Off Licence Magazine

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 .

Magazine design by .lovr.

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,

Offie Mag’s Instagram Page.

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.

🎀 interview by 🎀

🎀 photos by 🎀

🌎 shipping worldwide from our site 🌍

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.

Graphic design by .lovr 💻

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

HAPPY SUNDAY.

THE POST OFFICE OPENS TOMORROW SO ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED THEN.

HAVE A NICE DAY,

OFFIE MAG

29/11/2024

OFFIE MAG ISSUE FOURTEEN: LIV.E ().

THEME: THE INTERNET.

100 PAGES THAT YOU CAN HOLD IN YOUR HAND. LIKE A PHONE BUT BETTER.

SHIPPING WORLDWIDE 🌍

COVER IMAGE BY .

28/11/2024

OFFIE MAG ISSUE FOURTEEN: .

THEME: THE INTERNET.

OUT NOW VIA OUR SHOP AND STOCKISTS AROUND THE WORLD 🌍

LINK IN BIO! 🛒

26/11/2024

25/11/2024

THE LAST OFFIE MAG EVENT OF THE YEAR 🎆

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WE’LL BE CHUCKING TOADS (SUSSEX’S OLDEST PUB SPORT) 🐸

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RSVP VIA THE LINK IN OUR BIO ✏️

21/11/2024

IT’S TWELVE MONTHS SINCE ISSUE TWELVE DROPPED 🗽

Have 12 facts about that magazine to mark the occasion:

1. said that ‘being a musician is the best job in the world.’

2. The magazine is sold out on our store and will probably never be printed again.

3. ’s album ‘We Buy Diabetic Test Strips’ features seven instrumentalists, including Shabaka Hutchings, who arrived at the studio with a ‘bag of flutes.’

4. The magazine has 100 pages.

5. told us that ‘she’s inspired by legends who invent genres.’

6. ’s favourite thing about New York is that ‘it’s the closest thing we have to a melting pot utopia.’

7. Smalls Jazz Club was full, but the staff let us sit on the side of the stage.

8. We had a show on whilst in NYC.

9. Our Editor-in-Chief went to his cousin’s wedding whilst in NYC (not pictured).

10. Our Managing Editor got lean off a THC-infused dip at ’s ‘FRANK’ launch party (not pictured).

11. .nys’s favourite venue in NYC is .

12. This is the only Offie Mag to date to have a city has it’s theme.

ISSUE FOURTEEN drops next week. Eek. 💻

20/11/2024

YOU COULD WIN A SUBSCRIPTION TO OFFIE MAG AT THE FIRST-EVER OFFIE MAG PUB QUIZ.

SATURDAY, NOV 30, 2024 (BRIGHTON 📍 )

Offie Mag celebrates its ‘INTERNET’ themed issue with a weekend-long pop-up exhibition. It’s an internet cafè, it’s a shop and it’s a bar.

16/11/2024

HOW FITTING IT IS, THAT OUR INTERNET ISSUE SHOULD BE LAUNCHED WITH A POP-UP.

In collaboration with , we’re installing an Internet Café *forward slash* Exhibition *forward slash* Social Club *forward slash* Shop for the weekend of November 30th & December 1st.

A chance to buy the new mag. A chance to see some never before seen photography and video bits. A chance to hang out.

Pub quiz on the Saturday night as well, because why not.

RSVP via the Lighthouse website 💻

15/11/2024

Hi there,

Hope this social media caption finds you well.

We're setting up an internet cafe for a bit in Brighton. See ya down there.

Best,

Offie Mag

To celebrate 'ISSUE FOURTEEN: THE INTERNET,' The Offie Mag Social Club, Off Licence Magazine's pop-up space, is set to return for a limited time only.

14/11/2024