Features:
gal-dem
How an adventure into Solange’s Houston confirmed her genius
i-D
meet the future faces of literature
The Line of Best Fit
Mahalia: One To Watch for 2019
Dazed
Unpacking all the references in Childish Gambino’s new video
Gordon Parks’ art is all over Kendrick Lamar’s new video
How Jay-Z’s new video references & subverts racist cartoons
Why do graffiti writes get sent to prison for so long?
Important lessons Keith Haring taught us about life and art
The LGBT artist making music where it’s dangerous to be gay
Artist addresses lack of diversity at London arts university
Torbjørn Rødland’s photos are an exercise in the uncomfortable
Huck
How the barbershop became a bastion for the black British community
The photographer who shot Britain’s Black Panther movement
New Internationalist
Black Girl Magic
Opinion:
Dazed
5 years after Channel Orange, noone sounds like Frank Ocean
The people living at Grenfell Tower predicted this tragedy
The Line of Best Fit
How SZA’s ‘Drew Barrymore’ told the truth and changed the game
gal-dem
There’s so much wrong with that Liam Neeson interview—we’ve only just scratched the surface
We got it from here… thank you 4 your music, A Tribe Called Quest
Crack
Top 50 Albums of 2017
Interview:
Complex UK
Roses Gabor is striving to be the water, not the wave
Dazed
Beautiful images of what being Black, British & Muslim means
How to take up space in a man’s working world
Blues & Soul
Khalid: The A Teen – A Cover Story
gal-dem
Introducing Vagabon: ‘This is who I am. My music is what I’m offering.’ – Taken from print issue no.2
Introducing Rai-Elle – the refreshing new voice of UK R&B
Reviews:
The Guardian
Live: Ravyn Lenae – neo-soul star still finding her way to the top
Live: Lovebox Festival – Childish Gambino leads diversive corrective to Trump
Album: Ella Mai – Boo’d Up singer’s statement of intent
Album: Nao – Cosmopolitan R&B auteur evades the mainstream
Complex UK
Album: Dave’s ‘Psychodrama’ is a brutally impressive examination of society
NME
Album: Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
Crack Mag
Live: La Route du Rock festival, France
Album: Need To Feel Your Love by Sheer Mag
Album: SweetSexySavage by Kehlani
Album: A Fever Dream by Everything Everything
Album: Aromanticism by Moses Sumney
News:
Jay-Z’s new album includes an apology to Beyoncé
Salvador Dali’s body to be exhumed for a paternity test
Rihanna tweets world leaders asking for education funding
Die Antwoord release spooky short film with their daughter
SZA’s ‘Drew Barrymore’ video features the IRL Drew Barrymore
Teens get lost in Paris catacombs for three days
Music is the same as drugs and sex, according to the brain
Chelsea Manning opens up in first TV interview since release
Dev Hynes launches LGBTQ music & art youth workshop
Texas passes insane ‘foetal funeral’ abortion bill
