DC has returned with the video for his new single, "Soldier". The new track might be short and sweet, but he crams a lot in ...

It is with heavy hearts that we report the untimely passing of former TRENCH columnist Danielle Scott-Haughton, also known as ...

South Kilburn rhymer Hurricane is back with new single, "Peace".

Sounds Like: “I’d say it’s like yin and yang. I like to think of it as a sound of pain vocalised in a peaceful way.” First Music That Inspired Him: “I’ve gotten this question a lot in label meetings ...

As we all delve into the BBC’s captivating new drama series, ‘Champion’, TRENCH meets the cultural powerforce behind it. We explore how showrunner Candice Carty-Williams’ love of UK garage and seminal ...

In the year 2000, UK garage was at the epicenter of British underground music and culture. Anywhere and everywhere—from the block to the barbershop—you couldn’t walk past a corner of London where the ...

Rewind back to the early 2000s when rave culture and bass music dominated the British landscape with a breathe of fresh air. A new chapter of British culture had been ushered in and the soundtrack was ...

To be truthful: at first, I was a fan of Trap Lore Ross’ work. Stumbling across a video assessing the rise and fall of Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, the young YouTuber from Bognor Regis ...

Upon discovering Chidera Eggerue, also known as The Slumflower, it’s not hard to be pulled into her orbit. In person, Eggerue is as bubbly as her tweets of affirmation and body positivity suggest. Her ...

If it was the February drill heater “Year Of The Real” that first alerted you to the powerful tone of Manchester rapper Meekz, you’d be forgiven for assuming he was one of the genre’s staples, such is ...

What an eventful year it has been! After a 2024 where Black British music was under the microscope from all directions—with many questioning if it had the legs to sustain itself amid a downward trend ...

It’s around 1am on a cold November night in 2019. At Brixton Jamm, UK rap pensioners Pete & Bas leave the stage after a typically raucous set and, depressingly, half the crowd exit with them. Onstage ...