90-year-old woman is the world’s oldest rapper

  A little old lady is hoping to take the world by storm thanks to her performances - as the world's oldest RAPPER. Nonagenarian rapper Joy P is hoping to make it into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest rapper. The pensioner, who has appeared on the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, is being considered for the title after entertaining hundreds in her hometown of Dartford, Kent. Joy Philippou, a half-Spanish-half-Russian doctor of philosophy, moved to...

Sigrid Has Sold Out Her Scala Shows

Don't worry though, she'll be at Latitude next week. In the past five months, Sigrid has gone from unknown to breakout star. With a defining debut Glastonbury performance, ‘Don’t Kill My Vibe’ streaming at 17M on Spotify, and two sold out Scala headlines in September, Sigrid’s arrival has been nothing short of extraordinary. Check out the video for ‘Plot Twist,’ the second single to be lifted from her debut Don’t Kill My Vibe EP below.   Sigrid says: “Plot Twist is about...

WATCH: Across The Atlantic Release ‘Works of Progress’ Documentary

San Antonio, Texas' hottest newcomers, Across the Atlantic have released the first episode of the official documentary for their upcoming label debut, Works Of Progress. Get to know more about their musical influences and what it's like to be in a band in this day and age below.   The band recently got confirmed to tour Europe supporting German alternative rock act Alazka and Swedish newcomers Imminence in September. The tour will start only 2 weeks after the release Works Of Progress which is set for...

Glastonbury Festival issues statement over ‘zero hours’ contract controversy

Jeremy Corbyn is to speak to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival about their use of zero-hours contracts, taking the gloss off the festival, heralded as one of the best in a number of years. The Labour leader made a triumphant performance in from go a huge crowd. Corbyn appeared on stage at last month's event to speak about employment rights among other issues. Most of the workers hired, from around Europe, to clean up after the festival were reportedly laid...

Music Lovers Prefer Smaller Festivals

A new survey into the festival preferences of the nation has revealed that nearly seven out of ten people prefer smaller music festivals to larger ones. The rise of the boutique festival is attributed to people’s desire to relax, with nearly three quarters saying that smaller festivals are more enjoyable because they are less stressful than their larger counterparts. Amongst the most popular are Beat-Herder Festival based in Lancashire, Kendal Calling in The Lake District and Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival...

LISTEN: The Xcerts Are Back With ‘Feels Like Falling In Love’

The Xcerts have announce their long awaited return, with their brand new single 'Feels Like Falling In Love', which received its debut on the Radio 1 Rock Show last night (July 2nd) as The Rockest Record (track of the week) and is released on all digital platforms today.  The band have also announced a surprise set at 2000trees Festival coming up this Saturday and will then also be headlining a special, one off headline show at The Social in London for a...

Put the world bang to rights with Mr C and win his banging new album

We’re celebrating the release of what is destined to be an acid house classic with a great giveaway of the brilliant new Incidents album by Mr C as well as an interview with the London clubland icon, putting the world bang to rights. The London Economic caught up with the globe-trotting DJ / producer / Superfreq label supremo / cheeky controversialist on a visit from his adoptive home in Hollywood, LA in his old stomping ground of Holloway, North London. The DJ,...

PLAYLIST: Best of JUNE 2017

What a lovely heap of little gems, June. The return of Lorde this month may have produced enough glare to blanch the hype around these smaller releases, so it's lucky we're here to gather them all together! Our cover image stars A Giant Dog return after last year's outstanding Pile with more irresistible gyrating on upcoming release Toy, and Vince Staples got Kendrick in for an incendiary verse on Big Fish Theory highlight 'Yeah Right'. Katie Crutchfield is back doing her Waxahatchee thing and...

LISTEN: Alt Heroes MOGWAI Return with ‘Party In The Dark’

Mogwai are today streaming new track ‘Party In The Dark’, taken from eagerly awaited forthcoming album Every Country’s Sun, out September 1st via Rock Action. Every Country’s Sun see’s the Scottish band join forces once again with producer Dave Fridmann, for the first time since 2001’s Rock Action. The new record takes two decades of Mogwai's signature, contrasting sounds – towering intensity, pastoral introspection, synth-rock minimalism, DNA-detonating volume – and distills it, beautifully, into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal...

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