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East-London's Nuha Ruby Ra: "Brave, Open, Surreal"

by Charlotte Russell “Feel is the most important thing for me in music and in performance. Feel comes before anything else.” The first...

More than a Meditation: A Review of Drumz of the South: The Dubstep Years 2004-2007

by Alex Brent "What Drumz of the South offers is a demonstration of the vitality of people to create and move culture, to form...

‘I treat low culture like the avant garde’: How lloydfears is redefining contemporary Flâneurie

by Katherine Thomson "I've never seen someone leave an art gallery like they do a club." Grime culture still lives on through the...

“We don’t want to be boxed in anymore”: Introducing New York’s anti-sweetheart Flossing.

by Charlotte Russell "This is the most anti-capitalist I’ve been in my entire life". There’s a limitlessness to New York’s riotous...

'Disneyland for adults': Noisily 2022 reviewed

We headed deep into the Leicestershire woods for a festival combining the best of British rave with art, performance, and anarchy

Forever Delayed: Mental Illness and Capitalism in the lyrics of Richey Edwards

by Milly Allinson "Richey’s writing presents mental illness as a direct result of the consequences of unfettered capitalist expansion."...

Muneera Pilgrim: The disruptive Bristol storyteller fighting back against gatekeepers

Steve Topple of The Canary interviews storyteller, poet and hip hop artist Muneera Pilgrim about gatekeeping, disruption, and storytelling

How K-Pop Revived My Love For Urdu

Rameeza Ahmad writes about her love of K-pop, BTS, and how it helped her reconnect with her mother tongue, Urdu

Meet VLURE: the Glaswegian Post-Punk Five Piece Fighting for the Dancefloor

We talked gentrification, city politics and freedom with Glasgow's post-punk newcomers VLURE

Thirty Years A Junglist

Oliver Walkden reviews Repeater's reissued rave classic 'Junglist', tracing the history of jungle music and its radical roots