Owning It with Baqvas

This cross-genre set is about doing your thing and owning it. It's dished out through goth pop, shoegaze, steely rocknroll, hiphop, triphop, and rnb. It's being courageous enough to do what you need to do -- be it acting silly or something more serious, such as feeling safe or finding safety.

Come through and listen to tracks made by artists of various backgrounds such as (but not limited to): South Asian American, British Asian, Ethiopian American, Aboriginal descent, Black American, Australian; and based all over like Philly, local like Oakland, Australia, England, South Carolina, LA, and DC.

Kira Puru'sTensionMusic Video

An interview with Kira Puru

St. Vincent'sLos Ageless Music Video

British Asian Shoegaze Queen Nabihah Iqbal

Revenge Fantasies withBay Local: Forest Bees

Inaugural Blues from Diaspoura

Playlist

  1. Tension by Kira Puru (Self Released)
  2. Los Ageless by St. Vincent on MASSEDUCATION (Loma Vista)
  3. Dust by Forest Bees on Forest Bees (Self Released)
  4. Something More by Nabihah Iqbal on Weighing of the Heart (Ninja Tune)
  5. Pews by NADINE on oh my (Father/Daughter Records)
  6. 7am by Bekon on Get With the Times (Candy And Promises)
  7. GTF by Diaspoura (Self Released)
  8. Courtesy Of by Running Touch on Equaliser (Self Released)
  9. Marbled by Abhi the Nomad on Marbled (Tommy Boy)
  10. Shot for Love by STS & Khari Mateen on Better on a Sunday (Steel Wool / EMPIRE)
  11. Enemy by Kelela on Cut 4 Me (Fade to Mind)
  12. In Your Honor by Bekon on Get With the Times (Candy And Promises)