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Rinse FM

September 2016

  • Skepta at the Mercury awards in London

    Skepta’s Mercury win is vindication for grime, the soundtrack of my generation

    Frances Acquaah
    Last week’s triumph for Konnichiwa is a sweet moment for a genre too long overlooked

November 2014

  • Sarah Lockhart and Gordon "Geeneus" Warren

    Jungle, garage and grime: 20 years of Rinse FM

    Rinse FM has gone from edgy pirate radio station to mainstream presence taking over the charts. Twenty years after it began, how can it keep its edge? Alex Macpherson finds out

October 2013

  • Wiley as Angel Of The North

    Music blog
    What would Wiley's statue look like?

    The petition to get a statue of Wiley built in east London is gaining momentum. We looked at great monuments from history and gave them a grime makeover

July 2013

  • Katy B: ‘You never know, I might get pregnant and make a country album.’

    Katy B on her new album, raving and sticking to her pirate radio roots

    The Mercury-nominated On a Mission turned Katy B in to a dubstep star. But to record her followup album, she has gone back to former pirate radio station Rinse FM where she first made her name singing hooks on grime tracks, she tells Sam Wolfson

September 2012

  • Rinse FM station manager Sarah Lockhart and founder DJ Geeneus.

    Rinse FM: 'Radio, not the internet, gave me my break,' says Katy B

    Urban music's chart power is thanks in no small part to ex-pirate station Rinse FM. On its 18th birthday, Miranda Sawyer learns how it climbed from tower blocks to the very top

October 2011

  • Oneman

    Harangue the DJ
    Oneman Q&A

    The Rinse FM regular and UK bass renegade empties the contents of his psychic record bag

August 2011

  • Geeneus-Rinse-FM

    How Rinse FM, the radio station behind Dizzee Rascal and Katy B, keeps it salty

    Former London pirate has come a long way since it used to broadcast from founder Geeneus's living room. But, he says, "none of the DJs can sit safe"

October 2010

  • Katy B

    Rinse FM pirate radio station goes legit

    After 16 years broadcasting from east London rooftops, influential station started by DJ Geneeus wins Ofcom licence

June 2010

  • Wiley

    Music blog
    Rinse FM finally gets the recognition it deserves

  • Dizzee Rascal

    Rinse FM awarded broadcasting licence

May 2009

  • Grime musician Wiley

    TV and radio blog
    Rinse FM brought dubstep to my Daewoo

    Johnny Dee: With its blurting DJs, futuristic music and shout-outs to the Copenhagen crew, listening to this frenetic radio station is like plugging your head inside another reality

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