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<div>Ben Arthur is an Emmy-nominated songwriter, and the producer and host of <a href="http://songwriterpodcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SongWriter</a>, the podcast that turns stories into songs. Featured guests include Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, George Saunders, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Sharon Van Etten, M.Gessen, and Isabella Rossellini.</div>
<div>(Photo Credit: Bernie DeChant)</div>

Ben Arthur

Music

Getting “the Ick” From AI Art

Christian Stadsgaard, also known as his solo moniker Vanity Productions, has become a crucial figure in the contemporary Nordic electronic and experimental music scenes in the past decade.
Standing at the helm of the label Posh Isolation with Loke Rahbek, Stadsgaard is responsible for one of the most consistent and compelling labels to both define and elaborate the many productive sides of the underground in the last decade. As a performing and recording artist his work with Rahbek as Damien Dubrovnik was a critical project in the contemporary noise milieu throughout the 2010s. More recently his collaborative work with Jonas Rönnberg (Varg2™) and Isak Hansen as The Empire Line has gained significant notoriety.
However, it&#8217;s in Vanity Productions that the full breadth of the emotive intensity of Stadsgaard&#8217;s work is expressed. His collaboration with the seminal artist Merzbow in 2019 led to his Coastal Erosion album for iDEAL Recordings, prefacing a recent series of works that take their cues from minimalist composition.
The latest Vanity Productions record, The Vanity Project, is out now on Northern Electronics.

Vanity Productions

Vanity Productions and Varg2™ Want Real Anti-Culture to Come Back

Tony Njoku is a London-based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Tony’s latest record, ALL OUR KNIVES ARE ALWAYS SHARP, is out now.

Tony Njoku

Tony Njoku and Gaika Believe in Culture

Brian Zayatz is a songwriter, vocalist, and bassist with <a href="http://stonerwill.bandcamp.com/">Stoner Will and the Narks</a>, a slacker rock outfit in Western Massachusetts tackling themes like local politics and cultural rot. Brian is also an editor of <a href="http://theshoestring.org/">The Shoestring</a>, an online local news magazine serving the same area, with additional work appearing in <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/gentrification-of-the-mind-sarah-schulman-queer-history">Teen Vogue</a>, Dig Boston, Shadowproof, and the Montague Reporter.

Brian Zayatz

Liz Pelly and Brian Zayatz (Stoner Will and the Narks) Want to Organize For a Better Future

Hannah Liuzzo is the Boston-raised, LA-based artist who performs as little bit (and formerly with the band Lilith). Their debut EP, talk a blue streak, is out now via Hit the North Records.

Hannah Liuzzo

On the Ethics of Using GenAI in Creative Practices

Susie Moon and Eric Laplante&#8216;s (AI-free) debut feature, Darla in Space, played at festivals all over the US, including the famous (in certain circles) festival Slamdance, and opens at the <a href="https://quadcinema.com/film/darla-in-space/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quad Cinema</a> in NYC on September 27.  Susie was born in Seoul Korea and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She currently resides in Houston, TX. Eric is a filmmaker based out of New York City. He has worked on a large number of narrative, documentary, and commercial projects. He DPed Sylvio, which debuted at SXSW. A short documentary he directed was a Vimeo Staff pick and his comedy content has been shared on many different online platforms. He has a real passion for pressure cooking and making bread (been keeping his mother alive since 2020) and lives with his wife and their Basset hound named Betty Draper.

Susie Moon and Eric Laplante

Film

Grappling with Mind-blowing Kombucha Scoby Orgasms and the AI Conundrum