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  • New TommyXRomeo capsule collection reimagines iconic styles from the archives

    New TommyXRomeo capsule collection reimagines iconic styles from the archives

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    Brooklyn designer Romeo Hunte joins Tommy Hilfiger to create the TommyXRomeo capsule collection, remixing some classic pieces from the brand’s archives. As a long-term mentee of Tommy Hilfiger, Hunte understands the brand well. And as the owner of his own namesake label Hunte is no stranger to the design process or the values of heritage…

  • Dips [@DipsArtist] and Lo-Wu [@LowuSounds] shine on the debut mixtape, ‘Idle Hands’

    Dips [@DipsArtist] and Lo-Wu [@LowuSounds] shine on the debut mixtape, ‘Idle Hands’

    Words by: Dwayne Wilks With their debut EP, Idle Hands, being released on the 12th of August, we chopped it up with South London duo Dips and Lo-Wu about their origins in music, the unlikely marrying of Garage with introspective content, and the untapped potential of idle hands. By way of a raft of singles,…

  • Five For Friday ft. [@Vibbar001], [@rufus_mackay], [@OfficialAitch] + more

    Five For Friday ft. [@Vibbar001], [@rufus_mackay], [@OfficialAitch] + more

    Five For Friday is back again with 5 releases from the past week you should pay attention to. Five For Friday is back again giving you 5 great tracks/projects for your Friday. Friday is essentially the most important day of the week musically, and typically a lot of music drops on Friday’s. Friday is the day…

  • Kevin George [@itskevingeorge] Provides A Dynamic and Quick Rumination On Being “Confused”

    Kevin George [@itskevingeorge] Provides A Dynamic and Quick Rumination On Being “Confused”

    Words By: Miki Hellerbach “Confused” is an exploration of the complexity of young love and the worry that it occasionally accentuates. “What if I tell ya I don’t need ya, after needin’ ya? I got you confused.” A succinctly sung question in a hook that sounds like it feels is one of music’s great wonders…

  • Has KSI’s [@KSI] Music Actually Improved?

    Has KSI’s [@KSI] Music Actually Improved?

    Words by: Matthew Griffiths KSI is a character that has constantly split people and his musical foray has been equally divisive, but is the music good? JJ Olatunji, also known as KSI, has been doing music “for years” – so it makes sense that he wants to be taken seriously as an artist. Popular YouTubers…

  • Therapy: What’s all the big fuss about?

    Therapy: What’s all the big fuss about?

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    Until I was asked what all the big fuss was about I had not really processed the benefits of therapy. Growing up therapy seemed inaccessible simply because I did not know anyone in therapy, or at least nobody ever brought it up as topic of conversation. Prior to starting therapy I did not understand the…

  • Interview: S.A.M [@samnxire] Is Finding His Way

    Interview: S.A.M [@samnxire] Is Finding His Way

    Words by: Dwayne Wilks Having realised the potential of his D.I.Y approach, North West London artist S.A.M is aiming to set a new precedent. The first thing that is evident about S.A.M is his passion for his music. We’d barely found our seats in the Camden studio where we had arranged to meet, and he…

  • Lagos-Based Musician Tim Lyre Peppers the Alte Scene With His First 2021 Single “Real”

    Lagos-Based Musician Tim Lyre Peppers the Alte Scene With His First 2021 Single “Real”

    Words by: Blossom Maduafokwa Burgeoning Afro-Fusion act Tim Lyre has just dropped his newest track “Real”, and it’s damn good. With his first single released in 2016 and collaborations with artists such as PrettyboyDO, DAP The Contract, and Chop Life Crew, Tim Lyre is certainly no novice in Nigeria’s music scene. Lyre makes music that…

  • How to update your brand’s game plan for improved social impact ft TOMS

    How to update your brand’s game plan for improved social impact ft TOMS

    These days the current fashion consciousness dictates that it is not enough to just have a cool fashion brand. Your brand must also consider and actively address the impact it has on the people and environments it operates in. Before it became part of the zeitgeist, TOMS is one brand that has been driven by…

  • Nwando Ebizie’s latest art project explores her own neurodivergency: A Visual Snow Alternate Reality

    Nwando Ebizie’s latest art project explores her own neurodivergency: A Visual Snow Alternate Reality

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    British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie creates Afrofuturist speculative fictions and alternate realities at the intersection of live art, experimental music and multi-sensory installations. She proposes new myths, rituals and provocations for perceptual change, radical care and transformation of the self and community, drawing from science fiction, Black Atlantic ritual cultures, biophilia, neuroscience, her own neurodivergency…