100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #58 Outkast – Miss Jackson

Released: 2000 André 3000 (Aka Benjamin) and Anton ‘Big Boi’ Patton were still a couple of years away from re-casting … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #60 J Dilla – Lightworks

Released: 2006 It’s frustratingly lost now (Or maybe the author is just misremembering) but a contemporary TV interview with Norman … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #61 Beastie Boys – Ch-Check It Out

Released: 2004 Who, in 1986 when Licensed To Ill and the accompanying hype and chaos and bullshit made the Beastie … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #73 50 Cent – In Da Club

Released: 2003 It doesn’t always have to be clever. It doesn’t always have to be complicated. It doesn’t always have … More

Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy review

Right enough five years is a long, long time in anything these days, let alone music, but Edinburgh trio Young … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #6 Beastie Boys – Sure Shot

Released : 1994 May, 1987. New York’s infamous rap trio the Beastie Boys are on a UK tour with label … More

Mr. Jukes & Barney Artist – The Locket review

Moonlighting (The ancient term for doing something else other than your day job) can feel so good; this can surely … More

Sault – Nine review

The often repeated line last year was that Sault, a tightly knit but mostly invisible collective working with producer Inflo, … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #62 GZA – Shadowboxin’

Released : 1995 Weed smoke, cable TV, Kung Fu..and chess. Some of the Wu-Tang Clan’s trappings were archetypal, but GZA’s … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #66 Mobb Deep – Shook Ones, Pt. II

Released : 1995 One of the reasons why rap was becoming big business was that it conferred experiences on the … More