Music & Dance

Arts & Culture, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, May 12, 2012 0:00 - 1 Comment

Music | Review: Brother Ali (XOYO)

In anticipation of the release of his new album "Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color", US Hip-hop artist Brother Ali is currently on a UK tour. Ceasefire's Usayd Younis went to see him perform in London.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, April 22, 2012 0:00 - 2 Comments

Music | The Riots: A Grime Perspective

Like much social unrest, the music of the streets has drawn its own narratives of the revolts in August 2011. Terence Elliott-Cooper picks out some of his favourites

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 22:12 - 0 Comments

Music | Review: Dilated Peoples (Islington Academy)

Formed two decades ago, LA HipHop collective Dilated Peoples are still going strong. Adam Elliott-Cooper went to see them perform at the Islington Academy.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire, Unknown Spins - Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:09 - 0 Comments

Unknown Spins | Where’s the (musical) avant garde?

In the first installment of his new fortnightly column on experimental and independent music, Ceasefire's Andrew Fleming takes a look at two recent books on the musical avant-garde: an analysis of the cult journal 'Source', and Simon Reynolds' much-discussed work on 'Retromania'.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments

Music | Review: Verbal Terrorists – “The War on Terra”

'The War on Terra', the second album by underground political hip-hop duo Verbal Terrrorists, "embodies the traditional spirit of hip-hop as a form of cultural and ideological resistance against hegemony" says Tom Clements.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 30, 2011 12:30 - 0 Comments

Music | Review: ‘We Must Speak’ by Fold

Tomorrow sees the release of 'We Must Speak', the debut EP by Fold, a new UK Hip-Hop collective. Ceasefire's Terence Elliott-Cooper gives it a listen.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 16, 2011 20:52 - 1 Comment

Music London streets, a capella

French singer-songwriter June Caravel spent an entire year making a video, 'London Song', in which (almost) every word in the lyrics is the name of a London street. In an exclusive article, she explains.

Music & Dance - Saturday, July 16, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Music First Night of the Proms (Royal Albert Hall)

Ceasefire's Classical and Opera critic, Paul Guest, reviews the first night of this year's BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 21:36 - 1 Comment

Music Benjamin Grosvenor, Wigmore Hall (Piano recital)

Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, reviewing a piano recital by Benjamin Grosvenor at Wigmore Hall, finds a "remarkable talent".

Music & Dance - Saturday, June 18, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Music Nico Muhly: Seeing is Believing (Review)

Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, reviews "Seeing is believing", the latest music CD from Nico Muhly, an "undisputed champion of contemporary classical music".