Musings from the MEANS editor…
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Pushing the boundaries: 10 genre-defying artists to keep an ear on.
MEANS explores the work of 10 artists who recently contributed to the HOPE/MAGIC compilation. To support issue 3 of the magazine, we released an accompanying compilation chocked full of great artists across a range… Read more
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MEANS 3: Hope and Magic
Issue 3 of MEANS is finally upon us, and it’s our best yet. After an expanded submissions process, we ended up sifting through nearly 100 works to bring you a wonderful overview of grassroots… Read more
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The Quiet | John Garner
Whatever happened to the quiet? It’s summer, 26º outside. Although the lengthy dry stretches and consistently high temperatures are somewhat concerning, there’s still a wonderful ease in the air, one that we Brits are… Read more
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It’s Friday, I’m on fire.
Goddamn it’s hard to care about anything in this heat. If it ever felt like we were finally approaching the sharp-end of the climate-change stick, it’s now – a June less summery than apocalyptic.… Read more
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Burnt out under the strawberry moon
After half a decade of searching, a publisher finally agreed to publish my novel – a weirdly introspective travelogue that interrogates mental health, identity, temporality and horror. It’s a book of which I am… Read more
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Toiling in the Meteorological Summer
The venerated leaders of the ‘free’ world are arguing like babies, whilst distant dictators can’t seem to stop blowing the shit out of each other. Another colourful month of suffering the human condition. Nevermind,… Read more
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may the fires of Beltane fall upon us
From ethical conundrums to radical synth-punk, MEANS explores exceptional grassroots music and cultural thought. May is failing, its long days passing into a near endless summer, before immediately contradicting all hopes of heat with… Read more
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MEANS: nOVEMBER rOUND-UP
MEANS Magazine monthly round-up of new and shiny things we think are awesome. Two Worlds : Alfredo Santa Ana / Miranda Wong(https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-world-sleeps) Sunning itself somewhere between the virtuosic and the minimal, Two Worlds is… Read more
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The Duties of Property
I am currently in the middle of a house move and can confirm that it is indeed a monstrously stressful activity. As I lamented in an email to an (enviably monastic) friend, ‘why do… Read more
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