The Musos Awards 2026
The Musos Awards is an independent rock n roll music amplifier. “There were no “overnight successes” involved – maybe that’s a grassroots thing.” TheZineUK at Camden Electric Ballroom, February 2026.
Read MoreBuild Our Coordinates of Resistance: Launching The Music Tourist Board
The venue is a lung. A carnal architecture of subversion where the noise grows thick and wild. Today we launch the Music Tourist Board. A radical cartography to map the sanctuaries and name the exploiters. For the Zeenagers reclaiming the circuit. Find the saints. Avoid the fever. Follow the stickers. The revolution has coordinates.
Read MoreWe Want Them Pure and We Want Them Dirty: Celebrity Worship and Abuse
I worshipped David Bowie because his wonky teeth made me feel better about my own. But the real wound came later. A forensic analysis of the nausea of celebrity worship, abnormal sexual psychology, and the girls we traded for guitar solos. We want them pure, and we want them dirty. This is the cost of the myth.
Read MoreRuby Blue's Red Flags: THE MYTH OF THE INDUSTRY PLANT: COMMODIFICATION & ERASURE
The TikTokification of music has birthed a new witch-hunt: the industry plant. This article dissects how this gendered label erases the years of labour female artists put into the grassroots circuit while distracting from the systemic collapse of the UK’s cultural infrastructure. We explore the erasure of history, the reality of label investment, and why the "plant" narrative is a weapon of gatekeeping.
Read MoreRibcages as Blockades: Blue Niall, The Shan Vans, and the Scorched Verse of OCRAS
Because the state aims to exhaust, the artists have built a counter-siege. The demo track Ocras is the engine and the lead for the OCRAS Hunger Striker Support Fund.
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