Lakecia Benjamin sits down with Strand Magazine to talk about her latest album, We Dream, as well as her creative processes, inspirations, and the future of jazz.

Upon the release of the ‘Backrooms’ trailer, excitement was entwined with concern online over how exactly it would be pulled off.

Photo by Daniela Denyer Malo The Korean festival has come to London, and with it, Gravity: a spectacular show of emotion through dance and a cultural experience of the best sort. The talent of the company is overwhelming and the five minute ovation was well deserved. In Gravity, an eleven-person dance company moves, pulled by an unseen force in an astonishing and even otherworldly way. This performance explores how everything in the universe is interconnected, focusing on the

Image Courtesy of semiwestern For a band that began with two childhood tennis rivals crossing paths on the junior tournament circuit, semiwestern have always existed somewhere between worlds. Led by Texas-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ty Bohrnstedt, the indie-rock project has spent more than a decade evolving from its early days as The Vliets. Alongside co-founder Daniel Gonzalez, longtime collaborator Jeff Morisano and a rotating cast of close friends, semiweste

Photo by Fabrice Bourgelle Responding to a lack of South Asians represented in creative industries, Dialled In advocates for the opposite. Through festivals and events, a record label (Dialled In Records), and a not-for-profit (Dialled Industry), alternative South Asian music and culture is given the space to be celebrated and invested in. On the 30th of May, amidst the infamous heatwave, I was lucky enough to attend the fifth-anniversary edition of Dialled In’s festival, whe