Youth is at war with everything, including itself. When we young, we are desperate to be experts in people, and how their actions impose or reward us, and the extent to which we’re curtailed by sadness, locked down, tired of fitting in. There are two halves to self-definition – being yourself free of influence, or taking other personalities for people who ask you to do so. Billie Eilish is cau...

Great art so often comes from dark, restless places. Creative trailblazers channel inner turmoil into their work as a cathartic measure, exorcising demons through the stroke of a paintbrush or punch of a piano key.  But in Scott Hansen, we have an artist who oozes a rare sense of total contentment; a figure who’s found a way to open blissful aural floodgates and altruistically invited us to co...

When the stars start to fall, while the clouds inconspicuously shoulder their worries through their omniscient light. Only then, we may have the eagerness to look up. Explore and expand ourselves.  To Reminisce, Think and Ponder, our existence as humans. How nothing is truly enriching in life if knowledge isn’t found, if it isn’t contemplated and understood or even extended by our human minds...

Suminagashi, the art of floating inks, splashes vibrant hues onto this pattern of isometric geometry, providing an illusion of depth to the overall shape formed with tessellated tiles."Suminagashi Geometry" is a visual invitation to challenge the ocular definitions of space and form. This precise arrangement of hand-printed marbled papers forces perspective to assign a dubious three-dimensiona...

Music is always here for us, whatever our mood, whenever the time. It can soundtrack a blissful, lazy Sunday. It can reach an arm around our shoulders on a blue morning. It can even scream alongside us in the night.  We used to twist the radio dial until a song sputtered out, made our bodies ape it. Today, the likes of Spotify will do the hard work for us; cobbling together like-minded tracks ...

I was going to write about Game of Thrones, as promised, but I don’t want to. Fatigue has drained me of commentary. If I see Dinklage’s beard and pained eyes again, I could crack. If one more piece of YouTube scholarship emerges on season eight, I will head to the woods and bury myself. We each have our opinions on the end fully manifest by now. To add more to the funeral pyre seems silly, whe...

There are artists, and there are Artists. We sometimes have to catch ourselves even using the term at all, as pop music is such an ephemeral process.

Without him, part of hip hop’s journey to the mainstream wouldn’t have been as heartfelt or seductive...

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

We were pretty impressed with the quality of submissions, but this one clinched it...

Spotify might’ve legitimised anti-pop for the sake of inventing it. You might ask what anti-pop is. An easier answer might be what it isn’t. Fans quibble, yet they seem to locate a genre that embraces popular tastes while dismissing them.

Without him, part of hip hop’s journey to the mainstream wouldn’t have been as heartfelt or seductive...

There are artists, and there are Artists. We sometimes have to catch ourselves even using the term at all, as pop music is such an ephemeral process.