Sounds of Isolation

A couple of weeks back we released Now That’s What I Call Quarantine Vol. 1: Lockdown Anthems, a compilation of 20 tunes written and recorded by some of our favourite Sheffield-based musicians. These songs were predominantly recorded live, with acoustic instruments, and so we sent maverick electro-queen Celestial Broc on a virtual quest to compile […]

Now that’s what I call Quarantine

These are strange times. How can musicians respond to this unprecedented crisis? Musically, of course! Here at PROLE JAZZ we asked our favourite musicians from Sheffield town to write and record a song during their lockdown. We’ve compiled these incredible tunes and have just released Now that’s what I call Quarantine Vol 1: Lockdown Anthems, […]

Broc on the Bloc VI: Submerged in Nether Edge

Just a few weeks (now known as lifetimes) ago, Sheffield’s much loved avant-pop party babes Life Aquatic Band released their new album L.A.B.P.D. (Or, Band on the Hunt). In response to this major cultural happening we saw no option but to send roving reportress and interlocutor queen Celestial Broc into the hinterlands of south-west Sheffield […]

PROLE JAZZ Songs of February 2020

We’re a bit late to round up February’s sexy wave forms here at PJHQ, bit distracting being caught in the grip of a global pandemic innit… It was a month not to be easily forgotten, musically-speaking; and a veritable maelstrom of releases kept us happily busy aboard the PROLE JAZZ sausage yacht, blissed-up in pre-corona […]

Broc On The Block V: Making Waves

Reportage junky Celestial Broc caught up with indie songsters The Wave Pictures during their latest whistle stop tour of the UK. This crew boast a magnificently impressive back catalogue of witty pop songs, the beginnings of which started in their teenage bedrooms. Settle into your seats for a dissection of Dave’s prolific song writing process, […]

JANUARY JIVE: PROLE JAZZ SONGS OF THE MONTH

The relentlessly prolific musicians of Planet Earth have been working overtime this January, seemingly determined to top the creative magic of 2019 with wild and inventive sounds to kick off the new decade. The releases spanned enchanted folk to noise-pop to surf jive to robot jazz: a festival of eclecticism, a microcosm of what that […]

Immediate Sonic Nostalgia: 10 incredible albums you may have missed in 2019

Music is a deluge these days; releases pour down like joyous rain. In 2019 PROLE JAZZ managed to review some of our favourite albums of the year – Vula Viel‘s Do Not Be Afraid, K.O.G & the Zongo Brigade’s Wahala Wahala, Dead Slow Hoot‘s No Reunions, Vipertime’s Shakedown, Leafcutter John’s Yes! Come Parade With Us, […]

Decadent December ~ PROLE JAZZ Songs of the Month

Friends! 2020 is upon us, the year of the Dawson, and we’re very excited to present this new PROLE JAZZ feature, a monthly round-up of the incandescent songs borne of the Cosmic Citadel of Magical Sheffield and beyond. Each month we’ll publish a version of this article first on the fantastic Now Then app with […]

From the Mouths of Babes 6: A Year in Music 2019

Amigos y amigas! Welcome to the final and ultimate episode of From the Mouths of Babes, our end-of-year feature in which we hassled the great and the good of the music scene to share their thoughts and reflections with us. This year we have had record numbers of contributors (a coincidentally apt 19 of you! […]

From the Mouths of Babes 5: A Year in Music 2019

2020 has begun! It’ll take quite something to top last year’s musical shenanigans, which have been extravagant and diverse, a veritable earfest of all kinds of noises, from intergalactic jazz to rainbowed skronk to banshee folk oddments. Here at PROLE JAZZ we’ve been enjoying taking stock of 2019 by chatting to our musical buddies up […]