Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...

Dub Colossus has re-entered our turbulent reality with the vibrant album "Dub Will Keep Us Together". Founded back in 2008 by the late Nick Page, aka Count Dubulah, this dynamic global fusion project continues to thrive on dissolving borders. Operating as a defiant counter-movement against wars, climate chaos, and corruption, the music feels intensely vital, beautifully blurring Amharic, Spanish, French, and English over sturdy...