Soundsphere magazine

Chat Pile‘s heralded debut album God’s Country depicted a particularly American flavour of dread, and their 2024 LP Cool World showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence. Now, Chat Pile return with Who Loves the Sun, an album that peels back the skin on how a collective indifference for a decaying wor...

“If an Emmy nomination can’t get you a second season, what can as a Black actor?”

Why do people of colour face disparities in cinema? Whether it’s the backlash that comes with securing protagonist roles or the threat of shows being discontinued, Laviea Thomas looks at what drives it.

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Director of the soon-to-be Black Panther trilogy, Creed and more recently Sinners, which would go on to win 4 Oscars out of a historic 16 nominations earlier this year. Ryan Coogler shares his creative process and how he was able to pull off his most ambitious experiment yet. Returning collaborator Michael B. Jordan also offers perspective on his twin-led role alongside starm...

Lucy, bassist for London-via-York riot-grrl band BitchCraft comments on their inspirations, relationship and much more!

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Talk to me about some of the best bits about recording ‘Trial By Fire’ – two or three of your favourite experiences? 

We feel just the very nature of m...

If you grow up in the UK wanting to be an artist, you’re still (often) fed the same script: If you’re serious about working in the creative industries, you move south. You move to London. That’s where the money is. That’s where the “real” scene is.

Molly

Leeds-based illustrator, cartoonist, and zine-maker Molly Grimshaw, better kno...