On Thursday, 26th March, The Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards made a noble first. Debuting in the rich city of Manchester, United Kingdom (UK), to celebrate its monumental 30th anniversary.


Founded in 1996, over the years, The Mobo Awards has come to be a staple awards ceremony. Celebrating Black talent in the music industry across genres such as jazz, hip-hop, R&B and more.


Kickstarting the show, with a sensational performance was R&B trio, Flo. A girl group that has been praised for t...

Nowadays, there are lots of ways to make money on social media, and misogyny has become a dangerously popular angle.


BBC broadcast journalist Louis Theroux is back with another gripping documentary. This time around, an in-depth exploration titled, ‘Inside the Mansophere.’ A theoretical concept that has sparked more conversation in the past year, with the rise of infamous social media personalities such as Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.


Throughout the documentary, Theroux interviews a range of...

A new record from the noise rock stalwarts will always have us pricking up our ears at tQ towers, but despite a newfound sense of joy and even a certain swagger, this latest album is far from the group's peak, finds Laviea ThomasWhen Hey Colossus released their debut album Hey Colossus Hates You in 2004, they turned heads, as one of the few bands experimenting with a sound that was both psychedelic and hardcore. Planting themselves at the heart of the noise rock scene, the group made it known th...

For the last 35 years, London’s Ministry of Sound (MOS) has been a catalyst for dance music. Since founder Justin Berkmann first opened its London doors in 1991, the venue has championed all walks of dance music, from kaleidoscopic house to techno-colored techno and trance-inducing drum and bass.
On Thursday, February 26, the venue re-opened its doors for an exclusive first look at a renovation five years in the making. MOS transformed its Elephant and Castle location into a networking hub of in...

Discriminatory, unlawful, and unjust: just three ways of describing the inhumane alterations made towards the latest Nationality and Boarders Bill. Adapted by the British Nationality Act in 1981, The Nationality and Boarders Bill was originally referred to as an act of last resort, in protection against terrorists, extremists and spies entering the UK, with asylum seekers somehow finding themselves wrongfully falling into this category. As it stands The Nationality and Borders Bill is currently...

Lauded as one of the first groups within metal to fuse hip-hop with nu-metal, (not that they need the introduction), Korn are a notorious asset to the evolution of metal. Set to unleash their fourteenth studio album Requiem via independent label Loma Vista this Friday (4 February), Requiem welcomes honourable mentions from producer Chris Collier, mixer Rich Costey and an audio-visual playback experience in central London. 
Three years since their obliterating, introspective offering, The Nothing...

Everything, I’ve fought for my freedom, my independence, I fight to see my kids, I fight to put out music. The bottom line is, life is nothing but a fight and this vibration is nothing but test after test after test. The real thing is to see how you’re going to react to certain things, and when you’re willing to compromise. We’re currently in a hurricane zone, but I’m going to have fun. We’ve been so productive in this hurricane you know; we’ve been able to do things. There’s a positive to find...

“The guitar has a bit more drive in this album, the band has always been based around a very heavy distorted guitar sound,” says Abe Cunningham, discussing Deftones mammoth ninth studio album ‘Ohms’.
Today (September 25th) marks the release of Deftones, ‘Ohms’ and boy does it erupt – driving you through ten alt-metal tunes ‘Ohms’ exposes heavier drops, raw lyricism, and addictive hooks.
Returning four years after their last instalment ‘Gore,’ in a lot of ways ‘Ohms’ is a new direction for the co...

Although most of us will never be in a room with Nella Rose, her infectious laughter, no-filter ad-libs and feel-good aura create the sense that when you’re watching her onscreen, you’re connecting with a long-lost friend. Gracing the phones and laptops of her 600,000 Instagram followers daily, over the last six years of content creation Nella has cultivated a career as a successful influencer, entrepreneur, online personality, and interviewer. Working and mastering various platforms, while accu...