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Life after “netlabel”: an interview with ZOOM LENS’ Meishi Smile

June 22, 2019July 4, 2019 dnguyenrr4
ZOOM LENS is traversing life after “netlabel.” The label collective is in its fifth year of materializing a vision as nucleated by founder Meishi Smile.
June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

made in miami

April 13, 2019April 14, 2019

Black Girl Rise

April 13, 2019May 2, 2019

Venture to the “Dark Sight of the Moon” with Micropixie’s otherworldly trip-hop

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019

Playlist #001: Feelings You Provide

Life after “netlabel”: an interview with ZOOM LENS’ Meishi Smile

June 22, 2019July 4, 2019 dnguyenrr4

ZOOM LENS is traversing life after “netlabel.” The label collective is in its fifth year of materializing a vision as nucleated by founder Meishi Smile.

made in miami

June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 dnguyenrr4

The people maintaining the vibrant sound and life of EDM are people of color. These spaces are where I got to exist again.

Caught Between Your Love

June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 dnguyenrr4

by Asela Lee Kemper

Fallin’ for WAYI’s “Love in Progress”

April 29, 2019May 20, 2019 molassesmag

WAYI is able to skillfully encapsulate the only true constant trait of love in her five tracks: that it is ever-changing and dynamic.

Poetry: tipo

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 molassesmag

by Katixa Espinoza

What can we learn from the Bogota Music Market?

April 14, 2019April 24, 2019 molassesmag

The Bogota Music Market shows us that music is powerful, that it is something people want for their lives, and that it is something big industries want a piece of.

Y La Bamba’s “Mujeres” and the cultural collision of indie rock

April 14, 2019May 20, 2019 molassesmag

On their latest record “Mujeres,” Y La Bamba is at the mic, all up front and center.

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❕❕❕excited to share: all our posts are online! link in bio for poetry, articles, essays, interviews and more by and about artists of color. #music #musicmag #musicblog #POC #artistsoninstagram #musiciansoninstagram #musiciansofcolor #artistsofcolor #writersofcolor #poc #pocart #art #pitches #music #magazine #blog #illustration #design #callforartists #molasses #mag #molassesmag #brooklyn #diymusic #concert #blog #zine
resharing some of these photos! taken by Katixa whose piece "made in miami" is online now~ check it out with the rest of our contributors' articles/interviews/poems/~
Check out some amazing photos taken by @kattidk of the Molasses benefit show last Saturday! Keep a lookout tomorrow for more content from our first issue - link in bio❕ . . . #music #musicmag #musicblog #POC #artistsoninstagram #musiciansoninstagram #musiciansofcolor #artistsofcolor #writersofcolor #poc #pocart #art #pitches #music #magazine #blog #illustration #design #callforartists #molasses #mag #molassesmag #brooklyn #diymusic #concert
Meet Katixa! Katixa Espinoza (@kattidk) is a Miami native Latina writer residing in Brooklyn. Her works can be found on OCCULUM, YesPoetry and other places as well. She is currently looking to publish her first chapbook. When she isn’t interrogating the world around her - she writes sad bilingual music and jokes on @kattidk on twitter. We'll be publishing her poetry and personal essay Made In Miami: a nonfiction piece on growing up with Power 96, Pitbull, and Miami Latin Freestyle music and seeing it meet its death with the whiteness of EDM.
Meet Adanya (@adanyas_notebook). She's a writer, performer and geography nerd. She's been studying dance and music since she was a child and loves examining art's impact on our societies and attitudes. Check out her piece on Les Amazones d'Afrique in the first issue! Her piece on West African feminist supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique drops soon! Our inaugural launch will have Molasses releasing three pieces each day! Check the link in our bio for our weekend pieces. Love, Molasses ❇️❇️❇️❤️
Meet Souliél (Soh-lay)! We'll be publishing some of her poems- keep a lookout! @iamsouliel In her own words: she is an award winning poet, spoken word artist, singer and musician born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is a first generation Haitian-American and alumna of Fordham University where she earned her B.A in English and minored in Music Theory concentration. Music and the written word are her passions. She has been writing since she was a child and has been performing her written work since her high school talent show and later at popular and prestigious New York City venues and shows such as Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, The Underground Concert Series (UGCS), Inspired Word NYC, Paint & Poetry and Dizzy Brown Presents: Ohhh Snap. She was formerly a co-host for the Chicago-based poetry and spoken word organization P.O.E.T (People of Extraordinary Talent) weekly Monday night radio show "Voices Behind the Pen." Some of her works are published included in the P.O.E.T Anthology Volume IV: Learning How to Overcome with the Power of the Pen (2016). Souliél is the recipient of the 2016 P.O.E.T Up & Coming Artist and P.O.E.T Author's Awards. She is currently working on her first spoken word album and in the works of publishing more of her written works as well as developing her craft as a singer-songwriter and musician for future projects and performances. #music #musicmag #musicblog #POC #artistsoninstagram #musiciansoninstagram #musiciansofcolor #artistsofcolor #writersofcolor #poc #pocart #art #pitches #music #magazine #blog #illustration #design #callforartists #molasses #mag #molassesmag
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