Kano

Reviews 2

Articles 2

Get Rich But Don’t Switch: Kano Interviewed

John Doran talks to the East London born and bred MC about the joy of brass, trying to heal old feuds and his growing social consciousness

A Quietus Interview

Refusing To Play The Short Game: Kano Interviewed

Kano tells Ben Hewitt about broken promises, the pitfalls of chart rap and whether he really is a "foul mouthed rapper"

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

Top Brass: Theon Cross’ Baker’s Dozen

Ahead of a special performance at Kings Place’s Luminate festival later this month, London jazz outlier Theon Cross takes Stewart Smith through his 13 favourite records, from Stevie Wonder to Kano via Miles Davis and Lauryn Hill

Baker's Dozen

Marking A Time: Ghetts’ Favourite Albums

As Ghetts releases his new album Ghetto Gospel - The New Testament, the London-based rapper guides Tara Joshi through 13 favourite records, from Michael Jackson to Jay-Z, Tupac, Notorious BIG and those closer to home including Kano and Klashnekoff

News 5

Things Learned At: Simple Things 2016

At the sixth edition of CRACK magazine's Simple Things – amidst performances from Karen Gwyer, Kano, and Death Grips — Karl Smith and Danny Riley find a festival both reflective of and feeding on the conditions 2016 has provided, and rallying against them. (Photographs by Perry Gibson, Ro Murphy and Rebecca Cleal)

WATCH: New Kano Video

Kano shares video for Wiley and Giggs-featuring single taken from new album; watch it below. Homepage photo courtesy of Linda Brownlee

The Quietus Hour: Death By Biscuits, Radio Show Two

The best new music presented by bewildered men on cups of tea

WATCH: New Kano Single Hail

Grime godfather Kano returns with a new track Hail, released for Record Store Day on Saturday April 13

Africa Express To Tour Britain By Train

Host of African and Western musicians will take to the tracks for week-long musical train journey

Previously Read

Reviews

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Melbourne two-piece take a drift through pastoral worlds of sound

Books

Jungle Just Crushes: Two Fingas on his Novels Chronicling London’s 1990s Ravers

As his novel Bass Instinct returns to print after 30 years as part of a long-overdue reappraisal of his trilogy of books about jungle, bass and rave in 1990s London, Two Fingas speak to Rob Corsini about being one of the few to document the subculture from within

Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Daryl Worthington

Solo trumpet doom, flamenco free jazz, and new ways of playing the room. Daryl Worthington finds thrilling experiments going down in the tape world this month

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Kano

Reviews 2

Kano
Hoodies All Summer

Kano
Made In The Manor

Articles 2

Get Rich But Don’t Switch: Kano Interviewed

Refusing To Play The Short Game: Kano Interviewed