DC has returned with the video for his new single, "Soldier". The new track might be short and sweet, but he crams a lot in ...

It is with heavy hearts that we report the untimely passing of former TRENCH columnist Danielle Scott-Haughton, also known as ...

South Kilburn rhymer Hurricane is back with new single, "Peace".

What an eventful year it has been! After a 2024 where Black British music was under the microscope from all directions—with many questioning if it had the legs to sustain itself amid a downward trend ...

Sounds Like: “I’d say it’s like yin and yang. I like to think of it as a sound of pain vocalised in a peaceful way.” First Music That Inspired Him: “I’ve gotten this question a lot in label meetings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My first and only Wireless Festival was back in 2013, a glorious peak for my evolving rap fandom. Not only did I see a then-ascending A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz perform ...

Ruff Sqwad have shared a new single, "The Return", a team-up with So Large and Manga Saint Hilare. Produced by Prince Rapid, as always, "The Return" builds on the momentum built up by the two Flee FM ...

In 2011, grime was dead, or so the cynics said. The scene’s legends were forced to abscond their origins in the midst of a music industry yet to see the genre’s value, trading fiery underground ...

Lambeth rap-riser Ceebo has shared his new mixtape, blair babies—a politically conscious document of the wreckage left in the wake of Blair's government. The project tackles generational trauma, ...