Print PREORDERS OPEN | NEW MERCH | AUGUST 28th Release SHOW
Preorders are now open for the Junkie Business print along with new shirts put together by FSG Prints and buttons. As well we are so super super super excited to announce the release show party will be at Hotel Vegas on Wednesday August 28th and (heart swoons) will have Haze County | Loteria | The...
Mixtape Monday: Rounders, Kickers, & Hard Livin’
Anon Magazine Mixtape Monday:
Rounders, Kickers
and Hard Livin'
Mixtape Monday: Steven’s Visions Presents
This week we asked photographer Steven Gonzalez to put together the mixtape. This is his gift to you.
Film Review: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Last Black Man in San Francisco offers no answers just profound redemption through our confusion. Speaking directly to it words of wise comfort; it is acceptable not knowing the way. It is acceptable to bare the burden of scars. It is acceptable to feel angry. It is acceptable to struggle with the truth. In...
Mixtape Monday: The Source
Anon Magazine Mixtape Monday: The Source
Candi Station - "Be An Old Man's Sweetheart"
Modern Sound Corporation - "Safari"
Indeep - "Buffalo Bill"
The S.O.S. Band - "Just Be Good To Me"
Brit Lenae Gossett: Three Poems
Still thinking of you-
How the thunder chased at our heels,
How the rain pulled us closer.
Our bodies exposed only in bursts of lightening-
Bound by forces of nature.
New Video: Thelma and the Sleaze – “Pain”
Thelma and the Sleaze have been on that slow grind up for way too long! Let us hope one of the most worthy bands around finally see their constant wild ride live shows and ripping slow burn noise get them the sustained respectability they deserve when this full length which me, you, and everyone we...
New Music Video: Willie Nelson – “Immigrant Eyes”
to lay at our feet this somber, soft-spoken, heartbreaking melody of remembrance and reason at a time in our collective history where we need it as much, if not more, than ever. Sing us home Willie. Hold us as we nurse our wounds. Guide us once more to boldly remember the truth in our current...
Mixtape Monday: Summer Intro by Geraldine Rojas
Geraldine Rojas is part of The Screaming Flower team out of Laredo who along with Sagradazine will be releasing throughout the summer a collaborative clothing collection, a lookbook, as well as putting on shows–one of which will have Austin favs Chill Bill on the bill. This Summer Intro basically sums up their whole introspective appreciation...
Mixtape Monday: We’re Gonna Miss You (Roky Erickson)
Rest easy Roky, we hope you knew how much having you here with us mattered.
Mixtape Monday: Tuning Out Crazies at the Laundromat
Mixtape Monday: Tuning Out Crazies at the Laundromat
Mixtape Monday: Luna You Are Perfect
Ever love a pup so much it breaks your heart just looking at them? That's how we feel about Luna whose first birthday is this week!
Film Review: Boy Howdy: The Story of Creem Magazine
Crawford does a damn fine job calling out, as the magazine has done since the very beginning, to those of us born with the stifling boot heel attempts of plastic herd culture to snuff the sense of passion and purpose eating us black sheep alive in the nowhere nothing cul-de-sac wasteland, his words a reassuring...
Mixtape Monday: Plastic Jewelry
Chad VanGaalen – “Friendly Aliens” Bishop Allen – “Quarter to Three” The Riptides – “Tomorrow Tears” Fire Exit – “Timewall” Shatterbox – “Too Much Traffic” Don Kriss – “The Dove and the Eagle” House of Harm – “Past Life” Cough Cool – “Plastic Jewelry” Snail Mail – “Dirt” Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby – “Here...
Mixtape Monday: For Bands In Vans
Once you pass Texarkana and those hazy eyes start getting sick with white line fever, press play on this week's mixtape. We'll bring ya in just right.
10 MUST SEE BANDS AT SXSW 2019
The definitive unarguably best bands you would be an idiot to miss at SXSW 2019.
Mixtape Monday: SXSW 2019 – So Sick
Don't be one of those "never heard of em" types; our SXSW 2019 mixtape will get you on the path of cooler resistance.
Mixtape Monday: Politics as Usual (An Open Letter to America)
The only thing holding this one together is the ethos.
Mixtape Monday: Heavy Rocker
Bob Seger & the Last Herd – “Heavy Music” Girlschool – “Take It All Away” Natural Child – “Laid, Paid, and Strange” Dinos Boys – “Knee High” The Riffs – “Johnny Too High” Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – “City Slang” Bored – “Where Eagles Dare” (Misfits Cover) Testors – “Time is Mine” The Skunks – “Earthquake...
Mixtape Monday: The Reputations Takeover!
As part of The Reputations taking over the site today they have put together one of the best mixtapes for getting yourself feeling right before putting that shine on tonight getting optimistic for the new year! Check in on our Instagram throughout the day to see what they are up to. Read more about The...
Film Review: Bumblebee Rules!
Don't ask a film rooted in time stamped nostalgia to entertain you, ask it to transport you back once more into the Neverland of your heart. Bumblebee will not not let you down!
THRIVE: Side-hustles, passion, and using a blowtorch in an NYC apartment with jewelry designer Kaitlyn Usher of The Roving
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. This week I’m chatting with Kaitlyn Usher of The Roving, a handmade jewelry shop on Etsy. I wanted to pick her brain about her side-hustle, the jewelry she creates and where she finds her customers. 1. When did you decide to...
THRIVE: Aligning Your Passions, Finding Wholeness and Creative Work with Kate Hayes
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. This month I am interviewing Kate Hayes an independent leadership coach about finding wholeness, what coaching is really all about, and getting to the center of your creative work. 1. I love being a “slash” personality. I am a writer/poet/brand manager you’re a Leadership...
THRIVE: Non-Traditional Work & Getting Over Fear of Money with the Wealthy Witch
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. This month I am interviewing Natalie Taggart of Wealthy Witch about making big life changes, working with fear and our relationships with money. 1. You created Wealthy Witch after facing your own life shift, from corporate to your true path. How did...
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...
Thrive: 10 Things About Creativity I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Hi Thrivers! It’s been awhile since I’ve done a list and with all this great weather in New York this week I’ve been feeling motivated to be ~*creative*~. Only, I didn’t know where to put my energy and I am feeling...
Dear Thrive: How to Stay Motivated After a Success
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Dear Thrive: I recently had some work published in a lit mag and I was so excited! But ever since then I’m having trouble creating anything new. Was that my one great success? Am I all dried up now? -Overwhelmed ...
Thrive: When Life Prevents Creation
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. I’m sure you’ve noticed that life gets in the way of art often and even the most extroverted of artists can crave solitude and consistent days to get their best work done. But the world won’t create this space for us,...
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...
THRIVE: The Joy of a Good Cry
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Every two weeks I jump up here and I ask you to be vulnerable and brave and to explore deep regions of yourselves and your art. It’s not really fair if I don’t do the same, so this week I want to...
THRIVE: Why Does Spring Make Me Feel Trapped?
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Have you felt it? The soul-sucking energy of March? It’s here. I don’t know why I needed Timehop to remind me that I feel the same way every year, every March. I am tired, I am defeated, I am feeling...
Thrive: What Self Care for Artists Looks Like
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Self care has been a buzzword for a while now– it’s everywhere! What I’ve found is that while self care should be defined by each individual, it helps to get some tips and tricks to get you started. Sadly I found that there...
Thrive: Selling Your Work vs. Selling Out
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. This week we’re focusing on selling as a creative. Whatever the medium, the dream is to be able to make a living off of our work without compromising the art. It can be hard to strike this balance and even harder...
The Face Plant that Woke a Bus
The Face Plant That Woke a Bus The Number 5 bus brings together students, shoppers, seniors and the blind, normally quietly. But on Sunday afternoon, one face plant got everyone talking. “Oh shit!” the man yelled as he tripped onto the bus stopped at 45th and Guadalupe. A ponytailed man in the back...
From Cuba With Love
Photographer: Amber Rana ( Instagram ) Cuba is a country stuck in time: vintage cars from the 50’s and mid-century modern architecture painted in beautiful pastels. Although beautiful, buildings are crumbling and there is a lack of technology. However, it was refreshing to be off the grid and take in the culture, people, and...
Dear Thrive – How Do I Start My Personal Essay?
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Dear Thrive- When writing personal essays do you start with a story from your life you understand or do you use the writing of the essay to make connections? I want to start writing pieces like this but I never...
Thrive Anti-Resolution: Do What You Can With What You’ve Got
Welcome to Thrive! A weekly advice column for creatives and the generally confused. Happy New Year! We have officially made it through our first week of 2018. I hope you are all still feeling the energy of last week as we and those around us felt the cleansing power of a calendar flip and...
Artists On Our Radar: Sue Gent
Website || Instagram || Facebook Sue Gent is an illustrator based near Bristol, UK. She is inspired by mythology, history and the natural world, and her work combines traditional techniques such as linocut, screen-printing, pen and ink, and painting with software to create bold and colourful illustrations. She works mainly in editorial illustration, and...
