Blockheads Forever

/ Emmy Favilla / Music
It was June 1990 when the inevitable happened. I realized, two days before the end of first grade, that I liked the New Kids on the Block.

This joyless division will tear us apart

/ Peter Wyn Mosey / Music
Poor Bernard Sumner can't get to his new boat in North Wales

‘White is the Color of Death’ by Tina Panic Noise

/ J.B. Stone / Music
This unbridled rage carries its weight throughout the album as a soundtrack for every broken home, every maimed childhood.

Where is the 2019 Red Wedge?

/ Peter Wyn Mosey / Music
Where is the Red Wedge of 2019? Where is the grime-soaked mouthpiece willing to put their career on the line to add voice to a seamed cause?

From the Bedroom: Peeled by Joyer

/ Medha Singh / Music
Something raw and real like Joyer is hard to come by. They deserve all the attention they can get.

Slow Stepper

/ I.S. Rowley / Music
May I see you smile, if only from afar? / What's burnt away / can sometimes be restored.

Interview: Raghav Meattle

/ Queen Mob / Music
I learnt to play the guitar to set a lot of my poems to music. It’s all about what I’m saying through words and melodies. For now, I’m doing it with a guitar.

Vimala

/ Vivek Narayanan / Music
Undefinable pole. Sharer / of scar: the first / birth water yet unknown / till we met...

A Playlist for Sex with Strangers

/ Amanda Earl / Music
I find a lot of men don’t seem to like hearing Jeff Buckley.

Sixteen Again

/ Oscar Mardell / Misc
At fifteen, I listened to ‘Sixteen Again’ and wondered, yes, what it might feel like to be sixteen, to become a full-time resident in that shit place...

Is Gully Boy actually Bandra Boy?

/ Mili Sethia / Music
While it is a story about how an underprivileged young man from the world’s second-largest slum manages to become a hip hop star, the movie is not intended for underprivileged audiences.

Gallery 7 from CHARMS and GLITTER

/ Robert Sheppard and Trev Eales / Music
She’s the Maid of the / May, dancing / with the chimney sweeps...

Call for Submissions: Music

/ Medha Singh / Music
Come one, come all. Give us an ample paragraph or two about music...

5 for Coping

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
The makers and performers of these five albums get me. I feel like the creators of this music understand what it means to be an awkward, out-of-place, vulnerable and caring...

Appetite for Deconstruction

/ Amy Rossi / Misc
I pondered apologizing for the it’s-so-easy title, but I am choosing not to.

Interview: Har Mar Superstar

Talk That Talk All Night Rihanna!

/ Paul Johnathan / Music
Rihanna's all grown up, but her magnum opus is yet to be written.

⇄Escape Velocity⇆

/ Goro / Music
"a glimpse of how sound subtracts, makes edges, makes bread, makes a spillway, makes mud spew, shreds ghosts, or causes quicksand."

THE BIRTH OF TECHNO:

/ Anne Heslinga / Music
You buy the missile, buy the laser, buy the tank / Evict the widow, put the money in the bank/ You do it all in the name of economics: economics, economics, economics