January 30, 2024
Interviews
Interviews
I wanted it to feel like acceptance. Saying acceptance makes it feel a bit stiff, when really the vibe is like, f*** yeah everybody, hell yeah, and if you can’t get down with this, f*** off...
January 12, 2024
Interviews
Interviews
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Obviously, it is much easier to keep in touch, exchange files and information. But nothing compares to the real organic work. That’s where the magic begins and it’s impossible to achieve it through the synthetic connection. Especially when the music is spontaneous and interactive...
December 22, 2023
Interviews
Interviews
The role that labels used to play pre-internet adoption had much more to do with building up an artist, and getting them to where they need to be to become superstars. Today, the artist builds themselves up on their own...
December 15, 2023
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You thought we were done with just astrxl.awards this year? Nah we had to step that s*** up...
December 14, 2023
Interviews
Interviews
You enter this wormhole, the room disappears and you're thrown into a bunch of patterns, and stuff like that. There wasn't a lot of color...
December 6, 2023
Events
Events
I knew that Jeff Rosenstock was going to have a good opener for his tour, so I decided to show up right as the doors opened. Small Crush was first to take stage...
December 6, 2023
Events
Events
The stage background was a sight to behold, being an American flag with the stripes changed with rainbow colors representing the pride flag. Where the stars would be, they were replaced with the numbers 666 and a ring of weed leaves...
December 4, 2023
Interviews
Interviews
Nearly every Thursday night, we would park our cars at Comps and have a listening party for which ever rap album we chose to listen to when the clock struck midnight...
December 3, 2023
Events
Events
I don't know how I've gone this long without seeing Kendrick or Keem. I was supposed to photograph one of their shows back in Vancouver in 2022...
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Their visual imagery on album art is some of my favourite in the underground scene, with 'Shrines' depicting an NYPD officer grappling down the side of a building in Harlem looking into a window at a 425-pound tiger...
This was one of Lil Tjay's first performances following his recovery from being shot seven times in an attempted robbery & his live show didn't disappoint...
I want to strongly discern that Kenny is not only a skilled multi-disciplinary musician, but someone I see as a generational talent...
Dissection lesson was constructed with the unfiltered ideas & feelings on being transgender...
I wanted it to feel like acceptance. Saying acceptance makes it feel a bit stiff, when really the vibe is like, f*** yeah everybody, hell yeah, and if you can’t get down with this, f*** off...
Little Big is no stranger to controversy with music videos depicting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un having an intimate relationship with a nuclear missile...
夢の砂漠 explores a lot of feelings I’ve been having over the past year - mostly a lot of self-exploration and I wanted to convey this a long and ethereal album so that other people can travel through the ‘dream desert’ and explore all of these intense feelings themselves...
'Blue Rev,' combined shoegaze + indie pop aesthetics to create a masterpiece of an album. On Rate Your Music, the album is currently ranked 8th for all releases in 2022, 'Belinda Says,' was Pitchfork's (2022) song of the year, and the band garnered praise from critics and audiences alike...
I think of this song as a journey that started with a love folk song that somehow turned a different direction into something more mysterious and beautiful that even I can't explain very well...
LMAO hell yea I got some crazy song titles I can go off on which ones are some of my favorite. It's gotta be Gentrify Water, J Train Cyberpolice, Kingdom Hearts In Bisexual Atlanta...