Negativland 2 Spring 2025

Negativland is a magazine set up by four young people who fell for a new generation of music that we felt had previously gone unnoticed and unnamed. A lot of it can’t be heard on the radio but really needs to be seen to be believed – off the airways and in the indie venues that make so many people in their early 20s tick. It’s a tunnelling, sprawling underground of acts and ideas we love.

For the most part, I think that it’s made by a generation of Gen-Zers who’ve grown up on a constant diet of media, from every angle; unparalleled access to older music, sure, but with their teenage years documented, by them, obsessively and permanently. We’ve consumed more of every media type than any generation that ever came before us, whether that be TV, film, literature, tabloid, trash, or advertising. We know what it’s done to us, and it’s these anthems that seem like a kind of saving grace; something found in the ruins.