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Part band. Part film producers. Part SNL level comedy sketch artists. Part existential therapists. Part … magicians? The impliers aren’t just a psych-dream pop-electro duo. Or even a comedy act. They’re a fully self-taught, self-produced multimedia entity and concept band who create expert level visual and sonic content and deeply meaningful work, all through the lens of not taking life so seriously. 

I had the chance to catch up with Dan Hartman and Charles Ingram to talk about their 3-part upcoming release, The Magic, and to dive a little deeper into the magic tricks they have up their sleeves, but are willing to share, that make the experience of being human on this planet a little bit more fun.

Early in spring Yama-uba fell sick with a fever. One morning, after a terrible night in which she thought she might die, she woke to hear the crying of a child. Startled, she sat up, looking around with alarm. If she died of her illness, she reflected, he would not long survive her. No, the boy needed to get home.

I’m not sure who came up with the saying, “selling like hotcakes,” but I bet even if I opened a restaurant that made the best hotcakes the world has ever tasted, they still wouldn’t “sell like hotcakes.” Maybe we could update the expression to something more accurate, like “selling like marijuana edibles.” 

I finally get to be a Santa Elf. After a week of assignments ranging from Welcome Elf to Train Elf to Crossroads Elf, I get to be in the actual house with the big, red-suited man himself! I am told by all the other elves that this is where the magic happens. But, what I’m about to tell you is going probably get me in trouble with the Secret Society of Santassassins.”

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Video collage by Jonny DeStefano | Featured artists: Peter Kornowski • Ryane Rose • Ray Young Chu • Jack Estenssoro • Mark Mothersbaugh • Jorge Mascarenhas • Derek Knierim • Jash Tracey • Jason White