TEA FOR THE ETERNAL EMPEROR By Joel Tagert Art by Dylan Fowler Published Issue 081, September 2020 Despite the thin air and the cold, Pleven and Emma spent nearly the entire eight-hour flight across the Cauldron on the observation deck, talking together and looking eagerly at the roiling clouds below them, lit intermittently by flashes […]
MAKING IT THROUGH: QUINN IN QUARANTIMES Interview By Carsen Greene Photos courtesy of Quinn Tincher Published Issue 081, September 2020 The Meow Wolf artist talks miniatures, mountains and making art through COVID-19 Quinn Tincher, founding member and Senior Artist at Meow Wolf, is still making and creating from his home. He’s been in quarantine, along
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BOOK CLUB By Hana Zittel Published Issue 081, September 2020 Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (2020) Poet, translator and essayist Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s newest book takes his enchanting and poetic language into the realm of memoir. Castillo details growing up undocumented in California after his family crosses to the United States from Zacatecas, Mexico.
QUEEN CITY SOUNDS By Tom Murphy Published Issue 081, September 2020 Blackcell – Burn the Ashes Denver-based EBM/IDM band Blackcell returns with its first full-length album since 2013’s In the Key of Black. Matt Jones’ processed, distorted vocals sound as ever like a dispossessed human resisting an ever-increasing mechanization of life. These dark dance songs
WAX ON TRAX By Sam Schiel Published Issue 081, September 2020 Artist: 999 Title: 999 Genre: Punk Released: 1977 Two signs of a great record are: if you purchased it when it was released and if it is still a part of your collection 42 years later. For me 999‘s
INDIE 102.3 LOCAL MUSIC DIRECTOR ALISHA SWEENEY TALKS ABOUT DENVER’S MUSIC SCENE, THIS YEAR’S B-SIDE, AND WHAT LED TO HER CAREER IN RADIO By Courtney Law Published Issue 081, September 2020 This summer, MCA Denver and Colorado Public Radio’s Indie 102.3 partnered to present B-Side Music Fridays virtually. This is an excerpt from a recent
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MARK MOTHERSBAUGH: COLLECTED EVIDENCE By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 081, September 2020 An observer among us, Mark Mothersbaugh writes down things that he overhears throughout the day … Diary: Collected Evidence … “I translate events into something on a postcard size piece of paper, that either literally or abstractly represents my response to life on planet earth.”
THE HEADLESS HERO RETURNS By Zac Dunn Published Issue 081, September 2020 Godzilla on the mountaintop We bend the knee Stop Drop Roll Lose control Eyes fleshed over Red rover Red rover Put the gingivitis in order Sort the porn As I explore And endure Trials and tribulations and sinister revelations We cannot reach the
WEREWOLF RADAR: COLOR ME NAIN ROUGE By Nate Balding Published Issue 081, September 2020 Detroit. Motor City. The D. Motown if you’re nasty. The place you’re more likely to land than O’Hare due to weather. No matter how you refer to it, Detroit is as much an American establishment as New York, LA or the
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SUPPORT THE USPS AND YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE: POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY An art demonstration to support the 225-year-old United States Postal Service & the right to VOTE! In light of the threat to our postal service, at a time that could jeopardize the democracy of the country, let’s join forces with Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie
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