Klashnekoff Chats To I Like Music

Klashnekoff has been a stalwart of the UK hip hop scene since he took it by storm with debut album The Sagas Of in 2003. He founded the Terra Firma crew and began to build what looked like a bright future for himself, but it turned out the sagas were not yet over. His second album, Lionheart Tussle With The Beast was tainted by issues with label and management, and didn’t perform as it should have. Now K-Lash is back, and ready to take the reins again with third album Back To The Sagas Read More >>

Urban Video Of The Week: Kano - Upside ft Michelle Breeze

Kano drops his fourth album Method To The Maadness on the 30th August, featuring a serious host of well known names including Wiley, Damon Albarn, Hot Chip, Boyz Noize and Chase & Status. Upside ft Michelle Breeze is the first taster of what’s to come, watch the video here! Plus, we look back on our chat with Kano just after his first hook up with Damon Albarn Read More >>

Indie Album Of The Week: Best Coast - Crazy For You

Lo-fi guitar-pop is back in a big way in 2010, and Best Coast are about to release an album of sublimely woozy pop songs that will play a big part in soundtracking the summer months, and further down the line will serve to transport you back to sunnier times when the nights once more start to close in earlier Read More >>

Dance Editors Choice: The Parts Of Their Sum

Speaking to DJs and producers is one of our favourite past times and we always ask for an insight to their process of making music. How exactly do their tunes come together? From samples, drum loops, software and sound re-creation, there’s a whole host of methods. Check out the answer to the question "How would you describe your music making process?" from Deadmau5, Hybrid, Herve, Buraka Som Sistema, Benga and Sub Focus Read More >>

Rock Editors Choice: Introducing Aliases

The metal world has been mourning the loss of SikTh ever since their untimely demise in 2007. No-one has been able to fill the gap left by the loss of their technically complex and stylistically exploratory music. Until Aliases. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Aliases were founded by SikTh guitarist Pin, which goes a long way to explaining the similarity in sound, but when it's this good it would be churlish to complain Read More >>

Hip Hop Event Of The Week: Rhyme & Reason

Dead Prez bring their explosive live show to London’s Kentish Town Forum on August 30th as the headliners of Rhyme & Reason’s Hip Hop For Unity Showcase. Supporting the American duo will be three of the U.K.’s best politically-minded emcees; Sway, Akala and Skinnyman Read More >>

Pop Track Of The Week: Marina & The Diamonds - Oh No!

Marina continues her unstoppable ascent as part of the new wave of highly idiosyncratic and creative British pop artists. Combining playfulness with a healthy slug of attitude, her new sinlge Oh No! is typical Marina, and we can't stop listening to it Read More >>

Week ending 01-08-2010

pop

This week Marina's new single is stuck in our head, we've fallen for Grace Potter & the Nocturnals' new album, The Wanted strike all the right poses, the lovely Corinne Bailey Rae gets ready to hit the road and our take on the return of Robbie

rock

Ex-SikTh guitarist Pin launches new band Aliases, Violent Soho get grungey and Avenged Sevenfold unleash their new album and tour with Stone Sour. Blackpool welcomes punks aplenty to Rebellion Festivals and Coheed & Cambria go old-school sci-fi

indie

Best Coast supply the sun this week with their new album, Crystal Castles make your ears bleed with Baptism, Bombay Bicycle Club take a moment to reflect in the video for Flaws, the Field Day line-up blows our socks off and The Knife get operatic

hiphop

Dead Prez bring their live show to London, we get new music from both sides of the Atlantic courtesy of Klashnekoff and Rick Ross, Devlin delivers his manifesto in the form of the video for Brainwashed and Sugar Hill Records give us a history lesson in early hip hop

dance

We get the lo-down from Deadmau5, Hybrid, Herve and more on how they put their tunes together. Skism roughs up Losers, Michael Morph drops his debut, Magnetic Man go all hands-in-the-air and we feature filthy remix upon gut shuddering re-work in this week's playlist

urban

Kano's back - watch the video to his new single Upside! We're still loving Rusko's collab with Amanda Coffman, Virus Syndicate drop album four and we chat to Nika D, Tinie Tempah gets set for a headline tour and Aloe Blacc tops everything off with some original RnB

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Next weeks issue...

One Love festival is back for its third year on 6,7,8th August. Next week we've invited One Love to take over our Urban section, here you'll find their pick of track, album, video and event of the week, a special, One Love Festival playlist and an I Like Music interview with the legendary Julian Marley, who will be performing at the event.

Plus...Saviour Adore, I Am Arrows, Fun, EL-P, K-OS, Roll Deep, TI, Keri Hilson, Roots Manuva, Summer Sundae, Versus, Herzog, Creamfields, DJ Fresh, Shameboy, Dark Sky, Riz MC, Toni Braxton