A concert day already runs on tight timing. Musicians, stagehands, and managers juggle sound checks, travel windows

New Wave caught up with Addy Awofisayo, Head of YouTube Music Sub-Saharan Africa , to talk about all things music.

This year, neurodiversity has seen an increase in representation across the world of music. Let’s find out more.

From the very first note, UK R&B songstress Bellah’s new single, ‘Typical' featuring Tampa-native Destin Conrad announces itself with effortless confidence. Teaming up with Destin Conrad, the track is a sultry, intoxicating blend of warmth, intimacy, and late-night allure. ‘Typical’ captures the heat and subtle tension of a steamy night between two lovers, layered with the faintest touch of toxicity, while Bellah and Conrad glide over the production with seamless chemistry th

East London singer, songwriter, and producer kwn shares her latest offering, the infatuated ‘hopeless romantic’ as she segways from the usual, thrilling encounters, for something much, much sweeter - manifests the type of love she wants.   Still, however, embodying the spirit of a rockstar, at least musically for the first twenty seconds of ‘Hopeless Romantic’, a riff is played by an electric guitar that thrums, with the occasional staccato drum beat, arguably tricks you into

Catch  is MOBO-nominated rapper, who first caught the eye with a verse on north London rapper Clavish’s track ‘Stay Rappin'’. The voice. The cadence. The authority and authenticity as she delivered heavy-handed with a vim that felt as if it smacked you in the face. Hard-hitting rap at its finest, in an era of UK rap, which at least in the mainstream has dipped a bit.   From South of the river, she has also featured on the projects of Marnz Malone and Tiny Boost, as well as co

A decade into her career, Ella Mai sounds more certain than ever, and on her third album, Do You Still Love  Me? , that certainty is rooted entirely in love. Ella Mai invites us into a chapter of her life defined not by  turbulence, but by tenderness. This R&B album is nothing short of a declaration of love. It feels like a soft exhale, a body of work shaped by security, devotion, and the calm assurance of a woman deeply settled in love (as both  a partner and a mother). That

After a few days of teasing, Lana Del Rey has unveiled her latest witchy number 'White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter' to follow her other two singles 'Henry, come on' and 'Bluebird' which are thought to come from her next album Stove . Tapping more into her country side with it's interesting and longwinded title, ‘White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter’ was co-written by Lana Del Rey, her sister Chuck Grant, her brother-in-law Jason Pickens, and her husband Jeremy Dufrene. The s