A city can teach a person how to carry noise. The Liberties, with its old trade routes and close communal pulse, has long carried dense human music. From that inheritance, Zak Coghlan appears to have taken not only a taste for melody, but a belief that feeling becomes sharper when placed inside a story that can stand up under pressure. “Lead Balloon”, his new single...

Loudgi is a young artist who began his career some years ago more or less in the underground. His stage name is verlan of the diminutive of his nickname, Gilou, plus a "d" to denote the English pronunciation of the name. He was therefore allowed to play debuts of musicians such as Manou Bolomik, Millénium at Morne Rouge, or even Georges Helyott at the performance...