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Four Kornerz Release New Single For 2011
All-brother band Four Kornerz are to release their new single Superstar on Monday 2 May, 2011. This is the band’s first officially release since their ground-breaking independent album release Soulectric (2007) which included the hit singles Clap Clap and Gonna Make It. This latest masterpiece from the London based-quartet dons the familiar leads from Deji, [...]
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Mary J. Blige at The O2: Gig Review
Mary J Blige, the award winning queen of hip hop soul, is something else. Renowned for her gritty, raw voice and songs marinated in pain and whipped up on survival she proved again why she deserves to keep her crown on the London stop of her ‘Music Saved My Life’ tour. There is just something [...]
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Gig Review: En Vogue @ IndigO2, London
Working in the music industry for over 20 years – still selling records, racking awards and nominations, and leaving indelible legacies for newbie female groups is no small feat. But that’s En Vogue for you. They have overcome line up changes, hopping from one record label to another, the exit of member Dawn Robinson, motherhood, [...]
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Kanya King, Founder MOBO Organisation: ‘Our aim was to elevate black music to mainstream status’
Kanya King MBE is an internationally recognised entrepreneur and innovator in the British music industry. As CEO and founder of MOBO Organisation, Kanya King is the dynamic force behind the MOBO Awards, Europe’s largest urban music awards show, and has played an instrumental role in elevating black music and culture to mainstream popular status in [...]
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Interview with Aloe Blacc: “I always want to be in control of my creativity”
Hailing from sunny California, Aloe Blacc has been bringing his stamp of soul, rap and eclectic funk to the world for over 15 years. Yet, his song I Need a Dollar became the opening song for popular TV show How to Make it in America plus a independent label that stands firm behind the artistry [...]
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Music Monthly Review: Gilles Peterson + Bilal + Soweto Kinch
Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide | BBE | Out 11 October 2010 Buy Worldwide Gilles Peterson is a busy boy. Fresh from releasing a remix album for his 2009 Cuban project Havana Cultura earlier this summer and touring the globe to promote it, he’s back in early Autumn with another double CD compilation Worldwide described as ‘a [...]
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Music Review: Andreya Triana’s Lost Where I Belong
Lost Where I Belong Andreya Triana Ninja Tune – 23 Aug 2010 Buy from Amazon UK Since performing on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury in 2009, Andreya Triana has been busy releasing her first single and is currently promoting her debut album Lost Where I Belong. Originally from South East London, but based in [...]
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Music Review: Havana Cultura: The Remixes by Gilles Peterson & Friends
Less than a year since releasing Havana Cultura: New Cuba Sounds, Gilles Peterson returns this summer with a remixed version of his latest musical excursion which has seen him join forces with prodigious pianist Roberto Fonseca and some of the island’s fresh, young talent. And what a gorgeous collection ‘Havana Cultura: Remixed’ is, with its [...]
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Reggae & Soca Stars: Tessanne Chin / Farmer Nappy
Where reggae music is predominantly viewed as Jamaican, and soca is often seen as ‘small island’ music, there is no dispute concerning the fact that they both represent the Caribbean. Meet the new stars of the genres: reggae-Rock singer Tessanne Chin and soca artist Farmer Nappy. Tessanne Chin myspace.com/tessannechin It’s not every day that a vocal [...]
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Notting Hill Carnival Sounds
Notting Hill Carnival wouldn’t be the same without music, food and costumes. As the Bank Holiday weekend approaches, many soca fans will be heading to their local independent record shop to buy the latest songs to add to their collection. We have highlighted the latest songs that you should expect to hear on the streets [...]
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Divine Unity: “We’re not a gospel group, we’re a pop group!”
Martina – 23, Sharlene -24 and Sacha – 25, the feisty, glamorous and irrepressibly good natured girls of Divine Unity speak to Catch a Vibe about inspiration, the problem with being pigeonholed and their egalitarian approach to lead vocals. CAV: How did you ladies get together? Sharlene: We were raised in the same church, House [...]
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Summer Music Festivals: The Alternative
Glastonbury, Reading, Bestival, Creamfields, the Isle of Wight…sound familiar? They should do, as these festivals are hard to escape once summertime approaches. Our country is renowned for holding some of the most famous festivals in the world and they are becoming more popular than ever amongst music lovers. If indie, dance, dubstep, drum & bass [...]
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Soundtrack to Your Summer: Vocal Slender
What would you be willing to do to make your dream a reality? It wasn’t until BBC 2 aired Welcome to Lagos a three-part documentary about life in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria that I considered the question more deeply. In the first part of the series I—like millions of viewers in the UK— was [...]
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Soundtrack to Your Summer:Benin City
Benin City is a collective of spoken word artists and musicians hailing from the UK who have united to offer audiences a truly unique experience. Catch A Vibe spent an hour with Josh, one of the band’s vocalists to discover more about Benin City and get a taste of some “Invisible Cake”. CAV: Tell me [...]
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Music Monthly Review: Ayobaness + Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba – South Africa’s Skylark Nascente Records – Out on 21 June 2010 Buy South Africa’s Skylark on Amazon If you know anything about the late Miriam Makeba you may know The Click Song or Pata Pata; perhaps the commanding Amampondo from Leon Gast’s 1996 Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings. The other tracks [...]
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