Black Heart Magazine’s LOLITA ISSUE is currently available for purchase! Only available online, as a downloadable PDF, the Lolita Issue features the dirtiest minds in literature on the topic of forbidden love. Check out our red heart-shaped sunglasses and hot words from AV Flox, Chris Reed, Will Dawson, Don Bapst, Heidi Kentwood, Ann Ward and […]
I’m studying social anthropology and my dissertation is basically investigating whether there’s any sort of notional global ‘indie community.’
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So yeah, what does the term ‘indie’ or the notion of independent music mean to you?
I discovered this call for help on Drowned in Sound, an indie music site out of the UK. I enjoyed an hour […]
A Kurdish publisher claims to have taken a major step towards a new degree of freedom of the press for Kurdistan in releasing Ghazalnus and the Gardens of Imagination and paying the author. Should give you pause if you’re out there trumpeting simplistic ideologies of indie like “never signing with any publisher or label” […]
With the radical growth of music file sharing in North America from 1999, especially in the under-30 age demographic, many who earn their livelihood in the music industry are of the opinion that this is in some way related to industry practices… that the industry had sown the seeds of its own demise through the […]
Hi folks! The peeps over at Lickety Split are pleased to announce this launch in the spirit of indie publishing solidarity:
MUSICIANS ARE COWARDS:
Launch of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 9
Saturday, January 26th @ Lab.Synthese, 435 Beaubien Ouest, loft 200
with PARLOVR, Flames! and American Devices + all night art happening!
9pm, $5 ($12 with a copy of […]
Really, this isn’t a review. I thought I’d write one about this book I got at Expozine but then I went to the Doris page on the Microcosm website and was heaped with passionate thoughts and words from dozens of other reviewers and now I sort of feel speechless. But actually, that’s what I was […]
Last week I had a sudden desire to get my hands on a copy of The Hole Show by Maya Merrick. I determined that I had to read this book ASAP because it’s one of the few works of fiction to come out in a while that is set in Montreal.
Although I rarely buy books, […]
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See what I meant was this Sunday…
I feel like every night for the last 2 weeks I’ve had an occasion to drink. And I’m the type to take the world up on its occasions. So needless to say, I’ve been on a bender. It all started a little before Friday, October 19th (the days are hazy), but I know the date […]