Discipline & ANARCHY: Joseph Cochran II
“I’ve tried to quit doing this many times to live a ‘regular life’ and each time I’ve tried, it hasn’t worked. That, to me, is a sign from god.”
THE MAN BEHIND "WEIRD LADY": An interview with john vochatzer
GIVEN SAN FRANCISCO'S STATUS AS ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY SURVEILLED CITIES IN AMERICA, WEIRD LADY SEEMED AN APT, IF SINISTER, MASCOT.
SIMPLE PLEASURES PRIMAL TERRORS: an interview with guy colwell
“AT SOME POINT I DECIDED THAT ART NEEDED TO SAY SOMETHING, THAT VISUAL ART COULD BE ESSAYS IN THE SAME SENSE THAT JOURNALISTS OR SOCIOLOGISTS OR PHILOSOPHERS OR POLITICIANS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD.”
A strange girl asked me where everyone had gone.
"Night’s black; morning, red. There’s nothing else."
IN 1987, 14 GREAT MINDS PREDICTED THE FUTURE. WHAT DID THEY GET RIGHT?
“You won’t be a serf, a slave, or a worker. What will you be? A performer."
MINING THE GUTTER: An Interview with Daphne Gottlieb
Reading Gottlieb’s work, I was struck by her craftsmanship, her darkness, and her penchant for depicting a beautiful, shrieking mind. Sex, melancholy, desperation, wit: These elements tore through in spades.
SOUND REMAINS: An Interview with Suzy Poling AKA Pod Blotz
Suzy Poling is known for her sound art as Pod Blotz. SOUND REMAINS will feature Poling’s first live set since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down performance venues.
The Dangerous Maybe
You can convince yourself of anything once. But, see, all it takes is that once to germinate lifelong delusion.
YEAR OF THE SPIDER: An Interview with Shannon & the Clams
Although Shannon and the Clams’ new album was completed shortly before COVID-19 seized the globe, it wasn’t forged free of tumult.
Nausea & Nightshade
All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. Meanwhile, I feel Fucked To Death.
Keep Worrying, Details to Follow: An Interview with Bonnie Baxter of Prolaps
“The eight-hour Ultra Cycle is a punishment for humanities’ crimes against the earth and the environment,” says Baxter, gravely. “We want people to get lost in it, resulting in spiritual enlightenment, madness, or both.”
Like One Long Joke
"I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise."
PLAGUE NOTES: An Interview with My Heart, an Inverted Flame
“We titled our album Plague Notes easily a year before COVID exploded in Wuhan,” says Marc Kate, San Francisco-based composer known for his conceptual solo projects and production in electronic post-punk band Never Knows. “It’s more about our obsession with all things apocalyptic. Who knew it could be so prescient?”
Déjà Vu in the Desert of the Real
"I’m twenty-five years old and I don’t understand what it is that people do. It’s as if all this were built on nothing, and nothing were holding this together. And then I hear people talk, and that just makes things worse."
A Decidedly Dumb Thing I'll Likely Do Again
As someone who has too often been the moody bitch in the hoodie, I can promise it’s almost certainly Just You. The resident asshole. The snob. The fool. Prematurely dulled, disappointed, or disgusted by a perfectly harmless lot. More often than not --at least in my experience-- that's probably been the case.
Aging Towards Strange with Aphex Twin
In my experience, listening to Aphex Twin is a willful crawl towards chaos.