Ahead of her takeover of the magazine’s Instagram on Thursday 10th June, we sat down with AMIKA and talked about her songwriting, being inspired by The Slumflower, asking for what you want in life, her recipe for nurturing a creative space and the joy of alone-ness.
Read MoreBut festival sets are another thing. They are not just the music, they are everything else in between. Conjuring up memories of the whole weekend and where it fits into the story of your life - who you were with, the weather, the sets you missed, the people you met, the journey there and the journey home, the comedown.
Read MoreFestivals aren’t always just about the music. Your make-shift campsite, the people you camp with, the people you meet and the things you share are all part of the experience too. However, watching live music and discovering new bands are definitely what makes a festival memorable.
Read MoreFusing a gritty, grunge-infused aura with traditional folk-inspired musicality, Naz & Ella channel their anger and frustration at the world through tightly wound harmonies and intricate guitar riffs.
Read MoreRaina Sokolov Gonzalez is a Brooklyn based singer and composer with her musical roots deep in the New York free jazz scene and a wealth of musical experience already under her belt.
Read MoreI was trying to cook and needed something to listen to but for all the marvels of the modern world, with every song ever written at my fingertips, I could not choose. Did I want something sad, or would that make it worse? Happy, or would that feel false? Could I cope with new music, or would that exhaust me? The answer was simple: radio.
Read MoreMusic allows me a special kind of freedom, it unlocks a deep corner of my imagination and gives me physical symptoms for just how much I love it - I’m talking goosebumps, shivers and smiling ear to ear. The kind of things that if you did them on a public bus people would move very far away. A lot further than two metres I’m telling you. (Not that I know from experience or anything.)
Read MoreTreasure’s sound doesn’t easily fit into any boxes. His eclectic music tastes and obvious joy in subverting the norm shine through; a left field and intelligent take on trap, r&b and hip hop, visiting glitchy jazz, playful production and soulful harmonies along the way.
Read MoreWhen I say to think of a drummer, I guarantee you that the image of them will be a white male. Your inner feminist will fight it but you’re not to blame, we can blame the patriarchal society we all live in.
Read MoreTommy Newport, a British born singer/songwriter living in Wichita, Kansas, got pretty famous by mistake at the age of sixteen. His self-recorded album released under his birth surname Milmine accidentally racked up millions of streams when he released it just for his friends and family to enjoy in 2016.
Read MoreBristol based Alt-Rock duo, Midnight Filter, are not ones to be compartmentalised. Ahead of their new release, Marrionette, we had the chance to talk with Harry and Ben (albeit virtually) about their motivations as artists, their thoughts on Bristol’s music scene and some advice for aspiring artists to live by.
Read MoreExpect 70s folk-horror inspired dreamy, hypnotic melodies, intimate and haunting lyrics, and a sensual sparseness and quiet that will leaving you wanting to discover more.
Read MoreLachlan Werner is an incredibly versatile artist; dabbling with ventroquilism, clowning, stand-up comedy and has recently just released a four episode podcast in collaboration with other queer creatives including Bendy Wendy from Bristol duo Try Me!
Read MoreTom Cox sums this aspect of guilty pleasures up perfectly in his tweet: ‘What people mean by the term “guilty pleasure” 99.5% of the time is “something genuinely joyous pretentious dickheads told me not to like’’.
Read MoreDreamt up by Ola Poroslo and Oli Rushen and launched in September 2020, PHAT Bristol is an artist run initiative composed by managers, producers and media practitioners with politics at it’s heart.
Read MoreSo, it seems that the idea that politics has a place in music is pretty undeniable. However, where the debate about the place of politics in music has become particularly controversial and difficult to navigate is with regards to cultural appropriation.
Read MoreFounded by Ngaio in the back room of popular Easton haunt The Plough in 2018, Booty Bass has become a space that celebrates different cultures from across the world, mixed with much loved UK sounds
Read MoreMaking his way up through the ranks with trumpet in tow, a stack of live performances already under his belt and with the release of his debut EP ‘Songs for Player 2’ earlier in March, is Alt-Pop/Jazz-Funk producer and songwriter Lyle Anderton. By night he transforms into LYLE!, and he is definitely here and definitely has something to say.
Read MoreSince the 60s, when Beatlemania infected the world with sold-out stadiums and screaming young girls, we have put boybands on a particularly high pedestal – actually more like a poster-painted shrine covered in hand-drawn hearts.
Read MoreWhat happens when you combine electronic dance music producer Glue 70, the post-punk, shoegaze, grunge sounds of Freak Slug, and mix them up with a healthy dose of Manchester’s underground scene? You get ZULA.
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