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Samuel Ross’ A-COLD-WALL* has just dropped its Pre-Spring 2023 collection, centred around four systematic visual narratives of Considered, Eclipse, Uniform, and Conditioned. Served in a technicoloured colour palette, the seasonal delivery explores the label’s design codes while debuting new fabrications, experimental print techniques and distorted motifs. The collection’s Considered theme is referenced through a calming range of cosy jersey […]
Rising hiking and fashion brand ROA has previewed its upcoming FW23 collection, highlighting a knockout selection of technically-focused apparel infused with heritage needlework and forward thinking design. Founded in 2015 by the creative team at Italian streetwear legend Slam Jam and designer Maurizio Quaglia, ROA has been an undeniable staple of the outdoors for some […]
Rolling Loud—one of the finest hip-hop-led festivals going—is heading out to Thailand in April this year for the first time and they’ve just announced Travis Scott will headline the festival. It’s a time of huge growth for the festival, which just wrapped up its Miami edition; last year, they launched their first-ever Canadian edition and made […]
THE IMPACT… Raj Kapone: Any youth culture movement is gonna get eyed up by brands because it gives them direct access to the kids and what they want. The developing nature of the grime scene meant that anyone involved around the beginning was on the inside looking out, so, naturally, we were the ones […]
In the 1980s, the city of Detroit was recognised as the murder capital of America, a title it held since the mid-70s and routinely won throughout the next decade. It was a city troubled by a history of racial differences, and led in statistics for poverty per capita, infant mortality, and mass unemployment, . Detroit […]
With everything that’s happened in the past few years and the increasingly central role that social media has played in it all, it’s hard not to feel as if an urgent change is needed, both in how these platforms work and how we use them. From the spread of misinformation to trolling and toxic online […]
Quite often when we write these lists, we’ll half-complain about how much of a struggle it is and woe-is-me-I’ve-been-tearing-my-hair-out, but the truth is this process was actually the most fun it’s ever been this year. A big part of that is how diverse music has been in 2022. Diversity, to some extent, has always been […]
Here at Complex, we wanted to acknowledge and honour the achievements of UK rappers this past year by compiling a list of the 10 best! To help us with this difficult task, we brought in some top industry experts and insiders, including Complex UK’s Editor-In-Chief, Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson, super-producer M1OnTheBeat, Capital Xtra’s Robert Bruce, Block […]
Four people are in critical condition and a further four were left injured after a crowd crush at Nigerian artist Asake’s concert on Thursday night (Dec. 15). According to a report from Sky News, emergency services were called to Brixton’s O2 Academy where around 3,000 people—many reportedly without tickets—are said to have “stormed” the venue after they were left stranded in freezing […]
South London’s Shadez The Misfit is back with a brand new single, “South-Side Solace”, and it marks a bit of a landmark moment in the artist’s life. The last few years have been pretty transformative for Shadez. He’s one of his recent single, “2B3”, was used for the backdrop for Barack Obama’s segment in a […]
