Unless you live in the Bay Area, chances are you probably haven’t been bumping Jay Stone. He’s a 29-year-old MC from Oakland who’s got a knack for painting vivid portraits of everyday life in the heads of listeners.
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Tirzah is never not a breath of fresh air, from her casual delivery to the mellow rasp of her tone. This week, the Essex singer announced her debut album, Devotion, which she made in collaboration with her longtime friend, the composer Mica Levi (aka Micachu).
In this instalment of TIG TV, we remember Aretha Franklin; take at look at the Monocle Quality of Life Survey 2018; wonder whether tourism has killed Dubrovnik; create feeling with Frank Gehry; take a look inside the Nicaraguan town resisting President Daniel Ortega; learn what a conductor actually does on stage; visit the real life ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and as always, much much more. –P
Tirzah is never not a breath of fresh air, from her casual delivery to the mellow rasp of her tone. This week, the Essex singer announced her debut album, Devotion, which she made in collaboration with her longtime friend, the composer Mica Levi (aka Micachu).
The computer you’re reading this article on right now runs on a binary — strings of zeros and ones. Without zero, modern electronics wouldn’t exist. Without zero, there’s no calculus, which means no modern engineering or automation. Without zero, much of our modern world literally falls apart.
“We get to choose our families; we are not limited by biology. We get to make ourselves, and we get to make our families,” says Janet Mock at the beginning of “Charcoal Baby.”
Premiered via Annie Mac’s legendary BBC Radio 1 show, the song encapsulates the panoramic nature of the bands second full-length.
“Look, they are there, they are in the countryside, in cities, on social networks”. Grouped under nebulous appellations (phonk, trill, vapor wave) and like the gremlins watered after midnight, a whole generation of producers invaded the platforms in the 2010s, especially soundcloud.
Kieran Hebden can send the internet into meltdown with a banging new white-label. He can also have festival crowds on the verge of tears with his touching live set.
In this instalment of TIG TV: we find out what true love really is, and discuss the legacy of Anthony Bourdain;...
Should one be so unlucky as to find oneself, as I did, lying awake in bed in the early hours of the morning in a hostel in La Paz, Bolivia, listening anxiously to the sound of someone trying to force their way into one’s room, one could do worse than to throw a chair under the doorknob as a first line of defence.
6LACK has released a new track today titled “Switch.” Last week, he took to social media to tell fans that he “thinks” that his “album is done.” “Switch” is a dark, melancholic track about a stormy relationship and breakup.
Hyp favourite Impey has established a reputation as a key player of the new wave of producers creating some of the most exciting grime-leaning club constructions on the circuit since his emergence in 2014, with ties to notable imprints like Sector 7, Astral Black and Coyote Records.
