Few bands at the Essence Music Festival will be awash in the waves of renewal that pool around hip-hop collective the Brand New Heavies. In addition to giving praise to New Orleans, the festival's ...

The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and alternative hip hop group formed in 1985 in Ealing, West London. Originally an instrumental rare groove group, the Brand New Heavies gained a cult following ...

When core members Jan Kincaid and Simon Bartholomew take lead vocal, the songs simply lack flavor (especially a clumsy reggaefied “Spice of Life”). Mostly, the Heavies stay true to the groove ...