https://evemorgan.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Eve MorganenTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/gig-reviews/gig-review-swordes-at-moth-club?rq=swordesWhen Swordes took to the stage at MOTH club this week, it began as an understated affair. A small table beside her holds a groovebox, a synth, a sampler, using which she builds up every beat and mixes live. This party trick is her speciality, creating a distinct sound where acid-trance meets gazey hyperpop. The stage is dark save for its trademark golden tinsel fringe, so Swordes sets her phone torch under a bottle of Fiji water to create a makeshift lamp, whose glow creates rippling shadows on...Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/gig-reviews/gig-review-swordes-at-moth-club?rq=swordeshttps://substack.com/@partiful/p-189901553Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://substack.com/@partiful/p-189901553https://www.rambler-magazine.com/zineshop/p/meet-me-at-the-playgroundIn our first international print collaboration, The Playground and Rambler! explore making art with abandon. In 88 pages, artists from around the world invite you into their dissections and wanderings of what it means to create innocently in an art world that places undue expectations on results, labels, and ‘quality’. Creative Direction by Alyssa JarjouraEdited by Gabi Fittes. Printed in London, now available worldwide. In our first international print collaboration, The Playground and Rambler...Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.rambler-magazine.com/zineshop/p/meet-me-at-the-playgroundhttps://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/little-simz-sugar-girl-ep-reviewLittle Simz has always insisted on being seen in her multitudes. Looking over the London-born, Mercury Music Prize winner’s accolades over the past decade, it’s easy to see why. With a healthy award collection, several acting credits, a Miu Miu runway, and legend status at just 32, that refusal to stay in her own lane is what’s fed such an impressive career trajectory. “You are witnessing greatness,” she promised a crowd from the Pyramid Stage of Glastonbury 2024, and she’s yet to be proven wron...Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/little-simz-sugar-girl-ep-reviewhttps://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/grace-ives-girlfriend-reviewGrace Ives has spent the last decade refining a sound that balances intimacy with restless electronic energy. On Girlfriend, the Brooklyn artist pushes that balance further than ever, trading the lo-fi edges of her early bedroom pop for something brighter, sharper and more ambitious. It was her sophomore album, Janky Star, released in 2022, that brought her to the forefront of the indie-pop space. There, Ives broached the topic of addiction in a music industry where drinking is built into the cu...Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/grace-ives-girlfriend-reviewhttps://www.polyesterzine.com/features/is-married-at-first-sight-the-manosphere-for-girlsSeemingly harmless, colloquial ideas of gender essentialism fuel a culture where more extreme opinions can flourish, and it’s not just the Aussies who fall prey. In Netflix’s Age of Attraction, where participants date without knowing each other’s ages, some of the men trip over themselves to reinforce inherent differences between themselves and the ‘females’. Throughout Too Hot to Handle’s recent seasons, the positioning of gender as something othering comes not just from participants but also f...Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.polyesterzine.com/features/is-married-at-first-sight-the-manosphere-for-girlshttps://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/gig-reviews/festival-review-cross-the-tracks-2026?rq=cross%20the%20tracksI managed to arrive halfway through WAR’s iconic ‘Why Can’t We Be Friends?’, enough to get my group pelting towards their congregation before the song was over. It was a perfect soundtrack for the weather, not to mention the general sense of joy that’s palpable across London on a bank holiday weekend. The performance dripped with craft and ease, closing on ‘Low Rider’, a seminal hit that landed as an ode to nearly sixty years of funk and soul greatness. Don West cut a strong silhouette alongside...Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/gig-reviews/festival-review-cross-the-tracks-2026?rq=cross%20the%20trackshttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/is-cortisol-psychosis-over-yetContour, bronzer, blush, gua sha, jade roller, ice roller, under eye patches, caffeine serum, lymphatic drainage, coconut water, ice water, adaptogenic coffee, l-theanine, magnesium bisglycinate, ashwaganda, reduce high-impact exercise, Pilates, yoga, meditation, schedule caffeine, cut caffeine, cut alcohol, cut sodium, cut sugar, cut gluten, cut dairy, cut carbs.In a web of wellness scams, the rise of cortisol-related content has become almost inescapable. These videos and posts see women descr...Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/is-cortisol-psychosis-over-yethttps://hardofhearingmagazine.com/2026/04/20/kiosk-radio-to-give-a-voice-to-the-people-whether-they-have-a-following-or-not/In conversation with Jim Becker, founder of Brussels’ Kiosk Radio. Kiosk Radio is the kind of gem music fans love to stumble across and located in the most unlikely of settings. Founded in 2017 and situated in Brussels’ Parc Royal, the radio station has been spinning tracks of any and every genre for long enough to earn its stripes. It is both a radio station and a venue, with a bar tucked next to the studio, and no trip to the Belgian capital is complete without a visit to the wooden hut. Nu...Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://hardofhearingmagazine.com/2026/04/20/kiosk-radio-to-give-a-voice-to-the-people-whether-they-have-a-following-or-not/https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/white-fence-orange-reviewAfter seven years without a release, Tim Presley is back as White Fence with a new album, Orange. Debuting in 2010, the artist was influenced by everything from dancehall to reggae to rap, and got his start in a hardcore punk band. Since then, he’s gone from strength to strength, with this most recent album grounded in classic-sounding alt-rock psychedelia. Fans will be glad to see that Ty Segall joins him once again; the pair collaborated on the beloved 2018 album Joy, and Segall has produced f...Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/white-fence-orange-reviewhttps://hardofhearingmagazine.com/2026/03/24/pollyfromthedirt-releases-poignant-state-of-the-north-ep-the-dirt-pt-2/Part-cowboy, part-pub regular, Pollyfromthedirt continues his streak of poignant English portraits on ‘The dirt pt. 2’. Pollyfromthedirt seems to have a monopoly on songs that stop you in your tracks. With his newest release, a followup to debut EP ‘The dirt pt. 1’, the artist joins the likes of Imogen and the Knife in honouring their Northern homes. Going by an amalgamation of his mum’s name and the nickname of his market-town birthplace, Darlington, Pollyfromthedirt is becoming known for hi...Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hardofhearingmagazine.com/2026/03/24/pollyfromthedirt-releases-poignant-state-of-the-north-ep-the-dirt-pt-2/https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/whose-flag-is-thisLast year saw the England and Union Jack flags hung throughout the streets of the UK, from windows and streetlamps, as a show of intimidation, in a wave of nationalism that was undeniably intrinsically linked to the rise in anti-immigration sentiment. It was also tied with a protest of up to 150,000 people ‘standing up for Britishness’, though there seemed to be some confusion on what this meant, with many attendees claiming a disconnect from the event’s inherent racism.Asisa Kadiri explored the...Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/whose-flag-is-thishttps://hardofhearingmagazine.com/2026/03/11/slow-dance-25-once-more-sets-the-tone-for-the-upcoming-year-in-underground-music/The collection masterfully curates a blend of sounds from across the alternative music scene as the label marks its tenth birthday. Slow Dance Records’ annual compilation has become a benchmark for taste, and the newest edition is true to form. Part reflection, part premonition, the compilation is a mixtape of the sounds rising to the surface of the UK underground music scene and beyond. The series also allows artists to push against the confines of typical release schedules and expectations,...Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hardofhearingmagazine.com/2026/03/11/slow-dance-25-once-more-sets-the-tone-for-the-upcoming-year-in-underground-music/https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/miss-grit-under-my-umbrella-reviewIn their new album Under My Umbrella, Miss Grit hones in on a sound a lot of artists have been reaching for. New York-based Miss Grit- or Margaret Sohn (they/she)- returned from an extensive North American tour, in which they drove across the country solo. Upon returning home, they set out to create an album that conveyed the intensity and freedom of live performance, and have definitely hit that mark in this release.The result is a whole-album experience that allows a listener to be fully immer...Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stilllisteningmagazine.com/reviews/miss-grit-under-my-umbrella-reviewhttps://www.somersaultmagazine.com/shop/p/somersault-magazine-issue-02Somersault acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands on which we live & work. Always was, always will be.info@somersaultmagazine.com Somersault acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands on which we live & work. Always was, always will be. info@somersaultmagazine.comMon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.somersaultmagazine.com/shop/p/somersault-magazine-issue-02https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/unreleased-music-culture-10-timesThere’s something about an artist being world-famous that makes fans feel as though their creative and intellectual outputs are publicly owned. With an almost Marxist verve, they seek any shred of intel about upcoming projects that may otherwise have never seen the light of day. This is more cult than culture, with the driving forces of the phenomenon seeming as elusive as its perpetrators.SoundCloud accounts are set up, links to Google Drives are shared, and stolen tracks are listed on Spotify...Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/unreleased-music-culture-10-timeshttps://sybaritic.substack.com/p/the-art-of-a-good-partyA couple of months ago, I started publishing some party pieces on Substack. While writing about such pleasures, I’ve found myself entering a deeply reflective state. I’ve been pondering many important philosophical matters… things like what makes a really good party? What are the unwritten rules for having fun? I feel the time has come to put these rules into writing, starting with the first: a good party needs a good host — and a good host always has something thoughtful to offer their guests....Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sybaritic.substack.com/p/the-art-of-a-good-partyhttps://themetropol.substack.com/p/london-offlineIf you’re at all interested in music or drinking in London, you’ve probably spent at least an evening at The Sebright Arms. A few years ago, sometime between feeling new to the city and entirely at home, I became a regular at their weekly pool tournament. I was never a player (and still can’t play pool), but more of a decoration. A lot of the (mostly) men who played had found a sense of belonging there, many having only recently moved to the city in need of connection. I would listen to them sha...Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://themetropol.substack.com/p/london-offlinehttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/soundtrack-to-2025At the risk of oversimplifying things, I’d like to make a claim: there are those who feel a soundtrack is there to enhance the film, and those for whom the film is there to accompany the soundtrack. I am one of the latter.This year, like every year, would’ve been nothing without its score. Would that there had been a little less desperation in selecting the perfect accompaniment to salvage an otherwise pitiful summer. Despite my dramatics, most of what I’ve listened to in 2025 has been upbeat. I...Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/soundtrack-to-2025https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/not-quite-a-metaphorThe volcano erupts mere days after we leave the island. I am not allowed to see this as a sign.It had been peaceful while it lasted, the trip. A final glimpse of carefree before the sharpness that wo… The volcano erupts mere days after we leave the island. I am not allowed to see this as a sign. It had been peaceful while it lasted, the trip. A final glimpse of carefree before the sharpness that wo…Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/not-quite-a-metaphorhttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/from-the-edge-of-the-spiralMaybe it’s the wisdom from my small aging, maybe it’s the desperation, but I’ve been having visions. Revoluting whorls overlapping one another, expanding and contracting with my pulse. A cascading he… Maybe it’s the wisdom from my small aging, maybe it’s the desperation, but I’ve been having visions. Revoluting whorls overlapping one another, expanding and contracting with my pulse. A cascading he…Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/from-the-edge-of-the-spiralhttps://itscertified.substack.com/p/angelic-dissents-archivesYou might know my friend eve.You probably know her because you read a piece of hers and it completely changed the trajectory of your life. I know. It happened to me as well. She does that to people. My friend eve is the testimony of how life changing the written word is.Naturally, for the writer, writing is that itch on your back you have to scratch. It’s the original, most honest thing that comes out of you. Sometimes I write and realize something I didn’t even know I felt. I’ve had more epipha...Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://itscertified.substack.com/p/angelic-dissents-archiveshttps://wearesuperfan.com/the-grand-opening-edition/Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://wearesuperfan.com/the-grand-opening-edition/https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/i-cant-wait-to-be-thinsuper mild spoilers for The Last ShowgirlWhat it is to have and be a body fascinates me. I love to talk and learn and write about it. The novel I’m furtively working on centres around this- what does… super mild spoilers for The Last Showgirl What it is to have and be a body fascinates me. I love to talk and learn and write about it. The novel I’m furtively working on centres around this- what does…Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/i-cant-wait-to-be-thinhttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/inspo-rot-end-of-shelf-lifeCover by Jon RafmanTime has always bent to reflect our alignments. If the 60s as we know them didn’t begin until the starting gun shot through JFK’s skull in ‘63, and ended abruptly in August ‘69 wit… Cover by Jon Rafman Time has always bent to reflect our alignments. If the 60s as we know them didn’t begin until the starting gun shot through JFK’s skull in ‘63, and ended abruptly in August ‘69 wit…Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/inspo-rot-end-of-shelf-lifehttps://palomamag.substack.com/p/018-playtimeWelcome to ISSUE 018: PLAYTIME 🏠Look around you. At least to the extent that you are able to, since your body is now stiff plastic to which your head is attached by a peg. You’ll soon find out that the hard, immobile elements of your new anatomy did not come together when purchased at the toy store, but were experimentally Frankenstein’d into a new configuration. This doesn’t greatly matter, though. At least you are not the dismembered plush dog to your right, or the poney hanging by its hooves...Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://palomamag.substack.com/p/018-playtimehttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/is-performance-art-outdatedThis essay is the final instalment of Digitally Altar-ed, a four-part series dissecting the elements of art, social media, and collective consciousness that we choose to worship in the all-consuming … This essay is the final instalment of Digitally Altar-ed, a four-part series dissecting the elements of art, social media, and collective consciousness that we choose to worship in the all-consuming …Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/is-performance-art-outdatedhttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-musician-digitallyThis essay is part two of Digitally Altar-ed, a four-part series dissecting the elements of art, social media, and collective consciousness that we choose to worship in the all-consuming digital real… This essay is part two of Digitally Altar-ed, a four-part series dissecting the elements of art, social media, and collective consciousness that we choose to worship in the all-consuming digital real…Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-musician-digitallyhttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/billboard-utopia-digitally-altarThis essay is part one of Digitally Altar-ed, a four-part series dissecting the elements of art, social media, and collective consciousness that we choose to worship in the all-consuming digital real… This essay is part one of Digitally Altar-ed, a four-part series dissecting the elements of art, social media, and collective consciousness that we choose to worship in the all-consuming digital real…Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/billboard-utopia-digitally-altarhttps://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/you-might-not-be-an-introvertFor a while, there was that voice in your head that said everyone was always out having fun without you. Maybe it’s still there. The party you missed was the event of the decade, the night you stayed… For a while, there was that voice in your head that said everyone was always out having fun without you. Maybe it’s still there. The party you missed was the event of the decade, the night you stayed…Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/you-might-not-be-an-introvert