Mixtape Monday: Teenager In Love
Are you following us on Spotify yet? Friend us here. Barreracudas – “Promises” Nikki and the Corvettes – “Criminal Element” Dumb – “Heather You’re So Cool” If you didn’t catch our interview we did with Corey Baum of Dumb here is your chance. The Babies – “Alligator” The Rubinoos – “I Think We’re Alone Now”...
Artist Spotlight: Bella Kirchner
Intentional or not, Austin based photographer Bella Kirchner can sink your soul with a mere glimpsing of her prints. Kirchner has an acute sense of the thread connecting the life bridge from hopeful idealistic youth to ever alive truth in aging and the encapsulated wonder of it all. There is simplicity within the frame of...
Album Review: John Wesley Coleman III – Cuckoo Bird Sings A Song
Spoken through Kerouacian prose allowing your mind belief in the transcendence of a moment and meaning and everything else which our hearts find positive and defeating in these beat days of our karmic souls
Mixtape Monday: Fresh Leather
Amyl and the Sniffers – “Balaclava Lover Boogie” Got turned on to these dudes a few months back, been Jonesing for em ever since. Full article coming in January. Links – Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | Website . Küken – “I’m Not Fucked Up” Few bangers have been devastatingly overlooked more than Küken’s...
Space Age
Model: Marissa Wardrobe: C. Rinella Designs Photographer: Thomas H P Jerusalem, MUTE Photography ( Instagram ) Thomas H.P. Jerusalem of MUTE Photography is a Chicago based German photographer. After living in Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK, he relocated to Chicago, in 2004. Thomas H.P. Jerusalem is specialized in fashion and conceptual photography with a...
Nothing Instagram Takeover
Photo by Ben Rayner Facebook || Instagram || Twitter || Bandcamp With as many physical, mental and spiritual griefs as Domenic Palermo has been through, music and his band Nothing remain an incessant driving force. Growing up in North Philadelphia, Palermo delved into the city’s hardcore scene and in the early 2000’s formed punk/hardcore...
Damn Fine Music Fest: A Celebration of Twin Peaks at Cheer Up Charlies
Welcome to the town of Twin Peaks, director David Lynch’s fascinating and surreal TV show spanning three seasons over the last 28 years. Incorporating eerie and haunting visuals, a moody score by Angelo Badalamenti and a cast of intriguing characters, there’s no doubt that there’s plenty to reflect on and plot points that leave...
Borzoi’s “Big Pink”
Bandcamp || Facebook || Instagram In today’s bombardment of social media and endless clicking and scrolling, creativity often gets lost amidst the mass of noise, apparently missing its mark if it’s not promoted while it’s hot. Following up to last year’s Surrender The Farm EP, Austin’s punk trio Borzoi’s upcoming full length, A Prayer for...
Ohmme Takeover
Photography: Alexa Viscius Website || Facebook || Instagram || Twitter Full of sonic experimentations and rich arrangements, Ohmme (comprised of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart) lays at the heart of Chicago’s music scene. Not one to follow in the footsteps of others, the duo successfully embark on their own path, capturing a significant energy...
Taste of Nostalgia
Photographer & Stylist: Mona Cordes Make Up Assistant: Mary Model: Widad of Flagmodels
Arthur Moon’s Single “Standing Wave”
Website || Facebook || Instagram Photography: Lissy Elle Photography Excitingly disjointed and pleasingly jarring, Arthur Moon first caught my ear with her track “Room” off her 2017 EP, Our Head. Consistently experimental in her technique, award-winning composer/singer Lora-Faye Åshuvud constructs dynamic and moody textures, presenting a refreshing spin on electronic-pop. Often writing her lyrics...
Member’s of Wall/Beverly Release New Track “Fate/Glory”
Photo by Colin Sussingham & Josie Keefe Too often do newly formed supergroups lose sight of their aspirations and ambitions, yet New York based quartet Public Practice reign in their individual strengths with their upcoming debut EP, Distance is a Mirror. Including members from post-punk act WALL and dream-pop band Beverly, singer Sam York,...
Mixtape Monday: Beautiful Misinterpretations
Sextile – Paradox Peel Dream Magazine – Pill Love Jerks – Apocalyptic Make-out Single Lash – Come True Silent Forum – How I Faked the Moon Landing Twin Studies – Still Life Many Voices Speak – I Saw You Pearl & the Oysters – Vitamin D
Interview with a Glampire
Models: Felix Lenz + Laura Minor Photographer: Sloane Lenz Wardrobe: THIS IS SLOANE – Collection 7 Shot in Montgomery, Alabama, Interview with a Glampire unravels a gamble and balance of good luck versus bad luck, of characters being a little out of their element and forced to reckon with the situation. ...
Under the Blue Light with Pearl Charles
Artist: Pearl Charles Photographer: John Allen Producer: Nathan Edge HMU: Kate Leatherwood Styling: Nicky Turner Inspiration for this photoshoot was taken from retro photography, a mix of psychedelia and screenshots from The Holy Mountain. Organic patterns were mixed with linear symbolism to evoke ethereal mysticism. All images were taken on 35mm film. ...
Mixtape Monday: Bending Towards Bliss
Them Are Us Too – Grey Water Fyrrh – Orange Cream Fanclub – Leaves Dentist – Corked Versing – Silver Dollar Pllush – Big Train Indigo de Souza – How I Get Myself Killed Wetter – Truth Song
Deep Woods
Model: Lena Seyfarth Make-Up: Kristy Karczewski & Aiga Jekabsone Hair: Aiga Jekabsone Designer: C. Rinella Designs Wolf: Sabian (Owner: Tina Marie) Photographer: Thomas H P Jerusalem, MUTE Photography ( Instagram ) She surely memorized every bush, shrub and berry by now. Her mom spent the past two hours explaining in detail how to...
Artists On Our Radar: Marlene Juliane Schindler Instagram Takeover
With such a plethora of social media content and artists to sift through online, we were stoked to come across Marlene Juliane Schindler‘s drawings and artwork on Instagram. Strikingly honest in her portrayal of beauty and bodies, her figures’ expressions exude uncompromising intimacy with each piece of art telling their own story. We had...
Lake of Fire Music Video Premiere: Crater
Bandcamp || Facebook || Instagram Delving deep into experimental territory with rock and psych influences, Austin’s very own Lake of Fire have crafted an amalgam of sounds into one solid debut LP, Crater, released today on Fishbum Records. Their official video (citing the same title as their LP) was shot in Texas’ expansive landscape...
Mixtape Monday: Hush, Don’t You Cry
Hush, Don’t You Cry is a mix of dreamy synth pop songs that play with a textured wall of sound led with an overall ominous tone and introspective lyrics, yet are all unsettlingly upbeat. Beach House – Drunk in LA Shannon and the Clams – White Rabbit MGMT – Little Dark Age Lana...
8 Palms
Photographer: Josh Robicheaux ( Twitter ) Clothing: Brittany Anele ( Twitter ) Models: Praise / Rudy / Vic Photographer Josh Robicheaux captures Artist Brittney Anele’s handmade + handpainted apparel for progress
Show Preview: The Coathangers
Photo by Jeff Forney Hailing from the depths of the Atlanta music scene, The Coathangers are an all-female garage punk band who masterfully and purposefully combine simple, hooky tunes that invoke the nostalgic sound of vintage girl groups with the rebellious choppy power chords from female-driven influencers like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney. Formed in...
Double Vision
Photographer & Stylist: Audrey Models: Samantha & Linh Using components that both compliment and differ from each other, Double Vision resembles a magic trick, two performers appearing within the forest.
Peach Kelli Pop’s Allie Hanlon Interview & Instagram Takeover
Website || Facebook || Twitter || Instagram Peach Kelli Pop‘s fourth full length album, Gentle Leader, comes highly anticipated after a three year hiatus. Their first release off Canadian label Mint Records, Peach Kelli Pop founder Allie Hanlon departs from a solo effort to a more complex collaborative process with sisters Gina and Sophie...
“Air Supply” || ahem
Photo: Taylor Donskey After a two year hiatus, Minneapolis trio ahem is back with an upcoming EP, Chutes and Ladders, due June 22nd on Forged Artifacts. An energetic five track record just in time to pair with the optimism of the coming summer, ahem draws forth an underground punk spirit with infectious power pop...
Release Day: Routine Death’s Parallel Universes
Based out of Gothenburg, Sweden and Austin, Texas, married couple Dustin (of psych-pop outfit Holy Wave) and Lisa Zozaya’s newly crafted project Routine Death feels anything but conventional. Their debut album Parallel Universes is out today and features a distinct soundscape of both the gritty and the ethereal, an array of glitching pulses intertwined...
Somniloquy
Photographer / Art Director / Stylist: Daria Amaranth Models: Anna Kharkovaia / Julia Medvedeva / Xeniya Medvedeva If We Would Talk: A Short Film by Daria Amaranth If we would talk (a film by Daria Amaranth) from Daria Amaranth on Vimeo....
Mixtape Monday: ~*~ wAtEr Bbz ~*~ by Cat Tassini
Ace of Base – All That She Wants Niki & the Dove – Coconut Kiss OutKast – SpottieOttieDopaliscious Katy Perry – Tsunami Kero Kero Bonito – Picture This Blondie – Sunday Girl The Aquadolls – Our Love Will Always Remain The Specials – A Message to You Rudy The Kinks – Holiday in Waikiki...
Suuns’ “Look No Further” Music Video
Photo by Joe Yarmush Website || Facebook || Twitter || Instagram Montreal quartet Suuns‘ latest music video release for “Look No Further” is based on director Lorraine Price’s (“Last Woman Standing”, “Inside These Walls”) footage from Werner Herzog’s workshop in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, 2017. Using non-professional actors, the children in the...
Mixtape Monday: Miraculous & Overwhelming
Neutral Milk Hotel – Everything Is Beulah – Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand Elf Power – Needles in the Camels Eyes The Apples in Stereo – Tidal Wave The Apples in Stereo – Pine Away The Gerbils – Lucky Girl Beirut – Elephant Gun The Decemberists – On the Bus Mall of Montreal – Everything...
Mixtape Monday: Accident-Prone
The Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl Sonic Youth – Dirty Boots Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up Joy Division – Disorder The Church – Reptile X – True Love Part 2 Gang of Four – Damaged Goods The Clash – The Guns of Brixton Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You...
Protomartyr’s “Wheel of Fortune” Music Video Featuring Kelley Deal
Facebook || Bandcamp Good news for us Protomartyr fans this week — the band announced the release of their Consolation E.P., out on June 15th via Domino Recording Co. Joining vocals with Joe Casey on two of the four tracks is Kelley Deal of The Breeders, a creative and collaborative spark they wanted to...
Go Bright
Photographer: Tyrion Zhao Art Director & Stylist: Anastasia Skutar ( Website ) MUaH: Lena Bondina Model: Irina via Tann MM Based out of China and Russia, the team for GO BRIGHT has a multitude of different visions on aesthetics and beauty but all were inspired by Sofi Tukker’s album “Treehouse”. In GO BRIGHT,...
The Lost Garden
Photography & Styling: Ottavia De Lambrinie Makeup: Angelo Dominelli Assistant: Cristina La Spada Model: Leanne De Haan at The Fabbrica Ottavia De Lambrinie is an italian photographer based in Milan. Through the use of photography she creates her own world to escape from reality. It’s a place of colours, fanciful and weird atmospheres, dolls...
Mixtape Monday: Exquisite Tension
Dream Rimmy – Like Me Born Twins – A Few Hours After This Devan Mulvaney – Into the Woods Blue Streak – Dog Juanita Stein – Forgiver Magic Wands – Realms Peach Kelli Pop – Hello Kitty Knife Wussy – Runaway
No Joy Instagram Takeover
Facebook || Twitter || Instagram || Bandcamp Often we tend to get caught up in the comfort of knowing just what to expect from a band, whether with their live performance or with forthcoming albums. No Joy is a band that has managed to pleasantly surprise their audience since their inception in 2009 to...
Mixtape Monday: Wow and Flutter
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Roberta C. Liz Phair – Fuck & Run (Girlysound version) Beat Happening – The Fall Elliott Smith – No Name #4 Neutral Milk Hotel – Sailing Through Teen Suicide – Stay Inside Forever Elvis Depressedly – Weird Honey The Mountain Goats – The Big Unit McCarthy – Celestial...
Emotional Response Records’ Typical Girls Vol 3 & 4: Couteau Latex’s “Colere Vide”
Confronted with the saturation of male-dominated voices in the punk and hardcore scene, Typical Girls aims to subvert that stereotype with fresh sounds that might otherwise go unheard of. A wink and nod to the Slits, Typical Girls celebrates all that is totally untypical and highlights a vast number of femme-sounds and experiences. A...
Mixtape Monday: Disgustingly Cute
This week’s Mixtape Monday playlist is a collection of upbeat Twee Pop jams, for those of us who are just as excessively and seemingly quaint, charming and only just slightly sad. Rilo Kiley – Silver Lining The Blow – Parentheses Camera Obscura – French Navy God Help the Girl – God Help the...
Band Preview: LOMA
Photo: Bryan C. Parker Having toured together back in 2016, Loma is the result of the unusual music chemistry between indie-rock band Shearwater and post-rock band Cross Record. While Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg is known for more of an expressive, whirling vocal style, accompanied by heavy synth and chord progressions, Cross Record’s Emily Cross is...
Lost Girls of the American South
Photographer: Audrey Gretz Model: Samantha Cruz The sort of juxtaposition these photographs in particular explored was the feeling of being a 16 year old girl, becoming a 22 year old woman in the American south. A hazy place that never leaves your veins, try as you might. Even when you grow up...
We Are All Beautiful and Gross: An Interview with Margalit Cutler
Based out of New York, Margalit Cutler‘s artwork struck us as totally bold, totally honest, and totally refreshing. From her animations, sculptures, illustrations and mini-comics, Cutler has created commissioned pieces for Rookie Mag and Protocols and updates her Instagram regularly with original and eye-catching work. She took some time out of her schedule to...
Futuro
Photographer: Nikita Flënov Stylist: Arina Celan Models: Egor & Sol Moscow-based photographer Nikita Flënov’s series for “Futuro” aims to depict something liberating and futuristic, where sex isn’t at the forefront.
Mixtape Monday: Wide-Eyed and Brilliant
Ride – Vapour Trail The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends The Beta Band – Dry the Rain Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater Blonde Redhead – 23 Galaxie 500 – Ceremony Radiohead – House of Cards Suzanne Vega, DNA – Tom’s Diner Slowdive – When the Sun Hits Catherine Wheel – Black...
Through the Glass
Photography & Makeup: Maria Kinosian Model: Anisia Potapova Maria Kinosian is a 25 year old conceptual photographer originally from Krasnodar, Russia, and currently based in Saint Petersburg. She finds inspiration from films, music, art and traveling, creating her own unique style in romantic, melancholic and surrealistic photography. Together with Anisia Potapova, she’s created the...
Mixtape Monday: Burn Your Doubt
Lake Ruth – One of Your Own For Esmé – Doubtmouth Lawn – 2000 Boy The Altered Hours – Open Wide 2069 – Time Diary – Fuchsia Gray The Mites – Asphalt Ocean Remember Sports – Up From Below
KINETIC
Photographer: Hanna Kantor ( Instagram ) Model: Marta Konik ( Instagram ) MUA: Bianca Prieto Hanna Kantor’s photos were shot in an amazing Nomadic Garden in Shoreditch, London. On top of its fashion forward ways, Kantor’s kinetic style and curved reality stand out from the crowd. Coat & Top & Shoes – New...
Tales of a City II
Photographer: Seigar ( Instagram / Facebook ) Tales of a City II is an urban series made of individual tales from London, 2017. Each image captures a photo-narrative. It is a set of street photography. Most of them are spontaneous instants. They are linked because of the saturated colors, details and free compositions, far from rules. It is a continuation of a group of photos taken in 2014. This year, I went back...
Mixtape Monday: Sad Girl Bedroom Rock
Alvvays – Dreams Tonite Palehound – Carnations Au Revoir Simone – All or Nothing Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down Waxahatchee – American Weekend Courtney Barnett – Anonymous Club Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle Lomelda – Out There Soccer Mommy – Last Girl Girlpool – Blah Blah Blah Diet Cig – Harvard Bully –...
