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Codeine: Frigid Stars LP

Codeine: Frigid Stars LP

Ohio’s Oberlin College has been a breeding ground for the struggling artist set since its 1833 founding. Poets, playwrights, authors, screenwriters, and musicians have tossed Ob...

Codeine: Dessau

Codeine: Dessau

The White Birch, ca. 1899 Stephen Immerwahr: I first saw Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s The White Birch in 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and loved it immediately. The two femal...

Charlie Megira — A Sun Shining Backwards

Charlie Megira — A Sun Shining Backwards

The life and music of Charlie Megira are more dream than reality, a reverie concocted by the mind in the throes of a fever, a welcome hallucination replete with beautiful settin...

Indian Summer — You Had To Be There

Indian Summer — You Had To Be There

My friends and I called them Indian ​Bummer​. A library in Cupertino. Not really a venue, more of a community space that also holds local Girl Scout meetings and canned food dri...

Ned Doheny — Postcards From Hollywood

Ned Doheny — Postcards From Hollywood

Riding the crest of West Hollywood’s break into Beverly Hills and covering a modest 2.7-mile stretch of California desert in concrete, Doheny Drive is both a repercussion of and...

Acid Nightmares: Q&A with Benjamin Marra

Acid Nightmares: Q&A with Benjamin Marra

Illustrator Benjamin Marra entered our orbit a few years back when we began working on Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares. Our original pitch describes the scene we intended t...

Like Weird!: Tommy Falcone & The Cleopatra Label

Like Weird!: Tommy Falcone & The Cleopatra Label

As usual, it was past midnight when Tommy Falcone pulled into New York City with a car full of teenagers. The yellow glow and tile walls of the Lincoln Tunnel fell away and a sp...

Blondie: Once I Had a Love

Blondie: Once I Had a Love

Picture a transparent plastic sheet placed over an image on a light projector. A lecturer draws diagrams all over it in erasable marker in order to explain: This variable, when ...