Up & Coming: Ysenia Valdez
Photo: Dayane Ohira Ysenia Valdez is the editor-in-chief of Cabra Magazine, but also works as Zineland’s newest intern in New York City. We interviewed Ysenia to find out more about how she started her own printed publication before turning 21 and what her next big goals are with the fashion industry as her playing field....
G.L.O.S.S. and the Importance of Politics In Music
We can never change the atrocities, we can only hope that through them we may find ways to once more shape our compassion and sadness into beautiful reflections of art worthy enough to stand as beacons in time marking the eternal place where our hearts bore the burden of complete sadness or that our anger...
D. face painT.ingS.
Words: Fishspit I was talkin’ to my dear pal Lil-e on the horn the other night… well …let’s start from the beginning. Lil-e’d sent me a letter where she said she was doing some “face painting” for this thing. I was like, “What the fuck? I need some explanation on this one.” So when I...
Mixtape Monday: Chalk Outlines
Freak Out – The Paranoyds Made It For You – The Unders Grey – Colour of Spring Lose Myself – Psychic Twins I’m Losing – Snuff Redux Destroyer – Dream Suicides Can’t You See – Acid Barretts Garbage Beach – Outer Spaces
I Do Music for Ghost Stories: John Carpenter at ACL Live’s Moody Theater
Words: Trish Connelly ( Instagram ) Photography: Raphael Umscheid ( Instagram) Despite wishing I had the opportunity to squeeze in a John Carpenter movie marathon before Thursday evening at ACL Live’s Moody Theater, it didn’t prevent me from sitting upright in my seat, absolutely spellbound at Carpenter’s genius to create ominous and memorable compositions...
Natural Child Takeover!
Okey Dokey (9/16) is the latest full-length from Nashville, TN’s Natural Child. The band’s first new music in two years is also the debut release on their new label, Natural Child Records and Tapes. The album was recorded in Memphis and Chicago, where the band worked with Cooper Crain (Cave, Bitchin Bajas). Let’s get a...
D A Y D R E A M . || 白 昼 夢
Photographer: Jayme Javier (Canada) Model: Dawn McIntosh (Canada) Flower Artist: Koichi Wada (Japan) A detachment from reality, a visionary fantasy while awake. This is a collection of photos from the surreal flower studio, Dramatic Flowers, located in Shinjuku, Tokyo. I am a photographer based in Lethbridge, Alberta. As I was on a recent trip...
Up & Coming: Heaven Starr
Photo: Colin Sussingham Heaven Starr is a model and muse currently residing in Austin, TX. She travels back to New York every so often for modeling and is also working on her upcoming project, Chiquita Magazine. Chiquita Magazine primarily focuses on embracing the natural and powerful individuality of women. Heaven’s Instagram || Chiquita’s Instagram...
Pity Sex Takeover!
Bandcamp || Facebook || Instagram || Twitter Despite what images the band’s name may conjure, Pity Sex stray away from regrets with their increasingly experimental and innovative nature, starting with their first EP for Dark World and continuing throughout their musical career to their most recent album, White Hot Moon. The band formed in...
Mixtape Monday: Tracks In Your Town
What We Want – S T F U Shackles – Video Captain Bligh – Slim Photon Feel the Clamps – Spray Paint Full Moon in Daylight (Wave Hands Like Clouds remix) – Victoria Noll Finland – Vet Trip Ah Ha Zodiac – Desilu He’s Got Depth – High Church
Artists On Our Radar: Zoë Trautz
Artist: Zoë Trautz ( Instagram ) I’m a self-taught artist living in Austin, Texas. I have a biology degree and I work part time at a nonprofit where I feed parrots, and part time on all the drawings that I make for free and show no one. My work is informed by my education...
accidents
accidents by C. H. Gorrie Kneeling in the middle of my street, holding the unconscious man’s head, I was steeped in the stench of cheap vodka streaming from his mouth. His shallow breathing rattled like a failing engine as blood dribbled down his chin in splayed lines. The accident happened so quickly,...
Irreversible Marks
Irreversible Marks By Jessica Lynn Whitaker On June 10, 2015, I walked into a clinic with a cough and a lump on my neck and said, jokingly, “I have to make sure I don’t have cancer.” The doctor who saw me never uttered the word “cancer” but as I navigated the confusing lingo of...
Listen While You Look
Photographer: Tajana Dedić-Starović ( Instagram / Facebook ) Tajana initiated her project, Listen While You Look, as a means to combine listening to a song while viewing a particular photo for a complete visual and aural experience. It also became a means for her to promote a selection of songs and bands that she...
Mixtape Monday With Kanine Records
Founded in 2002 in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, Kanine Records stemmed from an idea that Lio and Kay Kanine had, which was simply to share their joint love for local bands and music with the rest of the world. Lio Kanine had been involved with DJing and booking bands at venues around town and...
Dressing Up the Kitties by Daddy
How and why did life get so complicated . . . so difficult? Mental illness and booze have ravaged me since age 13. But I remember . . . god I remember. Younger days . . . maybe it was age 4 or 5. I’d go to see my cousin. She was the same...
Artists On Our Radar: Claudio Parentela
Claudio Parentela is a freelance artist, photographer and journalist based in Catanzaro, Italy. His work has been displayed in many zines, magazines and websites throughout his career, both internationally and locally. Website || Tumblr || Facebook
Gave My Heart to the Sea
Photography & Styling: Monica Pronk ( Facebook / Tumblr ) Model: IIana @ London Mgt Hair & Make Up: Mivia Pinniger Bikini by Triangl Dress by Jessica Van Top – Cue One Piece by Contessa Volpi One Piece by Contessa Volpi Shorts – Corfu, Bikini by Triangl Top Vintage...
The Bolos: Today San Antonio…Tomorrow The World
Two years ago as Austin’s complacency felt saturated by the overall stagnation of rock n roll, I came across The Bolos. They were young, hungry, and most importantly not just another band jumping shark and attempting to poorly play psyche. From the very beginning they stood out as a band with grit, shaping music...
Passage
Photographer: Callie Weaks ( Instagram ) “Passage” is about a woman’s life who is transitioning. It encompasses loving herself and isolating herself for healing and protection.
Mixtape Monday: Allergic to You
Oulala – Vundabar The World You Wanted – The Offering Buried on the Moon – NE-HI Female Vampire – Jenny Hval Blood and Secrets – Rome is Not a Town They Call Themselves Old Punks – Moonface and Siinai Serotonin – Husbands The Squall – Fever Dream with Laura K
Big City Lights
Photographer: Ina Parakhina ( Instagram ) Model: Amelia Ellen Wignell Makeup: JO-L Melbourne Makeup Artist Styling: Nik Shimmin ( Instagram ) “Big City Lights” was by the bright lights, warm tones and constant buzz of cities worldwide. This collaboration of Melbourne based artists and label, Flare Street, captures the romantic city atmosphere, Friday night musings...
Purify
Photography: Kaci Owens Model: Susan Lee Riggs ( Instagram ) Owens and Riggs’ intimate photoshoot for “Purify” describes a woman who can’t seem to get rid of negative relationships or problems. This woman thus has to cleanse herself with her feelings.
Order Issue 5 “Consumed”
We’re back and at it with a new print zine! Issue 5 of ANON Magazine is out and features work from around the globe based on consumer culture and materialism – “Consumed” includes photography, prose, written articles, and comics/art from multiple individual’s take on consumerism. We encourage you to think about the multitude of...
The Me You Know Is A Reactionary Me: Part Three
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 This is the third of a three part interview series; Check out our first with Caleb Dawson here and our second with Corey Baum here. Part 3...
