In these dark times of Charlie-xcx-Jacob-Elordi-Dubai-Chocolate-Labubu-Wuthering-Heights it would be oh so easy to claim gothic is dead and has finally met its dawn. Our world is haunted perhaps now more than ever. Every decade declares the death of the Gothic, and...
Privilege and Calling "First of all, it's a dream come true. Second of all, it feels really good.It feels like a privilege. It feels like a privilege because I feel like whatever thing you have to do, that ends up inspiring people around you, that ends up putting you...
LA, Los Angeles is a city that we at #itchysilk are intrigued by. Of course, many know LA for the booming Hollywood film industry. An industry that has (and continues to) shape the global landscape in a multitude of ways. Established and aspiring actors flock to the...
A little while back we dropped a short promo for a project we produced and directed called It’s All In The Chaste. In the full short piece, we take a foray into the world and mindset of a chaste. We endeavour to gain a brief understanding of domination. There is an...
In her first short piece for #itchysilk UK writer Molli Mitchell has a brief chat with the founder of Sofar Sounds Rafe Offer. Here at HQ we have known about the live music event Sofar Sounds for a while. While many live events purport diversity and deliver the tried...
If you saw our interview with the vocally blessed US based band BLXPLTN you will know that here at #itchysilk we love the raucous, explosive energy of punk/post-punk. Here, Jacklyn Janeksela introduces us to the frequency of Frantic City Records based in France whose...
Leicestershire born Murlo is a creative polymath: A dj (he did a stint with the legendary Boiler Rooms), music producer and an illustrator- it’s an ever-agitated journey of creative discovery and exploration. Club Coil represents his newest project and showcases the...
Yet once lucidity has truly come, this image of freedom begins, little by little, to lose its persuasiveness. After lucidity has come, one does not always wish to grow more lucid. In everyday speech, lucidity seems always to carry a luminosity with it, a quality worth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zCf-Ad9xoo&authuser=3 Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, composer, curator, glitch-journalists, editor, producer, and educator whose work spans over 70 albums, symphonic arias, GlitchArt films, artbooks, anthologies, magazines,...
It was a major pleasure to interview trumpeter, producer, songwriter, Madd Galaxy aka Benjamin Adamson in 2018. An email a few month ago and this genuinely talented LA musician let us know he’s got new material. With three new cuts to offer, it’s a living document of...
Hannah Hutton is a Liverpool‑born jazz vocalist and programme manager at Kings Place. Having performed at well-known names like; Barbican, Royal Opera House and Pizza Express Jazz Club (to name but a few) she has lived experience of UK jazz. Co-founding...
I grew up and read a great deal about state violence, about ideological interpellation, and I came to see clearly enough how the concept of "everyone" can be used, within structures of power, to swallow the individual. https://youtu.be/skVo8Ov1q3s?si=Nx7JoX4IQJTPwo3W...
In a late-night doom scrolling session-evidently a terrible thing to do when work beckons like the grim reaper, a hidden musical gem is found. They resemble early Massive Attack in their pomp, The Birmingham based band Kinatural appear after 40 mins of sifting through...