London’s illustrations community is a tight-knit web of talented creatives who lead the way in the global illustrator sphere (if indeed there is such a thing). But when we encountered the work of Tiff McGinnis (AKA Grande Dame), we were struck by the way she covers so many disciplines from …
Neneh Cherry is a music phenomenon, having started out in punk bands such as Rip Rag & Panic and the seminal Slits, before gaining worldwide chart success in the ’90s with albums such as Raw Like Sushi and Man. Most recognisable through her smash hit ‘Buffalo Stance’, Cherry has now …
The Thing are a phenomenal world-renowned jazz band who take the genre and fuse it with a more popular sound. To do this, the group have collaborated with artists such as Joe McPhee and Thurston Moore, and reworked tracks from the likes of PJ Harvey and The White Stripes. This …
ZZ Ward is an up-and-coming artist from Oregon in the US. She’s a total breath of fresh air, an authentic blues artist (Ward cites legends such as Muddy Waters and Big Mama Thornton as influences) with a twist of hip-hop, putting a contemporary spin on a genre that’s been around …
Who would’ve thought mixing electropop, 70’s jazz and Motown funk would have produced the likes of a finger tapping, body jolting groove. Following Krazy Baldhead’s momentously acclaimed ‘The B Suite’ released in 2009, his most recent anticipated EP, ‘The Noise in the Sky’, lends a new and softer touch to …
I played the first track of this new album ‘Point Of Go’ and thought it was bloody brilliant! I was initially met with unusual album artwork cover content with a vintage sprinkled, propaganda-like, and mildly de-saturated image collage. The message, I was unsure of, but the music itself spoke volumes.…
Israeli post-funk, nine piece instrumentalists, The Apples are soon to release their latest single, Thang / Powder. All of us here at Planet Notion think that you’ll be sucked into their world of jazz/soul/funk/the list goes on…sound as quickly as we were. Think big band, mixed with AIM whilst …
Blue Fields are our Band Of The Week. The band is comprised of international members: Canadian producer Mike Shannon, Japanese guitarist Takeshi Nishimoto and half-Turkish half-German vocalist Fadila. Together, they’ve released Ghost Story, a creation of modern experimental jazzy tracks that we’ll be reviewing later on in the week. …
You’d be wrong in thinking this is a still caption of Pat Boone in the 50s – with that slick white suit, the pristine quiff and those cheekbones contoured like stone. But this is where the parallels between separate characters from separate eras end because you are in fact ogling …
She’s spent all morning and early afternoon shooting with GQ and has only just had a moment to eat. So when a delectable Wagamama’s chicken katsu is placed under her nose, the second thing I’m stunned by, after her staggeringly infallible skin and enrapturing eyes of course, is Delilah’s patience …
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