Roots Manuva Chats To I Like Music

Rodney Smith is better known as his stage name Roots Manuva. The legendary UK artist has been making a huge impact upon music since his career began in 1994. Encompassing sound system culture, dub, funk, ragga and hip hop, Roots Manuva has had a huge influence on UK rap. I Like Music caught up with Roots Manuva to chat about his latest live project and set-up Banana Klan, his fascination with the accent of music and why, if you're a young musician, you should definitely break all the rules Read More >>

Leftfield Chat To I Like Music

When it was released in 1995, Leftfield’s debut album Leftism, was immediately recognised as the pioneering electronic record that it undoubtedly was. It has only grown in stature since, not so much standing the test of time as passing it by with flying colours. With Neil Barnes bringing Leftfield back to the live arena in the second half of 2010, we chat to him about the band’s new incarnation, updating the music for the modern context, the making of Leftism, and his vast music collection Read More >>

Pop Album Of The Week: Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Katy Perry is back with her new album Teenage Dream, the follow up to 2008's breakthrough release One Of The Boys. In her new guise, Perry is all about making ear-catching, unit-shifting pop with polished production. As such, on the new album cheeky innuendo, huge choruses and instant gratification are the orders of the day. On which basis, Teenage Dream is a huge success. Read the full review. Read More >>

Hip Hop Track Of The Week: DJ Muggs vs Ill Bill - Cult Assassin

The groundbreaking DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill has joined forces with Ill Bill of the influential but now defunct underground hip hop crew Non-Phixion. Together they have come up with an album, Kill Devil Hills, from which comes the single Cult Assassin, a weighty and atmospheric anti-establismentarian tune that signals good things to come from the new collaboration Read More >>

Indie Album Of The Week: Twin Sister - Vampires... EP / Color Your Life Ep

Brooklyn quintet Twin Sister release their first two EPs in tandem via Double Six Records; Vampires With Dreaming Kids and Color Your Life. The first physical release from this dreamy hypnotic pop combo marks a defining moment, as their digital output has so far been liberally lapped up by fans and critics alike Read More >>

Rock Video Of The Week: Pulled Apart By Horses - High Five, Swan Dive

Off-kilter rockers Pulled Apart By Horses specialise in the chaotic, and High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive serves as perfect example of their frenzied noise-making. Full of tempo-shifts, barked vocals and unexpected twists and turns, it’s a deceptively simple tune at its core, revolving around a single, somewhat bizarre lyric: “I’ll make you dance with my balls of fire.” Yes, we’re sure you will. Read More >>

Dance Track Of The Week: LOGO - Junocide

Logo are Thomas and Hughes. They’re both 23, they met about a year ago, they’ve only actually seen each other a couple of times and they compose and play the majority of Logo’s music together online. They weren’t bothered about making it big either... Then the web navigator of tremendously cool Parisian electronic label Kitsune stumbled across their myspace page, and the rest falls very simply in line with the web-based musical pipe dream we have all come to know off by heart....band-meets-myspace-meets-record-deal Read More >>

Urban Album Of The Week: Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom – Duppy Writer

Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer is not a brand new Roots Manuva album; it's is a re-working of classic Roots Manuva tracks by DJ and producer Wrongtom. The album covers all four of Roots Manuva's main albums plus tracks from Dub Come Save Me and Alternately Deep, and the result has moved the Roots Manuva sound toward a deep, traditional dub rumbling Read More >>

Everything Everything In-Store Live Review

New kids on the block Everything Everything have just released their debut album, Man Alive, which is packed full of complex and adventurous indie-pop of the highest quality. To mark the album's release the band played in-store at London's Rough Trade East on September 1st 2010 and I Like Music went along to witness the spectacle. Read the full review here Read More >>

Week ending 12-09-2010

pop

Katy Perry is finally ready to share her Teenage Dream with us, Sky Ferreira arrives with her single One, KT Tunstall offers a calming influence with her new video, 3OH!3 are here to get boisterous, plus our tuppence on the X-Factor auto-tune debacle

rock

Pulled Apart By Horses have a smashing time in their new video, Four Year Strong check all the boxes with their new single, The Sword encapsulate hard-rock and metal with Warp Riders, the UK gets a Taste Of Chaos and we look at iconic rock guitars

indie

Brooklyn quintet Twin Sister release their first two EPs in tandem, Superhumanoids present kissable sound waves, Freelance Whales appear twice in visual form, Brainlove Records takes four solo artists on tour and you can win a signed 7” from Sarah Blasko

hiphop

DJ Muggs and Ill Bill get together for new single Cult Assassin, Fat Joe releases the first album in his proposed Darkside trilogy, Dilated Peoples emcee Evidence goes it alone in his new video, The Doctor's Orders present the Queens of Hip Hop and rap battles investigated

dance

LOGO deliver their first EP for Kitsune, we have three copies to give away! German techno legends Kompakt release their annual compilation, Nikita provides trippy visuals, Chew The Fat! prepare for their 13th birthday and one half of Lemon Jelly wakes up

urban

As Roots Manuva chats to I Like Music this week, we herald his dub re-work and collaboration with Wrongtom. Boy Better Know’s Jammer releases Bad Mind People, Tricky produces a video from his Parisian boxing club, Rinse FM turn 16 and we introduce BLC

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