The digital age promised freedom, but delivered algorithms and exploitation. This ZineUK dispatch dives into how UK artists are fiercely resisting streaming giants, rejecting unethical practices, and building a vibrant, independent future for music rooted in real connections and artistic integrity.
Read MoreIn our interconnected lives, algorithms are unseen weavers, subtly pushing right-wing narratives that intertwine politics, economics, and fashion. This article investigates how these digital architects influence everything from shopping habits to the rise of the 'tradwife' and the rebranding of major brands, exposing conservatism's creeping influence on pop culture.
Read MoreIn this era, where political dissent blurs with artistic expression, where merely existing on stage defies, the bond between musicians and their attire has never burned brighter. Clothes aren't mere costumes but manifestos, shields, and banners in a cultural war.
It's with this understanding, and a renewed, undeniable jolt, that we're thrilled to announce the return of 'Stage Style,' now reimagined and provocatively titled Stagestyle (Unstitched). And who better to seize this vital new chapter, to dissect the charged interplay of stage style and social commentary, than our electrifying, audacious, utterly compelling Ruby Blue?
Read MoreThe ongoing Zeenagers Expo presents ArtfulFest, a virtual month of creative recommendations through October 2025 (hire the artists, attend the venues, support the documentarians). The aim is to lay the groundwork for physical events in 2026.
Read Morewas introduced to the Craic Killers outside the Mo Chara court case, and their unapologetic punk energy was palpable even then. This Welsh-Irish duo, based in South East London, carry the weight of dual colonialisms in their DNA—the occupied North, the subjugated Welsh language, the erasure of Celtic identities under British imperialism. Add queerness to that matrix, and you have artists who know intimately what it means to have your existence politicised, your culture commodified, your resistance criminalised. Their EP, Who TF Is Craic Killers, arrives not as a question, but as a gauntlet thrown—these are ones to watch.
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