MIRRORHOUSE

Home for the Arts.

Spotlighting culture. Reflecting on creation. Archiving the arts.

Photos by Tom Mckean

KIRBLAGOOP Interview: Reflecting on an Era

KirbLaGoop is widely known for his appearance on Hellboy with Lil Peep, “Red Drop Shawty”. The comments generally consist of debate over Kirb’s voice, divided between those who really rock with him and those who simply don’t know the lore. That high-pitched voice you hear on RDS belongs to one of Florida’s most iconic SoundCloud rap pilgrims. Being from Florida, and surrounded by the South’s slowed rap music, Kirb has done his study time on the culture and integrated it into

Dupont Pavilion: Asheville's MONKEYCHILD

Everything is going too fast. It feels like the fun has been taken out of everything, especially online and in music. Dupont Pavillion arrives as a kind of Nintendo-style boss hero, who champions the powers of positivity onto his fans, slowly curing our algorithms of dystopian gloom with human spirit. It has a real element of rebellion to it. He emits energy which makes us like we’ve known him for years, embodying a simple formula of warm padded beats, life affirming lyrics a

Whilst Renzniro’s music refuses to be constrained by any particular label, No Weapon Shall Prosper is firmly rooted in a breaking UK wave of experimental grime, driven by polished production, cinematic soundscapes, and live instrumentation. NWSP mirrors the movement it's a part of: new territory, triumphant, and awash with sounds of angelic ascendance.

RenzNiro: If it's worth doing, then it comes with growing pains

Whilst Renzniro’s music refuses to be constrained by any particular label, No Weapon Shall Prosper is firmly rooted in a breaking UK wave of experimental grime, driven by polished production, cinematic soundscapes, and live instrumentation. NWSP mirrors the movement it's a part of: new territory, triumphant, and awash with sounds of angelic ascendance. Alongside Renz, producer Wudini served as another alchemist, responsible for shaping the mixtapes sonic direction. NWSP featu

In the early 2020s, underground rap underwent a colossal shift in spirit and sonics. Post pandemic, rap fans were avidly online and spoilt for choice of increasingly niche pockets of music, with which to identify themselves with. Production advanced into new experimental territory. Lyrics moved further away from convention, embracing absurdism, internet culture, and unfiltered self-expression.

Christ Dillinger & Acid Souljah: The Evolution of Based Negative Squad

All photographs shot by Louis Butler. In the early 2020s, underground rap underwent a colossal shift in spirit and sonics. Post pandemic, rap fans were avidly online and spoilt for choice of increasingly niche pockets of music, with which to identify themselves with. Production advanced into new experimental territory. Lyrics moved further away from convention, embracing absurdism, internet culture, and unfiltered self-expression. Among the artists embedded in this evolution

Underground Rap's Nick Diaz: A Reflection with Tenkay

Tenkay is an artist who stays abundantly true to the Based movement’s loud personality. Since Soulja Boy turned MySpace into a playground, trolling has been one of its key motifs. Tenkay is undoubtedly a troll online, but regardless of how you sit with his irony-laced, controversial social media presence, he is a pivotal, often misunderstood figure in the SoundCloud jerk wave’s origin story and the modern based revival. Tenkay and his ex-collective 1C34’s 2022-23 run sits in

KIRBLAGOOP Interview: Reflecting on an Era

Aug 20

Dupont Pavilion: Asheville's MONKEYCHILD

Aug 7

RenzNiro: If it's worth doing, then it comes with growing pains

Jul 23

Christ Dillinger & Acid Souljah: The Evolution of Based Negative Squad

Jul 10

ARTISTS

MIRRORHOUSE exists to document lives, practices, and perspectives that live freely untamed.

You might be a musician with a innovative project. A philosopher who never got to publish. A train driver who pencils landscapes at work. A revolutionary who just so happens to play guitar. Titles are incidental. What matters to us is substance, and the internal world which conceives art.

We are not looking for work without identity or lifeless aesthetics. We are drawn to stories of radicals and mavericks who work with their internal logic and shape projects with obsession, solitude, discipline, or a defined worldview.

MIRRORHOUSE is a record of the fringe, the overlooked, the quietly transformative. We aim to preserve the beauty in moments before they are diluted, misread, or lost.

You do not need institutional validation or a large following. But you must have direction, purpose and a vision. If your practice, lifestyle, or thinking feels true in spirit, we invite you to submit to MIRRORHOUSE.

WRITERS

MIRRORHOUSE publishes both excavation and observation. We welcome long-form essays, cultural analysis, theory, and considered storytelling. We also publish present-tense work: emerging artists, current industry tropes, cultural movements forming in obscure environments.

If you are connecting unlikely dots, interrogating the direction of a scene, documenting a subculture before it hardens, or reframing something overlooked, we may want to read it. Each must carry informed authorship and not imitation.

We are interested in thoughts. When archiving old work, research is critical. When doing a think piece, creativity and articulation is essential. If you are passionate, be obsessive. What can you tell us that no one-else can?

It could be a reconsideration of Lou Reed through psychology. A found photo book of a lone occultist. A meditation on plant life as machinery. Subject is secondary. Insight is primary.

No experience is required, but strength is foundational to our long term goals. Half-formed commentary is of no use to us.

Submissions must be original and written by you. Anything written by robots is instantly devoided by us.

If you have vision for culture as it forms and can preserve it before it fades, it can live in the MIRRORHOUSE.

SEND TO: TRUTHRESORTE@MIRRORHOUSE.ORG

MIRRORHOUSE

Home for the Arts.

Spotlighting culture. Reflecting on creation. Archiving the arts.

Photos by Tom Mckean

KIRBLAGOOP Interview: Reflecting on an Era

Dupont Pavilion: Asheville's MONKEYCHILD

RenzNiro: If it's worth doing, then it comes with growing pains

Christ Dillinger & Acid Souljah: The Evolution of Based Negative Squad

Underground Rap's Nick Diaz: A Reflection with Tenkay

KIRBLAGOOP Interview: Reflecting on an Era

Dupont Pavilion: Asheville's MONKEYCHILD

RenzNiro: If it's worth doing, then it comes with growing pains

Christ Dillinger & Acid Souljah: The Evolution of Based Negative Squad

ARTISTS

MIRRORHOUSE exists to document lives, practices, and perspectives that live freely untamed.

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WRITERS

SEND TO: TRUTHRESORTE@MIRRORHOUSE.ORG