The middle-class blues This new track by XL Middleton, I think could resonate with many working people...
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Ms Dynamite, Judgement Days, Polydor, 2005. Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings judges Ms Dynamite’s second album a mismatch of unremarkable smooth music and…
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.
Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, by Carolyn Cooper, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Book review – Tom Jennings Carolyn Cooper’s Sound Clash sees contemporary reggae as rebel music, still. Tom Jennings is mightily impressed
Beautiful Struggles and Gangsta Blues. Music review/essay – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ urban music review of the year 2004.
Pick A Bigger Weapon, The Coup, Epitaph Records, 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings reviews a new album from the radical Cali rap duo.
Dead Prez: three new albums in 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings. A slew of new Dead Prez releases deepen and diversify revolutionary US hip-hop, according to Tom Jennings.
Hip Hop Is Dead - review Tom Jennings interprets Nas’ provocation that ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’ in terms of the limited liberal horizons of civil rights.
Rebelution - review Tanya Stephens’ new album Rebelution is subtitled ‘a movement without denial or regret’ – making class-conscious ethics central to reggae’s message. Tom Jennings rides its rhythms.
