Director Suave Shares Debut Single "All I Need" With Genie KG, TiZ EAST, PsychoYP & Vector Tha Viper ...

The track was first released last month as part of her recent Love Is A Kingdom EP, a more intimate and pared-back counter to her debut, Born In The Wild. Produced by Tems herself, the new track plays ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday 4th June, TRENCH took over the Strongroom Bar in Shoreditch for a Grime 3.0 showcase as part of the inaugural SXSW London festival. It’s this meeting of the generations that defines Grime ...

Sounds Like: “In terms of genre, I don’t know; I have struggled with that for a while. I think with the music that’s out now, I guess it would fit in the category of soul, maybe R&B at a push. I don’t ...

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 ...

In the expansive world of UK rap, you’d be hard-pressed to find harder-working music-makers than the men behind the boards—those who create the soundscapes for rappers to slew, and make them sound as ...

A little while back, in last year’s blue-sky summer, Youngs Teflon and I sat in an office block kitchen. Lunchtime had petered out into late afternoon and the room had run quiet. Ceramic plates dried ...

Four years is a long time in music, a period where the scene you come back to can feel alien and unfamiliar. Some can’t adapt, but Dave is the exception and the rule. Often the young man from ...