Researching, exploring and reporting British inspired Subculture and Art past and present. Our subculture blog delves into the roots of Northern Soul and simultaneously reports on the contemporary Northern Soul scene. It interviews emerging new wave bands that themselves are inspired by the original punk bands appearing across another page of the Blog.
It charts the evolution of Subcultures from their emergence in the 60’s and 70’s to a more inclusive and equitable movement today. The underground and subcultures are never fixed in one place or time. They have strong and meaningful reference points but are always evolving.
Always Forward, Never Back.
1980’s Cuba may have subscribed to socialism, but it was far from the progressive state we might expect. With little room for creative freedom to
Zines have always been a part of the subculture scene. Though dating for the 1930’s and 1940’s when early sci-fi fans created “comics “ their
Words by Jess Ralph Lead photo from No One Studio Dark, fetishistic , transgressive , hedonistic and with community at its core, Wraith is
Bizzare Magazine by John Willie Words by Jess Ralph Ever since there has been art , there has been erotic art. The human appetite
Words by Jess Ralph Utilitarian, empowering, confrontational, queer- the buzzcut is a hairstyle loaded with symbolism, and rooted in the political. The heritage of close
Narrative by Jess Ralph It can be tempting to ascribe certain social and artistic movements to a specific point of history, and a handful of
Words by Jess Ralph A new exhibition at Somerset House exposes what a little island of horrors we really are. From the camp, the uncanny,
We invited five young creatives based in New York to speak with us about their work and and the best music scenes in NYC. Finishing
Words by Jess Ralph Poetry. It’s a form of literature that usually conjures up thoughts of romanticised ramblings about the weather, twee victorian verses with rhyming
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