by Noel Maurice | Jul 20, 2023 | Music, music interview, Queer
Oktober is a female singer and songwriter living in Berlin. Singing jazz and in choirs as a teenager, it took her until her 20s to release her quiet, quirkily melancholic songs. We chatted to her last month after she’d released her latest music. indieRepublik:...
by Noel Maurice | Jul 2, 2023 | Music
Social media: You love it, you hate it. You find yourself in weak moments scrolling numbly down, clicking and swiping, brain in a fog. You click on a link you didn’t mean to and end up in a rabbit hole of strange content, wondering how you got there…and...
by Noel Maurice | Jun 20, 2023 | Music
While Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have been around for donkeys years now, there’s one platform that has gained massive popularity in recent years but that not every musician is yet using to promote their music: TikTok. With its unique format and massive user...
by Noel Maurice | Jun 9, 2023 | indielit, Poetry
After taking a break from featuring independent literature for the last 2-3 years, we decided that it’s time to get back to things with words in them. And what better way to restart our indielit section than with an interview with the very wordy (but in a good...
by Noel Maurice | Jun 9, 2023 | Concerts, Exclusives, Music
Heard of the Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda? It is widely regarded as Africa’s premier electronic music festival, earning this title from Factmag and numerous attendees who have experienced its magic firsthand. +++ Check out the Facebook event and how to get the...