After six months during which her music has taken her to places she’d never been before, Rita Ekwere is at home in Catford, South-east London when Music Week drops in. ...
XL Recordings has launched its New Gen imprint with Anyting by Renz.
The London-based rapper, singer and producer contributed the track Flexing to January’s New Gen compilation, which collected songs ...
"What’s the craic, what’s the story?”
Seven tracks into J Hus’ debut album, on the loose, danceable Like Your Style, he repeats that question in his best attempt at an ...
“There are different waves coming out of the opening that grime’s latest rebirth created. Now we see an embracing of much broader UK road music and culture. That’s a positive ...
In the new edition of Music Week we deliver a very special issue looking at The Business Of Grime.
Our cover story profiles the Mercury Prize-nominated star J Hus, as we ...
What a difference 12 months makes.
In 2016, a brand new, major label-signed talent with a beard pitched up at the BRITS and scooped the Critics’ Choice award. A year ...
Breakthrough British acts are officially back, with eight 2017 debuts by UK artists on the list of the Top 200 albums for the first half of the year: six more ...
"Don’t be a sheep when you can be the GOAT” doesn’t sound like much of a line until you consider the acronym at the end: Greatest Of All Time.
This ...
XL Recordings A&R Caroline Simionescu-Marin has told Music Week of her commitment to “get people to invest in the culture” of UK rap and hip-hop.
Speaking in this week’s edition, ...
