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The Isle of White festival announces its first wave of acts

Bestival has announced the first names on its line-up for this year’s festival. 

Major Lazer will be headlining the Isle of White festival, alongside The...

Tuff City Kids's Phillip Lauer & Slow Motion's Fabrizio Mammarella team up!

Mark Barrott’s International Feel label is responsible for much of the renewed interested in Balearic over the last few years. Since Barrott started the label...

The Great Ape - Bonobo’s best album bowls us over

Always one of Ninja Tune’s most enduring and popular acts, it’s with the genretrashing, experimental, epic ‘Black Sands’ that Simon Green, aka Bonobo has really...

AJ Tracey launches fund to help Black students at Oxford University

"We’re just trying to level the playing field by helping Black kids"

AJ Tracey has launched a new fund to help Black students at Oxford University. The West London rapper has launched the AJ Tracey Fund in...

Yazzus announces EP on Tresor Records, ‘BLACK METROPOLIS’, shares single: Listen

"I want this release to be Black and beautiful, to be queer, and playful, a nostalgic nod to the '90s but also reimagining it in the current times"

Yazzus's debut EP for Tresor Records, 'BLACK METROPOLIS', is coming out next month. Listen to lead track 'Metro City Bay Area' below. The Ghana-born, London-raised...

Karen Nyame KG shot by Condry Calvin Mlilo

There's also acapella and instrumental versions of the track

Karen Nyame KG has dropped a new single, 'Taboo', via Black Acre Records. Check it out below. Described as a "sensual offering" that blends elements...

House music’s Black roots highlighted in The Daily Show segment: Watch

Martha Wash joins correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. in the clip, which also shouts out house pioneers Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan and Ron Hardy

The Daily Show paid tribute to house music and its pioneers in its CP Time segment last week. Watch the clip below In the midst...

blackhole

The new "sonification" has been scaled up around 57 octaves for human ears

NASA has released an audio recording of a black hole. Recorded by the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the recording is of pressure waves sent out...

HoneyLuv

A bouncy house paean to your ride-or-die

HoneyLuv has released a new single, ‘Thr33 6ix 5ive’, on Black Book Records. A "refreshing four-on-the-floor house original" loaded with "bouncy basslines and crisp percussion"...

Black Coffee, Questlove, RÜFÜS DU SOL among winners at 2022 Grammys

The annual awards ceremony took place last night (3rd April)

Black Coffee, Questlove and RÜFÜS DU SOL were among the big winners at 2022's Grammy Awards, which took place last night (Sunday, 3rd April) in...

The exhibition will open at the British Library in 2024

The British Library and the University of Westminster have announced a new exhibition exploring the history of Black British music. 

The partnership have teamed up...

Black-owned music organisations, radio stations and record labels are helping to create vital platforms for Black producers and DJs who’ve been held back by systemic...

Though all genres of Black music have been subjected to exclusion, commodification and whitewashing, Black ownership in music varies. While rap and hip-hop are largely...

The 288-page book includes "new interpretations" of the virtual band

Gorillaz are releasing a coffee table art book to mark the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album.

'The Gorillaz Art Book' spans 288 page...

The album will be released in December via Ash International

An electronic music album made using black hole data will be released later this year.

Titled 'Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001', the album is the work of Dr Valery...

The Japanese company’s latest is a remake of a classic

Black Corporation is re-making a classic polysynth in the form of a new hardware device, the ISE-NIN. Based on Roland’s classic polysynth the Jupiter-8, the...