The greatest coping mechanism is lying in bed, turning off the lights, closing your eyes, putting in headphones, and blasting whatever music you want, for …
An Interview with Shem Obara
Every artist begins at a respective ‘square one’. The place that started their creative journey- that temporal space that they will later refer to as …
Dancehall: Old Faces on a New Scene
Dr Sonjah Niaah, the Director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies dubbed the genre of dancehall as the …
Why Art doesn’t Age– The Lasting Legacy of Traditional Art in our Technological World
To state the obvious, art is very, very old. People have been driven to create, to make marks and produce images since what feels to …
A Poem By and Conversation With the Brilliant Cait Whiteley.
Cait Whiteley is from a small coastal town in South Wales. Having grown up surrounded by the countryside and the beach, in the world of …
‘Roma’: A personal message to the Latin American Upper Class
As I sat in the living room of my flat, getting ready to watch Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Roma’, I didn’t quite know what to expect. However, …
A New Era of Conscious Rap
2018 saw an influx of vulnerability infiltrate mainstream hip hop music. With the likes of Aminé, BROCKHAMPTON, SABA, Chance the Rapper, Noname and Vic Mensa …
How Grunge Rock’s Cultural Uproar Changed an Entire City
In the mid 1990’s, Seattle became the center of the music universe, when grunge bloomed and flourished, and flannels and Doc Martens came into Vogue. …
Reflecting on the Rise of UK Drill: Does Music Reflect Your Environment or Shape it?
With both Headie One and DigDat landing their tunes in the charts, as well as Homerton B by Unknown T and Gun Lean by Russ …
New Platforms and New Artists: An Interview with singer Dayana
The steps towards stardom are seemingly incomparable today to what they have traditionally been. When it comes to accumulating a fan-base, cultivating an image, and …