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12/03/2025

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10/03/2025

“The internet has given us access to everything, but how are we using it?” – Liv.e (), ISSUE FOURTEEN: The Internet 🛜

When Tim Berners-Lee first switched on the World Wide Web, it was meant to “support and improve our weblike existence in the world.” But fast-forward a few decades, and that utopia is looking like a big fat DNS error.

Liv.e, the 26-year-old artist from Dallas, knows this all too well.

Her relationship with music predates her time online—growing up in a musical household where church visits made the art form second nature. Now settled in LA, she’s built a world where her music transcends the digital, even as she uses the internet to sell her music and demos directly to fans.

“I can’t fully hate on the internet,” she tells us. “Growing up, for a lot of people—myself included—it became this space where you could find others like you. It gave people a lifeline. I can’t ignore that.”

Liv.e’s art exists beyond the scroll, yet her presence lifts the doom from it.

2020’s ‘Couldn’t Wait to Tell You...’ offered solace in a pandemic, 2023’s ‘Girl in the Half Pearl’ felt euphoric in festival fields, and 2024’s ‘PAST FUTUR.e’ turns a grocery run into a mischievous silent movie plot.

She is an artist fitting of the contradictory nature of the theme. Informed by and enjoyed during IRL experiences. And yet, it’s thanks to the web, that we are able to enjoy her music so very much, and take ‘Aunt Liv.e’s’ teachings with us everywhere we go.

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04/03/2025

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14/02/2025

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12/02/2025

FOR OFFIE MAG ISSUE FOURTEEN.

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‘Offie Mag’s feet have ached in the search for interviewees before. We’ve taken flights, coaches and boats and, such is the transient nature of human beings and the randomness of life, there’s no guarantee that what you seek is at the end of your journey. The castle at the end of your voyage, may not yet have been built, or listed on Google Maps.

So, tediously entering a West London hotel lobby, pushing our reflections in the big glass door, and finding Zack Fox just sitting there at the bar, feels anti-climatic somehow. The comedian, rapper, DJ, writer, illustrator and more had travelled 5,437 miles from LA to that seat in Shepherd’s Bush. He peacefully sips a cappuccino and does a remarkable impression of someone who’s on time for a midday meeting - another natural talent to add to the list? Absolutely not.

‘I’m not naturally good at anything. I have to get into serious, almost detrimental fits of obsession over the technical side of things to figure stuff out,’ he tells us, admitting to being flattered when people assume he can just pick up a piano and play D’Angelo. 

‘It’s kind of like when people say, ‘Oh man, when you’re on Abbott (Elementary), you’re just being yourself.’ And I’m flattered, because I understand where that sentiment is coming from. But people don’t always realise the work that goes into it. Like, Quinta (Brunson) had to say on her Hot Ones episode, “No, the show is just written well, and Zack can act because he studies acting.” People underplay how much an artist has to study and refine their craft...’

Now fully acquainted with us - and our collective backsides acquainted with sofas and armchairs - fits of giggles punctuate the conversation. It’s a conversation that covered hypothetical BBLs and how they could affect the continuity of a movie he’s acting in, an arm-length kebab eaten in bed, and a creative career that, like most people existing in the 21st century, is inexplicably linked to the online world.’

Read all 2160 words of this feature in the latest Offie Mag 👓 bio 🫵

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23/01/2025

THE INTERNET HAS GIVEN US CONVENIENCE, BUT WHAT WILL IT TAKEAWAY?

In ISSUE FOURTEEN, our resident food critic and former food courier , ponders the rise of online takeaways, the stories of delivery drivers (someone once ordered just gravy?), and how local legends like Oliver’s in his hometown have kept doing things their way for 50 years – no apps or SEO needed.

Just one article in the future fish and chip packaging that is, Offie Mag ‘ISSUE FOURTEEN: The Internet.’

And some people think we only talk about obscure underground music. Get your laughing gear around that.

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16/01/2025

is a Croatian music festival, not a music festival that happens in Croatia.

For the best part of a decade, every year a community of Croats, Slovenians, Serbians, Swiss, Belgians, Italians and, on occasion, us, come together for three days, some boat parties and one beautiful festival.

Artists and DJs from around the world - most of which are independent - are flown in, picked up from Rijeka airport and put up for the weekend.

The festival’s founder, Dino, is local to Punat. He loves music and he has a taxi boat.

The festival’s bars serve typical drinks from the region like Gemišt (white wine and sparkling water) or Pelinkovac (bitter liqueur made from aromatic herbs and wormwood) and tonic.

On the two visits we’ve made, we’ve been the only people from the UK in the crowd. The only people there wearing socks with their sandals.

It’s a place where you’re more likely to step on a sea urchin than you are to hear ‘Olly, olly, olly, oi, oi, oi.’ And each to their own.

Because Velvet is its own.

It belongs to a community of music lovers, artists and more who built something that’s for them and serves them. It’s not reliant on a big UK company coming in and putting up barriers, branded tents and line-ups that relate more to Crawley than they do Croatia.

We’ve wrestled with gate keeping and mate’s sleeping on what may be the best music festival they’ve never been to, and that’s why we’re saddened to hear that this year’s Velvet will be the last.

The festival is a reminder of how hard it is to keep a good thing going, but also a reminder of how good it can get.

Photos from ISSUE ELEVEN feature on Velvet Festival (2022) and BTS photos from 2024’s inaugural Offie Mag Team Building Getaway ™️ taken by and .

15/01/2025

14/01/2025

’s studio has air conditioning. And it needs it.

The weather said ‘get off that computer and get out in the sunshine’ with a chance of hayfever. The grass at Warwick Gardens looks thirsty, with the dusty mud between it being the same soil that Jadasea stepped on during childhood. Once we eventually got out in the glow of the afternoon sun, locals offered urban legends about a one-armed bandit and a man with a giant cat in his garden.

There’s a lot of reflection in the South Londoner’s music just as there was in conversation. Fresh off his first UK headline tour, the momentum is there, with releases lined up to take him from the sweltering heat of summer to the cold winter we find ourselves in now.

His studio has heating, too.

Offie Mag ISSUE FOURTEEN is out now, featuring an in-depth interview and photoshoot with Jadasea by EiC .

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07/01/2025

OFFIE MAG ON THE BEACH WITH .MOE 🏖️

It’s hard to think of a better setting for an interview and photoshoot tbh. The ice in our glasses clinking, the gentle waves of the Adriatic Sea and distant rhythm of house music from was the backdrop as dreamcastmoe took us candidly through his journey.

Not his journey to the corner of Croatia that we found ourselves, but the journey to and from his hometown of Washington D.C., and his journey from budding child scientist and internet scholarly journal reader, to being one of the most beaming, uplifting characters of underground music anywhere in the world.

A producer, a DJ, a songwriter, a son, last year’s ‘Molly’ EP, named after his mother, was one of the highlights of 2024 and so was this day at the beach with him.

Read the full article in our latest 100-page magazine, available via our online shop and at stockists worldwide.

Interview by with an intro written by .

Photography comes from and .

Graphic design of the print article is by .lovr.

Beach by Punat.

31/12/2024

10 PHOTOS FROM THIS YEAR’S NIGHTLIFE ISSUE TO MARK THE LAST EVENING OF 2024.

1 - 3: All from ISSUE THIRTEEN’s cover story spotlight on ahead of their book launch.

4: penned an amazing travel article on Tokyo, with photography from .

5: knows how to party. Edson and Gee shared the origins of not only their brand, but their friendship.

6: Cover girl on the Thames Clipper.

7: at Tooting’s Bingo Hall. 10/10 would recommend.

8: Soho late-night staple Bar Bruno, by 🇮🇹

9 & 10: POV you’re about to get shunted by Offie Mag’s editorial team on the bumper cars at .

Whether it’s Hootenanny on the sofa or a big fat mega rave, have a pleasant final evening of 2024 and may your next whizz through the Gregorian calendar be prosperous.

Yours sincerely,

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30/12/2024

If you needed a reminder of why offline archives still matter, there’s a heartfelt one from photographer .derrico in our latest print magazine.

“In an age where everything is increasingly digital and disembodied, I feel the need to return to the hands. In this case, to revisit, browse and scan the photographic archive left by my father after his passing. The first analogue camera I ever used (and my main camera to this day) was an inheritance from him. In this gesture, I feel that I have also inherited his way of seeing.

Through this essay, in which I put my own photographs in dialogue with his, I value the materiality of analogue photography in a cloud-based reality. A necessary archive for an unstable and uncertain future. At the same time, it allows me to appreciate life, the passage of time through my family and friends, and the privilege of continuing my connection with my father through his invaluable archive.”

100-page archive of sorts available via yours truly.

23/12/2024

🎀 SALIMATA FOR OFFIE MAG 14 🎀

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The Brooklyn rapper was about to take to the stage for her first ever UK show when we chatted. From finding cello players on the internet, to being ‘not very serious’ on social media and the story of how one of our favourite projects of 2024, Wooden Floors, came to be. It’s all in there, printed on paper that you can hold with your hands.

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18/12/2024

THE READERS HAVE SPOKEN ⭐ OUR TOP FIVE INDEPENDENTLY RELEASED MUSIC PROJECTS OF THE YEAR ARE… ⭐

#5 Jadasea – Too Many Tears 🇬🇧 (29.6% of votes)

‘Say Hi’ and ‘Not Much 2 Say’ stand up as two of the most complete tracks that Jadasea, 10 years plus deep in music, has ever released. That shows you what sort of form the Peckham artist was in when he penned this latest edition to a catalogue we’ll one day all look back on in awe.

#4 Liv.e – PAST FUTUR.e 🇺🇸 (30.5%)

There’s experimenting with your sound, and then there’s releasing a project that feels like a spooky, privately pressed record from the 1980s that fetches £649.00 on Discogs. ‘Haunted Disco’, indeed, produced by a present-day genius.

#3 SALIMATA – Wooden Floors 🇺🇸 (37.4%)

The wooden floors in question are those slid on by Tom Cruise in Risky Business and this will make you skank the f*ck out in your living room like TC, or, provide the protagonist with backing vocals by trying to mimic the sensational pitched-up singing sampled on this uplifting rap gem.

#2 Anysia Kym – Truest 🇺🇸 (46.6%)

If there was a way to phonetically spell out that car-horn-esque opening to track 2, ‘Test Your Patience’, then it would be written right here. Because once that rings out, that’s your siren call to stop what you’re doing and lock into this immensely detailed masterpiece... providing the intro didn’t get you already, that is.

⭐ AND YOUR WINNER ⭐

#1 Sideshow – F.U.N. T.O.Y. 🇺🇸 (55%)

Raw, rapped truths delivered with such style that they feel celebratory. A recording of an elderly gentleman’s take on the younger generation is used as the spine of the project, with each and every track adding vertebrae-structured tangents into a lifestyle that some can understand but only Sideshow can live.

Thanks to everyone who voted and to everyone who has read our mag, listened to our radio show, double-tapped a post or followed our playlist in 2024.

The full list, complete with Very Short Music Reviews by and is up on the blog for your perusal 🥂

12/12/2024

“Armenia (Hayastan) is a secret mountainous haven in the South Caucasus, nestled between Turkey and Iran.

A well-kept secret, Armenia is the modern-day homeland for the descendants of Noah, who landed his ark after the great flood on Mount Ararat (an extinct volcano).

However, if you look up this mountain today, you’ll see it’s in Turkey - the closest we can get to it is a monastery called Khor Virap, about 100 metres from the closed land border that was opened for the first time since independence to send aid to Syria, Kurdistan and Turkey following the devastating earthquakes in 2023.

Standing on the mountains around Khor Virap and looking up at the sky, you’ll see that only the birds fly free in these lands.

Views of our beloved mountain, while precious and close-up from this point, are tainted with barbed wire, watchposts, distant border guards and a feeling of injustice. This one, in particular, hurts a lot.

An ancestral home to many Kurds too, Mount Ararat dominates Armenian folklore as a symbol of national identity.

After all, this is where the ark landed, and where our story began.”

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Words there from for ‘Offie Mag Travel: Armenia’ in ISSUE FOURTEEN.

Photos taken by .

We’re incredibly grateful to have their contributions in the new magazine which has now been out for 2 whole weeks.

It’s shipping around the world via our website, thanks to everyone buying, reading, tagging us in stories of them reading it on the bus etc.

Grab a copy to read this full feature. It’s worth the cover price alone.

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06/12/2024

WHILE STOCKS LAST ⏳

Back in 2018, we introduced the Boss Edition to celebrate ISSUE ONE—a little package with a magazine, stickers, and photo prints.

Since then, the Boss Edition has become a hand-stapled staple of Offie Mag’s output, evolving to include:

• Exclusive graphic t-shirts
• A3 posters tied to each issue’s theme
• Behind-the-scenes photo prints & vinyl stickers

ISSUE FOURTEEN: THE INTERNET Boss Edition features:

• The print magazine (Zack Fox & Liv.e on the covers)
• A screen-printed t-shirt: ‘THE OFFIE MAG’
• An ‘Internet is a trash pile’ poster
• 4 BTS photo prints
• 2 vinyl stickers

All wrapped up in bespoke packaging.

Retailing at £34.99 and shipping worldwide, it’s the perfect gift for Offie Mag readers and collectors alike.

And won’t you just gawk at that packaging?

Grab yours now at Off Licence Magazine dot com forward slash shop.

01/12/2024

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