music

Tom Jennings judges Ms Dynamite’s second album a mismatch of unremarkable smooth music and…

Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.

Carolyn Cooper’s Sound Clash sees contemporary reggae as rebel music, still. Tom Jennings is mightily impressed

Tom Jennings’ urban music review of the year 2004.

Tom Jennings reviews a new album from the radical Cali rap duo.

A slew of new Dead Prez releases deepen and diversify revolutionary US hip-hop, according to Tom Jennings.

Tom Jennings’ essay reviews recent radical US hip-hop

Tom Jennings follows trends in contemporary urban music.

Tom Jennings interprets Nas’ provocation that ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’ in terms of the limited liberal horizons of civil rights.

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.

The musicians’ union called a ban on all commercial recordings, as part of a struggle to get royalties from record sales for a union fund for out…

A personal account of the battle of Waterloo, when Anti Fascist Action trashed a gig by neo-nazi label Blood and Honour by disrupting their…