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.
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'.
'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.