PINBOARD
20 May 2013
WIN TICKETS TO SEE THE BEATNUTS, JERU THE DAMAJA AND AFU-RA
We've hooked up with the good folk at The Doctor's Orders to give away a pair of tickets to their next night - which, typically, features some of hip-hop's finest luminaries in The Beatnuts, Jeru The Damaja and Afu-Ra. Going down at The Garage in London on Saturday 25th May, be sure to save the date for some guaranteed neck-snapping fun times....
Album Of The Month
4 April 2013
It’s been a quiet three years on the production front for Simon Green. After wooing everyone with the beautiful and serene Black Sands in 2010, he once again opted to leave his public in the listening lurch as far as new material is concerned and, save a remix album of...
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A Film Poster is Worth a Thousand Lines
While passing another by numbers poster for a Hollywood remake I mused: why are all movie posters nowadays so...shite? I walked away citing irreconcilable differences. 'It's not you, it's me,' I thought. Reassuringly, this poster for Drive suggests it was just you after all...
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Hey there. Welcome. Founded in October 2009, Brainer is an online magazine based in London. We’re about music and art, but really anything goes. If something has passion behind it, a desire to break with convention and a will to inspire with positivity, then hey, it has a home here.
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