London’s V&A East announces debut exhibition, The Music Is Black: A British Story
Opening in 2025, the museum’s first major exhibition is dedicated to Black British music and its impact on culture, spanning from the 1900s to the present day
Kano to star in Daniel Kaluuya’s new dystopian film, The Kitchen
The drama is now in production and will air on Netflix in 2023
To Be Continued: Top Boy
Kano, Little Simz, Ashley Walters and Micheal Ward preview the return of Top Boy. This is the story of how converging forces of Black British creativity are changing the face of culture.
Kano launches fundraiser in support of Newham community
The GoFundMe page is taking donations for Newham Talks, a series of videos exploring social and economic issues in the London borough
Kano, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa and Stormzy nominated for Mercury Prize Award
The shortlist for Albums of the Year has been revealed
DJ Harvey, Kano, Little Simz and Helena Hauff announced for Love Saves The Day 2020
Love Saves The Day unveil a packed line-up for 2020
Kano releases new documentary on the making of Hoodies All Summer
The 13-minute short takes us behind the scenes of the 2019 LP
The Top 25 Tracks of the Year
From Megan’s Hot Girl Summer to rave-inflected jazz via some of the UK’s sharpest bars, here are the 25 tracks that defined 2019
Kano shares two-part video for Can’t Hold We Down
Featuring appearances from Popcaan, Giggs, Ghetts and Lethal Bizzle
Kano at the Royal Albert Hall: Grime’s elder statesmen completes his victory lap
Kano proved just how far grime has come with a landmark headline show at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday night
Kano: Time will tell
Kano is a founding father of a British revolution, whose latest album is his defining work. But he’s not finished yet
Kano adds more UK dates to Hoodies All Summer tour
The MC has confirmed another round of UK shows
Kano – Hoodies All Summer
The grime pioneer returns with a vivid, radical album that meets our current political moment head-on
Kano announces show at London’s Royal Albert Hall
The British rapper has confirmed details of a UK tour
Kano announces new album Hoodies All Summer, shares double music video
The British rapper is back with Hoodies All Summer, set for release on 30 August. Two new tracks – ‘Trouble’ and ‘Class of Deja’ – and a 17 minute double music video, have been shared today.
Listen to a heartwarming conversation between Novelist and his mum
BBC 1Xtra’s Grime Mums is back, also featuring Jammz, Lioness, Coco and Joe Grind Four…
Dave’s Got a Plan
South London rapper Dave has proven himself as one of the country’s most compelling new voices. Duncan Harrison profiles a gifted artist on the rise.
Kano, The Big Moon and Primal Scream announced for Tramlines Festival 2017
More additions have been made to the Sheffield festival’s diverse line-up
Skepta will perform at the BRIT Awards
Skepta is the latest addition to the lineup for the 2017 BRIT Awards. He’s up…
Skepta takes on Ally Pally with the gang
Hamda Issa-Salwe joins the 10,000-strong crowd for the Tottenham Top Boy’s victorious homecoming
In GIFs: Simple Things 2016
Experience Simple Things in a gallery of eight-frame glory featuring ABRA, Kano, Throwing Shade, Teklife and Charlotte Church
Elijah & Skilliam announce Butterz Grime 2016 compilation
The Butterz bosses tap Skepta, Kano, Wiley and AJ Tracey for their roundup of the…
MOBO nominations announced
Laura Mvula and Kano both lead with four, while Skepta and Giggs appear on three…
Revisiting our reviews of the 2016 Mercury nominees
If this year’s Mercury Music Award nominees are anything to go by British music has had a particularly fruitful year
Red Bull Music Academy announces plans for a month-long UK tour
The RBMA team will visit Liverpool, Glasgow, London and Leeds over consecutive weekends this October…
David Bowie, ANOHNI and Skepta nominated for Mercury Prize
The nominations are in! The Mercury Prize have announced the shortlist for this year’s award….
Kano – Made In the Manor
‘Made in the Manor’ is one of the first major full-lengths of grime 2.0; except, it’s not really grime
Bestival unveils another round of new acts
Lady Leshurr, Kano, Goldie, Evian Christ and more have joined the line-up The Isle of…
Outlook share first names for 2016 festival
Stormzy, Little Simz and more announced for Outlook 2016 Croatian festival Outlook have announced the…
Logan Sama – FabricLive 83
‘FabricLive 83’ is a warts and all collation of glossed up verses and 16 bar whomps that exploits Sama’s bloating black book of MC contacts