Afropunk London was the most fashionable event I’ve ever been to. Everything from the labyrinthian industrial complex of a venue, Printworks, to its attendees screamed style. The political-movement-turned-festival is a celebration of diversity in each of the cities it lands in every year, and though principally a festival celebrating black artistry, the motto “No Racism. […]
Live Review: Frank Ocean @ Parklife 2017
At 10:00pm on Sunday evening, the final night of Manchester’s Parklife festival, the enormous mass of people gathered outside the main stage was getting fidgety. Frank Ocean had been due on stage at 9:30, and I’d been waiting at the barrier with Matt for three hours to ensure a good spot for the show. All […]
Jeff Rosenstock @ The Cavern – Interview + Live Review
As a first year who had only heard stories about the Cavern, a hotbed of Exeter music fanaticism and host to lively club nights such as Indie Club and the Magic Hat Stand, it was a treat to walk through the doors and be greeted by the blaring punk guitar and vocals of support act, Doe. […]
Afropunk London 2017 Preview
Last year saw the massively popular arts festival Afropunk move from its regular hosts of Paris, New York and Atlanta to London, bringing a wave of culture to the UK in its two-day extravaganza. Now, the festival is steaming ahead towards ‘round two’ in London on the 22nd-23rd July, bringing a whole host of some of […]
Album Review: Drake – More Life
Categorising More Life as a ‘playlist’ is an interesting yet calculated move from Drake. It displays a sense of awareness that this material is not worthy of a formal ‘album’ status, so it makes its way onto a new type of collection. Of course, it is quite likely that the financial benefits that Drake will surely reap from […]
Album Review: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
The first of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s alleged 5 album releases coming this year kicks the newest set of material, since last year’s fantastic and mind-boggling Nonagon Infinity, off to a great start. The band hold on to their psyched-out garage-rock stylings with lo-fi, analogue sounding production and their 60s/70s psychedelic rock influences firmly worn on […]
Feature: What Does Punk Mean in 2017?
Punk is dead!”, cry the forlorn dad-rockers lamenting the loss of their Buzzcocks and Dead Kennedys only to be displaced by Fall Out Boy and Twenty-One Pilots. There’s no shortage of punk-rock-loving individuals nostalgically fetishising the bygone age of battered leather jackets, colourful Mohawk sand metal spikes as long as your fingers while the current […]
Album Review: Angel Olsen – My Woman
“M aybe you know that it’s been too long” sings Angel Olsen in the forlorn opening lines to ‘Intern’, the opening track to her new album My Woman. The pain-ridden sense of longing expressed in this lyric is a sentiment that Olsen continually obsesses over in the following nine tracks that make up the album, a […]