The Chosen One: A Conversation with Bishop Nehru
Heading downtown, I got the text from Juanyto at 17.22. “We will be at the venue at 6.30” Militant as ever, DJ Juanyto (Hot 97) and Bishop Nehru hopped out the car walking right up to the Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver BC, front doors at exactly 6.30 for sound check. The doors opened like clockwork.
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Why Politicians Are Ruining Your Favourite Memes
Memes are serious business. It wasn’t always like this; they used to be irreverent, funny or largely pointless. Some were even deeply offensive, but no one gave a crap.
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4 Paid Equivalents to Being a Youtube Hero
Youtube have made a staggering announcement. Now, instead of just being a boring run of the mill user, you can become a Youtube Hero!
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4 Overlooked Stories More Important Than ‘Brangelina’
“Oh no, say it ain’t so, Brangelina are no more!” That was the most talked about news on Twitter today; multitudes of celebrity gossip magazines and distraught fans
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George the Poet – The Search Party Tour
“Poised to become the best known street level poet since Benjamin Zephaniah or John Cooper Clark” – The Guardian “A socially motivated poet of exceptional ability changing the perception of poetry as we know it” – i-D
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Why the Torrent Scene Is Dying
2016 is the year of Armageddon for torrent sites. The major sites in the scene are disappearing, the torrents are being spied on and founders are fighting extradition. But how, and why?
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Skream’s About to Show DJs How It’s Done
EDM fans rejoice, Skream is back with a new European tour aptly titled “Open To Close”! A decade deep in club culture, Skream epitomises what it means to be a DJ
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6 Ways to Make It Without a Label
Music is changing. we’ve already written about artists who managed to escape the label system (like Chance the Rapper up there), but that’s only half the story.
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6 Side Hustles to Boost Your Income
Growing up, everybody told you that all you had to do was grow up, get a decent job and a family and you’d be set.
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How Nick Cave’s Latest Film Redefines the Documentary
“I think I’m losing my voice” croaks Nick Cave. It’s a quote that has boundless metaphorical meanings coming from this exhausted poet in the back of a taxi cab.
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5 Underground Japanese Artists You Need to Know
Most people think Japan’s musical heritage lies in J-pop – those legions of young, manufactured idols and the fans that marvel over how “kawaii” the latest single from AKB0048 is.
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6 Times Star Trek Invaded Hip-Hop
When it comes to street cred, Star Trek is at the bottom of the heap. Society still thinks of its fans (or ‘Trekkies”) as emotionally stunted basement dwellers attending sci-fi conventions in full Starfleet uniform.
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Sony to Launch PS4 Pro & PS4 Slim
Intensely vibrant gameplay, stunningly sharp movies and incredible detail in every moment. Available 10 November 2016. – The Sony PS4 Pro and Ps4 Slim.
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4 Reasons Nollywood Is More Than a Joke
When people think of Nollywood – Nigeria’s film industry – they think of the stereotypically shitty, low-budget films with terrible acting and unoriginal storylines.
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6 New Asian Films You’ve Been Sleeping On
Hollywood is far from being the centre of the universe. While you were distracted by Civil War, the Ghosbusters reboot and DC’s continuing downward spiral, filmmakers in East Asia
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