This past month we celebrated the release of our new issue down in New York at La Caverna. The town’s most expert dancers and drinkers united for a wild evening of sin. If you missed the party you can catch a few disposable camera shots from our friend…
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A new mix from resident alien, multi-dimensional citizen, and Doom Dab label co-founder AHARAW, who you can catch performing a live set tonight at our NYC issue 15 launch party. Our New York correspondent Whitney Mallett wrote an accompanying interplanetary party report on the same…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 14 INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT PHOTOS BY MORGAN MAHER PsychoEgyptian, born Devin Cuthbertson, spits racially-charged raps carpeted by noisy lo-fi production. Often popping up shirtless, always with “dope” emblazoned in ink across his chest, and not infrequently getting kicked out of whatever…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 14 INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT PHOTOS BY MORGAN MAHER Palmtrees makes rich electronic beats that he pairs with affecting lyrics and live instrumentation under the project name Violence. Talking to him about it, his answers are punctuated with thoughtful pauses and it’s…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 14 INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT There’s something self-effacing to Rahel Ali’s vacillation between extremes and his plethora of musical projects. Yves Tumor is the project that’s featured on the Dogfood MG release C-ORE, but Ali also makes music as TEAMS and Bekelé…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 14 INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT PHOTO BY LUIS NIETO DICKENS Mykki Blanco and his Dogfood crew threw an intimate summer solstice party in LA’s Chinatown on the longest night of the year. During someone else’s set, I watched Mykki aka Michael David…
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INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT Sebastian Choe’s The Prince of Love chronicles the mundane day-to-day of the punk kids he grew up with in Seattle. The real-life couple at the film’s heart Jeff and Erica spend their days drinking, smoking, playing music in basements, and hooking…
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Whitney Mallett’s documentary Gospel Mime will have a preview screening in Toronto Friday night at Double Double Land. The lyrical short, which features cinematography by Jason Harvey and a score by Philip Karneef, takes a look at the religious subculture of miming for Jesus. A second…
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PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 13 INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT PHOTOS BY RAQUEL NAVE I’m in Raquel Nave’s living room flipping through her binders of polaroids while her three-year old daughter Eagle periodically interjects “that’s my mama,” “that’s my papa,” and “that’s me.” While we talk, Nave…
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TEXT BY WHITNEY MALLETT STILLS COURTESY OF SPECIAL AFFECTS FILMS Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn’s 16mm feature L for Leisure subverts the language of an Urban Outfitters music video to make a campy class critique of graduate students busy doing nothing in the early…
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PHOTOS & TEXT BY WHITNEY MALLETT There is a sense of alien possibility at the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience. Six years after weirdo video artist Ryan Trecartin was featured in the inaugural triennial, he has returned as a co-curator and, together with Lauren…
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COVER STORY PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 12 INTERVIEW BY WHITNEY MALLETT PHOTOS BY HANNAH KOZAK Hannah Kozak makes you look at the world twice. You’ve seen her but likely never realized it. She’s performed stunts in big Hollywood flicks like Wild at Heart and Transformers and…
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PRINTED IN ISSUE 11 Interview by Whitney Mallett Photos by Sadaf Sadaf’s music is a viscerally confounding heap of sounds and genres, raw and noisy, but knit together by a keen sense of story. Though New York-based and Persian-born, she first cut her teeth making…
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Mary Bond is barely legal and effortlessly intellectual. The 19-year-old is practicing selfies as art and writing essays contextualizing the online coven of young women working in intentionally feminist lo- fi self-portraiture. She’s posted naked selfies on the hacker-bro message board 4chan and archived the…
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By Whitney Mallett Kalen Hollomon (@kalen_hollomon) is taking collage to New York City’s streets and its underground, superimposing clippings from fashion and vintage porno magazines onto unsuspecting subway riders and mundane city scenes. By taking advantage of forced perspective, he can give a cop Céline heels…
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Interview by Whitney Mallett When I went to visit Rachel de Joode in her studio this Fall, she said we were going to try making a “squish.” This process consisted of filling a plastic tube with wet plaster and me hugging it like a lover,…
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Interview and photo by Whitney Mallett If someone is planning on making a film adaptation of a George Saunders’s short story, I would like to recommend that they use Jerry Paper’s warbly experimental pop as the soundtrack. His synth-filled sci-fi tunes really capture the idiosyncrasies…
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DORITOSLOCOS taco from Taco Bell MASTER LOCKED shut (Key Sold Separately for $5).$58.20 By Whitney MallettFrom Issue 8 Taco with lock through it. Watermelon with ponytail. Vacuum-sealed organic shampoo and Whole Foods flowers–“Perfect for your dorm or retirement community,” according to the listing. These are just…
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