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Tracy Kawalik is a freelance music, culture and dance writer based in London. Canadian-born, night-club, dancefloor, rodeo and backstage raised, she cut her industry chops alongside her dad who was a roadie and stage manager for numerous country and rock bands as a kid whilst honing her skills as a podium dancer in her teens performing with the likes of De La Soul, Snoop and as professional salsa dancer/choreographer, adult entertainer at some of the most iconic stages in Canada, Mexico and the USA. When her dance career was halted due to an injury (double hip replacement) she shifted her focus back to music as a self-taught journalist and hustled into the industry, writing stories and interviews driven by an infinite curiosity of subcultures, magnetism to bold characters, powerful women, queer culture, sexual liberation and spectrum of artistic and creative connections. She’s since written numerous covers, live reviews, investigative pieces and in-depth features for Forty-Five, Rolling Stone UK, Mixmag, The Face, I-D, Dazed, Huck Magazine, Crack Magazine, King Kong, SPIN, among many others and was recently nominated in Complex’s “Best Music Writing of 2023” Tracy also continues to be integral in documenting the b-boy/b-girl and street dance scene. She is also a featured writer in hip-hop photographer NORMSKI’s ‘Man with a Golden Shutter’
Janet Jackson Together Again tour London

“I’m 58 and still serving” – Janet Jackson’s Together Again tour comes to London

Nearly four decades ago, Janet Jackson burst out of boomboxes and into global consciousness as she belted out the lyric, "I ain't your baby,...
AURORA 2024

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A bartender slides a tequila on the rocks my way in a Soho dive as I follow Aurora's instruction take myself out for a...
Beyonce London Renaissance Tour

Beyoncé Renaissance tour live in London: an out-of-this world three-hour extravaganza

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Kelela delivers a pulse-racing return to the stage with her first London headline in half-a-decade celebrating queer Black electronic music, womanhood, and her rapturous second album 'Raven'
Dream Wife

Dream Wife: “If you’re not political in your music – what’s the point?”

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Starcrawler

Starcrawler: “We didn’t want to make just another basic rock album”

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