Jacob Allen — better known as Puma Blue — finds light amongst life’s darkest moments with his poignant lyrics and ethereal soundscapes, enveloping the listener in an auditory dreamscape. In his release of ‘In Praise of Shadows,’ Allen marries delicate guitar riffs with airy beats, creating a sound honest to his current self. Pure Nowhere had the opportunity to chat with Jacob over a Zoom call, where we discussed the importance of vulnerability and the moments behind his debut album. His responses were imbued with the same poeticism and authenticity found in his music.

Musician Half Mood Bay explores what it means to navigate transitional periods of life as a young black artist, while finding a soul’s purpose through challenges. A year later, this EP has manifested itself into a filmic journey that works to translate these experiences of love and life through the lens of reincarnation.

Perfect to stream when missing the ups and downs of summer nights.

At 20 years old, Fay — better known as FIG — is breaking out of the bedroom pop mold. With her undying individuality and dynamic sound, this New York singer-songwriter dances around what’s expected, bringing listeners something fresh, with an air of nostalgia. After being featured on Spotify’s “Lorem” and “Beast Meets West” playlists, Pure Nowhere chatted with FIG over a Zoom call, discussing how she brings internalized emotions and visuals to life in her music.

‘Mirror Sound’ is a visual portrait that takes a closer look at the people and processes behind self-recorded music, showcasing twenty-seven musicians including Sharon Von Etten, Laetitia Tamko (Vagabon), and the late Emitt Rhodes. Conceived by writer and musician Spencer Tweedy, graphic designer Lawrence Azerrad, and photographer Daniel Topete, the collaboration profiles a collection of musicians whose work is a sonic reflection of their innermost selves.

Bracing honesty is a consistent theme in Morgan Saint’s catalog, and her latest EP HELP is nothing short of pure, unadulterated authenticity. In a conversation with Pure Nowhere, Morgan shared her cathartic advice, discussed honesty in music, and adapting to being a musician in the age of COVID-19.

“Each track offers a gateway to a new world. An opportunity to lose yourself in the composition and float away to a utopia offered by the atmospheric audio and cohesive writing styles of Marko.”

In honour of International Women’s Day, we chat to Nora Vasconcellos and Maité Steenhoudt about their skating journeys, experiences in skateparks as women, and recent Adidas collaboration.

Ria interviews Harper over FaceTime, spiralling through conversations on poetry, home, angels, teenagers, and all the ways they’re one.

Splüsh is unique in its tireless devotion to representing and reflecting the fluctuating needs of its consumer base. Inclusivity and accountability are the founding elements of the brand driving its escalating commitment to ethical design and production. In a chat with Pure Nowhere, sisters-turned-business-partners Alice and Julia Thomas talk about their message, community, and ethical creation.

writing shitty words on a Microsoft document pretending that someday it will matter. life is fun and boring right now in a kind of perfect way that I’ll never be satisfied with and nothing is full circle.

In a highly stylised contemporary culture, the necessity for creative people to be themselves is imperative. Whether that be with regard to fashion or an approach to the way a piece is created, what must be maintained is a sense of individuality. In an interview with Scott Cruft, Pure Nowhere hears insight into his mentality for creativity and the importance of creation for creation’s sake.

You’ll allow yourself, for a moment, to believe that in an accumulative sense - you found it. Or at least, you found enough.

“This is the work I do because I simply can’t do anything else. I am an artist to my core. This is what I dream about, this is what I am meant to do — create community, space, love, and opportunity through my art form.”

“I have undergone many changes within the last three months. I wished the majority of it never happened, but that is life and I need to learn how to roll with the punches.”

All the time we spend within our own mind, dreaming and planning, is time spent alone. This meditation is essential to our being. Focus on the day to day, don’t be pressured to create in a period of mourning, be wary of loud voices, and maintain a friendly relationship with your pesky memories. Stay inside, if you can. Watch more movies.

because your kisses remind me of light plums and golden chains and full mugs of all our favorite caffeinated drinks and everytime i wake up in these panics i remember why i hate january

“Maybe I want to leave in search of definition — if I find somewhere that defines itself explicitly, where natives can always describe their homes in interesting, pretty ways, I will be able to define myself too.”

Poetry by Bridget Gwyn.

This is our future. So, don’t blame us for being reckless, irresponsible and high. Life should be about living, seeking, loving, crying, being heartbroken or drinking on the rooftops at 1 a.m. We are just trying to suck out the last drops of feeling before the world runs dry. Before it’s your time to go and our time to face what you have given us.

In the form of a multimedia photo series, I ask the question why we cannot exist like the soil, drifting back and forth across manmade borders.

athena shares a gallery of self portraits on film documenting herself & her space in isolation, musing on the ways in which photography is still exposing new feelings, even now.

On the complexity of forgetting an old love, and the invisible space inside ourselves in which distorted memories remain, and we try and keep loved ones alive. Limbo. A short film.

through IKEA photo-shoots, late-night interviews, drunk thoughts and more, Emerick explores purpose in life through the perspectives of close friends — all from behind the lense of her camera.

Sometimes I think back, and wonder what type of strangers we were.

We wound up slow dancing together many times through the years, in antiqued ballrooms and sailboat decks, under spotlights and blue moons. I danced with other girls before, to the Grease soundtrack in hopes of getting them to kiss me behind the couch – I never wanted to dance with her like that.

We are laughing, we are laughing, and now it hasn’t been funny for a while. I feel pretty cool, I feel pretty tall. I look at my legs, I don’t have any. I’m super tall, and I bet my legs should be really straight and narrow and sexy. I think I know these people, they’re tall and straight and narrow, they wear sunglasses in pitch darkness.

This isn’t a guidebook. Instead, it’s a shared experience. Grief enters everyone’s lives at some point… Let it linger, let it consume you — but never ignore it.

In a chat with 23-year-old Brianna Mims (she/her), she talks about her upbringings in Duval County, Florida, her time at the University of Southern California, and her previous and ongoing work in the world of prison abolition.

In an interview with Bri Barnett, development director of Trans Lifeline, we’re given the run-down of what Trans Lifeline is, what resources they provide for trans people, and how allies must show up for the trans community.

With examples like Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, and Sylvia Plath, it’s easy to see how, in art, the public perception of mental illness is that it positively affects creativity. We've created martyrs out of those struggling under mental illness, and reduced their struggles to “the creative process.”

How do all the queer kids that are becoming queer adults feel about the fragility of this right, a right that many of us have taken as a given?

Late summer brought with it a haze of political activism. Issues of domestic and international conflict were spotlighted across media platforms. The humanitarian crisis of Yemen was one among many.

International actress Priyanka Chopra and singer-songwriter Nick Jonas’s wedding, with familiar faces like Armie Hammer and Kelly Ripa in attendance, had a more surprising guest: Indian Prime Minister Modi. Chopra, who was appointed as a UN ambassador in 2010, has been vocal about her head-turning, ironic support towards the controversial leader for quite some time.

As activists, we must dedicate ourselves to reimagining the ways in which our activism can manifest itself meaningfully online.

Following the Australian government’s announcement on June 19 that university fees would be doubled for future Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) students and would also be raised for commerce and law, Eve Watt explores what this means for Australian art students and the future generations.

It’s not the time for any white person to derail the conversation by touting how much you have struggled too. It’s time for us to listen to people of colour, but not to stay silent.

“You see how our textbook’s pages begin in the 300’s?” I flipped through and noticed that it did. “That’s because everything before that got removed by the board a few years ago.”

In the federal system, Black Americans charged with a drug offence serve an average nearly the same amount of time (58.7 months) as a White American charged with violent crime (61.7 months). And that’s just the beginning.

We have been asking ourselves how we can use our privilege and platform to best support and uplift the voices of our beautiful Black friends, artists, and activists. Now, as we transition back into content flow, we are committed to keeping this question at the forefront of our minds in everything we create and release to our readers.

It’s important to emphasize that there is so much more work to be done in order to make sure that we are all free. If you approach the concept of justice individually it may seem futile, but together we have the possibility to make truly substantial change.

While we are still amidst a global pandemic, not everyone is able to show up in person — but anyone can support. This fight needs to be sustained by our resources, money and energy — today, and every day after.

What is a subculture anyway, but a community turning against the status quo that failed them, and a sense of belonging?

By unlearning that the cardinal rule of the movies like Legally Blonde exist solely based on “unlikely” characters and plots, we begin to unlearn how we have been taught that women can’t be nuanced.