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Spaces: The Wellmont Theatre

Our new series, Spaces, takes a look at individual venues and the impact that they can have upon a local musical culture or scene. Throughout this series, we aim to look at venues around the world and the difference they can make on a local scale. [continued]
Fresh Faces: Michael Christmas

“I think of Michael Cera” raps the charismatic Bostonian in his upbeat, quirky ode to the skinny Canadian’s finest works. It’s a perfect example of what Christmas does best, quick witted, tongue in cheek rap, with deeper hidden messages. [continued]
Nas: Time Is Illmatic

Today Illmatic’s status is set in stone as a hip-hop benchmark. An album that managed to encapsulate the socio-political perspective, spirit, and collective frustration of young black men searching for a voice in America. For anyone considering themselves a hip hop head, ‘Time is Illmatic’ is a must see documentary. Nas had already painted a [continued]
“Swoopin” – Baauer

It’s been a minute (over a month) since Baauer released his “ß” EP on Scottish label LuckyMe, and two weeks since he dropped “Swoopin” as a single. [continued]
Artist Spotlight: Tove Lo

Despite saying almost everyone her name wrong, seems like everyone wants Too-veh Lu to stay. [continued]
An Ode to Nu Rave

It was the bastion of a final spurt of creativity in British music, before British youth culture was financially suppressed by credit crunches and double dip recessions, it reached deep into its musical history to re-establish itself, find its identity and make its mark. [continued]
Gig Review: The Vengaboys

Nostalgia is an inherently important aspect of looking at Venue 1 and tonight was no execption. Venue One was blessed with a perfect send off, thanks to the mind-blowing headlining performance of the Vengaboys. [continued]
“I Love You Pt II (Lazerdisk Remix” – Lido

This week’s Essentials pick is Lazerdisk’s edit of “I Love You Pt. II”, off of Lido’s brand new “remixtape” that reimagines his previously released debut EP I Love You. [continued]
Artist Spotlight: Haruomi Hosono

Born an English-speaking American from New York, I don’t speak Japanese, nor have I been to Asia; but I like Hosono’s work because it is genuinely different from what I hear today. It doesn’t try to be more than it really is, or push to be a ‘serious artform’… it’s simply entertaining. [continued]
An Interview With: Dirty Danger

At the start of the millennium bubbling in the underground of London, almost parallel to dubstep, a new genre of music called grime was born. With the difficulties of crossing over to mainstream success over the past 15 years, no one could have predicted the great success that the genre has had over the past… [continued]