There’s not long to go before Evolution Festival, held on the quaysides of Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne over the Queen’s Jubilee weekend. To supplement the main festival, those who prefer their acts a little more underground can rejoice: Evolution Emerging – being put on with North East music supporter Generator, alongside Amazing Radio and Narc. Magazine – takes place on the Friday before the festival proper, taking over the cultural mecca that is the... Continue reading Preview: Evolution Emerging 2012

This brand new greenfield event is brought to us by the team behind Glastonbury Dance Village’s Wow! Stage and takes place in the heart of Bristol – very much a Mecca for British music. Roots Manuva, Annie Mac and Foreign Beggars are amongst the highlights on the main stage, along with a four hour set [...]

This new track from the forthcoming Booda French EP, Ventolin, has been remixed by Mecca:83. This one features one half of Tanya Morgan, Von Pea and is full of those sounds we have come to expect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

If you're celebrating Memorial Day Weekend in style this year, there's nowhere else to do it than in Las Vegas. America's newfound mecca for EDM has an incredible amount of talent rolling through for the weekend, and we'll tell you about the parties you cannot miss.

*Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color* is the new album from *Brother Ali* and finds him reborn and rejuvenated. After embarking on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Muslim rapper, inspired by his journey entered the studio, this time linking up with Seattle’s Jake One (50 Cent, De La Soul, T.I.,...

In a blow to the Gold Coast music community, its longest-operating independent music store Sunflower Music is closing after 30 years. A mecca for people seeking to find new music, it was also the main source to purchase tickets for local concert and festival tickets including Splendour In The Grass (before it went online) and Big Day Out, and also acted as an OzTix outlet for eight years.

Screened only in 4K (most cinemas only have 2K capabilites) and filmed over five years on 70mm, Samsara is a stunningly visual experience. Ron Fricke really knows how to take an amazing photograph. What he doesn't know, however, is how to direct. Whilst the music and visuals work seamlessly together, the film lacks direction and a story. Compared to Koyaanisqatsi this doesn't go anywhere and doesn't have the same message, or any message, to go with it. But that doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable. For an hour and forty minutes Fricke shows us the beauty ...

Danny Brown layin’ it down over an instrumental from the late Detroit hip hop legend J Dilla. The cut is off a new CD celebrating Detroit at a longstanding hip hop mecca, and showcasing the new crop of MCs the city has to offer. The album’s release date is June 12th. More info here.

A film documentary chronicling the rise of Liverpool as a music mecca is nearing completion, Beatles historian Bill Harry has reported

Mecca Lecca is excited to announce the release of Erik Gundel’s first solo LP, A Home To Keep You, on July 31, 2012. Missing the stillness and quiet of his native Vermont, Gundel sought to create something more naturalistic and calm than his previous recordings. The resulting album is an instrumental journey ripe with dynamic [...]

Meanwhile, inside the mind of Nobodaddy… Man, who the hell is Jason Lescalleet? (I knew this would happen… I f-ing told P and Squeo when I signed up for this wank-off job that that I only wanted to write about Collective">Animal Collective and Radiohead, and they said “oh sure, fine, yeah,” but now look what lands in my lap. Bullshit.) Lescalleet, Lescalleet, Lescalleet… see, if you say it a bunch of times, it doesn’t even seem like a real thing . It sounds like “let’s go eat.” Which, now that I think about it, I kind of want ...

A film documentary chronicling the rise of Liverpool as a music mecca is nearing completion, Beatles historian Bill Harry has reported

Green Velvet , believe it or not- house master Don Cajmere (AKA Curtis Alan Jones ,) studied chemical engineering at the University of Illinois, before he began dabbling in the electric culture and scene in house music.  It was only mid-way through grad school when he returned to Chicago; the booming mecca of house music- to pursue his dream of producing such measures.. Some caught-on selectors are .. “ Coffee Pot (It’s time for the Percolator) ”  [Clubhouse Records] “ Brighter Days ” A cunning collabo with Dajae soared the Billboard Dance Charts, where it maintained a comfortable spot of … Continue...

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