Yes! Welcome back to Staying In, your 8-line-long Brexit bill of distracting content to see you through till Monday.
This time last week we were all glued to our screens live streaming the start of the apocalypse without a TV license. This week we feel slightly more hopeful, mainly just because we made it.
Here’s eight pieces of entertainment which we think are good. Burst the bubble. Feel the rattle. Stay woke. Stay in.
Track by Track: Welcome to the New Gen
Crack MagazineIf you haven’t already listened to it, the New Gen compilation which dropped today serves as a handy pin-drop on the exciting young talent heating up the UK underground. Listen to it via our track-by-track guide with commentary from A&R Caroline SM and Executive Producer Renz. Get to know the New Gen here.
Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read during Trump's first week
The GuardianAre you stuck in a exclusively liberal house with no windows? Is your echo-chamber getting you down? Break free and see what the other side are up to and gain greater understanding in the process.
“Everybody Still Wants to Fly:” Activism in Pop from Prince to Solange
Yale UniversityDaphne A. Brooks, Professor of African American Studies at Yale University, in conversation with Solange Knowles as part of a symposium looking at how activism and justice can be incorporated in to work and life. An enlightening and rewarding listen. Side-note: shout out to Greenpeace for their actual cranes in the sky.
Wiley: the enigmatic Godfather of Grime
The GuardianThere’s been a healthy amount of hype around Wiley’s new album Godfather, and so the grime legend has been on a fairly prolific press run recently. This longread by politics and music writer Dan Hancox is arguably the best profile that’s been published on him this month. Sure, the feature retells a lot of stories we’ve heard before – Slimzee’s ASBO, the Dizzee feud, the Wearing My Rolex video, and so on – but across 6000 words, Hancox paints an impressively detailed picture of grime’s complicated and endearing architect. Read it here.
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