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Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You: Duality in the Music of John Fahey by Brennan Keifer
It’s hard to describe John Fahey’s music. Three times now, I’ve tried to write this introduction by recounting the first time I heard his song, “Indian-Pacific Railroad Blues.” How it was the summer of 2021, how the pandemic lockdown confined me to my bedroom, how it was almost midnight, and my room felt like the…
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“Ghost Writing: Carceral Legacies, Haunted Bodies and Spaces” by Mauve Perle Tahat
One of the most terrifying ghost stories the U.S. has is incarceration. The prison is a haunted grotto. Prisons and prisoners are haunted by traumas caused by white supremacy. People admitted to these spectral spaces are part of its phenomenological architecture. When prisoners leave they are forever escorted by phantasmal histories. Most tangibly they will…
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“Screwed: A Politically Charged Party Anthem” by Vanessa Maki
The word “screwed” is commonly used as a sexual term, or to describe a difficult situation. Think of the amount of times you’ve heard the term used interchangeably. With the fifth track on “Dirty Computer” Janelle and Zoe utilize both meanings. In the world we live in there’s always been a looming of disgust towards…
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“Young, Black, Wild & Free is the Dream” by Vanessa Maki
Unlike a lot of black artists, Janelle has no problem being unapologetic about her blackness. She doesn’t dismiss her experiences as a black woman or make light of them. Nor does she water down the reality of what life is like for her. That’s one thing that often gets left out of the conversation…
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Devotion: Patti Smith by James Carraghan
I started this review at three in the morning. I woke up with a pain in my side; probably the result of poor cooking decisions on my part. I sat in a large chair, covered myself in blankets, and wrapped a heavy scarf around me for a shawl. The pains subsided with the writing, and…
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I Burned You a CD {Part ONE}: Growing by M. Perle
Que seguimos rompiendo aquí Esta fiesta no tiene fin Botellas para arriba, si Los tengo bailando, rompiendo y yo sigo aquí I’m in the first row on your show, in the first row👊 On the First Floor Power show 🎶 Your vibrato’s like vulnerable leaves, 🎶 You do it crazy, that’s how you…
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Braving the Days: The Seasons Are Changing by Jordannah Elizabeth
It’s only early August and there’s a briskness to the air on the East Coast. Last year, there was blistering heat, and I craved the cool, foggy days of San Francisco, but this season has changed, and so have I. I mean, on a fundamental level I have not. I was talking to my…
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