Cyclone Wehner, Contributor

"His brand is being 'really fookin' loud'."

Ahead of his return to Australia this summer after two cancelled tours, Jamaican icon Shaggy tells Cyclone he's "happy to be finally coming".

For urban music – R&B, soul and hip hop – the 2010s were about flux and innovation. The decade ushered in new artists, game-changers, subgenres, formats, marketing paradigms and trends. That the culture has myriad contenders for 'Act Of The Decade' (Beyoncé? Kanye West? Frank Ocean?) demonstrates its vitality, writes Cyclone.

#OGFlavas

As part of our end of decade content, some of The Music's team made their case for the best album of the 2010s. Cyclone reckons it's Kanye West's magnum opus, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' – "an incubator of trends for contemporary hip hop, R&B and pop".

Dominic Harrison aka YUNGBLUD tells Cyclone he's not "the fucking Mother Teresa", but he is striving for a brighter future.

Of Monsters & Men commemorate ten years as a band in 2020, and they're starting celebrations early with a stint at Falls Festival. While they're in the country, lead guitarist Brynjar Leifsson wants to give surfing a crack.

The group kick off their first Australian shows this week.

"DAF's secret is the tension they generate out of minimalism and momentum."

Before DAF hit our shores for Melbourne Music Week, frontman Gabriel Delgado-López shares some personal insights from four decades at the coal face of EDM. By Cyclone.