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Quick and easy: just sort the subreddit by FRESH and you’ll have a feed of new releases :)
The Easy Ways To Find New Grime Music
Bandcamp
A lot of grime releases end up on Bandcamp, use the following tags (there are some additional minor ones as well):
We have an automated feed for Bandcamp releases on our discord server.
Blogs
These blogs generally post info about new grime releases:
Discord
The #grime-only
channel on the /r/grime discord https://discord.gg/STmpA7aFRv often has new grime posted.
We also have a feed for NEW grime releases on Bandcamp, and another feed for NEW grime uploads on YouTube.
Playlists
Below is a list of playlists across platforms, primarily dedicated to promoting newly released grime music. If you have one, send us a message. Any platform welcome.
Apple Music
- Grime 2.0 (by Nekkbreth)
- The Shapin’ Grime Playlist (by Shapin’ Grime)
Deezer
Soundcloud
Spotify
- 2023 Grime | Fresh Grime | New Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/[email protected])
- DiRT & GRiME & STUFF (by GRiNDHOUSE)
- The 1XTRA Grime Show (by sir.spyro)
- The Art of Grime: Grime 2022 (by ryan10moss)
- The Shapin’ Grime Playlist (by Shapin’ Grime)
- UK Grime: Curated by J-Fresh | Made In The UK (by Made In The UK)
Tidal
- 2023 Grime | New Grime | Fresh Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/[email protected])
YouTube
- 2023 Grime / Fresh Grime / New Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/[email protected])
- Grime Hotlist (by YouTube Music)
- Underground Grime (by YouTube Music)
For new radio sets and other misc videos (e.g interviews), try this playlist
Reddit & VK
REDDIT: Sort /r/grime by the FRESH tag and you’ll have a neat feed of new releases (type flair:FRESH
in the searchbar). Every new release tends to get posted here. If you have an RSS reader, you can following this RSS feed to grab all fresh music submissions from this sub.
Check /r/grimeinstrumentals for beats.
A bot automatically adds the top upvoted posts every week to a Spotify playlist.
Quick tip: if you’re on desktop, you can add this bookmarklet to your bookmarks. If you click it while browsing the r/grime feed, it’ll open a new tab with a YouTube playlist of all the videos on the r/grime page you click the bookmarklet on. A quick way to listen to all the videos posted on the r/grime frontpage, for example.
VK: VK is a Russian social media platform. VK is host to one of the largest grime forums on the internet (aside from /r/grime), Grime Music Group. You don’t need to know Russian - they’re generally on-top of new releases and post new grime regularly. It’s a useful feed to use.
Some good accounts to follow that post new releases:
- FutureCurse
- INTLGrime - GlobalGrime/International Grime posts non-UK grime releases.
- Grimemusicgroup
- Here’s a Twitter list containing the above listed accounts.
Many artists, labels, stations etc can also be found on Twitter. Peep our Twitter Lists:
YouTube
The following channels upload new grime content (see here for YouTube channels that upload old grime content). Note that were are other YouTube channels that upload new grime, but they typically do so more rarely, and are not listed here as a result. Also not included are artist-specific channels.
- 1Forty
- BIG TV
- Brasil Grime Show - Outlet for Brazilian grime.
- FrakturedPlanet
- GlobalGrime
- GRIME STATION 🇧🇷
- Grime Originals
- InsideTheRide Tv
- JDZMedia
- Keep Hush - Post grime sets.
- Keepinitgrimy
- LC Talent Media
- Lord of the Mics
- L&G. TV
- Mode London
- Ozone Media
- Pyro Radio
- Reprezent Radio
- Rinse FM
- Rosko Records
- SBTV
- #TheFatSteveShow
- TMTV PR
- Treehouse Manchester
Radio stations
Radio Cult, on Android or Apple, is highly recommended - it is an app created by people from within the scene and makes it easy to listen to stations live that broadcast grime music. Most of the stations you’d want, including the ones below, can be listened to via Radio Cult.
BBC 1Xtra (Sir Spyro, DJ Target)
- Timetable: Sir Spyro timetable (every 01:00 Thursday, 23:00 Friday), DJ Target timetable
- Where to listen live: bbc.co.uk
1Xtra plays a diverse range of music, but DJ Target and Sir Spyro both have shows where they play plenty of grime. Spyro is more-so grime oriented.
LVLZ Radio
- Timetable:
- Where to listen live: Radio Cult app
- Socials: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, YouTube
Mode FM
- Timetable:
- Where to listen live:
- Socials: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, YouTube
Radcap
Russian radio station that plays grime songs.
- Timetable:
- Where to listen live: radcap (enter url manually)
- Socials:
Rinse FM
One of the best grime stations out there. Rinse FM has a long and storied history. It is generally reliable for high quality radio sets and interviews.
- Timetable: rinse.fm/radio/
- Where to listen live: Visit rinse.fm/player or tune into 106.8 FM in the Greater London area.
- Socials: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, YouTube. The subreddit /r/rinse has a feed of their soundcloud and youtube uploads.
Trickstar Radio
- Timetable: trickstarradio.com/schedule
- Where to listen live: Apple app
- Socials: Mixcloud, YouTube (KXVU, a DJ on the station, uploads content here instead)
PyroRadio
- Timetable: PyroRadio.com
- Where to listen live: Visit pyroradio.com/radio/
- Socials: Mixcloud, YouTube. The subreddit /r/PyroRadio has a feed of their soundcloud and youtube uploads.