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With her devastating songs about romantic longing, the singer-songwriter has rewritten the indie rulebook, garnering a legion of dedicated fans along the way. Now, she’s speaking out against the exploitation that defines the music industry, imagining a future in which the artist is no longer a product. MITSKI MIYAWAKI IS REMINISCING about a missing person. “She was someone who simply wrote her feelings, and didn’t think about how her narrative was being conveyed,” she recalls, describing a talented 20-something who’s “long gone now”. This missing woman looked like Mitski, sounded like Mitski, and even released an album under the Japanese-American artist’s name: 2012’s Lush, a plaintive, piano-led wander through a sadness best described as biological. On songs like ‘Liquid Smooth’ and the hypnotic ‘Wife’, she sang about the kind of…

SITTING ON THE RIVER LEA, next to the historic Essex-Middlesex border in Northeast London, is Walthamstow Wetlands – a 211-hectare reservoir site and one of Europe’s largest urban wetlands. It’s a haven for wildlife, from grey herons, kingfishers and peregrine falcons to speckled wood butterflies and thick-kneed beetles. It opened to the public in 2017, and it’s no coincidence that residents of the sleek new high-rise towers in nearby Tottenham Hale and Blackhorse Road – developments with snappy names like Blackhorse Mills and Hale Works – can enjoy views of it from their balconies and rooftop gardens. The main entrance on Forest Road is just a three-minute drive from where an unarmed Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police on 4 August, 2011, and exactly a mile away from…

NEVER STOP FIGHTING

Resistance pulses through Kyiv. For years, a far-reaching network of fearless young Ukrainians in the city’s interlocking art, activism and club-culture scenes have been battling for a more equal society. IT’S A BONE-CHILLING NIGHT IN KYIV, towards the end of October 2021. We’re huddled around an electric heater under a small marquee in the courtyard of an old Soviet beer factory, waiting for a Telegram chatbot to tell us if our Covid tests are negative and that we can go inside. “The first time I came here, I was amazed by how everybody looks, dresses and thinks so differently,” explains Yevhen Trachuk, an artist and co-organiser at Kyiv Pride, while we wait to kill time. “You can be whoever you want to be, there’s no need to be ashamed.” A…

NEVER STOP FIGHTING

WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS PORRIDGE RADIO

In this series, we interview people in-and about - spaces personal to them. For the latest instalment, we catch up with Dana Margolin in her London studio to connect the dots between music, painting and her relationship with the city. IN A CITY LIKE LONDON, it can feel overwhelming to just stop and be still for a second. Disengage from autopilot mode, look around, and you’ll find the city rushes with a breathless quality. It reminds you of the sheer scale of the place, of your own personal relative insignificance. For many people, it can be too much. But Dana Margolin draws energy from it. “I keep coming back to this idea that when you live in a city, or anywhere that’s occupied by loads of people, everything you see…

WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS PORRIDGE RADIO

AGAINST THE TIDE

IT’S EARLY IN THE MORNING AT BUREH BEACH, a stretch of sand situated on the far tip of Sierra Leone’s Western Area Peninsula. Something apocalyptic is brewing. Fearsome Atlantic waves batter the shoreline. The sky is overcast with the Harmattan, a northerly wind that blots out the sun with Saharan sand. A lone figure looms out at sea. Again and again, the silhouette disappears beneath the towering waves, which crash down one after the other like soldiers marching out to battle. Each time he resurfaces, imperious and unmoved. But on the horizon, one wave emerges larger than any other before it. It rapidly swells and foams, cresting several metres high and looking for all the world like it will crush him. At the last moment, however, he jumps up onto…

AGAINST THE TIDE

Run to The Source

When he first started ultra running, Martin Johnson, or MJ, was often the only Black runner on the start line. Covering almost superhuman distances, ultramarathons span any length longer than a marathon's 26.2 miles. MJ has been working to bring greater representation to the sport, and helped form the group Black Trail Runners in the wake of George Floyd's murder by police in 2020. In Run to the Source, filmmaker Matt Kay follows MJ as he attempts a feat of extreme human endurance. The challenge is to run the 184 miles from the mouth of the Thames in London, to the source in Oxford - all while beating the fastest known time (FKT) of 40 hours and 47 minutes. Setting off on the first anniversary of George Floyd's murder, MJ…

Run to The Source

How I Got The Shot - EWEN SPENCER

WHEN THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN, I wasn’t long out of art school. It was 1998, I’d graduated the year before. I was flipping between London and Brighton, visiting Paris a lot, partying quite a bit and taking pictures of my friends. In that sense, magazines were a logical conclusion for me. I didn’t want to go and photograph for the Sunday Times or anything like that. I was interested in style mags - like The Face and i-D. I approached Sleazenation magazine straight away. A guy called Steve Lazarides, who was Picture Editor there, gave me a bag of film and, based on the pictures I showed him, said “Go and make pictures of these parties for us.” So I just went off, and that was the beginning of a…

How I Got The Shot - EWEN SPENCER

HOME of the PEOPLE

FROM TOWER BRIDGE TO THE SHARD, London hosts a wealth of world-famous architecture. But while much has been written about these grandiose designs, the buildings that sit in their shadows are rarely celebrated. By celebrating an overlooked area of British architecture, this is where Jack Young’s new book, The Council House, attempts to draw our attention. The book, which comprises photos of 68 council estates across the capital, along with historical details and conversations with residents, shows why these often-maligned buildings remain integral to the city’s identity. “Council houses make up London’s architectural DNA just like places like Buckingham Palace and Big Ben,” says Young. “It’s all London. And these buildings also have architectural clout and history.” Seen through Young’s lens, buildings that may initially seem mundane become strange and…

HOME of the PEOPLE

In the ’80s, photographer Renée Jacobs touched down in Centralia, a small Appalachian mining town approaching its final chapter - due to the slow creep of an unstoppable fire, blazing 300 feet below ground. ON 27 MAY, 1962, a long, shrill whistle swept through Centralia, sounding the alarm. An abandoned coal mine, now an unofficial trash dump, was on fire. Volunteer firefighters and borough workers moved quickly to extinguish the flames. But unto their knowledge the fire continued to blaze. 300 feet below ground, the flames made their way to a coal seam, before spreading through mine tunnels running beneath the small Appalachian town. It was soon clear the fire hadn’t stopped. That July, town officials met with government representatives to discuss solutions - none of which worked. Instead, as…

WISSAHICKON PARK sits surrounded by city neighbourhoods, a sprawling public green space home to miles upon miles of trails. It’s one of the few remaining wild areas left in Philadelphia. Make your way down one of these trails, following a creek that runs through a small valley, and you’ll eventually reach a waterfall. Here you can find Devil’s Pool: a local swimming hole decorated with thick woodland and seemingly ancient rock formations, set beneath a five-storey, high-arched bridge that shoulders an old sewer line. The spot is said to have been given its name from the Leni Lenape, an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands who believed Devil’s Pool to be an interface between good and evil. Today, it serves as a place for Philadelphians to come together in the…

WHEN HITS THE SUN

The result is a brand new chapter for Hackney Bumps, a concrete haven in the heart of East London, where skateboarding is just the beginning. WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? It’s a summer night and you’re 15 years old. You’re playing spin the bottle with your friends at Hackney Bumps, a skate park made of undulating concrete that looks like a lunar landscape, stretching out into the darkness. The bottle lands on your crush, and your mate says she should kiss you. You give them a panicked look, but the girl says, “Fuck it, why not?” The person telling me this story is Elijah McKenzie, who’s 16 now, goes by the name Moss, and uses he/they pronouns. We’re talking about what Bumps - a decades-old BMX spot, originally, that was given…

WHEN HITS THE SUN

PUSH THE SKY AWAY

In Gaza, a group of young Palestinians have found temporary freedom in the act of parkour, reimagining wreckage and ruins as a series of high-octane playgrounds. The fearless collective see freerunning as a way of taking their immediate environment to its absolute limits - and, in the process, claiming a part of it back. YOUNG PALESTINIANS ARE JUMPING ACROSS the wreckage of the al-Jalaa tower, an 11-storey building in Gaza once home to the Associated Press and Al Jazeera television, as well as 60 residential homes. Dozens of the group, many of them just teenagers, scale the debris. Bounding from ruin to ruin, they perform daunting tricks at stomach-churning heights. Running across rooftops, they leap and swing off the exposed scaffolding, before tumbling onto the sand floor below These images…

PUSH THE SKY AWAY

WEAR YOUR COLOURS

TOWARDS THE END OF SUMMER 2020, Karl Shannon sent out a tweet, asking if any LGBTQ+ GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) players based in the Dublin area would like to come together for a game. While he expected some kind of response, he never anticipated it snowballing in the way that it did. Within hours it had blown up, with almost 2,000 people engaging from across Ireland and beyond. “I thought maybe I’d get a few likes, a couple of retweets,” he says. “But suddenly my DMs were flooded with people wanting to join. I thought it would be a social thing of, like, 10 people. But now it’s turned into something very official, very fast - for good reason.” Less than two years on, Shannon’s post has sparked more than…

WEAR YOUR COLOURS

The Dazzling Blackness

I’M THINKING ABOUT BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT Getulio Vargas, who shot himself in the heart in 1954; I’m thinking about Pepe Lopes, who died in a hang gliding accident while trying to win a second world title in Japan in 1991; I’m thinking about Aryton Senna, the Formula One racer who died on lap seven of the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy in 1994. I am not thinking about death explicitly, but death hangs over all of this. I’m bodysurfing the north end of Barra da Tijuca, a spot called Praia do Pepe, named after the aforementioned hang glider. The swell is out of the southwest; the waves are a whomping four foot, mostly lefts, with the occasional short burst of right. The water smells of sewage, with a distinctly Rio…

The Dazzling Blackness

LESSONS LEARNED SHaRON VAN ETTEN

“YOU’VE GOT TO LOSE SOMETIMES" chanted Sharon Van Etten on 2012’s ‘Magic Chords’, a back-against-the-wall confessional that found surprising hope in the idea of reaching rock bottom. Like so many of the New Jersey singer-songwriter’s best songs - see also: ‘Every Time The Sun Comes Up’ and ‘We Are Fine’ - it’s an embrace in musical form, serving as a guiding light to the lost and offering up a hypnotic gumbo of folk, rock, pop, and electronica. “When people hear my music, I want them to feel embraced by the idea that it is okay to be vulnerable," says the 41-year-old musician, speaking on an early morning phone call. Today, her voice - just like the one we hear in her songs - is the perfect blend of honeyed and…

LESSONS LEARNED SHaRON VAN ETTEN

I just finished an exciting period of work and now I’m struggling with a comedown of sorts. Have you ever experienced similar feelings - finishing a tour for example - and if so, how did you overcome them? - Hannah I’ve definitely experienced sadness in these moments. I think the way to push past it is just to realise that when you experience some kind of high, it can also be exhausting. There’s nothing wrong with having a period of relative calm: you don’t have to always be turned up to 10. Now is your time to do all the simple things you like doing - whether it’s playing video games, watching movies, seeing friends, whatever. I like to demo songs and mess around with them. For me, it’s about…

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