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19/12/2025

DO YOU LIKE JAZZ? 🫵

What with our JAZZ ISSUE still doing the rounds in print, we put the J-word to our most recent interviewees, and .

Turns out they do.

17/12/2025

5 minutes with… & .

These two just dropped an album together. Then we went for breakfast.

On the table for discussion with Sonnyjim and Morri was, what each looks for in a collaborator, how the new album came to be, and why this whole independent music thing even matters anyway.

12/12/2025

DECEMBER CLUBNIGHTS 🎆

New Years Eve options. Beirut basements. Croatian basketball ball courts.

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10/12/2025

ISSUE SEVENTEEN: Call for pitches ✉️

The theme is SPACE.

Approach that however you want. The kind that people need to take up. The out of this world kind. Spaces we need. Spaces we’ve lost.

S P A C E.

We’re open to photo essays, features, poems, creative writing, prose… even things you found on the floor and decided to scan.

Whatever you think would feel right in an Offie Mag, basically.

Send pitches (or finished work) to [email protected] with PITCH in the subject line.

Offie Mag pays contributors.

Following a conversation in a smoking area with a photographer who’d recently shot a cover for an internationally-known magazine, it turns out our rates are more competitive than we once thought.

Deadline: January 5th, 2026.

04/12/2025

VOTING IS OPEN. LINK IN BIO.

Before you decide whether or not to vote, a quick story.

Once, at an awards ceremony for independent music, we were served caviar. Actual caviar. Tiny spoons, cold trays, at an event for GRASSROOTS MUSIC where people sat in tuxedos.

It was at that exact moment we decided we’d eventually start our own award.

So here it is: The Offie Mag Readers’ Project of the Year 2025.

The shortlist was shaped by a year of playlisting, several heated arguments, an internal Google Sheet-based voting system, and a strict one-release-per-label rule to keep the playing field honest.

Music is subjective. Debates are inevitable. But the reason independent music matters — the community, the graft, the risk — is not up for discussion.

If you independently released music this year, you’ve won already. But only one of this lot is getting our actual award.

Listen intently and vote intentionally.

And thanks for following and reading Offie Mag this year. Where’s our award????

Very Short Music Reviews featured by , and .

Cover photo of .nys taken by .consenstein for ISSUE TWELVE: NEW YORK 📷

28/11/2025

Eff it. Have 50% off whatever you lot want. This weekend only. Code at checkout: BLACKFRIDAY

Whilst stocks and sizes last. Prices will return to their regular value after November 30th 2025. Please don’t get used to this price point. We are a tiny independent magazine that occasionally hosts club nights and gigs, not a multinational tech conglomerate with a warehouse the size of Luxembourg. This is just us trying to participate in late-stage capitalism responsibly. All discounts are issued in accordance with Section 14, Subsection B of the Offie Mag Independent Retail Act (2025). Any attempt to assume this pricing is permanent will be met with confusion and mild disappointment. All rights reserved.

24/11/2025

‘Start with the classics... but don’t stop there.’

on finding your way into jazz - from Mingus and Miles to , and London’s young scene.

Recorded at , this interview sits inside our feature How To GET INTO Jazz by — a piece about accessibility, elitism, and the moment jazz finally “clicks.”

Our JAZZ ISSUE is available now via our shop and stockists.

23/11/2025

SOMETHING BIG IS BREWING.

IS BACK ON AIR AT 12PM, EVERY MONDAY (AT LEAST!).

Starting Monday 24th November 2025 with a new issue special with editor-in-chief 🗞️

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21/11/2025

’s given you five east asian djs and producers to tap into.

and brighton can tap into riria tonight (friday november 21) at , 🫡

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full interview with riria coming to the mailing list and blog in due course. sign up today for that and more good stuff.

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19/11/2025

OUR FAVOURITE 19 RELEASES OF 2025 👉

VOTE FOR WHICH INDEPENDENT ARTIST TAKES HOME OUR COVETED (AND VERY MUCH REAL) TROPHY 👍

VOTING FORM AND FULL LIST IN OUR BIO 🗳️

WHAT DID WE MISS, WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE RELEASE THIS YEAR??? 🫵

12/11/2025

‘Tomorrow’s Warriors was set up to address the under-representation of Black talent — and later on, women and girls — in jazz in this country,’ says co-founder Janine Irons.

Back then, as she puts it, the scene was “very, very male, pale and stale.” Gigs full of older men scratching their chins, wondering why the music was fading away. Jazz had become exclusive — middle-aged, middle-class, and overwhelmingly white. Something had to change.

Tomorrow’s Warriors was that change.

Founded in 1991 by Janine and her husband, musician Gary Crosby, the non-profit has helped shape every generation of British jazz since. Its alumni include Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Moses Boyd and EZRA Collective - names that have carried the sound of a new era to global stages. But what they’ve built is bigger than music.

“We tame the beast,” says Gary. “Nothing else can win. We are warriors.”

At its core, Tomorrow’s Warriors is about community — a place for young people to learn, improvise and pass it on. As Janine explains, the “each one teach one” ethos took root when they moved into the Southbank Centre. “You could literally chart it like the branches of a tree — one group growing into many.”

More than 15,000 young musicians have come through its free workshops, residencies and summer schools — many discovering jazz for the first time. For some, it’s been a way into the industry; for others, a way into art, purpose, and belonging. “Everyone should have access to art,” Janine says. “It should be a right.”

🗞 Read the full feature in Off Licence Magazine – Issue Sixteen: “JAZZ”

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