From Martha’s Vineyard to Boston to Los Angeles, the small home movement struggles for acceptance at the end of the road
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HAVE YOU IN MY WILDERNESS: JULIA HOLTER MAKES MAGIC FROM MESSES
Experimental dream pop musician Julia Holter talks broken pencils, Greek mythology, and words as notes before her show this Sunday.
SWEET SPOT: CHERRY GLAZERR ARE COOKING UP AN EXCELLENT ALBUM
California power pop band Cherry Glazerr spill about their new album, jagged guitar style, and death row meals.
WAY MORE PARTIES IN LA: NEW ORLEANS RAPPER PELL WILL BE YOUR NEW OBSESSION
A year ago, Pell didn’t know how to dance. But now? The Los Angeles-via-New Orleans independent rapper is smoother than Pharrell.
LABOR REVOLT IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIK
"At the end of the day, the lesson will be that none of us really can live on $10 a day."
ALBUM PREMIERE: HOUSE OF THE RISING FUZZ
Boston's DIY garage, psych, and rock acts joined forces for this summer's best compilation album.
LA PLAYS ITSELF: ON THE COMEDIC ETHNOGRAPHY OF “TANGERINE”
And what emerges is a document of the Hollywood that Hollywood declines to show us. Tangerine becomes a critique of surfaces themselves: The LA we know from movies and TV, revealed to be as false as the idea that anatomy dictates gender.
WORD OF ART: APRIL DAMMANN’S BOOK ABOUT CORITA KENT IS A MASTERPIECE
It's true that Warhol was beginning to exploit commercialism and to show irony in our everyday life, but Corita really influenced many more people than she was influenced by ...
SPECIAL EXCERPT: ‘CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY.’
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OUT OF THE DARKNESS
The following is an excerpt from Corita Kent. Art and Soul. The Biography. by April Dammann. Published by Angel City Press, 2015.
In the summer of 1968, Sister Corita takes what might be a lifesaving sabbatical in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, staying with her friend and East Coast gallerist, Celia Hubbard (a Catholic convert) of the Botolph Gallery, where Sister Corita’s work is a centerpiece ...
CRANK THAT CUPHEAD
It’s disappointing to yet again hear nothing about Half-Life 3, but there’s enough action to ensure that the average gamer will have No-Life for at least another year.