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Slowthai: Personal but Patchy – TYRON Album Review

Slowthai: Personal but Patchy – TYRON Album Review

Luke Mcgavin reviews Slowthai’s second release TYRON – The duality of the record, its influences, highlights and downfalls
Festival review: Primavera Sound 2018

Festival review: Primavera Sound 2018

10 of the best performances from Barcelona
Festival Preview: Parklife

Festival Preview: Parklife

Get your tickets for Manchester’s favourite festival while they last!
Feature: NME celebrates diversity at 2018 awards show

Feature: NME celebrates diversity at 2018 awards show

The event was a triumph for female artists and musical minorities

Festival Preview – Parklife Festival

As part of our Festival preview season, we take a glimpse into what Parklife has in store this year

Top 10 Songs of 2015

As the curtains close on a rambunctious year of music, our writers cast their votes on the 10 greatest songs of the past 12 months

Live: Warehouse Project – The Ape 10th Birthday

While a tad predictable, this night full of grime bangers certainly went down a treat

Live: RBMA presents Tropical (ft. JME, Skepta, Preditah, C4, Todd Edwards, Logan Sama)

RBMA’s Tropical came across as a little confused – designed as a club night with the main attraction being a live grime set

Preview: Red Bull Music Academy Tour – Manchester

The RBMA tour comes to Manchester April 16th-19th

Album: Skepta – Doin’ It Again

Most grime novices will know the name Skepta as being that of the man partly to blame for an embarrassing dance craze, known as the ‘Rolex Sweep,’ (a kind of, ghetto Macarena). But he may also have reached your radar lately in the form of the recent chart tracks ‘Bad Boy’ and ‘Rescue Me,’ from his third studio album Doin’ it Again.