Wormfood is an events company that sets out to align London domiciled African music with the dance floor energy of club nights. Set up in 2007, they have injected energy into many UK festivals and London’s wide array of world music venues. This ten-year celebration at South London’s Electric Brixton...
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![Preview: Convergence Festival @ Various Locations [London, 21st to 25th March 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/15235761_691411501035769_3298046326176942571_o-335x127.png)
Since its birth in 2014, Convergence has provided a platform for artists to explore the ways music, art, and technology intersect in our contemporary world. Held in the British capital over six days and across a number of iconic venues scattered around the city, such as the Barbican Centre and...
A 40-year career, seven albums and a Grammy Award can dismiss any need for introductions; they speak for themselves. However, the importance for contemporary music of a band like Tinariwen can’t be stressed enough. The Malian band still fights, and fights hard with its sound, because Tuareg tradition is still...
Tonight begins with a performance from Subajah, who, in and of himself, is an incredibly talented man. He displays his abilities as a rapper, singer and composer with real aplomb. In an age of vapid consumerism, it’s pleasing to find artists willing to stand up and go against the grain, educating the...
We challenge you to find a more upbeat night in November. Because, if you line up Natty, Congo Natty, Mad Professor, Trojan Soundsystem and Subajah, chances are that you have organised the coolest gig of the month. The crème de la crème of the UK reggae scene will be indeed...
Expect a thought-provoking experience this August as the musical diversities of O Rappa return to Brixton, equipped with their signature protest beats covering the likes of environmentalism and police brutality. From the classic rap album of Lado B Lado A to their latest best-selling record Nunca Tem Fim…, make sure you...
Charismatic, high-octane and socially conscious, get down to Electric Brixton next Friday and experience the engrossing musical hybrid that is Dub Inc – Europe’s most successful reggae band of today. Spawning from France’s industrial heartland, Saint-Etienne, Dub Inc come to London this June loaded with their new album They Want Riddim....
Welcomed by a packed and doting Electric Brixton, The Hot 8 Brass Band met expectations: larger than life, feel-good and undoubtedly, infectiously groovy. Before the brassy boy entered, the muso Brixton crowd were well warmed with the reggae delights of the Ragga Twins. From their straight-up Jamaican vibes, to their...
One of the UK’s wildest independent festivals, the BoomTown Fair, is bringing its extravaganza to London this coming Saturday. The event is part of the BoomTown Gatherings, a series of warm-up parties across the UK ahead of the festival that will take place in August in the county of Hampshire....
This was a sort of homecoming… Because to enjoy an Asian Dub Foundation full-band performance with all the trimmings, including their celebrated DJ-set, it’s not an everyday thing even if you’re in London and the sextet is still the best expression of the city music scene. The band has indeed diversified...
