The Hotel By Caitlyn Grabenstein Published as the Back Cover, Issue 094, October 2021 Caitlyn Grabenstein, a.k.a. Cult Class, is a collage artist, sketch artist, and designer out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started doing art at a very young age and has pursued it in different forms throughout her life. While working in the music […]
JANG! JANG! JANG! RANG THE HAMMERS IN THE RAIN. JANG! JANG! JANG! CLANGED THE LINKS OF BLOODY CHAIN. JANG! BANGED THE BOOMERANG BOUNCING IN HER BRAIN. JANG! SANG THE KANGAROO – Something touched her shoulder. In a fever dream of manacles and red rock, Naoko surged upward, grabbing for the throat. The intruder gagged, falling
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Lunacy By Gray Winsler Art by Dave Danzara Published Issue 094, October 2021 I swear I can hear his voice, like hushed whispers escaping from the abyss of my subconscious. The words are muted, barely audible, but it’s him. I know it’s him just as well as I know it cannot possibly be true, and
Man or Machine By Zac Dunn Art by Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 094, September 2021 I’m hard-wired into you love Like I’m connected to the stars above The eye in the sky it speaks to me Because we have the same circuitry AM I A MAN OR AM I MACHINE? They’re always turning me off
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 094, October 2021 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (2021) Torrey Peter’s debut novel zeros in on the lives of three people navigating all the complicated, messy and beautiful parts of relationships. Reese is deep into unsatisfying and destructive relationships with married men when she gets a call from
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 094, October 2021 Buck Gooter | Head In a Bird Cage A chain of genre tags like industrial, psychedelic, bluesy noise punk and references to obvious musical touchstones for potential listeners like Butthole Surfers, Chrome, Suicide, Swans, Alice Donut, Big Black and Screamers could never quite encompass what
YaSi: Local Musician, Designer & Creator of MCA’s B-Side Music Friday 2021 T-shirt By Rachel Grammes Published Issue 093, September 2021 This is an excerpt from a recent blog interview with Denver-based artist, musician and designer, YaSi, who created this year’s B-Side Music Friday t-shirt. The design is playful and abstract, effortlessly cool, and symbolizes
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 093, September 2021 Bolonium | Full Of It Imagine an orchestral mélange of an Adult Swim musical skit, They Might Be Giants, 8-bit video game music and Devo and you have an idea what you’re getting into with Bolonium’s latest album. The band is an extension of
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 093, September 2021 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (2020) Known for her elegant poetry, much of it focused on the beauty of the natural world, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s newest release moves her skilled writing to essay form. World of
Long Live The Parlour Birds By Allyson Lupovich Photos by Caity Kennedy Published Issue 093, September 2021 Maya Linke’s The Parlour Birds features extinct birds hidden throughout a Victorian parlour time capsule. “— INCAS — Here lies the last Carolina parakeet. Conuropsis carolinensis. Died February 21, 1918. His life done and barely known, doomed to the dark
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