Samurai March By Dan Moran Published Issue 126, June 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally published Issue 062, February 2019 Samurai March is a 8.5″ x 11″ ball-point pen piece created in 2014. Dan Moran is a self-taught artist who’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, since before he could read or write. […]
The Hunt By Levi Himes Published Issue 126, June 2024 The faintest tinge of blue was beginning to seep into the night. Stars still shone high in the sky, clouds of a remnant storm barely shadowed their view of the earth below. Dew was finalizing its settlement upon every available wild surface. Wind whistled through
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 126, June 2024 Tripping On Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen (2024) Accidentally created in 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, LSD is often seen as one of the drivers of the culture shifts of the late 50s
Body and Soul By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published as the Back Cover of Issue 126, June 2024 Albuquerque-based Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found
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Published Issue 125, May 2024 Fern Roberts – A Multitude All at Once Some of the musical touchstones for this latest Fern Roberts album are easy enough to trace in the introspective and existential pop of The National, the atmospheric and gritty post-punk of Arctic Monkeys, and the spare delicacy, emotional immediacy and attention to
BONES By Zac Dunn Art by Jason White Published Issue 126, June 2024 The cheese was easy and greezy Dripping down the block as skulls Rolled and savage faced youths in Denim suits with pockmark faces grit teeth and chew the PIZZA MEAT like CHUMMED WATERS of the NAZARÉ PIPE PRO The waves pounded the
Published in Issue 126, June 2024 There is something so sweet and tingly about nostalgia as a feeling, as a daydream, as a “Private Session” on Spotify. I’m sure we’ve all heard it before, but there’s the idea that music becomes a lot harder to latch onto as we get older, unlike the stuff we
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Indecision By Eric Joyner Published as the Index of Issue 126, June 2024 Real moments of Indecision happen when it comes to donuts. About Eric Joyner: I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie
By Mark Mothersbaugh Published as the Centerfold of Issue 126, June 2024 Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital social commentary, he has perpetually challenged and redefined musical and visual boundaries. Mothersbaugh co-founded influential rock group DEVO,
Threshold Of The Wild Hunt By Joel Tagert Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 125, May 2024 A horn sounded in the woods to the south and all heads turned toward it. Sunita saw the fae around her unconsciously quicken at the sound, twitching ears tufting with fur, faces lengthening, bodies hunching as
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