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Issue 17 Party Pix at HECK

This summer we celebrated the release of Issue 17 in the mid-August heat at Brooklyn’s beloved residential space, HECK. With performances by Deli Girls, Negashi Armada, and D3AD6OY, and DJ sets by David Moses, Gia Garrison, & Gobby, the scene was hellishly vibrant. Thanks to…

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Lala Albert

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16 Windows to a monstrous soul, black and green with the weight of carrying hopes and dreams around in a sack of skin. The eyes are the site of mortal discomfort in these grotesquely alien illustrations penned by Lala AKA Lauren Albert,…

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Florencia Escudero’s Haunted Honeymoon Suite

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16  Garbage and ghosts are both lonely. Emerging from the trash of porn culture, Florencia Escudero’s sculptures haunt a honeymoon suite, their hollowed-out contours suggestive phantasms, flirting with packaged and plastic notions of hot women and hetero coupledom, but these effigies are…

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Emily Post-Internet Etiquette

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 15 WRITTEN BY WHITNEY MALLETT & ANGELINA DREEM From Santa Fe to Seoul, members from society wake, reaching for their interconnected devices, those glowing orbs that separate man from beast. We are always connected but too often there is a disconnect. Not…

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Juliana Huxtable in the Studio

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 15 PHOTOS BY DAFY HAGAI WORDS BY WHITNEY MALLETT Descriptions of Juliana are always hyphenated. She’s a lot of things—an artist, poet, performer, DJ, model, muse, trans icon, and member of the House of LaDosha. She’s also a mean cook and a…

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Telfar SS17 White Castle Party

PHOTOS BY TAYLORE SCARABELLI TEXT BY WHITNEY MALLETT The show had that breakthrough energy, swollen with possibility. Humidity hung heavy in the air, and after, it seemed like we would never find a cab. We had to walk to Christopher Street and Promise’s shoe broke…

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NY Release Party Pix

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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INVITE ONLY MIX ~ AHARAW

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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A Conversation with PsychoEgyptian

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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A Conversation with Palmtrees

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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A Conversation with Yves Tumor

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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Mykki Blanco & Dogfood MG

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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On L For Leisure

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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