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Franc Moody bassist Rosetta Carr talks finding new life through learning from her past and moving forward with music.
Oxford based musician Willie J Healey discusses the ups and downs of making your passion into your career.
Writer Serena Ferrari and musician Leo Wyndham discuss the tangential relationship of creativity and emotion and how it can change the intentions of an artist.
Savanna Dickhut of Chicago folk-rock outfit Elk Walking premieres her first single “Southsider” under her new moniker Burr Oak.
Stills and journal entries from photographer Michael Heinz’ time on tour with Liz Cooper and the Stampede.
Last September, Emily Massey, Alex Leeds, Henry Stoehr, and Teddy Matthews made their way to Chicago to start a new chapter with their dream punk group, Slow Pulp. Filing into a studio on a snowy day in Brooklyn, we sat around on floor pillows and fell into a discussion of describing the world in colors and what it means to have people in your life who you are so deeply connected to.
Toast premieres their self-titled debut EP. We talk about their year, moving to NYC, and being the relatable queer role model we’ve all been waiting for.
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Founder and editor-in-chief of POND, Natalie Leonard, and Digital Director of POND, Rachel Cabitt, talk ethos and the origin of the POND Photo Review 001, POND’s first print photo book featuring conversations and work from 23 photographers.
Writer Serena Ferrari and musician Leo Wyndham discuss the tangential relationship of creativity and emotion and how it can change the intentions of an artist.
Los Angeles based photographer Phil Donohue released his first book “I Dreamed it was Better Than it was” via Antihero Press this past March. With Antihero founder Mathea Millman, they discuss the ideas and thoughts that brought it to life.
On Vulnerability is the first publication from Antihero Press, an independent photo book publisher founded by Mathea Millman. The zine is a curation of images from artists around the world celebrating vulnerability in quiet moments through photography.
John Provencher and Fletcher Graham, our two resident artists for Secret Friend 005, take us through their minds in preparation for our one year anniversary party at Baby’s All Right.
I crossed the ocean and became an alien. These are my traces, my attempts to become familiar with foreign territory…
Izel Villarba’s “Lessons for a Healthy American Lifestyle” was shown at “Sin Fronteras,” a group art show and benefit for asylum seekers being held at the US border on December 2nd, 2018. Izel and Andrea Granera, the curator of Sin Fronteras, talk creating art in the shadow of conflict and being actively aware.
Co-directors Katelyn Rebelo and Gretta Wilson talk about relationships, breakups, heartbreak, and how letting a piece of themselves go led to the creation of the music video for Katie Toupin’s “I Want You Back.”
Filmmaker Sebastian Sommer and actress Eleanor Lambert discuss Sommer’s upcoming short film External Forces, its accompanying zine, and the challenges of creating.
Leaving New York City for the Midwest was the best decision I've ever made. I promised myself that if I left, I would do everything that I'd given up by going there in the first place…
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Florida four-piece Glove premieres their video for “Personality Change”, the first single off their upcoming 7-inch.
Franc Moody bassist Rosetta Carr talks finding new life through learning from her past and moving forward with music.
Shawn Marom, Hunter Martinez, and Jeremy McLennan make up shoegaze Los Angeles three-piece Cryogeyser. Sitting on their porch in the hot El Sereno sun, they talk inception, intimacy, and relationships.
Trevor Peterson of Fire Talk Records chats with Chicago bands Deeper and Dehd ahead of their Fall tour which includes the label’s 10 year anniversary shows.
The Medium is a four piece psych-pop band based in Nashville, Tennessee. Their debut album, Get It While It's Hot, is out September 6th. Catch the premiere of their music video for the next single “Have a Happy Day” along with an interview with the album’s producer Jake Davis.
Savanna Dickhut of Chicago folk-rock outfit Elk Walking premieres her first single “Southsider” under her new moniker Burr Oak.
Spencer Peppet (The Ophelias) and Veronique Allaer (Leggy) briefly first met in their hometown scene in Cincinnati. They chat about touring together and finding overdue friendship on the road.
You may have seen the Stolz brothers before, they make up the rhythm section in both indie-pop outfit Varsity and art-rockers Pool Holograph. As seasoned musicians of Chicago, their band Discus scratches a different itch for them. This time they’re at the helm of their jangle-pop project, steering the wheel and writing the songs together.
Oxford based musician Willie J Healey discusses the ups and downs of making your passion into your career.
Sean Green is a multi-instrumental musician currently based in Chicago where he plays “millennial jazz”. His EP Perfume Hill will be out at the end of the summer. Check out the premiere of “Driver” the first single from the new EP and a conversation with fellow Chicago musician, Molly Madden (Uma Bloo).
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You see someone walk up to a band to chat after a set and the gender suddenly becomes very important for reading the scene. Do you guess they are a guy going up to express admiration, or a girl going up with the hopes of slipping back stage?
Born in the US to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother, Rand Faris left the United States at age six to grow up in Jordan. “The Reality is: Part 1” is the first out of a series of three. There are pieces that are birthed from fingertips and some from pencil tips. These are an unequal mixture of both. It’s used to pull myself back after I find myself drifting away into my stream of thought.
Writer Kate Devine explores what is temporary and what is not. There is house sitting for a friend, relationships that come and go, and chapters in life that feel fleeting. Through the connectedness of these experiences, she stays anchored in the musings and company of others.
Inspired by her final year at college, writer Habiba Warren explores identity and sexual freedom in weaving together four encounters to examine the implications of her feminine self.
Longing for change and a purge of naiveté, a college student’s observations of unfamiliar racial territory become clear as the day moves forward. In memory of Stephon Clark and Medgar Evers.
“I think everybody has at least one moment in their life that changes a part of them forever; a moment that brings something deep inside of their psyche to the surface. My first moment was when I was seventeen…”
An essay of possible responses to a single question: why a relationship ended. Told with urgency and repetition, writer Kate Devine articulates the unexplainable nature of heartbreak by recounting tangible objects and circumstances that characterized a year.
Frustrated by the lack of awareness and social impact surrounding the refugee crisis, British photographer Cyrus Mahboubian decided to make up for it by creating MIGRATE, a book featuring work by eight photographers centered around the theme of migration.
Mildred New York, a barbershop located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, talks shaking up social norms in the hair scene with their first lookbook, "Nazar."
Shawn Marom, Hunter Martinez, and Jeremy McLennan make up shoegaze Los Angeles three-piece Cryogeyser. Sitting on their porch in the hot El Sereno sun, they talk inception, intimacy, and relationships.