Name: Kadija Kamara
Real name: Kadija Kamara
Bragging rights: Supported the likes of Anthony Hamilton, Yolanda Brown and Omar Lye-Fook at their live shows in London. Three top 10 Traxsource singles, with a No. 1 in 2011, called ‘Better Things to Come’ with Joey Negro. Several successful …
Josh Osho is the next artist to talk about what inspires his music.
There is this enchanting charm and powerfully hypnotizing effect the blues has on me. I stumbled across my first portal into the blues through Muddy Waters, the acclaimed father of the electric Chicago blues, and …
He looks like Beck, sings like Bowie and plays guitar Clapton. It’s like a snowball of the noughties’ cream of the crops, and the flame happens to reignite in Geva Alon. The Israeli blues-rock and folk singer-songwriter releases his fourth studio album titled In The Morning Light and with much …
As we mentioned earlier in the week, we’re loving ZZ Ward’s contemporary take on blues. To get yall who can’t stop listening to W¥tch Hauβ and Night Bus out of your supposed tastemaker ruts, ZZ has kindly put together an Essential Blues Playlist. Her tracklisting includes classics from Robert …
Fancy something different? Or just love everything about the ’50s?
The perfect night to go back in time, where wearing A-symmetrical polka dot dresses and pocket watches is not all about being distinctive, but being nostalgic. The Blues Kitchen, a well-established Rock ‘n’ Roll bar in Camden, have brilliantly put …
New York City is like no other city for numerous reasons. In fact, it’s more like a thousand frenetic, overpopulated, flamboyant cities squashed into tiny gridded avenues where everything changes faster than you can hail a cab or grab a cup of “cawfee”. So it seems inevitable that the music …
Crafted in a purely instinctive environment, About Group have managed to form something new and refreshing. With some songs being written beforehand, but no-one being allowed to work on anything until meeting at Abbey Road, Start and Complete is a completely unorthodox record. The thrust of this being that the …
Kurt Vile is on the road. There’s a slight echo over the phone, a sort of tinny sound found only in small spaces provided to you by the back of a smallish van, and the window is down as the vroom of passing vehicles intersects our conversation. Today he is …
Nicole Atkins, a self-trained American singer-songwriter, is due to set foot on our soil in the not so distant future. Having already been given the seal of approval by Jools Holland a good couple of years back now, she has since broken off from major label Columbia to do things …
Connan Hosford seems to just be one of those people who soaks up music like a sponge; from a very young age he was exposed to music- his father was a guitarist- and he recorded his first song, Muesli, at five years of age. We’re not sure if that’s true …
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