Tinchy Stryder; Magnetic Man – review

Shepherd's Bush Empire; Heaven, both LondonIs there no genre so forbidding that it cannot be made into pop? The story of home-grown urban music begs the question. Over the past couple of years, previously grim no-go areas of sound have been turned into lush playgrounds open to all. Grime and dubstep have undergone radical and lucrative makeovers, prettified into a blooming strain of chart-pop.Where once there were wastelands full of knives and upturned shopping trolleys, children now play. Liter...

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