Album Review: The Dan Ryan – Guidance
Album Review: The Dan Ryan – Guidance by Trish Connelly Yearning for something beyond a grounded narrative, The Dan Ryan’s upcoming album, Guidance, takes their listeners on a multi-faceted journey through psychedelic realms and textural folk-ambience. Marking Chicago-native and Austin-based Nathan Dixey’s second release from Cosmic Dreamer, Guidance flows like intimate poetry, each track painting a vast, scenic landscape full of emotional conflict and transition. Dixey’s intentions resound strong with his opening track “Ring Them Bells (Carrion Crow)”, conjuring an unwavering voice resisting passivity alongside mesmerizing and tribal instrumentals. The Dan Ryan carry meditative chants and looping sonic soundscapes in their title track, navigating through cosmic territory by breaking borders…
Artist on our Radar: Gabriele Puglisi
Artist: Gabriele Puglisi ( Instagram ) Gabriele Puglisi is a visual artist and poet based in Verona, Italy, combining both mediums through an often mysterious and ambiguous vision. His art tells stories or sometimes merely a gesture. He published his first collection of poems entitled “I’ve Been Hoodwinked by the Scent of Roses” via Albatros as well as chosen as the Ambassador for the Arte e Laguna Prize (an important cultural and artistic prize in the city of Venice). Puglisi has also been published in Fisheye Magazine.
Mixtape Monday: Brain Fuzz
From Cosmic To Crops: Why Black Hammer is The Best Current Superhero Comic by Colin O’Neill
From Cosmic To Crops: Why Black Hammer is The Best Current Superhero Comic By Colin O’Neill Jeff Lemire is a cartoonist I have reverence for, perhaps because he’s Canadian (like me) and a few of the comics he’s created are set in Canada. Not only that, but his art style is wholly unique with his thick, bold brush work that makes scraggly figures who look like they’ve lived a hard life, with black beady eyes that stare through you and your soul and communicate one emotion: pain. His work is raw, categorizing the impermanence of nature, indigenous rights in Canada, fractured family dynamics, and hockey (yeah, yeah, insert “Sorry…
Photography: Sun and Space by Inna Mosina
Photographer: Inna Mosina ( Instagram ) Make Up: Anastasiya Mihailova Stylist: Galina Gogoleva Model: Alina Lubimka Inna Mosina is a 26 year old Russian fine arts photographer who lives and works in the city of Saratov. She graduated in Law, but her calling for art took her to a new path in the art of photography. Right from the start she showed an innate ability to create images skirting the line between the ethereal, dream-like, fantastic, and the conceptual.
Mixtape Monday: Your Crooked Smile
UV-TV – dissolve Peeling – Rattlesnake Adult Mom – Tenderness Beachglass – Lay Low David Nance – Negative Boogie Crown Larks – React Stuyedeyed – Funeral Lance Bangs – Football
Photography: Golden Boys by Lotus
Photographer: Lotus Model: Paul Craddock & Ivan Bubalo Clothing: Ronger
The Hi-Jinks of Nihilistic Innocence: Why Stray Bullets is the Best Comic You Have Never Read by Colin O’Neill
The Hi-Jinks of Nihilistic Innocence: Why Stray Bullets is the Best Comic You Have Never Read by Colin O’Neill Picture this: A group of coked-out tweakers hiding out in the desert in California. The living space is a crowded trailer that probably reeks of stale beer, transgressive sex, and bad habits. They have a checkered past, and are hiding off the highway, evading heat from a massive swindle that went off in the previous months. Then suddenly, without warning, the small highway-town’s beloved five-legged cow is killed by a freak accident due to our rag-tag group of criminals, and the entire town is furious. Welcome to the hilariously…
Photography: Arina Prikhodko
Photographer: Arina Prikhodko Model: Zuzia Urbaniak Make-Up: Klaudia Balko Hair Stylist: Darina Noskova Stylist: Eugenia Gerus Arina Prihodko is a Ukrainian photographer currently based in Warsaw. Her editorial team comes from a multicultural background, their combined ideas making for a stunning photoshoot.
New Race
Photographer & Stylist: Aleksey Zubarev ( Instagram ) Model: Semen ( Instagram )
Mixtape Monday: Start Here: by Anthony Flores
Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes Archy Marshall – Arise Dear Brother Black Marble – MSQ No-Extra Cold Cave – Confetti Drab Majesty – Dot in the Sky U.S. Girls – Island Song Black Moth Super Rainbow – Twin of Myself Ssaliva – Crayola Hype Williams – william, shotgun sprayer Tonstartssbandht – 5ft7 Boy Harsher – Last Days Slowdive – Slomo Wishing – Emptiness is a Closet Full of Your Own Clothes salvia palth – i was all over her
Photography/Review: Sigur Rós at Moody Theater by Mike Manewitz
Words & Photography: Mike Manewitz ( Instagram ) Since their 1994 inception in Reykjavík, Iceland, Sigur Rós’ strength has been bringing tangibility to the ineffable. A deeply emotional band, they take hold in an unusually wide cross-section of people, from metalheads and record nerds to children and retirees. Out of their lurching guitars, angelic vocals, impenetrable lyrics and cathartic crescendos comes a deep sense of serenity and hope. The ability the band have to stun their audiences into euphoria was leveraged to full effect during their sold out two-night run at Austin’s Moody Theater, often bringing songs down to whisper-level before opening up the floodgates of light and…
Visceral Revelations: An Interview With Dave Depper
Website || Instagram || Facebook || Twitter A driving force within a unit, Dave Depper is no stranger to casting his talents for a host of Northwestern bands. From Fruit Bats, Ray LaMontagne, Robyn Hitchcock and currently Death Cab for Cutie, his multifaceted music career has landed him both in recording studios and being on the road for long stretches of time. After a night with friends to see who could craft 20 songs in 12 hours, Depper’s creativity resulted in a vast array of genres and sounds, gradually narrowed down to infectious and intimate synth-pop tracks. Maintaining a clear vision of his first solo record, Emotional Freedom Technique…
Photography: Primary Rags by Betty Liu
Designer/Stylist: Betty Liu Photographer: Mary Chen MUA/Hair: Chloe Rose Models: Ruby Jurecka & Kaavya Sivakumar ‘Primary Rags’ features multi-functional garments made from disposed clothing that can also transform to household items such as blanket covers. As a commentary on fast fashion and the way we dispose clothes so easily, this series asks us to seek inventive ways to minimise the production of waste by reusing and recreating unwanted and disposed clothing.
Mixtape Monday: Tracks In Your Town
The Gospel Truth – Jealous Fires Marine Cult – Blue Rare Magic – Hail & Farewell Wil Brookhart – Simple Things Football, Etc. – Save Super Thief – sheepsquid Big Bill – Stand Still Color Candy – Warped, Skewed, Etc
Watch Out… Sloane Lenz Is Taking Over!
Carrie Bickley (Calliope Musicals) shot by Thom Washburn wearing This Is Sloane Sloane Lenz is a 21 year old avant-garde fashion designer living in Austin, TX. Growing up mostly in the rural town of Athens, Texas, she began creating unusual pieces for herself to wear, made from materials she could source at her local hardware and grocery stores. She creates striking garments utilizing many unconventional materials, with a preference for plastic and canvas. Sloane has been sewing since just 8 years old. But in addition to her love for designing, Sloane is Co-Creator of a blog called ALLUMER, which focuses on music, style, and culture, and she also enjoys creating films and…
VUAL
Photographer/Makeup: Tanya Miroshina Model: Alya Knyazeva “She’s so young, so beautiful, so gentle. It reigns the harmony and natural beauty.”
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE EIGHT!
Are you creative? Do you love to make things by hand, or do things the ‘old fashioned’ way? Then what are you waiting for? Now’s the time to submit your shit! The 8th print issue of ANON Magazine is an extra special one because this zine is all about D.I.Y. We want to see what you’ve made by hand, whether it be rap lyrics embroidered on vintage lingerie, a cut out collage of outer space, or the inside of your journal – we want to see it! Instead of just submitting a poem, submit a poem you’ve collaged with cutout letters from magazines. And instead of just submitting your photography,…
Fast and Loose: The Rich Hands Becoming Gods
Fast and Loose The Rich Hands Becoming Gods By Jay Armstrong Rock n Roll will never die, anyone who tells you it has or soon will is simply growing older, putting on the lame armor of burning out adulthood while slinking off to be forgotten in their anonymous lives, or they are the kind of person with garbage sense of style still listening on the regular to bands whose shirts are found at Hot Topic or play festivals put on by their local “alternative” rock stations, whatever cardboard existence they call home, to say something is fading founded on release and expression, a necessity to the backbone for art…
