 8th January, has arrived to continue into 2016 the incredible momentum that the band realised last year. Since having to change their name at the end of 2014 for legal reasons, the Spanish four-piece have certainly maintained...
  • Album Review: Caribou – ‘Our Love’

                 After breaking into popular consciousness with his widely esteemed 2010 release Swim, Dan Snaith returns once again under the moniker Caribou to bring us another intricately crafted record which, in expected form, is as intelligent and entrancing as it is soulful and euphoric....