I met the Sick Girls a little over 3 years ago when in Berlin covering its nascent Nu bass/Euro Crunk scene, and even back then the girls knew how to lay it down. Alexandra Droener and Johanna Grabsch first met as bookers at the now legendary WMF Club, but were bored of the stale sounds […]


25 Sep
UK's bass ambassador hits LA tonight at Discotheque

IF you lived anywhere in the UK, telling you who Annie Mac is would be as redundant as telling you who…well…I guess there is no one in America comparable, because we simply don’t have the same affinity for DJs and radio as they do in the land of trainers and crumpets. There, BBC Radio 1 […]


Wow. If you wanna know what makes the Madman get in a foamy-mouthed tizzy, then go no further and peep this track from Jamaica’s Terry Lynn. This couldn’t be more custom-made for me if Terry came with a bottle of Chopin tucked under each arm. We’ll have to wait till October for the album, but […]


Although 2004’s Boy In Da Corner was Dizzee’s most hyped album, it’s this April’s Def-Jux released Maths + English (previously a digital-only release) that really shows just how stylistically volatile and lyrically talented this grime artist/rapper’s game really is (check out “Where’s Da G’s” with UGK for the ultimate taste test). His 7-date US tour […]