Antidote Magazine | The Remedy is Diversity

BBC Radio 1 is home to many diverse musicians. From time to time, it allows experimental artists to place a temporary residence as the host of the radio show. Four artists in particular have become largely involved in the British music scene and have each defined themselves through their innovative styles.

With SXSW and Coachella behind us, it’s time to turn our attention north. Canadian Music Week is a nine day festival showcasing both local and international talent. The fest has graduated from bitter March to balmy May, inviting the less cold resistant music fans. With an overwhelming number of artists, this year is sure to be bigger and better than anything before.

For Fall we see our seventies summer goddess gracefully evolving into a powerful eighties-inspired hard hitter. Olivier Rousteing manages to effortlessly blend the decades with a look that is modern and harsh, yet somehow still nostalgic and whimsical. [slider source=”media: 6359,6358,6357,6356,6346,6347,6355,6348,6353,6349,6350,6351,6361,6354,6360″ limit=”25″ width=”660″ height=”660″ title=”no”]

Following Coachella festivities, we have still not gotten over Festival Fever. Want to stick out this spring and summer? Adopt the versatile 70s style! From louche to rock star, exotic to bohemian, the 70s marked the beginning of change, especially in fashion. Here is another look that you can easily pull off at a festival or on a night on the town.

“Makeup may come and go, but brush cleaning is forever.” I know, I know! I already hear you ladies huffing and puffing, but it’s my duty to remind you to clean your brushes and makeup tools at least once a week. Although it may seem like it is too often, especially given our busy and hectic lifestyles, the last thing you want is applying your makeup with tools that are full of bacteria, oil and dirt.

There are plenty of terrifying moments in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, one of the best horror films of the last decade. There are a couple of effective jump scares, though the blank look on one character’s face following one of them suggests Mitchell isn’t too keen on them himself. No, the film gets a lot of horrifying mileage out of people just walking toward the camera, perhaps never more brilliant than in a 720-degree pan in a high school with someone walking toward them from outside only to be forgotten about and never confronted.