From the Mouths of Babes 4: A Year in Music 2019

The world turns, a series of revolutions; minutes pass, lives wend and leap; music is born and set free into the world, which turns, a series of revolutions. Life is a series of revolutions, and music is a revolutionary force. Life is music, music is life. Here at PROLE JAZZ we’ve spent the past couple […]

From the Mouths of Babes 3: A Year in Music 2019

In today’s end of year round up we chatted to two drummers, a saxophonist and a shamanic glitterfool from all across the galactic swirls of the cosmic jazz scene . Basically a band waiting to form! It’s a PROLE JAZZ honour to welcome Betamax Killer, iconic beatman from spacebabes Comet is Coming; Donna Thompson, rhythmatist […]

From the Mouths of Babes 2: A Year in Music 2019

2019 is nearly over! Here at PROLE JAZZ we’re celebrating the year in music with our revamped feature, From the Mouths of Babes. Over the festive season we sent intrepid word-meister Oliver Porpoise Firefly a-wanderin’ the mean streets of the cities of Planet Earth to quiz humans of musical significance on their opinions on what […]

From the Mouths of Babes 1: A Year in Music 2019

So we’ve already compiled our own PROLE JAZZ favourite Sheffield tunes of 2019 (read all about it HERE & HERE), but what do we know right? It’s well established that collective wisdom trumps individual decision-making (albeit under a strict set of assumptions that sadly general elections do not manage to adhere to) and so we […]

PROLE JAZZ SONGS OF SHEFFIELD 2019 (#25 – #1)

2019 in Sheffield will be remembered as one of the most incredible years in this history of the city’s wild and abundant music scene. The releases have been thick, fast and joyous: it’s been an incandescent 12 months for noises of all genres and flavours. Gargantuan love to all the creative sonic renegades on the […]

PROLE JAZZ SONGS OF SHEFFIELD 2019 (50 – 26)

2019 has been a whirlwind annus mirabilis of musical innovation and sonic excess here in Sheffield. An incredibly diverse array of insanely talented noise-shamans have released all kinds of bliss junk across town: it’s been a feral year of psychedelic klezmer, outsider folk, ecstatic prog-skronk, robot funk, surf-pop, indie bop, hip hop, death jazz and […]

JACK CHAT 1: BEYOND LIBIDO, SPACE JAZZ, TANTRIC NOISE

Welcome Readers! The PROLE JAZZ gang are deliriously pleased to present Jack Chat, a shiny new column dedicated to the efforts of the good Captain to capture the utterances and opinions of the musical luminaries of Planet Earth. To prepare for this debut episode we commanded tea-boy & meteor freak Captain Jack Avery to train under masterful […]

Broc on the Bloc IV: Snap Ankylosaurus & The Mighty Oaks

Friends! Summer is Dead & Trees are aflame with Fiery Leaves. A Biting Wind howls a Promise of Winter. It hasn’t Stopped Raining in about 5 years. Do Not Despair!!! Here at PROLE JAZZ we have words of subtle beauty to dazzle the senses & lift the spirit, sentences like joy elevators to distract the […]

Panel of Proles #4: Yo Dynamo ~ Octosplurge

How much blistering sound is it possible to make in a band of just two people? History has shown us the answer is Quite A Lot. From the swamp blues of The White Stripes to the anthemic rock of Japandroids to the noise maelstrom of Lightning Bolt, some of the wildest and most cacophonous music […]

Broc on the Block III: An audience with Professor Chill

In this Summer Special episode of Broc on the Bloc, we at PROLE JAZZ commissioned cosmic diva & interview guru extraordinaire Celestial Broc to seek out profound and transcendental musical wisdom, to uncover the metaphysics of sonic euphoria, to delve into the vibrational basis of our physical and spiritual existence. To resolve these conundra, she […]