Ghanaian music star, activist and GRAMMY Nominee Rocky Dawuni has just released a colourful new video for “Champion Arise“ off his “Beats of Zion” album (Six Degrees.). Dawuni’s voice is at its emotive best on this combination of catchy choruses and melodic guitar riffs all riding on a hard-hitting modern reggae rhythm produced by Dawuni himself. Rocky artfully combines words and lyrics with a call to...

Ultan’s single, "The Tempest," erupts not so much into the room as it does through the floorboards, dragging with it the scent of wet wool and imminent confrontation. This Dublin solo musician, a cartographer of past agonies, presents an energetic rock piece that feels less like a song about history and more like a fragment of it, throbbing and urgent. The main riff careers...