Public Enemy
If hip-hop is supposed to have come a long way since the scratch-heavy hustle of ’80s rap, no-one told Public Enemy. The Long Islanders have, across their 25-year career, stayed defiantly true to the big-beat sound and political fury that made...
Public Enemy
Those of us who are paid by the word can only thank Chuck D and co for the unwieldy title of the latest PE effort, which, though displaying no evidence that the’ve listened to any hip-hop in the last 10 years, has a certain loud and unreasonable...
Essential Weekender : London Hackney Marshes
The relocation of 2001's Essential Festival from Brighton to a remote corner of London allows for a breathtaking sense of scale. Never mind that it seems decadent to revel in the midst of so much deprivation and hopelessness, check it out. Two...
