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Global Gathering is back again this year, and judging by last years immense success we have a lot to look forward too, new acts, new tents, and even an underground bunker! Global Gathering returns on the 26th & 27th of July, and promises to be better and bigger than ever. The festival is now in [...]

Urban Nerds bring you a brand new event concept, focused on showcasing the freshets artists cutting their teeth and making waves in their respective scenes. The first in the Ones 2 Watch event series sees us team up with resident DJ, Marcus Nasty and his Jacking Bass night to bring you the best in the genre as [...]

Phenomenon One – The EP Just the phrase ‘Phenomenon One’ will trigger all manner of memories from the good old days of Jungle but don’t be fooled here as this EP from the musical genius that is Wizard is all about right now! Kicking of the EP is ‘Mind Control’ which pulls together some of [...]

On 30th May Sick Chirpse are throwing an end of exam party at the Deaf Institute up in Manni. With a big Hip Hop come House line up featuring the UK music scene veteran that is DJ Q, the multi-talented Shift K3y and garage & house influenced Taches and a whole host of others. DJ [...]

Check out this video of King Krule peforming at Fred Perry Subsonic. The South London lad manages to sound miserable and threatening at the same time, he clearly deserves his ‘wunderkind’ hype.

The re-release of DJ Eastwood’s classic cut ‘U Aint Ready’ on one of the UK’s top grime labels ‘No Hats No Hoods’ comes at a time when Grime, as a genre, is fast becoming one of the most original and inspiring club centric scenes. As a result this re-issue is perfectly timed to capitalise on [...]

With the release of big tracks on a day-to-day basis we felt like somebody needed to be keeping on top of these releases in the scene and compiling them into a fresh playlist each month. So here’s this months playlist. Dappy – Hannah Wants & Lorenzo Dropping on the 1st day of the month and [...]

This week we got our Urban Nerds Mix Of The Week (#UNMOTW) from vet in the scene, its only man like Hatcha! We thought as we’ve just announced our return to Brighton where we will be teaming up with Sin City that it was only right to get Sin City’s head honcho to drop us [...]

Friday 31st June sees us head back to London’s pinnacle venue, Fabric to take over room two with a whole host of top artists from garage, grime, house and bass. Playaz head up room one while Samurai do their thing in the third room. We’re bringing with us a big Garage come Bass line up including vets from [...]

Reggae Roast are back at PlanB with their “Jam Down” event, this has been going from strength to strength recently and this weekend is no different, with the likes of Mungo’s Hi-Fi, Barry Ashworth, DJ Madd, Rodney P, Unit 137 and the Reggae Roast residents this promises to be a BIG vibes dance. We’ve been [...]

Grime 2.0 is a collection of tunes from the East London based genres’ brightest lights in 2013. Compiled by journalist Joe Muggs and Big Dada boss Will Ashton, the sprawling two CD collection brings together tunes from Grime’s newest shining beacons, people such as the much hyped Preditah, Visionist, Darq E Freaker and Slackk alongside [...]

Bass Culture Clash: Salvador vs London pitches the hottest acts from the London bass scene against their counterparts from Salvador, Brazil’s bass capital in the state of Bahia. The bands will hit the UK on 16,17 & 18 May following ground-breaking Bass Culture Clash performances together in Bahia on 10 & 11 May, with festival [...]

East London  based ‘Slew Dem Crew’ head honcho ‘Mc Chronik’ parodies a 70s style African despot video in his new Keyboard Kid produced “Deepest Darkest”. This video has raised a lot of interest in the MC. Following the story of an imagined coup in the Democratic Republic of ‘Uduno’ by General Chronik, described in 1978 [...]

On the 25th May Low Slung are heading to Basing House for their (unofficial) Field Day after party and we’ve been given two tickets to give away. After the huge success of the Wolf Music Party in April with Medlar, KRL and the Wolf Music residents Low Slung are back with a whole host of [...]

Last week saw School Records at Swamp 81, at Fire. A big night that went off in a big way with some of the biggest names in the scene playing out to the strong crowd. Harrimannn has uploaded his set from the memorable night to Soundcloud and you can download that straight onto your phones, [...]