Latest Articles By ShriK
The Swet Shop Boys Release Their New Single T5 Off Their Album Cashmere
These guys have a knack of spitting words that stand true to their heart with really catchy beats and an Eastern influenced instrumental, slightly MIA esque in style. MC Riz and Heems who have a project together called Swet Shop…
Omar Musa Releases his EP Dead Centre Today
Artists often weave in and out of their creative spaces and the time spent away from their art is as important as the time spent while creating. Multiple projects and sources of inspiration is what keeps a lot of them…
Rapper Zulfiqar Ali’s Multicultural Musings
A spark of inspiration can shift your mind and your mental space into another dimension. When people take their hardships to find inspiration in them to create something, the effect and the intensity of the art that is born is…
Palestinian Hip Hop Movie ‘Junction 48’ to Be Released in 2017
Movies inspired by the lives of musicians are always inspiring and interesting to watch, when the stories are from non Hollywood lands, it becomes a little more interesting only because there aren’t as many in comparison that we are exposed…
Palestinian Hip Hop Movie – Junction 48 to Be Released in 2017
Movies inspired by the lives of musicians are always inspiring and interesting to watch, when the stories are from non Hollywood lands, it becomes a little more interesting only because there aren’t as many in comparison that we are exposed…
Hip Hop Producer Afzal Minhaaj’s Drive to Perfection
The art in a city usually drives its personality, creates an identity and a vibe that becomes unique to the city. There are many artists in all the different cities in India and the diversity is what makes the cities…
When Desi Hip Hop met ‘The Machine’
Music is beyond logic and reasoning, it’s beyond comprehension and understanding, well mostly. Now there are lyrics being written by Google’s Artificial Intelligence music programme. It is definitely beyond comprehension and understanding but leaps into the future of how music…
Baz Luhrmann’s hip hop drama The Get Down
Set in the South Bronx, in the heart of the musical rapture when hip-hop was coming into being and disco was slowly bowing out in the late 70s, The Get Down produced by none other than the legendary Baz Luhrmann…
A Lesbian Muslim Hip Hop Singer On Art And Activism
Her name means a warrior. Jaheda Choudhury –Potter is a lesbian Muslim woman, who fronts a hip hop band in the UK. Her name Potter belongs to her wife. She reflects on the Orlando shootout where 49 people were killed…
Hard Kaur Takes Girl Power to the Next Level with Sherni
She has tons of gumption, a signature style that she used to create a niche for herself in the music business and just like her name suggests, she is pretty hardcore. Singer-rapper Hard Kaur had every party in town swaying…
I felt the importance of being more visible as a queer artist – Maieli
“It was definitely a turning point for me in my life where I felt the importance of being more visible as a queer artist” She is an LA based DJ/producer who makes music under the name of Maieli. Bianca Maieli…