Abstracting
Artist: Joe Gonzalez Born in 1987 in Los Angeles, Joe Gonzalez is a Phoenix based artist known for featuring surreal human forms with an undercurrent of bright natural foliage. His influences include David Shrigley, Alphonse Mucha, Daniel Johnston , Edvard Munch and Henry Joseph Darger. Joe’s artwork has been showcased in many diverse locales. The...
The Me You Know Is A Reactionary Me: Part Two
The Me You Know Is A Reactionary Me Being A Burnout in the Face Of Consumerism Caleb Dawson, Corey Baum, & Jimmy Wildcat interviewed by Jay Armstrong Our first interview of this three part series with Caleb Dawson can be found here. Part 2 – Corey Baum I hadn’t initially planned on interviewing Corey...
The Me You Know is a Reactionary Me: Part One
The Me You Know Is A Reactionary Me Being A Burnout in the Face Of Consumerism Caleb Dawson, Corey Baum, & Jimmy Wildcat interviewed by Jay Armstrong Consumerism; the very reason art gets demolished by capitalism, the lake of fire those driven to escape by some form of creation must swim through, where wolves...
Wax Idols Takeover!
Photo by Matt Licari Hether Fortune’s third album American Tragic from her project Wax Idols embraces raw emotional vulnerability with powerful authority in its nine-track glory. Call it post-punk, call it goth, call it synth-pop, no matter how you spin it, Fortune entwines musical threads from a range of genres and influences to create...
Film Review: The Lobster
In a world where fatalism and duty are the ideological approach most subscribe to about relationships it is unbelievable how rarely a film comes along which looks straight at that bleak closed way of thinking and gives us an honest diagnosis of the disease. Yorgos Lanthimos interrogates modern relationships in The Lobster with pointed...
Mixtape Monday: Tracks In Your Town
Nepalimore – Mercury Rocket Loose Ends – Star Parks Swoon – Jay Satellite Dim Interior – Future Museums BAUHAUS – Hyperreals Cruiser – Cleanup The Giving – Matthew Squires Innervisions – UVH
The Ghost in the Studio
Photographer: Raphael Umscheid ( Instagram ) Model: Kaitlyn Elizabeth Wardrobe Stylist: Kalea Renee Hair and Makeup: Kate Kubala ( Instagram ) Raphael Umscheid is a multimedia artist living in Austin, TX. His interests lie in human interactions with the natural world and the creative drive. His latest focus has been working on music videos. ...
Bands On Our Radar: Paper Spook
Just like kicking back with your old friend, Berlin-based duo Paper Spook like to indulge in cheap wine, fatty tofu burgers, and lots of terrible guilty pleasure TV shows. The band started playing together in 2015 and have already landed themselves a second EP entitled “Teenage Nightmare”, set to be released both digitally and...
Mixtape Monday: Dive In
Shaking My Years Away – Alex Calder Slave – Surfbort Seasons Break – Bones Garage Wait There – Voices from Deep Below Humdinger – Dunebuggy 100 Million – Charlie Hilton Oh Yeah, Tell Me About Your Dreams – Sure Confusion Hill – Mayflower Madame
Bands On Our Radar: The Two Lips
There’s been an influx of some extremely talented, up and coming bands pouring in from San Marcos, Texas. Fuzz garage-rock trio The Two Lips caught our eyes (and ears) after witnessing their work with Spoon’s very own Britt Daniels for their new single, “Repeat”. The opportunity arose during this year’s SXSW Festival where they had...
Faux-th of July
We all arrive to this open field in messy, unkempt suits, the sun long since set. None of us can fully express the feelings we have in the pit of our stomachs. The orange color illuminates the stage which we have set for ourselves, whose source are the three or four incandescent safety lights...
Pookie and the Poodlez – Young Adult
Living in Oakland there might seem to be far more bands than necessary swinging from the same complacent rock ‘n’ roll vine, for the rest of us around the world though, our thirst cannot be quenched for the talent and sound that area consistently offers up to us. Pookie and the Poodlez has remained strictly...
Mixtape Monday: Modern Haze
February Fourteenth – Lilys The Bomb – Potty Mouth Leaning – The KVB Wasted – Broken Water Glitching Minds (demo) – elenin Summertime – Youngteam Tidal – Turnip King With You Tonight – FM Attack
Poetry by PJ Carmichael
Poetry by: PJ Carmichael PJ Carmichael is a poet, writer, artist, adventurer, and spiritualist from Wakefield, Massachusetts. His work focuses on his interaction with and the contrast between the natural world and the urban environment. He currently runs Mass Love Distro, a multimedia production and distribution endeavor. Haymarket, Flickering Lights The trains going out carry...
Artist Spotlight: Alexis Palmer
All Collages By: Alexis Palmer ( Tumblr ) Residing in New York City, 18-year old Alexis Palmer will be attending Parsons School of Design in the fall. You can keep up to date with her work on her art Instagram here, as well as her personal Instagram here.
Levitation Fest: Animal Collective with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Photographer: Ismael Quintanilla III April 30th, 2016 Emo’s, Austin TX
Review: Levitation Kick-Off Party at Barracuda
Words by: Trish Connelly Photography: Raphael Umscheid ( Instagram ) Emotions were at an all time high this weekend after the cancellation of Levitation Fest in Austin, Texas, with less than 24 hours notice. Was this some kind of cruel joke? Can I get a refund on my round-trip plane tickets from Norway? Despite...
Mixtape Monday: Self-Identified
Violet – Death of the Author Waiting – DIV I DED Rebel – Wild Meadows Hidden Star – Crepes TV (Girl on Fire) – Documenta Sulphur – Stella Diana Slowbeat – Alexspire Aldrig Mer – NEJ
