Given that 2009 has been a pretty barren year for hip-hop (again), you could do a lot worse than give the latest effort from Serengeti and Polyphonic a spin, says Andrew Taylor.
Buck 65

Bike For Three! – More Heart Than Brains
Did you ever have a penfriend that you told everything too? Did you swap mixtapes with them? Even if you did, the chances are you probably didn’t make an intercontinental Hip Hop record with them as Canada’s Buck 65 and Belgium’s Greetings from Tuksan have here
Various Artists – Dark Was The Night
It’s a 31 track compilation of exclusive songs to benefit AIDS and HIV awareness. It might also be the greatest grouping yet of TLOBF-friendly artists.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










