Ragga Twins deh bout! Went down a Dance Energy rabbit hole on YouTube last nite. This one was my favourite youtu.be/OSIS3hsaldw?...

Not sure of the exact release date for this eco-concious banger but Cash Crew dropped Green Grass 35 years ago this month. Here they are dropping knowledge on BBC2s Dance Energy, while the crowd busts some moves.. youtu.be/RsRnkac_-_Y?...

Happy 82nd birthday to living legend Dandy Livingstone. Dandy wrote and recorded this classic in London in 1967. He only knew that The Specials had covered it in '79 when he saw them playing it on Top Of The Pops... youtu.be/OXXOaecD52k?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

This is magic. Enjoy. 👇

Released 0TD 30 years ago. Fu-gee-la catapulted The Fugees from underground up'n'comers to international supastars. youtu.be/EF8uT_S7mLM?...

Happy 56th birthday to Rodney P! youtu.be/1kdoK5xXCSU?...

Happy birthday to Yasiin Bey. Still fresh like baby breath after all a these years... youtu.be/4bxNVOyKqy0?...

Both released OTD 45 years ago! What a dilemma. Which single should the cash strapped two-tone pre-teen like me have been asking Santa for?

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives

Civilise an 85er! Remember that time MTV banned the Wake Up video cause it had a black dude in whiteface. youtu.be/ROQfra1p5Fk?...

Happy 59th birthday to Masta Ace. Still one of the freshest MCs out there. IMO Slaughtahouse is probably the most slept on LP in hip-hop.

December 4, 1990: 35 years ago, Brand Nubian released their debut studio album “One For All” featuring the singles “Slow Down”, “Brand Nubian” and “All For One”.
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35 years ago UK hip-hop was having a moment. Mere days after London Posse dropped their seminal LP, the Sindecut released Changing the Scenery. A head spinning mixture of hip-hop, soul and reggae, with an incredible production that shoulda catapulted them to stardom. Instead it's a lost UK classic.

Sound Affects was released on this day 45 years ago. Although Setting Sons is my personal fave, there's an argument that Sound Affects is the Jam's most accomplished LP. Brilliantly mixing emerging post-punk influences with 60s psychedelic pop, this was a band at the very height of its powers.

Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection

36 years ago tonite my flatmate from Washington DC dragged me along Glasgow's Mayfair to see the first Scottish gig of some band called Fugazi. My intro to straight-edge hardcore was unforgettable with an electric atmosphere and a blistering set from one of the greatest live bands ever.

Happy 60th Birthday to Sweet Lou, aka Pretty Mike, aka The Jewish Brad Pitt, aka Country Mike, aka MIKE D , real name Clarence Born on this day 20th November 1965 📷 Ron Wolfson

An important part of Hip-Hop history we don’t talk about enough #hiphophistorymonth rockthebells.com/news/dc-gogo...

The Proclaimers checking their Letter From America publishing for next year

And we go over to our correspondent at the Scottish parliament youtube.com/shorts/6QdUR...

Happy Kieran Tierney, Happy me. Happy Scotland ! 🥹❤️

Scotland could you please just not

Damn! that was fun. Murs was brilliant tonight. Not only a consummate MC, but a perpetual ball of energy. He exuded charisma and good vibes all night. I just may have found my new (old) favourite rapper. He hits Newcastle and Glasgow next - go see him if that's your ends. You can thank me later.

Woah. I just realised Murs is playing in London tonite at the Jazz Cafe and its only a few tube stops away from my hotel. Anyone seen him live - should I go?

Down in that their London for the day. Just went and saw Jennie Baptiste's small but perfectly formed photo exhibition on the UK hip-hop scheme at Somerset House. It's not only brilliant but free (well pay what you can).

Also stumbled across this beauty hiding in one of the reggae boxes. Score! @wrongtom.bsky.social

Exhibit A - Mell'o and DJ Pogo live on Dancedaze in 1990. Just sublime. youtu.be/QQ3ihxuxUOM?...

Funny to think that 39 years ago Cameo were one of the coolest bands on the planet.

Usually our local record fare has pretty slim pickings for an ageing b-boy. However struck gold this weekend

Love this junction box mural in the Govan area of Glasgow celebrating the life of the Glaswegian suffragette, rent strike organiser, activist and politician Helen Crawfurd (1877 to 1954). Cont./ #glasgow #mural #suffragettes #glasgowhistory #govan #streetart

Drroppp! Labcabincalifornia was released 30 years ago OTD. Initially seen as a damp squib by those fiendin for Bizarre Ride 2 it's now widely seen as a 90s classic, not least for the unique production style of a rookie JDilla. Any excuse to post the best music video ever.. youtu.be/wqVsfGQ_1SU?...

Another shout out for this piece on the jaw dropping Good Looking Records doc: open.substack.com/pub/junglist...

Ye Olde Punk ain't wrong!

The Benefactors is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. I could not be more pleased.

My ligaments will not be happy if i start doing this. youtu.be/Zdz88MBWomo

"They're always turnin up with these new words cockneys ain't they" Released OTD 35 years ago Gangster Chronicle is a seminal LP, capturing when UK rap had found its own defiantly British voice, backed by a swaggering sound that owed as much to South London reggae sound systems as US breakbeats.

Great choice Spykidelic! Like Rodney P said "I don't feel no MC like I feel MCD"

"If you bad like Spiro Agnew" For some reason I woke up with this I-Roy classic worming around my brainpan. Not that I'm complaining mind, coz it's bloody brilliant! youtu.be/LFvc-LFRNsk?...

The Redskins released Kick Over the Statues 40 years ago this month. When their record label baulked at releasing it as a benefit single for the anti-apartheid movement, the band seized the masters and rush-released it on independent label Abstract Dance instead. youtu.be/Jnw-lG1kGvI?...

July 1978, Top Rank, Birmingham. The Coventry Automatics support The Clash on the “On Parole” tour

Black Star is headed to the UK. #hiphopsky #blackstarforever

Brrrr, starting to get cold out there. 📷 Jamel Shahbazz

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

Happy birthday to her royal badness, the legendary Roxanne Shante.

After yesterday's wander down rave/house memory lane, today I feel mostly like going back to early UK hiphop... youtu.be/W5OB8UcRuQU?...

Wake Up by Brand Nubian. Released 35 years ago OTD. I love everthing about this this track - it's Afrocentric message, Puba's buttery flow (what an under-rated MC) and the brilliant sample choice. Here are the guys dropping knowledge on the The Party Show. youtu.be/ftKMFZVOmZY?...

"Look up in the sky, it's a bird/ yo, that’s played out! I was gonna say it's a bird-bath/ that's way out!" Homeboy Sandman x Edan youtu.be/xqoImTx4vlo?...

Post lunch slump? Try A Tribe Called Quest with added LONS! youtu.be/E0vrwGw6k_s?...